He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges.
Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. Editions from the earliest years of the series are highly sought after. The company did not start out to sell the books to the public, but gave each of the company employees a copy at Christmas, making the series valued collectors' items. Donnelley, then president of the company, was impressed by a set of seven razors presented to him by one of the company's suppliers, and wanted to create a gift that would similarly represent his own company's product and could not be purchased on the open market. "Obscure gems." According to company legend, Thomas E. Lakeside Classics is a series started in 1903 that reprints neglected classic works. Donnelley Company produced fine books as well as mail order catalogs, phone directories, and the like. Lakeside Press was a Chicago publishing imprint under which the R. Unbumped spine heads and tails, with sharp corners. Brown buckram binding with gilt-stamped decorative device to the front boards and with gilt-stamped lettering to the spine cloth. From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush, by James Marshall, publ. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher, by Edward Charles Abbott, publ. Gift quality still in the original shrink-wrap. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, issued as part of The Lakeside Classics annual series. Charming reprints from The Lakeside Press division of publisher R.
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