The Ben Lilly Legend

J. FRANK DOBIE

Publication: Little, Brown and Company, 1950, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Decorated cloth, xv [3], 237 pp., frontis., "Esau the Hunter," illustrated, sources, index. The story of a great American hunter ... the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected everything he could find about him. Here are the stories Ben Lilly told and a great many more Frank Dobie heard about him. Lilly was once "chief huntsman" for Teddy Roosevelt, and was widely known for his skill at hunting bears and mountain lions in Texas and New Mexico. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.

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