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UsedVeryGood. Former library copy, may have usual markings. Includes clear protective plastic cover on dust jacket.

University of Oklahoma Press, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1958). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the folds, light sunning to spine of dj). First thus. Reminiscences by General D.J. Cook, Superintendant of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association: A condensed criminal history if the Far West. With an introduction by Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr. Originally published in 1882, this account is considered the "outstanding bad-man narrative of the Rocky Mountain West." Over the years, Cook was a farmhand, miner, saloon-keeper, soldier, city marshal of Denver, sheriff of Arapahoe County, U.S. marshal, major general of Colorado Militia, and most importantly founder and chief of the Rocky Mountain Detect ive Association (a semi-secret and unofficial organization of sheriffs, police chiefs and marshalls). Volume # 11 of the Western Frontier Library Series. Illustrated. xvi, 319 pp.