Trails Of Yesterday.

JOHN BRATT

Other works by JOHN BRATT

Publication: The University Publishing Co, 1921, Lincoln

First edition. Pictorial cloth, xi [3], 302 pp., teg, frontis, illustrated with drawings and photos. A firsthand account of life on the Nebraska frontier during the great era of western expansion. Bratt recounts his experiences as a freighter, rancher, and cattleman, describing wagon travel, frontier forts, buffalo, Native Americans, cowboys, and the challenges of life on the open range. Much of the book focuses on the cattle industry, including roundups, branding, cattle drives, ranch operations, and the hardships faced by western stockmen. "The author was one of the first ranchers in Nebraska. An Englishman, Bratt came to America in 1864 at the age of 17. In the late 1860's, he worked as a bullwhacker supplying Ft. Kearny and other Army posts. He started his cattle business in 1870, and most of his narrative is devoted to the development of the ranching industry on the central plains."---William S. Reese. "Bratt's story is a minor classic because of the raw but credible frontier adventures of a young English emigrant."---Merrill J. Mattes. Fine, bright, tight copy. Scarce.

Inventory Number: 27323