A Three-Foot Stool by Peter Wright - 1909

"Excerpt from Three-Foot Stool It is still at the present day in the United States of Mexico that the model of the ranch is found, where the area is measured by scores of miles and the increase by tens of thousands of calves, and where owners live in paternal simplicity and state. AS it is in the State of Chihuahua to-day, SO it was in Texas, then undetached from Mexico, when the Southerners began to filter into it. They immediately adopted the system, and an etymologist could detect its origin by an examination of the cowpuncher's vocabulary, which is studded with Spanish words. It is especially the characteristic and peculiar words of his trade that come from that source. Their mere recital is a rough picture of Mexican life: the ranch-house with its circus-shaped yard, the corral; the remuda." (Goodreads) Very rare. First Edition, first impression. Subject - cattle ranching in the Americas. Format: Hardback. Navy cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering to front and spine. 256pp. + 8pp ads at back. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, Edinburgh and London. Size: 8vo (25x14x3cm) CONDITION: Good. no DJ. Boards worn; small graze through cloth on front board; ends of spine and corners bumped and worn; boards and spine intact but slight loosening on inside end papers to spine. Moderate foxing to end papers and edges. No inscriptions. Dusting to top edge. A few fox-coloured marks on some inner pages but generally clean and well-bound.