Bob More: Man And Bird Man.

J. FRANK DOBIE

Publication: The Encino Press, 1965, Dallas

First edition. 4to. Limited to 550 numbered copies of which this is #489. Designed by William D. Wittliff. Wittliff's first book with the Encino Press imprint and winner of the Texas Institute of Letters award for design in 1965. Bound in a beautiful shade of adobe cloth with two color paper title label affixed to upper board, tan endpapers, two color printing thru-out. housed in the original brown paper slipcase with matching paper title label.

Originally printed in the Southwest Review in 1941, it is a superb essay on More who was the manager of W. T. Waggoner’s vast Three D Ranch. He considered the Waggoner Ranch along Beaver Creek and the Wichita River to be the finest bird preserve in Texas. More assembled, organized, and scientifically marked a collection of 12,000 to 15,000 bird eggs from 750 species and his collection is considered the finest west of the Mississippi. Bob More, a pioneer conservationist both in his ornithological and ranching activities, insisted on light grazing and extra tanks to bring back native grasses to their original state. He stipulated that a patch of grain be left around every wild turkey nest discovered in the field. Fine in matching slipcase. Biography of Bob More, an oil man with a Texas- sized passion for bird eggs.