5.25" x 8.25", 204 page trade paperback titled PREFACES by J. Frank Dobie/ University of Texas Press, ISBN # 0-292-76461-8, First University of Texas Press printing, copyright 1982/ This is Dobie's personal introduction to a handful of neglected writers who he prized because they produced good stories and truthful pictures of the Southwest territory that he loved. The author's thoughts on Western writers and artists: Andy Adams, Gene Rhodes, Charlie Siringo, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charlie Russell and Frederick Remington. This book is compiled from forewords written for books by others, some of which were published for the first time and some reprinted. They cover most of Frank's writing career, and so represent changes in style, since he never ceased his efforts to 'learn to write.' . . . Taken as a whole, they establish a theme - the theme of the Old West, which is gone forever.

The book is complete and in FINE or better condition with some overall light wear.