Books and Manuscripts

(Cox, James)
Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas and Adjacent Territory
Saint Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., 1895. First edition. Thick 4to. (1), 743 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates and portraits; without the frontispiece (not issued with all copies). Publisher's full dark leather, stamped in blind and in gilt, with a vignette of a longhorn stamped in gilt on front board, rebacked in cloth and leather, tips and portions of board edges renewed in same, front board bowed; marbled edges; wear along edges of endleaves and prelims. Merrill, Aristocrat of the Cow Country, p. 17; Reese, Six Score 24; Adams, The Rampaging Herd 593; Dobie, p. 100; Dykes Kid 29; Graff 891; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 34; Howes C-820; Rader 1891; Saunders 2846; Vandale, Texas Books 44

One of the "Big Four" Cattle books, with biographies of some 448 cattlemen and extensive contemporary accounts of the Texas cattle trade. Rare, as "supposedly most of the first edition was destroyed in a warehouse fire…" (Merrill). "The book contains a wealth of information, and is a cornerstone in any range library" (Six Score).