Six Horses (with SIGNED Presentation Slip) by Banning, Captain William and George Hugh Banning - 1930

New York: Century Company, 1930. First edition. 8vo. xv, 410 pp. Foreword by Major Frederick Russell Burnham, Chief of Scouts Under Lord Roberts. Illustrations.Black cloth with red lettering, cartographic endpapers in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (chips at upper corners & spine head; light wear to extremities). "Six Horses is a full and unadorned account of the great days of staging in the West." A chronicle of the 'Fifties and 'Sixties, to include the stories of those young men who made the Western staging system the finest and greatest, certainly, of any like institution in the world. Here are the stories of the great personalities of stagedom - Birch, Butterfield, Russell, Majors, Holliday - and hundreds of lesser celebrities like the famous Charlie Parkhurst, who wielded his whip until his death at the age of 67 before it was discovered that "he" was a woman. (Adams Six Guns 70).