Rodeo Town (Canadian, Texas).

F.. STANLEY

Publication: The World Press, Inc, 1953, Denver

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf "To Jerome Peltier with best regards and sincere appreciation. Yours, F. Stanley." Signed copies by F. Stanley are common, but inscribed copies are very uncommon. Blue cloth, titles stamped in silver on front cover and spine, xii, 418 pp., foreword, illustrated from photographs, portraits, bibliography. One of 500 numbered copies of which this is no. 378. An historical account of the town of Canadian in Hemphill County, Texas, tracing its development from frontier settlement days through the rise of ranching, buffalo hunting, and rodeo culture in the Texas Panhandle. The book combines local history, pioneer stories, cattle industry history, Native American conflicts, and biographies of notable townspeople. Much of the narrative focuses on how Canadian, Texas evolved into a center of cowboy and rodeo life in the American West. Laid-in to this copy is a typed letter and stamped envelope on Father Stanley's stationery and signed by him with envelope post marked Oct. 13, 1954. Fine, bright copy in lightly soiled dust jacket lightly faded on the spine.