HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN #245/500 Rare First Edition June 1885 Putnam, TDR

Description: Rare find for a collector. Amazing condition for a 139 year old book! Images have not been corrected or enhanced. Taken with an old Android cellphone on a cream colored couch with only natural light coming through the windows with heavy green leaves. This was my grandfather's and the only mark is from a four leaf clover I found that my grandmother must have pressed. Has been stored flat, spine is not cracked, pages are not creased or dogeared. No writing inside. Pages are crisp and will not lay flat, I let them be where they be for the photos. This is #245 out of 500 printed. Rarest of the rare. Medora Edition printed before the First Edition. Theodore Roosevelt wrote this book while in his 20's about his ranch life in the Dakotas. Well before becoming the youngest president of the USA. This will be shipped for free, extremely well preserved and packaged. If there is a certain page you would like to see photographed let me know. Dimensions are 9 inches wide, 11 inches tall and 2 inches thick. There are 318 numbered pages plus 13 making up introduction, contents and protective pages. Weight is 5.1 pounds. I am the second owner, receiving it after my grandfather passed. I will share the history of ownership with the buyer. Would love to see it go to a collector rather than a re-seller. I no longer hunt and have no one in the family that does or is interested in history. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~From Wikipedia-Roosevelt first visited the Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison. Exhilarated by the western lifestyle and with the cattle business booming, Roosevelt invested $14,000 ($457,800 in 2023) in hope of becoming a prosperous cattle rancher. For several years, he shuttled between his home in New York and ranch in Dakota.[41]Following the 1884 United States presidential election, Roosevelt built Elkhorn Ranch 35 mi (56 km) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota. Roosevelt learned to ride western style, rope, and hunt on the banks of the Little Missouri. A cowboy, he said, possesses, "few of the emasculated, milk-and-water moralities admired by the pseudo-philanthropists; but he does possess, to a very high degree, the stern, manly qualities that are invaluable to a nation".[42][43] He wrote about frontier life for national magazines and published books: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, and The Wilderness Hunter.[44]Roosevelt successfully led efforts to organize ranchers to address the problems of overgrazing and other shared concerns, which resulted in the formation of the Little Missouri Stockmen's Association. He formed the Boone and Crockett Club, whose primary goal was the conservation of large game animals and their habitats.[45] In 1886, Roosevelt served as a deputy sheriff in Billings County, North Dakota. He and ranch hands hunted down three boat thieves.[46]The severe winter of 1886–1887 wiped out his herd and over half of his $80,000 investment ($2.71 million in 2023).[47][48] He ended his ranching life and returned to New York, where he escaped the damaging label of an ineffectual intellectual.[49] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Price: 950 USD

Location: Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

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