[Rarebooks] fs: Trails of Yesterday, cattleman's memoir, 1921

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 10521 )  Bratt, John. TRAILS OF YESTERDAY.
Chicago: University Publishing Company, 1921. First printing, Original 
cloth, Octavo, xii, 302 pages, black and white photographic plates. Fine, No 
dust jacket.
      Anecdote-rich autobiography of a cattleman in Nebraska, Wyoming, and 
the Dakotas in the late 19th century. Bratt was born in Staffordshire, 
England but came to the United States during the Civil War, arriving in July 
of 1864 at the age of 21. He first lived in Chicago and New Orleans before 
moving west. Includes recollections of Lincoln's funeral, being shipwrecked 
in the Gulf of Mexico, the massacre at Ft. Phil Kearny, surviving a raging 
prairie fire in 1874, and many other exciting scenes colorfully told. HOWES 
#B725; RAMPAGING HERD #310. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with spine 
and upper board titled and decorated in gilt, upper board also decorated 
with an orange setting sun, top edge gilt. Minor extremity rubs. Fore and 
bottom edges of textblock left untrimmed by publisher. An exceptionally 
clean and sound copy of an uncommon book....... $250.00
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