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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS (CRIME.) Emmett Dalton. When the Daltons Rode. 8 plates. viii, 313 pages. 8vo, publisher's illustrated cloth, minimal wear; uncut; inscribed on verso of frontispiece "To Hon. Harry H. Woodring, with sincere best wishes, Emmett Dalton, May 12, 1931." Garden City, NY, 1931
First edition. A memoir of the Dalton Gang which terrorized the Old West in the 1890s, written by the only member who survived their disastrous final attempted bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892. This copy is inscribed to Henry Hines Woodring (1887-1967), who was then the sitting governor of Kansas--and had grown up just a few miles from Coffeyville. Adams, Six-Guns 549; Howes D39.
WITH--a page-for-page contemporary typescript copy of the book.
