Cook Harold Introduction Agnes Wright (1 results)

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition. Octavo (approx. 5 3/4" wide by 8 7/8" tall), orange cloth covers, xviii [2] 221 pages. Includes black and white photo reproductions. Map on endpapers. Former owner name in red marker on front free endpaper (John Jenkin, Americana collector). Dust jacket has a little rubbing, still very good. " In these reminiscences dealing with the decades which saw the transition from the open range to limited ranching, the late Harold J. Cook continues the story begun by his father Captain James H. Cook, in 'Fifty Years on the Old Frontier' (1923). At the center of the "Tales" is th 04 Ranch (renamed and now known as Agate Springs Ranch) on the upper Niobrara, site of the extraordinarily rich fossil beds which became a national monument in 1965." Nebraska, Ranching, American Indians.…