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McCoy, Joseph Getting "Cowboy" (1837-1915) Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest. Kansas City, MO: Ramsey, Millett, & Hudson, 1874. First edition, octavo, presentation inscription dated the year of publication and mentioning John Muir (not in Muir's hand), portrait of McCoy bound opposite title, illustrated throughout, with twenty pages of advertisements after the text, bound in original publisher's dark brown textured cloth with blind stamped longhorn head on front and back, titled on spine, neatly rebacked, endleaves renewed, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. Adams Herd 1385; Eberstadt 137: 395; Graff 2594; Howes M72; Reese, Six Score 76.