PRIVATELY PUBLISHED AND AUTHORED BY THE SON OF "NED FROST", DICK FROST, IN 1984. Dick Frost's friend, fellow rancher, and partner for a portion of his life was Fred Richards. Indeed, Dick and Fred married sisters. This book is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOB RICHARDS. Without carefully reading to see if Bob Richards is identified anywhere in the book (Fred Richards was discussed often), I am going to surmise that Bob Richards is the son of Fred Richards, and would therefore be a nephew of the author Dick Frost.
Fully titled and subtitled, "Tracks, Trails, and Tales Or Dad Stories and Other Characters and Incidents in the Early Cody County". Self-published in 1984, and in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Clean paper covers, photos and illustrations throughout, no other markings in 100 clean and solidly bound pages.
I was unable to find out much about this book specifically, but I did find a site titled, "Outfitting in Wyoming" which talked about the partnership of Ned Frost and Fred Richards in Cody, Wyoming:
"Guiding “Spend-A-Million” Gates
In those days the foremost outfitters and hunting guides around Cody were partners Ned Frost and Fred Richard. Though still young men in 1913, the pair had a great deal of experience guiding paying hunters into the rugged Absaroka Mountains between Cody and Yellowstone National Park. In the fall of 1913, with booming demand for their services, the two men split the simultaneous high-profile hunting trips, Fred Richard guiding the Prince of Monaco and Ned Frost outfitting the “Spend-A-Million” Gates party.
Guiding hunters toward game animals was one thing, but outfitting entire hunting parties on extended expeditions was another—it required a great deal of logistical planning. The Gates party needed 55 pack horses to carry all the supplies and provisions, in addition to the 16 saddle horses for the sportsmen, guides, wranglers, and camp cooks. The group made history when they packed a phonograph over the mountain divide into the remote Thorofare region so the hunters would not be without their aural pleasures while “roughing it.” Ned Frost and his team also rigged one especially sturdy pack horse to tote a primitive battery-operated refrigerator Gates insisted upon..."
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