Taming the Bend A History of the Extreme Western Portion of Texas From Fort Clark to El Paso by Shipman, O. L - 1926

Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 215 pages, frontis, illustrations, fold-out map, minor cover wear, bookseller description attached to fly-leaf, red line on bottomand top of rear cover. Six-Guns 2006, "Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid, John Wesley Hardin, John Selman, and other gunmen of the Southwest." Herd 2063, Howes S422 Jenkins, BTB 184, "Contains chapters on the early mail routes, the boundary commission, the camel experiment and transportation, the military posts, freighting, civil affairs, Indian campaigns, the El Paso Salt War, Texas Ranger campaigns, ranching, outlaws, mining, and Mexican revolutionary activities after the turn of the century. This is followed by a section of sketches of early pioneer and ranching families." Very difficult to find..