Two days before the Fourth of July a small procession of three automobiles lifted a ribbon of fine gray dust from the road that wound eastward along the edge of the Bear Paw foothills. Far back toward Dry Lake the haze was still slowly settling to earth when the last car passed through the high gate of the Flying U fence and a small, slight man got out and pulled the gate shut, hooked the chain around the post and into a link worn smooth with much use and climbed back beside the driver. "Same identical chain, hooked the ...
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Two days before the Fourth of July a small procession of three automobiles lifted a ribbon of fine gray dust from the road that wound eastward along the edge of the Bear Paw foothills. Far back toward Dry Lake the haze was still slowly settling to earth when the last car passed through the high gate of the Flying U fence and a small, slight man got out and pulled the gate shut, hooked the chain around the post and into a link worn smooth with much use and climbed back beside the driver. "Same identical chain, hooked the same way as when I came through here years ago," he observed pensively to his companion. "Don't it seem like yesterday we hit out for California, Weary?" "It sure does when I look at these hills," Weary replied. "I miss a few chucks in the road, though. They been doing some work on it lately, looks like. We'll be in sight of the coulee in a minute." Even as he spoke the lead car, a long, low-slung roadster of a famous foreign make, slid up to the very brow of the hill and stopped with a sudden flash of the warning red light seen rather dimly through its coating of dust. The driver, capped and goggled and otherwise bearing the earmarks of a tourist de luxe, twisted his slim body so that he faced to the rear, though his gauntleted hand pointed dramatically down into the valley. "My God, boys, they've built a red barn!" he cried in the tragic voice of one unexpectedly confronted with the worst that can befall. "Can you feature it? A red barn, and it's trimmed in white like a million other barns in a dozen States!" He sank down into the seat again, shaking his head in mournful acceptance of the sacrilege. "They might as well put up a windmill and a silo and finish the job!"
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Good in no jacket. Grey cloth board with black lettering, very edgeworn, minot soiling to boards, pages very tanned, gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise pages clean and binding solid, ships from Colorado.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book Condition: Good-very good. Slight chipping along cover board edges. Small stain at bottom outside page edges.
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Good. Hardcover with Poor DJ. January, 1944. Pages are clean and unmarked. Tanned. Covers show light edge wear with soiling on bottom front. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear/tears.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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8vo. [4], 309, [1] pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Orange cloth, blue lettrng (mnr bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. great cover art of cowboy on bucking bronco by Mach Tey (clsd tear to frnt joint & cvr, slght shlfwr, vry slght chppng hd & ft of spine), VG/G copy. Grosset edition of this installment in the Flying U series set in the Chicago rodeo circuit.
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Vgood. Book With ads. Slight insect-damage along back joint. No names, clean text. vgood, no dj, black-stamped orange cloth, front hinge starting 310 pgs.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a few small tears around edges. "The Kid-Chip's son-had the legs and eyes of a roper but the Flying U hands said he didn't have the guts, until." 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 307 pp.