Description
The first edition of Forty Years on the Frontier: As Seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart, edited by Paul C. Phillips.
Octavo, [two volumes], 272pp; 265pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, top edges gilt. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and plates. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Both appear unread. Edited by Paul C. Phillips, the work is considered an important firsthand source on early Montana and the cattle frontier.
(Howes S1096) (Adams Herd 2195) (Adams Six-Guns 2160) (Mintz 450) (Mattes 1296) (Six-Score 106)
Published by the Arthur H. Clark Company in 1925. Stuart’s journals and reminiscences cover forty years of western frontier life, including gold mining, trading, ranching, Montana territorial politics, cattle operations, and vigilante activity in the northern Rockies.
