The Magnificent Marathon Basin. A History Of Marathon, Texas, Its People And Events

ANNEJO P. WEDIN

Publication: Nortex Press, 1989, Austin

First edition. Thick 8vo. Light blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, vi, 598 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated mostly from photographs, portraits, appendices, bibliography, index.

A well-rounded history of the ranch country around Marathon in far West Texas: frontier military with Fort Pena Colorado, histories of nearby settlements, cemetery inventory, cattle brands, some natural history, nearly 300 pages of family biographies, and much more.

Fine bright copy in dust jacket with trivial wear to the extremities. Very scarce.