A Lone Star Cowboy. Being Fifty Years Experience In The Saddle As Cowboy, Detective And New Mexico Ranger, On Every Cow Trail In The Wooly Old West. Also The Doings Of Some "Bad" Cowboys, Such As "Billy The Kid", Wess Harding And "Kid Curry."

CHAS A. SIRINGO

Publication: Privately printed, 1919, Santa Fe

First edition. 8vo. Presentation inscription by the author on the front fly leaf "Christmas 1919. To Mrs. Cynthia Wilson: As per request of your cousin, Mr. George S. Tweedy, I am mailing you this volume as an Xmas present from him, with the compliments of the author. Chas. A. Siringo, Santa Fe, New Mexico." Pictorial cloth, [10], 290 pp. one page of advertising on the leaf before the title page at the front for Siringo's A SONG COMPANION OF A LONE STAR COWBOY available from the author and described as "just off the press,". plates, portraits, fascmiles. "In 1916 Governor William C. McDonald persuaded Siringo to accept a commission as a New Mexico Mounted Ranger for the state Cattle Sanitary Board. The only thing unusual about that was Charlie Siringo's age, a ripe 61. Undaunted, he saddled up and with a pack horse started for his headquarters at Carrizozo in Lincoln County. His duty was to run down outlaws and stock thieves in southern New Mexico." Herd 2074 says, "Like many of the author's books, this one contains many repetitions from his previous volumes. Here the author recalls some incidents not related in his first book. He states in his preface, "This volume is to take the place of A Texas Cowboy." A very good, tight copy of an elusive title, especially with the Siringo inscription.

Inventory Number: 41895