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Published by Redlands Press, Stillwater, 1958, 1958
Seller: Gene W. Baade, Books on the West, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Reprint in printed wraps. 96pp. This edition does not have any photos. A highly sought memoir of the Ripley, Oklahoma cowboy days. Front cover pulled from staples with one tear to ffep repaired, else near fine copy. Herd 1402, 6-guns 1406.
Published by Privately Printed, Ripley, Okla., 1937, 1937
Seller: Gene W. Baade, Books on the West, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Printed wood-grain decorated wraps with stapled binding, (5 1/2" x 8 3/4"). 108pp. Pencil presentation by McGinty to Hal Money (?). Two portraits (one of McGinty on rearing horse) & two end illustrations. A highly prized memoir of the Ripley, Oklahoma (Cimarron River) cowboy's & cowboy days in old Oklahoma & Texas. Back cover has old triangular crease at bottom, else a very good copy. Very scarce now. Herd 1402, 6-guns 1406.
Published by The Ripley Review, Publishers, 1937., Ripley, Oklahoma, 1937
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. 8vo.Signed by Billy McGinty.Pictorial wrappers, 108 (2) pp., illustrated. Autobiography, as told to Glenn L. Eyler, of an old-time cowboy and broncho rider who worked on ranches in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas. A scarce firsthand account of cattle drives and ranching in Oklahoma. Has information on some outlaws such as Tulsa Jack Blake and Arkansas Tom Jones. William M. McGinty also rode with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish American War. He was a very early cowboy in movies, filming a bronc busting act for Paris World's Fair in 1889. McGinty's Cowboy Band was the first western string band broadcast in the U.S. when they played for KFRU radio station in 1925. Includes a chapter on his experiences as deputy sheriff in Clifton, Arizona, in the 1890's. Six Guns 1406: "Has information on Tulsa Jack Blake and other Oklahoma outlaws." A rather scarce item these days, particularly signed, as this one is. McGinty has penned his name at the bottom of a portrait of him breaking a horse preceding the title page.Light wear to the fore-edges, else a near fine copy.