TALES FROM BUFFALO LAND. THE STORY OF GEORGE "W" NEWTON (OLD-TIME BUFFALO HUNTER OF DAKOTA AND MONTANA) by BURDICK, USHER L - 1939

Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, 1939., 1939. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed on the front free fly leaf by George W. Newton. Printed grey wrappers, 27 pp., introduction, frontispiece [portrait of the author], illustrated, plates. Newton hunted buffalo during the late 1870s through the early 1880s. "Newton was employed by Frazier Brothers during the winters of 1878 and 1879. In the winter of 1878-1879 the firm ... killed 5,000 buffalo and these were skinned by a crew of six men. The district in which this firm operated was mainly on the divide between the Sunday and Little and Big Drys in Montana." "During the season there [were] usually two hunts. One started in June and ended in August, which was a rather limited undertaking, and the only purpose of securing hides at that season was for tanning purposes, but the real buffalo hunt for the purpose of gathering furs which took on the proportions of a gigantic enterprise did not start before the latter part of September. By traveling along the great divide, herds of buffalo could be located feeding along the streams on either side, and Mr. Newton states that during the early part of his hunting experience that when these herds were locate." Photographs of buffalo credited to L. A. Hoffman, Miles City, Montana Territory. The author was at Fort Keogh when Rain-In-The-Face surrendered. Six Guns 326 says, "More material on horse thieves and the Montana vigilantes." Fine bright copy.