Williams, O.W.:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

PIONEER SURVEYOR, FRONTIER LAWYER. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF O.W. WILLIAMS. 1877-1902. From the "Fort Stockton" edition limited to 150 copies, signed by the editor (S.D. Myres), the author of the introduction (C.L. Sonnichsen), the artist (Jose Cisneros), the researcher (Clayton W. Williams), and the designer-producer (Carl Hertzog). "Williams came to Texas for health and adventure at the age of twenty-four. Possessed of a boundless curiosity, he was not only surveyor and lawyer, but folklorist, historian and naturalist as well" - Lowman. An important book on early West Texas.

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