THE SOUTHWEST OF JOHN HORTON SLAUGHTER - Cattleman - Sheriff by Erwin, Allen A - 1965

Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 2nd printing 1997, near fine cloth hardcover in near fine dust jacket with both showing just a hint of shelf wear. 368 pages with black & whites, index and endpaper maps. Nice copy of this look at one of the "..pioneers in the development of the cattle industry in South and West Texas..

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1965. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 368pp.incl.index; HB red w/gilt; -red trim; slight rub w/wear on corners; bookplate&PONinscript.; clean,tight pgs. DJ paleyellow w/brwn.&red-photo/map cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; spine&edges sunned; ¼x4"chip,tp.edge/spine; chips&tears. "1841-1922 ... Pioneer Cattleman and Trail-driver of Texas, the Pecos, and Arizona and Sheriff of Tombstone" sepia photos; fold-out map.

Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, 368 pages including bibliography and index, well researched life on the advancing southwest frontier. Cattleman and Sheriff John Horton Slaughter, Sheriff of Tombstone's Cochise County, includes frontier personalities as Bigfoot Wallace, Ben Thompson. the Earps, Geronimo, Pancho Villa and many others, forewords by Ramon F. Adams and William McLeod Raine. Book is 9.5 inches in height by 6.5 inches in width. Book is Very Good because of tape ghosts on first and rear free page else near Fine, No other markings or previous owner bookplates, book is tight and square with sharp corners, text in Fine condition, nice un- trimmed foredge, very clean red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, light rubbing on bottom edges of board, top stain shows some fading, Jacket is Very Good Plus and then some, nice black and white photograph of Slaughter on front panel with map, original price intact.… Read More

Arthur H. Clark, Glendale, 1965, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st edition. Cloth. 368pp. Illust. Bibliography. Index. Fldg map. Vol. X of the Arthur H. Clark Company's Western Frontiersmen Series. A highly sought cowman biography. Fine in dj. 6-guns 682, Clark 78.

Fine book. Near Fine dj, spine very slightly toned, very light rubbing. Forewords by Ramon F. Adams and William McLeod Raine. Index, biblio, b/w photos. Six-Guns 682. Western Frontiersmen Series.

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965., 1965. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 368 pp., frontispiece, numerous illustrations, folding map, bibliography, index. Forewords by William MacLeod Raine and Ramon Adams. "Slaughter was a cattleman in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a Civil War soldier, Texas Ranger, Indian campaign Army scout, Arizona legislator and founder of Douglas, Arizona. He was Sheriff of Tombstone's Chochise county. ...Based on extensive research, this biography has been very well received by layman and scholar, and is becoming difficult to find."--Clark/Brunet. "It is the first, and a long-needed, book on the famous John Slaughter and shows much research. It is well annotated."--Ramon Adams. From his years in Tombstone there's much information on the OK Corral fight, as well as, the Earps, the Clantons, Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, Tom Horn, Bill Longley, and many other gunmen. Fine bright copy in dust jacket darkened on the spine and with a tiny… Read More