The Cattle Drives of David Shirk from Texas to the Idaho Mines 1871 and 1873
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Limited edition of 750 copies.
Reminiscences of David L. Shirk, wherein are described his two successful cattle drives from Texas, in company with George T. Miller. His later experiences as a cattleman in eastern Oregon during the terrible depredations of hostile Indians and the range warfare with Pete French from the original manuscript and related papers, now in the University of Oregon Library. Edited and with an introduction by Martin F. Schmitt. Foreword by David Shirk.
Item #901333
6-3/4 x 9”, beige cloth, deckled fore and bottom-edges, ix, 148pp, red initials and titles, index, frontis. illustration, tipped-in facsimile photographic portrait of the author from C. E. Watkins’ Art Gallery, San Francisco
Tight, square, clean of owner’s marks, near fine.
Price: $90.00