Apaches and Longhorns; the Reminiscences of Will C. Barnes
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. Item #024192
Frontispiece, inscribed by Lockwood "To my friend/John T. McCutcheon/With esteem and affection/Frank C. Lockwood/The University of Arizona/Tucson, Nov. 15, 1944." 210 pp., edited and with an introduction by Frank C. Lockwood, with decoration by Cas Duchow. Will C. Barnes, a distinguished Man of the West has written the most stirring stories ever written of the real life of the West. More than a biography, it is history full of source material and informative sidelights on conditions in early Arizona and the West and his adventures of his life in the West. At 21 Barnes was in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army, on war service at Fort Apache in Arizona. In 1881, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor for "bravery in action with hostile Apache Indians." In the middle of the 80s Barnes left the Army to become a cowman. A good copy bound in beige pictorial cloth depicting a brown longhorn, lettering black, spine lettered in black blocked in brown, covers do have considerable foxing, internally clean, in matching, clipped pictorial dust jacket with chipping to head, a small, closed edge tear to upper corner, chip to rear upper corner, and some finger soiling. [McCutcheon was a well-known cartoonist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question".].
Price: $175.00