Dave Cook of the Rockies: Frontier General, Fighting Sheriff, and Leader of Men

New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936 First edition. 224pp. Frontis portrait, 13 illustrations from old photographs. Maroon cloth lettered in black. A fine copy with slightly chipped and spine-darkened pictorial dust jacket (jacket is scarce!). Biography of this famous Colorado detective from the beginning in 1859 when he went to Colorado during the gold rush, to guarding supply trains during the Civil War, to his death in 1907. Cook became city marshal of Denver, was sheriff of Arapaho County, was a United States marshal, General of the Colorado Militia, and founder and Chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. During his 40 year career he arrested more than 3000 criminals, including 50 murderers. Includes "an extended account of the capture of Musgrove and his gang, as well as other outlaws" (Six-Guns). Most of the historic photographs in this work were hitherto unpublished and taken c. 1880 by Joseph Collier, the first photographer to carry dark-room tent and chemicals by pack train into the heart of the Rockies. [Six-Guns: 466]..