Author: Chilton, Charles, preface by Prof. Oscar Cargill,
Title: The Book of the West: an epic of America's wild frontier- and the men who created its legends.
Description: NY, Bobbs Merill, (1962). 1st ed ss. VG in G dj with some taping, colored map on endpapers. Of all the regions of the world none has been the subjeect of so much sustained excitement as the country between the Mississ. and the Pccific Coast. What was it like in real life? Here are the facts about this land stranger than the fiction that has grown up around it. The struggle for the west was long, bitter and bloody, begun by the Spaniards in 1519 and continuing almost to the end of the 19th century when the last Indians of the Apache tribe laid down thei arms. In betweeen the white man matched strength and cunning agsinst Aztecs, Mexicans and Indians and against inhospitable wastes that later were to yield fabujous wealth of many kinds. Famous names crowd upon each other in this true life saga- Davy Crockett of the Alamo, valiant Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Geronimo lead the Red Men in the fight to keep their lands, Bowie, Stetson, Colt and other ingenious men provide the West with its best known trappings: outlaws such as Jesse James and Bill the Kid are robbed of much of their glamor but men like Wyatt Earp who hunted them down prove even more colorful in life than in legend. dj wear, small tsea to bottom front, spine sunned, residue of tape.

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