Vintage Back Trailing Short Grass Country John O Bye Gray HC 1956 USA Signed

Condition

Vintage signed 1956 hardcover. Gray cloth boards show general shelf wear, with rubbing and softening at corners and spine ends, light overall soiling, and scattered white rub marks and spots on the back cover and lower edges, plus. Front endpaper carries an author presentation inscription, additional signature, blue bookseller stamp, and a small pencil price; the same store stamp appears again on the title and copyright pages. Text pages are evenly age-toned but clean and securely bound, fold-out maps intact, with no loose or missing pages.

Description

Title: Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short Grass Country.

Author: John O. Bye; format: vintage 1956 English-language hardcover Western history volume printed in the United States, with gray cloth pictorial boards and green cowboy-and-range illustration.

Genre/Topics: regional history of the American West, cowboys and cattle drives, open-range ranching, Dakota and Montana short-grass country, frontier communities, and reminiscences of early-day cowmen and settlers.

Content overview: presents Bye's firsthand recollections and gathered stories from the short-grass country, including portraits of working cowboys, trail bosses, ranch families, and small-town characters, along with accounts of cattle drives, roundups, badlands landscapes, and changes that came with the closing of the open range.

Organization and layout: arranged in narrative chapters, sketches, and biographical pieces, interspersed with poems and quotations such as E. A. Brininstool's poem 'His Last Drive,' acknowledgments to contributors like Ray ('Guzzler') Gilbert, and closing sections that profile pioneers and their work in the northern plains.

Illustrations and maps: illustrated in black and white by John G. McCormack, featuring line drawings of cowboys, horses, range scenes, and decorative chapter headings; this copy also includes two large black-and-white fold-out maps laid in, one titled Short Grass Country Ranch Map and another showing Texas cattle trails.

Physical details: medium-format gray cloth hardcover with dark green stamped title lettering on the front board and spine and a silhouette vignette of a mounted cowboy riding past a wagon wheel and longhorn skull against distant buttes and clouds; interior pages printed in a single-column layout with serif type.

Features and audience: signed presentation copy with an ink inscription by John O. ('Johnnie') Bye on the front free endpaper, accompanied by a second signature from Albert R. Raihl; blue Raihl's Agate Store, Terry, Montana, ink stamps appear on the front endpaper, title page, and copyright page. Suitable for adult readers, collectors of Western Americana, and researchers interested in Dakota and Montana ranching history.

Bibliographic details: copyright 1956 by John O. Bye; text typed by the Everett Letter Shop, lithographed by the Alexander Printing Company, both of Everett, Washington, and bound by Wards Bindery (Geo. A. Bayless) in Seattle, Washington; pre-ISBN era regional Western history title.

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