Sun and Saddle Leather

Boston; Toronto: R.G. Badger ; Copp Clark Co., "Copyright 1915 and !917". Presumed second edition; first ed. with illustrations. Octavo in black-brown paper-backed boards, beige cloth spine; paper title labels to front board and spine; [12], 60p; b&w plates. Minor chafing to paper labels; poem "The Trail of the Setting Star" by Vernon A. Vrooman neatly clipped and glued to rear paste-down; handsome owner signature to front free endpaper; overall very good and tight; clean within. Hardcover.

"Charles Badger Clark (1883 – 1957) was an American cowboy poet, and the first poet laureate of South Dakota. Charles Badger Clark was born in 1883, in Albia, Iowa. His family moved to Dakota Territory, where his father served as a Methodist preacher in Huron, Mitchell, Deadwood and Hot Springs, preaching at Calamity Jane's funeral. Charles dropped out of Dakota Wesleyan University after he clashed with one of its founders.... He travelled to Cuba, returned to Deadwood, South Dakota, where he contracted tuberculosis, then moved to Tombstone, Arizona to assuage his illness with the dry weather. He returned again to South Dakota in 1910 to take care of his ailing father."—Wikipedia.