Author: McGeeney, Patrick Sylvester (c.1874-1943)
Title: Down at Cross Timbers
Description: Boston, Massachusetts: Angel Guardian Press, 1909. 1909. Boston, Massachusetts: Angel Guardian Press, 1909. 1909. Good. - Octavo, pictorial light green cloth titled in gilt above an illustration of a jail door in black & pink on the front cover. The corners are bumped and the covers rubbed and soiled. 66 pages & [1] leaf. Illustrated with a frontispiece illustration depicting the author's 2 sons, a full-page plate, and the author's portrait illustrating the ad leaf at the rear. There is a tiny chip to the bottom corner of one page, a tiny tear to the bottom of another and some light soiling throughout. Good.

First edition of this wonderful Western by the youngest man ever appointed deputy U.S. Marshall.

Before he even became a lawman, the Irish-born author Patrick Sylvester McGeeney thwarted a train robbery by the notorious train robber Henry Starr, who was said to have robbed more banks than Jesse James. Appointed as deputy U.S. Marshall at 19 years of age, McGeeney served with the legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen, who were best known as the "Three Guardsmen". McGeeney witnessed the killing of the outlaw gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. With the advent of the motion picture industry, McGeeney turned to the world of movies, producing and acting in the 1919 Western "A Debtor to the Law" alongside none other than the outlaw Henry Starr. At the head of his silent film company, Lone Star, McGeeney produced, directed and acted in movies from 1915 to 1923. Glenn Shirley later wrote a biography of this fascinating author, lawman and filmmaker entitled: "Purple Sage: The Exploits, Adventures and Writings of Patrick Sylvester McGeeney".

RARE. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; WESTERN; FICTION; AMERICANA; PATRICK SYLVESTER McGEENEY; 1ST EDITION; P.S. McGEENEY; DOWN AT CROSS TIMBERS; CINEMA; FILMMAKER; DIRECTOR; PRODUCER; LAWMAN; OUTLAWS; DEPUTY U.S. MARSHALL; OKLAHOMA; AMERICAN WEST; HISTORICAL FICTION; HISTORY; SIL

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