190. STREETER, Floyd Benjamin. Prairie Trails & Cow Towns...With Illustrations from Old Prints. Boston : Chapman & Grimes, Mountain Vernon Press, [1936]. 236 pp., 12 plates (including frontispiece, photographic and from vintage prints). 8vo, original brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Endsheets lightly browned, front hinge starting (but strong), pages 23-26 misfolded by binder, otherwise fine, partially unopened, in d.j. with minor chips at extremities.

     First edition. Campbell , pp. 194-96. Campbell , My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 86. Dobie, pp. 121, 157. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #27. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 13; Western High Spots, p.15 (“Western Movement: Its Literature”): “The classic on the Kansas cow towns”; p. 28 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”); p. 78 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Howes S1072. Reese, Six Score 105: “One of the best books on the cow towns, bringing together considerable information. The history is accurate and well written.” ($300-600)

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