Gard, Wayne — The Chisholm Trail

Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Black-and-white illustrations by Nick Eggenhofer. Gard highlights the courage, daring, and enterprise of cattle owners and their cowboys. Their experiences on the Chisholm Trail helped to establish firmly the cattleman's place in the heroic phase of Old West expansion and the Westward Ho! movement. Gard interviews then surviving Chisholm Trail drivers and visited communities along the route in search of historic records and newspaper files. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [1], 3-296 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good