Description
The first edition, first printing of The Day of the Cattleman by Ernest Staples Osgood, in the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, x, [4], 283pp. Brown pictorial cloth, title stamped in brown on front cover and spine. Map endpapers by Dorothy Kurtzman Phelps. Complete with frontispiece, plates, maps, charts, and facsimiles. Previous owner’s name along top edge of front free endpaper. In the publisher’s very good dust jacket, $3.50 published price, sunning to the spine, closed tear along front hinge.
(Howes O130) (Graff 3133) (Herd 1739) (Rader 2559) (Six-Guns 1658)
Osgood’s study traces the rise of the range cattle industry in the northern plains, with emphasis on Montana and Wyoming.
