Big-Enough by James, Will (Pseudonym Of Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, ) - 1950

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but have some light generalized toning. The price clipped dust jacket has some ground-in dirt to the white covers and a couple of small edge nicks and tears. "The boy was not to be a cowboy - he was to be educated and turned into something else. But the boy and the horse together defeated such an outrageous intention. Their adventures - and they are many - take place in the marvelous and ever-interesting West." "James was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, in 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton, Quebec, Canada. He started drawing at the age of four on the kitchen floor. James, a Canadian Francophone, settled near the new French-Saskatchewan settlement of Val Marie in 1910 and learned to be a western cowboy. He was taught wrangling by local cowboy Pierre Beaupre and the two built separate homesteads along the Frenchman River in southwest Saskatchewan. James's property later became part of the Walt Larson ranch which has been folded into the new Grasslands National Park. James's original homestead shack is still there. Accused of cattle theft, he left three years later and traveled to the United States with a new name, William Roderick James." .