The Diary of a Dude Wrangler by Struthers Burt - 1924

New York - London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Green cloth stamped in black. Light wear at foot of spine; blemished spots in top margin of front cover. 1924 gift inscription on front free endpaper, else internally clean. viii + 331 pages. The account of novelist and dude-wrangler Maxwell Struthers Burt (1882-1954), who in 1912 co-founded the Bar B C Dude Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He describes his own impulse to adopt the Western life, the founding and building of the ranch, and his experiences managing the ranch and hosting tourists (often inexperienced Easterners and women) who were themselves attracted by the allure of the West's wild and woolly ways. Told with many an anecdote, often humorous, sometimes tragic, and full of experienced reflections on both ranch and outdoor life, The Diary of a Dude Wrangler provides an entertaining account of what happens on a dude ranch.