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." Light offsetting to the front and rear endpapers, else a near fine, bright, clean copy in the original dust jacket which is worn with chips at the spine ends and corners and several tears, yet still in serviceable condition. An uncommonly scarce Remington item, especially in the first state of the binding.