Summer on the Salt Fork

Jessie Wiley Voils

Published by Meredith Press, New York, NY, 1969

About this Item

Meredith Press, New York. 1969. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift inscription on the front pastedown dated 1969. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to the head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); light wear to head and tips; missing a section at the bottom of the DJ at the spine. Rust colored cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Gray endpapers. 186 pp 8vo. In the summer of 1879 a nine-year-old girl and her family travel from their Kansas homestead to the Indian Territory (OK) to graze their cattle on the prairie.The author describes in detail the covered wagon trip and the summer they spent in the cabins near the Salt Fork River. The author speaks from the experience of her youth on the LX ranch near Caldwell Kansas. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Seller Inventory # 016305

Bibliographic Details

Title: Summer on the Salt Fork

Publisher: Meredith Press, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Leonard Vosburgh

Condition: Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Good