Rodeo

Claude `Kid' Bennett is a young man starting to carve a place for himself in the world. His mom wants him to go to college and earn his M.D., Dad thinks he could turn the boy into a useful man if he'd stay on the Montana ranch, and learn to work hard. Kid gets a thorn under his saddle and sets out with his three horses to a six day rodeo in Chicago. Along the way he meets J.N. Harlan (and his free-spoken daughter Dulcie) who is a Chicago businessman with plenty of PULL . From there the plot thickens. 310 pages. UNillustrated. Cond : Boards are red with yellow stripes. D.J. is missing. Spine is fine, colours bright, binding tight. Light waer at points. P/O name on ffep. Pages yellowed by age, no marks in text, VERY GOOD reading copy !! Quote (p. 63 ) : " They can't or won't follow my mental processes, so they think I must be going straight to the devil. Dad's idea is to keep me out of school and make me work here on the ranch to learn what he calls sense. Mother wants me to be . .".