A Texas Matchmaker
Adams, Andy: Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1904 First Edition. Full-page illustration includes frontis. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith."About half of the novel deals with cowboy and ranching materials, about half with courtship and social sorties that would not have embarrassed Sir Walter Scott." Hudson, Andy Adams, pp. 117, 260: "Contains much that is valuable: an insight into how a pioneer rancher felt about the land, sketches of the work, customs, and amusements of people of the country where American ranching began, and some excellent campfire tales." Rader 38. Smith 36. Set mostly in southern Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, this is the second novel in the author"s cattle trilogy. One of the characters, Frank Byler, was J. Frank Dobie"s maternal uncle. "[Adams] made lasting friendships with Frank Byler, Jr., J. Frank Dobie"s uncle, and Charles Siringo."?Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, p. 5. Spine ends and board corners rubbed and bumped. Covers scuffed. Previous owners name on ffep.Media shipping $4.25
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