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Soft cover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1998. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New in publisher's vinyl wrapping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 320 pp 8vo. This book is the author's folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chrisman details the history of the outlaws and ruffians of "No Man's Land" and trail drives to Dodge City and beyond. Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities. A clean very presentable copy.