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A Bar Cross Man - The Life and Personal Writings of Eugene Manlove Rhodes University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1956. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. BW Photographs and Maps (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Condition: Jacket is very good except for bumping at head of spine, one bumped corner, and two small closed tears at tail of spine. Original price $5.00 unclipped. Book is in VG condition. Former owner's small inkstamp to pastedown and ffep. Overall clean, sound and tight. Eighteen photographs and two maps. Exact size: 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches. 432 pages. This is a classic biography containing the personal writings of a true Westerner, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, who lived the life and wrote about the cattle kingdoms of the Southwestern New Mexico. With many short fiction stories written for the Saturday Evening Post, Rhodes had a thirty-eight year career as a "commercial writer," and published sixty short stories, fourteen novelettes, longer serials, sixteen essays and articles, and thrity-two known poems. Scarce. First edition. Western Americana & Biography. Hardback