Old Bill Williams Mountain Man Author Signed Alpheus Favour 1st Edit 1936 HS

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Old Bill Williams Mountain Man Author Signed Alpheus Favour 1st Edit 1936 HS:
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Old Bill Williams Mountain Man Author Signed Alpheus H. Favour (1880-1939) 1st Edition 19361936 1st editionvery good condition oatmeal color cloth hardback with brown spine, oatmeal letteringNo dust jacket, pages expectedly yellowed, appears to be unreadpublished by The University Of North Carolina Press229 pagesThis book is illustrated with photographs and drawings including a full color frontispiece of \"Old Bill Williams\"a fold out map of events in the life of \"Old Bill Williams\", the boards, front and back, have area mapsand there is also a most comprehensive bibliography
Description: The Definitive Biography of William Sherley \"Old Bill\" Williams, a Master Trapper, and colorful Mountain Man. He was rough and tough, his drunken sprees were magnificient, his escapades were legendary, his association with the likes of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and other Mountain MenHe was a guide to the Sibley Survey of the Santa Fe trail, and guide to two different Freemont Expeditions.
Old Bill\'s biographer, \"Alpheus H. Favour ,\" was a lawyer who deserted New York for Arizona in 1917. Except for a monograph on Arizona state laws he wrote only this one book, but in it, Old Bill emerges clothed with color and authority. In the years since its first publication in 1936 it has touched abook\'s best destiny, that of exerting a special and lasting influence.
This book is personally signed with a note to Arthur R. Curlee
The note reads, \"To my friend Arthur R. Curlee, It\'s been awhile in the ?ing, but now it\'s out. After you have finished reading, will you conclude you came a hundred years too late, into the world. Faithfully, Al Favour.Prescott May 15, \'36\"
Arthur Curlee (1894-1973) spent most of his life in Douglas, Arizona, and contributed to Arizona politics of h his era. He represented Cochise County in the Arizona House of Representatives in the fifth and six legislatures. In the House of Representatives, he became chairman during the fifth legislature and served on the Appropriations committee for both terms. He was also a member of the Arizona Democratic State Central committee for thirty years and was the founding commander of the American Legion post in Douglas. He served as the campaign manager for Lewis W. Douglas run for Arizona Congressman in 1926.
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