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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Ubet [U-Bet] by Barrows, John - 1934
by Barrows, John
Ubet [U-Bet]
by Barrows, John
- Used
- near fine
- first
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1934. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hall, R.H. First edition. Minimal cosmetic wear. 1934 Hard Cover. 278 pp. Woodcuts from illustrations by R.H. Hall. "A voracious reader of dime novels, young John Barrows looked forward to blazing action as an Indian fighter or scout in Montana Territory. But when he arrived with his parents in the Musselshell Valley in 1879 he saw more sheepmen and cattlemen than Indians or Buffalo Bills. He worked in his father's trading post and soon found in the range cowboy his model of manhood. John Barrows recalls his early career as a cowboy for the DHS outfit in the 1880s in U-bet, often overlooked since its original publication in 1934 but regarded by the cognoscenti as a classic to rival Andy Adam's Log of a Cowboy. A greenhorn's initiation into trail herding, roping, and branding is described with a mastery of language rarely brought to the subject, for Barrows loved books as well as broncobusting. Winters usually found him back at the settlement of Ubet in Judith Gap, where his parents had come to operate a hotel for travelers on the stage line from Billings to Fort Benton. In a few years John Barrows stored a host of impressions of a raw part of the West rapidly changing. Is the reader of his unvarnished reminiscences in for a rousing experience? You bet.
- Bookseller Yesterday's Muse Books (US)
- Illustrator Hall, R.H
- Format/Binding First Edition
- Book Condition Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher The Caxton Printers, Ltd
- Place of Publication Caldwell
- Date Published 1934
- Keywords AMERICANA MONTANA RANCH WESTERN AMERICAN HISTORY MT RANCHER FRONTIER PIONEER