Excerpt from The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country Most of the characters in this tale are from life, and some of the main events are historical, although the actual scenes and names are not given. Many men now living will remember Fighting Bill Kenna and the Horse Preacher, as well as the F ort Ryan races. These horse races are especially well known and have been described in print many times. I did not witness any of them my self, but listened on numerous occasions when they were described to me by ...
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Excerpt from The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country Most of the characters in this tale are from life, and some of the main events are historical, although the actual scenes and names are not given. Many men now living will remember Fighting Bill Kenna and the Horse Preacher, as well as the F ort Ryan races. These horse races are especially well known and have been described in print many times. I did not witness any of them my self, but listened on numerous occasions when they were described to me by eye-witnesses. My first knowledge of the secret try-out in Yellowbank Canyon was given to me years ago by Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, with permission to use the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Good. Hardcover, no jacket, in Good to Very Good condition, there are no stamps writing or marks, paper is tanning with age, corner bumps, nice shape for an older book,
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Clarence Rowe. Very Good. Primatologist Robert Yerkes' copy, with his signature on the front free endpaper and his vintage bookplate on the front endpaper. Original green gilt designer cloth with color frontispiece and tissue. Tissue is mildly foxed; rest of text and binding is better than very good, clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. Octavo.
