Kansas: Dodge City Cowboy Capital; Wild Indian, Buffalo. Robert Wright Original

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[KANSAS]  WRIGHT, ROBERT M.  Dodge City: The Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest in the Days of the Wild Indian, the Buffalo, the Cowboy, Dance Halls, Gambling Halls and Bad Men.  Wichita, KS.  1913.  Wichita Eagle Press.  Second Issue, Original Edition.  Frontispiece is a b/w portrait of the author.  Folklore surrounding the original 1913 edition has lead to a widespread belief that most copies were lost in a fire.  Tons of romantic Western content regarding Indian troubles, bad men, buffalo hunters, etc.  A classic with much material accepted as authentic.  342 pp. Illustrated with fronts portrait and plates.  Original green pictorial cloth decorated and stamped in red and black, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt vignette of tomahawk.   Howes W706, Streeter Sale 2395. Adams, Herd 2564. Adams, Six-Guns 2456. Dobie, p.125. Graff 4756. Reese, Six Score 118.  Very Good + Condition; minimal bumping to extremities, a few lighter specks across cloth boards.   0.00