Evetts Haley Life on the Texas Range 1952

Heading: (Texas)
Author: Haley, J. Evetts
Title: Life on the Texas Range
Place Published: Austin
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Date Published: 1952
Description:

112 pp. Illustrated from photographs by Erwin E. Smith. 12x9, pictorial cloth, slipcase. First Edition.

This copy from the library of The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, with their illustrated bookplate bearing a presentation inscription dated 1954. Marvelously evocative pictorial record of the actual lives of cowboys, horses, and cattle during the early years of the 20th century. "Erwin E. Smith was the outstanding cowboy photographer of the West," states Haley in his introduction. Adams, Herd 966; Dobie, Southwest, p. 119; Reese, Six Score 55.
Condition Report: Fair amount of wear to slipcase, with bottom edge split, a few clear tape repairs; erasure at the top corner of the front free endpaper; volume otherwise fine or nearly so.