Signed Texas Ranger Memoir
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881
Publication: Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1921. First Edition.
Notes: A classic account of the Texas Rangers during the heyday of the cowboy. "It is superb, and truthful; its dramatic color comes from the events themselves, not Gillett's manner of telling them. Even Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers (held to be the definitive work on the same) doesn't pack as much of the aura of Ranger service"—A.C. Greene, The Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 73.
"This is one of the finest personal memoirs of Texas Ranger service"—John Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, no. 76.
"Published in a small edition by the author and sold personally by him"—Adams One-Fifty (150 most important books on Western outlaws and lawmen). The book was reprinted a number of times, beginning with Yale University Press in 1925.
[2: blank], 332, [2: blank] pages plus 8 inserted plates with tissue guards.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). Hinges cracked, else very good, lacking the scarce dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to "F[rank] Leslie Koen, July 1, 1923. Very truly yours J. B. Gillett" across the front pastedown and front free endpaper.
From the Texas collection of the late Tom Garner.
Item No: #365252
Price: $400