Square quarto (28.5 cm), pp. 119. Maroon cloth with gilt titling on front board and spine. Cream jacket with illustration, "Fat Meat Runs at the Head of the Herd." Fully illustrated with 150 drawings and full-color paintings by Montana cowboy artist "Shorty" Shope. Includes excerpts from his journals and other sources. Shope's artwork is held in collections at Favell Museum of Western Art and Indian Artifacts, Leanin’ Tree of Western Art, National Center for American Western Art, and Sangre de Cristo Arts Center. He was a charter member of Cowboy Artists of America. Dust jacket present. First Edition.