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Quarto, pp. [1-19] 20-202 [203-204: blank], 96 illustrations, six of them color illustrations on coated stock, full Indian smoke tanned buckskin with fringes, marbled endpapers. First edition, large paper issue. One of 500 numbered copies. A lavishly produced early Western novel set on the plains of Colorado in the Cache la Poudre valley near Fort Collins in the mid-1870s. Part of the novel provides an entirely fictional account of scouting with George Armstrong Custer in the Dakotas. The novel, profusely illustrated with drawings and period photographs of pioneer life, is followed by a nonfiction section, "Note and Comment: Supplementary Portraits and Paragraphs." Herbert Myrick (1860-1927), journalist, publisher, businessman, was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He spent some years of his boyhood and youth "amid the scenes of this book . [and] at intervals during a busy life since that time, he has been collecting unpublished data about western life . mainly in connection with his persistent efforts to unravel the enigma of General Custer's fate" (author's "acknowledgments"). Following his newspaper work in the West, Myrick farmed in the East, worked his way through the Massachusetts Agricultural College and, in 1879, became an agricultural journalist and editor. In 1899 Myrick bought control of the entire group of farming magazines associated with the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. In addition to his editorial work, he was president of the Orange Judd Company (publisher of this book) and later was president and editor of the Phelps Publishing Company. He was actively involved in formulating American farm policy during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Howes M395. Adams Herd 1596. Dustin Custer 476. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 M-1183. Spine rubbed; inner hinges starting, but a sound, very good copy. (#164565). Seller Inventory # 164565
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