Cowboy in the Making by Will James

Autobiography based on LONE COWBOY with Illustrations by the Author

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Scribners 1939 Reprint (First Printing 1937).
Arranged from the first chapters of Lone Cowboy by author.
9”x 7,” 91 pages.

Four color and numerous pen and ink illustrations by the author.

THE VOLUME: Book is tightly bound. Hinges are intact. The cloth of the spine has darkened with age. Otherwise only faint spots of soiling and one slim stain on front cover visible in photo. Wear at lower board corners with cardboard showing. Some wear at lower spine corners as well. Corners bumped. Edges of the textblock are dark with some soiling, but interior text pages are predominantly very bright and clean. I saw some figure-tip smudges on page 90 and on rear inner board which look like printer's handling. No writing or other inscriptions. End papers have darkened a bit along edges. (See photo with child and wolves.)

THE AUTHOR WRITES: “This is the early story of my life, when I was a kid and about half as tall as my long rifle. The most of it I'd like to live over again, especially when old Bopy and me would drift south after a long winter's trapping in the far north and I would see my little horse again—shed off my mocassins, slip on my copper-toed boots and go to riding alongside or ahead of the wagon Bopy would be driving, going still further south and headed for the heart of cow country.

The experiences I had with Bopy, and what all the wise old trappers taught me stood me in good stead many a time and place afterwards—It was a sure enough outdoor schooling but it also got to fitting well between walls or anywhere. Stay with your lessons, kids, but get outside and learn all you can about animals, specially the horse, he's your best friend.”

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