Walt Coburn's father pioneered in Montana Territory, joined the Vigilantes who chased road agents, and eventually built up one of the biggest cow outfits in the young state. The Circle C Ranch spread over thirty thousand acres in northern Montana, near the town of Malta. Walt is rather small for age fourteen--only "stirrup high" to his pony Snowflake--when he works on the Circle C and learns a lot from the tough cowboys, and from his own scrapes and falls. His summer vacation from school increases in excitement when Kid ...
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Walt Coburn's father pioneered in Montana Territory, joined the Vigilantes who chased road agents, and eventually built up one of the biggest cow outfits in the young state. The Circle C Ranch spread over thirty thousand acres in northern Montana, near the town of Malta. Walt is rather small for age fourteen--only "stirrup high" to his pony Snowflake--when he works on the Circle C and learns a lot from the tough cowboys, and from his own scrapes and falls. His summer vacation from school increases in excitement when Kid Curry and other members of the Wild Bunch loom on the horizon. "Stirrup High" conveys all the know-how and atmosphere of roughing it on a ranch in 1903.
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Good. Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Solid exlib 3rd printing reading copy hardcover in age-toned and moderately soiled white background illustrated paper covered boards with black title on cover and backstrip and nice full color drawing of a cowboy on a grey horse encircled by english bridles and crops. Tips and spine ends bumped and rubbed. 190 pp text is browning but not brittle. pocket pulled but all pages present. Describes, in first person, exactly what early Montana ranch life was like. Coburn tells about his first cattle roundup (he was only 14 years old), ; the madcap horse-and-buggy race he and his father participated in when Coburn was a kid; an Indian burial rite he witnessed, how cowboys treated each other and much more.
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Good. Third Printing 1966, Pictorial Cover Hardback, No DJ, Some normal cover corner & edge wear, Otherwise pages are clean, tight & flat. Item Shrink-wrapped for additional protection.
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Illustrated by Ross Santee. Good in Fair dust jacket. Some wear and chips to dustjacket; Originally priced at $2.95/maroon cloth with black designs on front and black lettering & designs on spine in blue jacket with; 190 pages; Blue & black cowboy/horses ink illustration and yellow letttering on front and spine/jacket in mylar/chip tear at top and bottom spine and at front top edge and bottom corner.
