[Rarebooks] fs: New Mexico, old west, frontier mounted police

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 10221 )  Hornung, Chuck. THE THIN GRAY LINE: THE NEW MEXICO MOUNTED POLICE.
Fort Worth: Western Heritage Press, (1971). First printing, Hardcover, Octavo, 202 pages, black and white photographs, facsimiles. Near fine in a very good, price clipped dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      History of New Mexico's rugged frontier rangers and their fight for law and order in the territory. In addition to his other research, Hornung was able to gather personal recollections from the last surviving mountie, Fred Lambert. Well illustrated, appendices. Bound in brown textured paper over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt. A few tiny rubs to extremities. Jacket has a few shallow chips at head of spine, a .5 inch closed tear at top edge of front panel, a few other shallow edge tears and minor surface rubs.    $125.00 
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