Bucking The Sagebrush; Or, The Oregon Trail In The Seventies

CHARLES J STEEDMAN

Publication: GP Putnam's Sons, 1904, New York

First Edition. Original pictorial cloth. ix, 270pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. In the late 1800s Charles Steedman spent 120 days on horseback and the distance covered was 3000 miles, driving 1200 head of cattle from Portland, across Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming to Laramie. He tells the ways of cowboys, of trails, of horses, of cattle, and of Indians. "Most of this book is devoted to a narrative of a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming in 1878, certainly one of the earliest drives of this magnitude from Oregon east." --Six Score. Also includes recollections of cattle buying in Mormon country.

Inventory Number: 47307