THE GOLDEN HOOF: The Story of the Sheep of the Southwest.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1945.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good overall in salmon cloth (some sunning to the spine, no dust jacket). First printing. As the daughter of a German father and an English mother, both engaged in wool growing, Kupper provides an intimate account of her life with the flock in Texas. It is also an "informative account of sheep and sheep men in the Southwest. The flock, and the characteristics of the animal in individual and mass action; its history --from the first imports in the 16th century -- on to the breeds, the churro, the merino; the life of the Spanish pastor, the Anglo sheepherder; the hurdles and hazards to be , doctoring, food, animal enemies, outlaws and drifters, blizzard and drought and fire; the big sheep drives of the '80's and '90's, the range war between sheep men and cattle men; shearing and marketing the wool." (Kirkus) Frontispiece from a painting by N. C. Wyeth, notes. Due to wartime shortage of paper, this is printed appropriately on gold paper. xi,203 pp.