Bunkhouse Tales of Wild Hoss Charley and Other Epic Poems of the Cow Country.

Cimarron, N.M: Lambert & Brown, 1931. First edition. Octavo. [62] pp. plus 2 endpapers. Illustrated by the author (at least one vignette per spread and remarkably accomplished). Publisher's fuzzy two-tone purple wrappers. All edges crimped as they are not flush with the text block. Overall, a very good copy.In 1887 Charles Fred “Cyclone” Lambert was born to Henri and Mary Lambert in Room #31 of the famous St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico. Fred’s father Henri Lambert started Lambert’s Inn which later became the St. James Hotel. Henri was the one time personal chef of President Abraham Lincoln and Lambert’s Inn, which he built in 1872, became a notorious place during the wild and bawdy days of the Old West. The Inn housed numerous famous and infamous people including Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Jesse James, Black Jack Ketchum, Clay Allison and many more. Fred grew up knowing some of these people. During the saloon’s early heyday 27 men were shot and killed. Fred was virtually stewing in things cowboyiana. To prove his mettle he became the youngest (at age 16) Territorial Marshall ever from New Mexico. When Fred was still learning the tricks of the Sheriff trade, he was befriended by a man named Frank Harrington, the man who shot Black Jack Ketchum, which ultimately resulted in his arrest. Frank took him out behind the stone walls of the Cimarron Jail, and taught him to shoot. By the time Fred became the Sheriff of Cimarron and the wild days of Cimarron were over. A very difficult book to find.