Gettin' Started Howard County First 25 Years by Pickle, Joe - 1980

Big Spring, Texas: Heritage Museum, 1980. Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardback book bound in brown paper-covered boards with gilt title on the spine and illustrated end pages. No defects to note on the book or the dust jacket. Book is the story of the characters and circumstances which influenced the destiny of Howard County. Black and white photos and illustrations. 436 pages including the Index..

Heritage Museum , 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. HARDCOVER; this is NOT ex-library; several small chips/tears along edge of dustjacket; o/w book in very good condition. .

Big Springs, TX: Heritage Museum; (1980). First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, fine in a very good dust jacket. The jacket has a couple of closed tears at the foot of the spine. Includes illustrated endpapers, many photographs, appendices, and an index; 436 pages. With an effusive inscription to friends on the page facing the title page, and dated in 1987.

Good. Jacket in mylar. Sunned spine, edge foxing

436 pages.

Big Spring, TX: Howard County Heritage Museum, 1980. 1st Ed. Hardbound. 8vo. 61 Pgs.. Fine in Good DJ/Good. Gettin Started: Howard Countys First 25 Years by Joe Pickle. Published by Howard County Heritage Museum, Big Spring, TX, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good DJ. 435 Pgs. ISBN 0890152683. Like most of Texas west of Ft Worth, Big Spring and Howard County had their beginning with penetration of the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1880-81. Unlike others, however, Big Spring, traces its identity as a locale not only to the ''discovery'' of the spring in 1849, but to centuries before when the Indians made it a forking point of their deeply worn trails as they followed the buffalo. This book touches on these as it does upon such characters as Cabeza de Vaca, who may have crossed the spot in 1535; Capt. RB Marcy, foremost Southwest explorer who pinpointed the spring; and Heneage Finch 7th Earl of Aylesford, who lived out his last day in the… Read More

Big Springs, TX: Heritage Museum, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 436 pp. Bright, tight and crisp copy. Brown leather-like boards with bright silver type on spine. Pictorial end papers - front free end paper has erasure on top corner - else clean interior. Issued without dust jacket.

VG. Jacket in mylar. 1st printing, inscribed by author. Sunned spine

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.