History of Red River Valley, early Cisneros illustrations

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AUTHOR: A. W. Neville, illustrated by Jose Cisneros

TITLE: The Red River Valley Then and Now: Stories of People and Events in the Red River Valley During the First Hundred Years of Its Settlement.

PUBLICATION DATA: 1948. North Texas Publishing. First Edition, limited to 2,000 copies.

Hardy pioneers, Indian depredations, outlaws (Jim Reed, Belle Starr, Frank James, etc.) Compiled from the author's weekly column in the Paris, Texas newspaper, this is a readable, amusing and scarce history of the Red River Valley and all its characters.

Condition report:

Red clay-colored cloth over boards shows little wear. Dust jacket is edgeworn and has a dime-sized chip to its front cover. Designed by Carl Hertzog with some of Cisneros' earliest book illustrations. 278 pages. Binding is sound.