The West of Ross Santee with Original Essays By Carl S. Dentzel; J. Frank Dobie, J.C. Dykes; W.H. Hutchinson; Jonreed Lauritzen
Van Nuys, California: J.E. Reynolds, Bookseller, 1961. Octavo. Item #031379
J.E.Reynolds tells of his meeting with Ross Santee in Tucson. A very delightful tale as he asks Santee's permission to devote a catalog to him and he received a seven-page typed letter. After his study in the Chicago Art Institute, he spent a year in New York with no money, happily selling a drawing for ten dollars which kept him in Durham and soda crackers. By 1915 he went to Arizona and worked as a cowboy on the Bar F cattle ranch near the San Carlos Indian Reservation (not far from Globe, Arizona). J. Frank Dobie recalls reading Santee's "Cowboy" which he felt like Andy Adams "The Log of a Cowboy", Jeff Dykes with Louis F. Merrill and Bill Allred's collecting his work as well as meetings with Santee and Dobie in Waller Creek, Texas. The first 103 items in the catalog are either by Ross Santee or about him. Those 103 items could have been purchased for less than $300 in 1961. Today, I would estimate the collection in the $5000+ range to a serious bookseller.
Price: $60.00