GARD, WAYNE:
The Chisholm Trail. With Drawings by Nick Eggenhofer.
Norman; University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. 4th printing (first published 1954). [xi] + 296 pp. Publisher´s grey cloth with black lettering on spine, no dustjacket. Red top edge. Owner´s label on front pastedown (Bengt Lundberg). Very fine. ''For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand´s road to high adventure. It held the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushes with Indian marauders. It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebration in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns. For others the Chisholm Trail meant more than rousing experiences. It carried what probably was the greatest migration of domestic animals in world history. In a period when Texas still lacked railroads for shipping its surplus cattle to northern markets, the trail to Kansas served an urgent need. This pathway, which took the imprints of several million Longhorns, helped Texas dig herself out of the poverty that followed the Civil War. It also spurred railroad construction in the West and the Southwest.'' (Foreword).
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