Grey, F. W.

Seeking Fortune in America

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1912. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 307, (4, ads) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Tipped in letter from one Orville Rogers dated 1913, saying “the author knew his Texas, but the one he knew 45 years before was even more lawless.” Howes G-413. Adams Six Guns 874: "This author, an Englishman, erroneously states that Billy the Kid was a half-blood Indian. He also says that when Pat Garrett discovered the house of the Kid's sweetheart, ‘after tying and gagging her,’ he lay in wait there for the Kid. When the outlaw appeared, Garrett shot him from behind a sofa." Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Item #61765

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