Uncle Dick Wootton, The Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region: An Account of the Adventures and Thrilling Experiences of the Most Notes American Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Scout and Indian Fighter Now Living (Classics of the Old West series)

472pp, with numerous full page black and white illustrations. A facsimile reprint of the original 1890 publication. Bound in full brown leather with blind embossed decorations and gilt lettering front and spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Yellow satin ribbon marker bound in. 8vo. Boards very slightly rounded on corners. Original leaflet from the publisher, giving details of Uncle Dick Wootton and his exploits in the southern states of America in the mid 19th century in cotton farming, as a wagoner, and fur trader, loosely laid in, together with an original, unused ‘classics of the old west’ ex libris bookplate. Wootton, who started out as a farmer became a venture capitalist, with his skills based in this knowledge of country and agricultural ways. A successful freighter, a stage-coach contractor, buffalo raiser and one time inn-keeper. He built his own toll road and made it pay. We learn the margins that gave the insider like Wootton the edge in that earliest of American enterprises. the winning of the West. A beautiful book