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Let 'er buck : a story of the passing of the old West / by Charles Wellington Furlong ... ; with fifty illustrations taken from life by the author and others.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Furlong, Charles Wellington, 1874-1967, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pendleton Round-Up.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Northwest, Pacific.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Cowboys--Northwestern States.
- Cowboys.
- Rodeos--Oregon.
- Rodeos.
- Pendleton (Or.)--Social life and customs.
- Pendleton (Or.).
- Oregon--Pendleton.
- Pacific Northwest.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Crooks, Amanda Case, 1863-1943 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Fuchs(?), Lydia P. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 242, [6] pages, [36] pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- [New York] : The Knickerbocker Press
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; and London : G.P. Putnam's Sons ..., 1921.
- Contents:
- Putting on the brand
- The first throw of the rope and why
- Slaps on the back to those who helped
- Frontierspiece
- Out where the West begins
- Til Taylor-Sheriff
- Corral dust
- Milling with the night herd
- The round-up
- The bucker's own table
- The rode and thrown table
- The bucking time table
- Tips to the tenderfoot.
- Notes:
- "A selection from the catalogue of G.P. Putnam's Sons": Pages [243]-[247].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy previously owned by Amanda Case Crooks (1863-1943) with her autograph ("Mrs. Jonathan J. Crooks, of San Rafael, California") in black ink and provenance inscription ("Given to me by Lydia P. Fuchs[?], at the Pendleton Round Up in 1926.") in black and red ink on verso of frontispiece plate; her annotations in black, red, and blue ink and in pencil on endpapers and in text.
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 56
- OCLC:
- 8989846
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