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Rare Work on the Illano Estacado (1936)

IMG_8869Will P. Florence, Hopeful Visions on Higher Ground. A Nester and First Cotton Grower on the Plains Portrays in Personal Experience Story the Cowboy-Nester Land-Wars and Conquests of the Llano Estacado from Cow-Land to Cotton- and Grain-Land.  Printed by the Slatonite in Slaton, Texas. Very nice copy, fresh and crisp, a fine copy in a very good dust jacket.    $350

“Personal narrative story of the Cowboy and Nester contests for West Texas, especially the Llano Estacado, portraying the country’s scenery, resources and development in human history.”

8.5×6.25″ (22cm), 92pp.  Bound in stiff wrappers WITH a dust jacket (!)  Provenance: Library of Congress, with a small “pamphlet collection” stamp on the front cover and the LC surplus/duplicate stamp on the rear cover.  

Full text:  https://swco-ir.tdl.org/swco-ir/handle/10605/89474?show=full

Llano estacado

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