My People of the Plains by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Harper & Brothers. 1906. Hard Cover. Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. . OFFICEWW-This regular size hardcover is VERY GOOD with edgewear, library markings on the spine & front endpaper, as well as a library bookplate. Bright white, very readable pages. green w/gilt text. .

G, unmarked HB; foxing of endpapers; owner's name; no DJ. [Circuit riding Episcopal bishop of Wyoming & Idaho mining camps &. ISBN: Indian territory] xi + 265 pp..

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New York: Harper & Brothers (1906), 1913. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xi, 265 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. Early Reprint, May 1913. Slight Usage, Gilt Brilliant , Cloth Clean. Former Owner's Inscription Dated In 1919.

Harper & Brothers, 1906 Bound in bright green ribbed cloth with equally bright gilt titles, 265 pp. This is the memoir of the author's years in Idaho and Wyoming starting in 1887. He was ordained the first Episcopal missionary bishop for this territory when it was still the wild west.In his ten years in the west he established 38 churches and built St. Matthew's Cathedral in Laramie, Wyoming. An interesting story of his time there appears in Wiki:
Surely you wouldn’t rob a poor bishop?” said Talbot.


“Did you say you were a bishop?” asked the bandit.
“Yes, just a poor bishop.”
“What church?”
“The Episcopal.”
“The hell you are! Why that’s the church I belong to! Go along, driver.”[1]
Book with a neat early inscription on front end paper, largely unread.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Very good. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed below the frontispiece portrait by Talbot. Flake, Mormon bibliography 8569