Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier

San Angelo, Texas: San Angelo Standard-Times, 1952 First edition. Very scarce thus. [12], 352pp. Illustrated with 37 drawings by H. D. Bugbee and 4 full-page maps by Jose Cisneros; plan, endpaper illustration. Brown cloth lettered in black. Owner's name on fixed end (H. Grady Stovall). A very fine copy with tattered pictorial dust jacket. Designed and produced by Carl Hertzog at El Paso. Presentation inscription, SIGNED and dated by the author: "For Ms. Ira E. Brown with the best wishes of J. Evetts Haley, October 18, 1952". Includes 37 illustrations by cowboy artist Harold Bugbee; maps by Jose Cisneros. This is a classic work on West Texas that covers every trail, control of the South Plains, Comanches, Mackenzie, etc. "Fort Concho was not only the center of significant events; it was the geographic and strategic hinge upon which history swung" (Haley). "This is one of the best books about any of the vital string of federal forts established in West Texas to tame the frontier" (Jenkins). [Jenkins, Basic Texas Books: 83].. Signed by Author. Illus. by Bugbee, Harold.