Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. Roosevelt, Theodore Americana

Alleghany edition of Roosevelt's stories of sport hunting on the Northern Cattle Plains. Octavo, original brown cloth with gilt titles and detailing to the spine, teepee stamped in gilt to the front panel, illustrated with 26 full-page engravings by A.B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J.C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt in hunting attire. Boldly signed as president by the author on the front free endpaper, "Theodore Roosevelt Spt. 1902." In near fine condition. An exceptional example. â Midway through Rooseveltâ s third term [in the New York State Assembly] in 1884, his wife died after giving birth to a daughter. He immersed himself in legislative matters to the end of the session, then sought solace on his ranch in western Dakotaâ "â a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty... For a while the 25-year-old widower considered a life of ranching, hunting, and writing. He expanded his cattle operation, published Hunting Trips of a Ranchmanâ (ANB).