Hell, I Was There! - Hardcover

ELMER KEITH: HIS LIFE STORY "HELL, I WAS THERE!"; Adventures of a Montana cowboy who gained world fame as a big game hunter

Hardcover. Revised (and Expanded Edition). Quarto. 11 1/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. x 1 1/2 in. Brown, woven cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book is clean and solidly bound, and if one can bear to remove the colorful but somewhat edgeworn dustjacket with Keith's portrait to the front, the book itself would be quite handsome on the shelf, even if one never read it - which is impossible! "Hell, I Was There" is a hunter's, gun collector's, fabricator's, artisan's central classic -- seldom missing in all respectable libraries of serious students of the gun. 308 pages. Previous owner's name and notation to front free endpaper, in pencil. This is the 1979 revised and expanded version of the classic which revealed "the last of a vanishing breed of men who was there when the American frontier was laid to rest. Keith writes vividly of his experiences in a West that is no more. Throughout his days as a cowboy, broncbuster, hunting guide and rancher, Elmer Keith maintained an abiding and active interest in firearms that lead to his writing hundreds of articles and several books on the subject over a period of more than 50 years." (from front dustjacket flap). This revised edition "came from a manuscript derived from original, unedited tapes dictated by Elmer in his Salmon, Idaho home during long winter evenings in late 1972. This book contains some 30,000 more words than the previous edition.not all new stories, but, in many cases, simply a more detailed telling of events previously chronicled. There are more photographs also, many of them not previously published.photos taken in Alaska, Africa, Mexico, and in the wild recesses of the Idaho-Montana country that Elmer Keith calls home." Very Good in Good Only Dustjacket. Artikel-Nr. 100116

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