A Texas Cowboy; Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony Taken from Real Life by Chas. A. Siringo an Old Stove Up Cow Puncher Who Has Spent Nearly a Lifetime on the Great Western Cattle Ranges (Series: Classics of the Old West.)
by Siringo, Chas. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0809435683
- ISBN 13
- 9780809435685
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Alexandria: Time-Life Books Inc. [0-8094-3568-3] 1980, reprint. (Leather binding) 316pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering and textured decorations to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker, color frontispieces, illustrations. "My excuse for writing this book is money - and lots of it. I suppose the above would suffice, but as time is not very precious I will continue and tell how the idea of writing a book first got into my head" - from the Preface. Locale: Western America. Series: Classics of the Old West. (Western America, Cattle Ranching, Cowboys, History--United States).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154740
- Title
- A Texas Cowboy; Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony Taken from Real Life by Chas. A. Siringo an Old Stove Up Cow Puncher Who Has Spent Nearly a Lifetime on the Great Western Cattle Ranges (Series: Classics of the Old West.)
- Author
- Siringo, Chas. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0809435683
- ISBN 13
- 9780809435685
- Publisher
- Time-Life Books Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Alexandria
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Western America, Cattle Ranching, Cowboys, History--United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN HISTORY;
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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