RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL

Author: Roosevelt, Theodore and Illustrated by Frederic Remington
Title: RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL
Publication: New York: The Century Company, 1888
Edition: First Edition, First Issue

Description: Frederic Remington. Hardcover. Quarto. Original cloth, Binding first state (front board stamped in green and gold design). Design incorporates hat, cooking pot, Bowie knife, and whip hanging from Saguaro Cactus, with a design of an open book at base of Cactus within a golden sun. Elaborate gilt lettering and embossed designs to spine. Monstrously thick boards (able themselves to survive a cattle drive! -- a very solid copy), with beveled edges. Light foxing to (undecorated portion of ) front board and some very light smudging or staining to rear board. Corners lightly nudged. All edges gilt. [x] pp.186 + 4. Magnificentlyl illustrated by western artist Frederic Remington, throughout. Very Good.

"...Roosevelt records his experiences from his hunting adventures, the people and animals that he encounters, the excitement of the round up, to the everyday life on the ranch..." (Boone and Crockett Club)

"...Roosevelt was at work in the New York state legislature attempting to get a government reform bill passed when he was summoned home by his family. He returned home to find his mother, Mittie, had succumbed to typhoid fever. On the same day, his wife of four years, Alice Lee, died of Bright's disease, a severe kidney ailment. Only two days before her death, Alice Lee had given birth to the couple's daughter, Alice. The double tragedy devastated Roosevelt. He ordered those around him not to mention his wife's name. Burdened by grief, he abandoned politics, left the infant Alice with his sister Bamie, and, at the end of 1884, struck out for the Dakota territories, where he lived as a rancher and worked as a sheriff for two years. When not engrossed in raising cattle or acting as the local lawman, Roosevelt found time to indulge his passion for reading and writing history. After a blizzard wiped out his prized herd of cattle in 1885, Roosevelt decided to return to eastern society. Once back in New York in 1886, he again took up politics..." and returned to his daughter Alice. (History Channel)

This book is the story of Roosevelt's self-imposed relegation to the rhythms and rigors of ranch life, marvelously illustrated by the pen and ink drawings of Frederic Remington.

Seller ID: 86884

Subject: Western Americana