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First-Hand 1885 Montana Cattle Drive History! Back Trailing on Open Range • Luke D. Sweetman • 1951 First Edition Title: Back Trailing on Open Range
Author: Luke D. Sweetman
Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.
Year: 1951
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: Unknown
Summary
Relive the raw reality of the late 19th-century American West through the eyes of a cattleman who lived it. In 1885, Luke Sweetman arrived in Miles City, Montana, trail-herding three thousand cattle across the open plains from Kansas. Back Trailing on Open Range details his experiences working for various legendary cow outfits along the Big Dry, Squaw Creek, and Hell Creek. Sweetman\'s narrative is a magnificent piece of genuine Americana—capturing the challenges of early roundups, breaking wild geldings, winter wolf encounters, and the transition of the frontier prairie from buffalo range to cattle land. Beautifully accented by the line illustrations of Western artist L. D. Cram.
Condition Report: Good
- Exterior: Structurally rebound by institutional library specialists Houchen Bindery (Utica, Nebraska) in a highly durable, unlettered orange patterned cloth. Cloth is clean and bright with very minor corner rubbing. Outer page edges carry a clean \"Washoe County Library\" stamp. Issued without original dust jacket.
- Binding: Exceptionally tight, firm, and soundly reinforced by the professional library binding process.
- Interior: Standard ex-library markings present. Includes an original paper card pocket on the front flyleaf, neat inventory numbers on the title page, a library stamp, and a small library bindery stamp on the rear pastedown. Pages are otherwise highly preserved, clean, crisp, and free of reader highlighting or notes.
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