The West That Was, From Texas To Montana

LEAKEY, JOHN [AS TOLD TO NELLIE SNYDER YOST]

Publication: Southern Methodist University Press, 1958, Dallas

First edition. 8vo. Tan cloth, titles stamped in brown on front cover and spine, xii, 271 [1] pp., preface, illustrated from photographs, portraits, index.

Adams, Six-Guns 1303: “Has some new material on King Fisher and a mention of Ben Thompson.” There is much in the book about Uvalde in the mid-nineteenth century, the Frio Canyon area in the late 1870s and early 1880s and about cattle ranching on the plains from Texas to New Mexico to Montana and North Dakota from the 1880s into the twentieth century. Leakey was a top hand at the OX, W Bar, 777, and many other ranches in the area. After several small starts, he eventually owned one of the top ranches in North Dakota only to lose it in the Depression. Leakey was also one of the founders of the North Dakota Stockman’s Association. An adventurous life vividly told by Yost.

Fine, bright, tight unread copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor to light wear to the extremities.