HANDS UP; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains.
by Cook, General D.J
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the folds, light sunning to spine of dj)/good
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About This Item
Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1958). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the folds, light sunning to spine of dj). First thus. Reminiscences by General D.J. Cook, Superintendant of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association: A condensed criminal history if the Far West. With an introduction by Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr. Originally published in 1882, this account is considered the "outstanding bad-man narrative of the Rocky Mountain West." Over the years, Cook was a farmhand, miner, saloon-keeper, soldier, city marshal of Denver, sheriff of Arapahoe County, U.S. marshal, major general of Colorado Militia, and most importantly founder and chief of the Rocky Mountain Detect ive Association (a semi-secret and unofficial organization of sheriffs, police chiefs and marshalls). Volume # 11 of the Western Frontier Library Series. Illustrated. xvi, 319 pp.
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- Title
- HANDS UP; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains.
- Author
- Cook, General D.J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the folds, light sunning to spine of dj)
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press,
- Place of Publication
- Norman, OK:
- Date Published
- (1958)
- Keywords
- rocky mountain area,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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