DAVIS, Richard Harding.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Boy Scout. First edition, first printing. Davis was an active journalist, author, and proponent of American masculinity. He was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt's and helped create the legend surrounding the Rough Riders, of which he was made an honorary member. He was the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing "Gibson man", the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl, and was mentioned in Sinclair Lewis' book Dodsworth (1929) as the example of an exciting, adventure seeking, legitimate hero.

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