Panhandle Pilgrimage. Illustrated Tales Tracing History In The Texas Panhandle

PAULINE DURRETT AND R. L. ROBERTSON ROBERTSON

Publication: Staked Plains Press, Inc, 1976, Canyon, Texas

First edition. 4to. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, map on front and rear endpapers, [8], 369 pp., acknowledgements, bibliography, illustrated from photographs. drawings, portraits, maps, about the authors, about the artists, bibliography, index, double column. Illustrated by George E. Turner, Olive Vandruff, H. D. Bugbee, and Ben Carlton Mead. Text divided into five parts, Pilgrimage Backward into Prehistory, Indian Dominance on the Llano Estacado, Pioneer Settlers, The First Three Towns, and Pilgrimage Toward the Future. Provides a general history of the 26 counties which make up the Panhandle, with chapters on the early settlers, the Indians, Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker, the Battle of Adobe Walls, Red River War, Charles Goodnight, early cattle ranching, Mobeetie, Tascosa, the mystery woman of Old Tascosa: Frenchy McCormick, the railroads, and more. Enhanced by over 1,000 photographs and illustrations. Former owner's name on half title page, else a fine tight copy in price-clipped dust jacket with two small chips to the spine ends and a few minor nicks and chips to the extremities.