Lone Cowboy My Life Story by James, Will - 1932

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good-. 1932. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- to Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The covers have noticeable toning to the spine along with some rubbing to the gilt lettering on the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has had the front endpaper excised and there is a previous owner's inked name on the front free page. "It was one June day in 1892 when a long-reach wagon pulled by four tired horses came to a stop amongst the elders and quakers bordering a little creek which run into the Judith Basin in Montana. The young woman who had been driving the team climbed down off the wagon seat and throwed the lines to one side. The horses would stand, they'd be glad to." "Will James (June 6, 1892 - September 3, 1942) was an artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal...He sold his first writing, Bucking Horse Riders, in 1922. The sale of several short stories and books followed, enabling him and his wife to buy a small ranch in Washoe Valley, Nevada, where he wrote his most famous book, Smoky the Cowhorse. It was published in 1926 and won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1927. Several film adaptations were made of the book, with James narrating the 1933 film. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was written in 1930 and was a bestselling Book-of-the-Month Club selection. He wrote his last book, The American Cowboy, in 1942, shortly before his death and the last line he wrote was "The cowboy will never die." In all, he wrote and illustrated 23 books, 5 of which were made into feature films." .