Major Andrew Drumm, 1828-1919. A Sketch Prepared And Read By Meade L. Mcclure Before The Missouri Valley Historical Society May 31, 1919

MEADE L. MCCLURE

Publication: Privately printed, 1919, Kansas City

First edition. 8vo. Brown stiff wrappers, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover, brown front and rear endpapers, 2 p.1., 5-41 pp. frontispiece (portrait with tissue), plates, portraits (with tissues). foreword, 24 cm., untrimmed. An important work, first read before the Missouri Valley Historical Society, by Meade L. McClure in 1919, and here printed in a small edition. M.L. McClure, was Vice President of the Drumm Commission Company, Live Stock, Kansas City, Missouri. Major Drumm, a prominent cattle rancher and Kansas City businessman, ran the 150,000 acre U Ranch near Burlington, Oklahoma. He later established the Andrew Drumm Institute in Independence, Missouri. It became known as the Drumm Farm Center for Children, a home and working farm for orphaned or disadvantaged boys. Drumm was at one time President of the Cherokee Livestock Association, and this memoir contains much information relevant to that Association, as well as information on the U Ranch, The Drumm Institute, etc. Text is tight and with the first preliminary page with two tiny nicks to the fore-edges, else a near fine copy. This is the first time that we have gotten this item in stiff paper wrappers as previous copies have had a suede cover.

Inventory Number: 52703