New Frontier : A Saga of the North Fork (Signed & in the rare Dust Jacket))

Denver, Colorado: The World Press, Inc, 1938. SIGNED on the title page: "With the Compliments of Wilson Rockwell." Near Fine condition in a Fair dust jacket (tape repaired). Bright, clean, and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. No owner's name or bookplate. Because it was printed on low quality paper, the dust jacket is brittle. It has chips at the top edge and along the spine folds that have been reinforced with a liberal application of scotch tape, mostly on the blank side. NOT price clipped ($2.50). The jacket is now protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic sleeve. Illustrated with drawings by Josephine McKittrick, and numerous photographs and portaits. Endpaper maps of Colorado's Gunnison River and the North Fork Valley. This is Rockwell's first book, a history of west-central Colorado. Contains some info on Billy the Kid, including his escape from the Lincoln County Jail. It has chapters on Cow-Land Aristocrats and Cow-Towns, with much on the early-day cattle king Sam Hartman (with his photo). Other sections deliver interesting accounts of early settlers; outlaws and gunmen; early railroads; Indian relations, mail carriers on horseback, "The Last Cowboy" Tede Hice; etc. Appendix (pp. 197-207) reprints three treaties with the Ute Indians (1868, 1873, 1880). There is a "Comprehensive Bibliography" (pp. 211-215). Bound in the original maroon cloth. Gilt on the spine and front cover is still bright and shiny. Adams Six-Guns 1879. Adams Herd 1929. From the Dust Jacket: "To read NEW FRONTIER is to see a newly opened virgin country grow and develop. Historical facts are clothed with genuine flesh and blood, and as one reads thru its pages, he can hear the squeal of mustangs, the twang of fiddles, and the report of six-guns and rifles.". Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Fair DJ (tape repaired). Illus. by McKittrick, Josephine . 8vo. xvi, 215pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.