Ranch Life And The Hunting-Trail.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Publication: The Century Co, 1888, New York

First edition. Large quarto. Original elaborate gilt pictorial cloth stamped in green and gold on the front cover (first state), [i-x], 186 pp., [p.187- vignette], frontispiece, illustrated by Frederic Remington, all edges gilt. This is Roosevelt's first book on his life as both a rancher and hunter in the West, and his first collaboration in book form with Frederic Remington, Roosevelt's friend. A splendid account of ranching and ranch life in the Dakotas in the 1880s, and an early Remington illustrated book. Six Score 93 says, " Roosevelt describes western ranching generally and his own experiences in the Dakota Badlands in particular. A New Yorker drawn by the cattle boom, Roosevelt developed a love of the West he never lost. He was prominent in the Little Missouri Stockman's Association, and was apparently respected as a cowman despite his origins. The illustrations by Remington are excellent." A near fine, bright, clean copy in a transparent dust jacket, housed in a slipcase with a leather spine label and titles stamped in gilt. An uncommonly scarce Remington item, especially in the first state of the binding.