Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy.

JAY MONAGHAN

Publication: University of California Press, 1977, Berkeley

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, xii, 218 pp., foreword, illustrated, portraits, index. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. Cowboy life as a young man in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Northern Mexico, 1908-11. "The book is a narrative of adventure that will hold its own against the best selling popular pulp. Cowpunching, freighting, mule skinning, fighting, crossing back and forth between revolutionary armies, confronting desperadoes, renegade Indians, and stampeding cattle. Monaghan offers his reader's West of Owen Wister, Theodore Roosevelt, and Frederick Remington validated by individual experience." Fine in dust jacket.

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