The Man From Bar-20 - A Story of The Cow Country

New York: A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1918. First Printing . Hard Back. Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 1/4" X 7 1/2. 319 Pages. This book is the May 1918 First Printing. Previous owner's name inked on the front endpaper. Tan cloth boards with black lettering. Front endpaper is separated from the title page but the cloth binding is loosely holding and the first couple of pages are loose. The remaining pages are white, bright, and tight. The back endpaper is also holding tight. Cassidy had a wooden leg which caused him to walk with a little hop, hence the nickname. There were 28 of Mulford's original Hopalong Cassidy books published from 1906 to 1941 and this one is the seventh. Mulford was the first western writer of a series in which the characters were not only connected but aged as time went by. In his early writings, Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking. When Hopalong Cassidy's friend, Johnny Nelson, left Bar-20 searching for even greater adventure, and joined the CL Ranch, he found more than he bargained for. He found a hidden valley between Twin Buttes with over 200 of CL cattle rebranded QE. He found a gang of rustlers out to steal the rest of CL's beef. He found the country's fastest gun-fighter looking to cut him down. What he should have found was a fast way out of that valley. But Hoppy never told him how to turn tail and run. Illustrated with a frontispiece titled Ackerman's gun had him covered as soon as his head showed.