These Thousand Hills by Guthrie, A. B. Jr - 1956

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Near Fine condition in Brodart-protected, Near Very Good Dust Jacket (price-clipped; lightly chipped at the edges). Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Third novel in the Big Sky series by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. From the Dust Jacket: "The West of the cattle kingdom… Lat Evans was twenty when he struck out for himself in a job trailing cattle from Oregon to Montana, into country that stretched farther than a man could think. It was country of dramatic beauty and potential wealth and severest privation: it was a life where the biggest fight might have to be settled in a man's mind, without a gun to rely on, or settled between two women who loved him, each in her fashion and both forever. It was a country that held on to its Indian past and reached toward its ranchers' future and tested both with the primitive violence of storm and drought. And here are the people to match the country: Whitey, the drunken hostler who knew how to change a horse brand temporarily; Little Runner, the Indian who wounded Lat but finally owed his life to him; Carmichael, the cow puncher, who liked stories better than responsibility but had to settle for the latter; Tom Ping, whose one morality was loyalty; the fragile Callie, who made a house her home." Original rust-colored cloth. Vanderhoof 2600. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near VG DJ (price clipped). Illus. by Barss, William (dust jacket art). 8vo. 346pp.