Beef, Leather and Grass
Notes: "An exuberant first-hand accout of cattle ranching in Montana on the Crow Indian Reservation...In the 1940s and the 1950s Edmund Randolph spent twelve years as a partner in the Antler Ranch, one of the most important institutions in this still sparsely settled area, one of the greatest beef producers in the United States."
286 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with no additional printings noted). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author to Diana Kendrick. Mrs. Clara Diana (née Cumming) Kendrick was the husband of Manville Kendrick, the heir to Sen. John B. Kendrick, the owner of a very large Wyoming ranch. The books is inscribed, "To my old friend Diana Kendrick, with best wishes. Edmund Randolph," with Diana C. Kendrick's ownership signature above. A one-page typed letter, signed, from the author to Manville and Diana Kendrick is laid in. The letter concludes, "I know you'll be able to read through some of the substitute names" in Beef, Leather and Grass.
Publication: Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
ISBN: 0806115173
Item No: #361873
Price: $150