BOOKS - The Cowboy; His Life

One copy of the original 1951 book.  First edition. Good paperback with moderate edge wear along the spine, and a previous owner's name and date to the first page.

Photographs by Leonard McCombe; text by John Bryson. 80 pages; b&w photos throughout; 8.5 x 11 inches. A photo-documentary on cowboys on the JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, shot by McCombe, a long-time and well-respected Life magazine photographer. McCombe, who was 27 years old at the time, was an English photographer who first gained international prominence for his pictures of East German refugees at the end of World War II. 

A couple copies reprinted of the full book

Or, you can just buy the 6 page reprint ... which has the front and back cover of the 1951 book, plus 4 pages on Charles Goodnight and his establishment of the JA Ranch with John Allard.  Just a fun and informative piece of Western history