THE AMERICAN COWBOY IN LIFE AND LEGEND by Bart McDowell; (Joe B. Franz, Foreword) - 1972

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1972. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright, Illustrated, gilt embossed, sienna linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fair w/loss to upper spine edge & closed edge tears closed with archival tape. Story of Amercian cowboys, the ruggered vaqueros & cowboys on horseback, from their beginnings in Mexico to the present --- minus Hollywood film & fiction. Both grandfather and father of author Bart McDowell's (1983 - 2009), award-winning writer and senior editor at National Geographic magazine, were in the cattle industry. 211 pgs, color photos & drawings, in 6 chapters: 1, The Weather Worn Cow Men; 2, No Trail Too Rough or Long; 3, The Country Belonged to God; 4, Good Water & Grass; 5, Come on & Bring the Bunch; and 6, Where Horses & Riders Are Strangers.. First Edition, First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by William Albert Allard (Photographer).