Trailing Cowboy by Westermeier Clifford (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1978 reprint of the 1955 Caxton edition. Excellent condition. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Light fading to the spine and edges but overall a very nice copy. Good bibliography to each chapter citing magazines, newspapers, etc. Interesting. 414 pages. See Herd - 2475. The range cattle industry really began after the Civil War and spread across the Great Plains. As the industry spread there , produced, before it gave way to gentler waves of civilization, a new type of individual., the American cowboy. Through the many columns of old newspapers, journals, letters, and periodicals, and it is from these pages the editor has compiled, and in its original language, of the scribes themselves, a different type of volume on the history of the cowboy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. The book has some spotty fading on the spine panel; the front and back panels are very good. The book block is tight and clean.The end papers are very nice. The dustjacket has some small chips on the edges. Th front panel is quite good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 414 pages, illustrations, slight jacket edge wear. This copy is "new, old stock." The cowboy, ranching, law and disorder, frontier towns, etc. Herd 2475.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 414 pages; Very minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 414 pages; Price clipped dust jacket with the number '5785' stamped on lower front flap and the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 414 pages, illustrations, slight jacket edge wear. This copy is "new, old stock." The cowboy, ranching, law and disorder, frontier towns, etc. Herd 2475.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 414 pages, illustrations, minor edge wear to jacket, inscribed by the author. The cowboy, ranching, law and disorder, frontier towns, etc. Herd 2475.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 414 pages, illustrations. The cowboy, ranching, law and disorder, frontier towns, etc. Herd 2475.

First edition. First edition. Cloth, 414pp., illus., index. The range cattle industry began shortly after the Civil War as cowboys began to drive longhorn cattle northward to the railroad centers and other northern markets. Frontier journalists were quick to recognize and record this important emerging phase of the development of the West. Includes the daily realities of cattle drives, cowboy customs and dress, camp life and trail food, encounters with Native Americans and outlaws, rodeos and the rise of the cowboy as a popular cultural symbol, etc. This work is an excellent, well-researched compilation of the writings of those frontier journalists. An exceptionally fine, bright copy in dust jacket with very slight rubbing to base of spine.