IT'S HARD TO KILL A COWBOY - Claire & Sharon Boyce - Montana Cowboy Autobiograph

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This auction is for a used and illustrated paperback book:
IT'S HARD TO KILL A COWBOY
CLAIRE and SHARON BOYCE
ISBN  0 938657 03 8
Copyright © 1989 by Claire Boyce and Sharon Boyce
Published by:  Sharon Boyce
144 pages
Quote from FOREWORD:
It's hard to kill a cowboy.
They're pretty tough, you know
Or I'da been riding in the clouds
With the angels long ago.
Here we have a story basically concerned with the life of one man.  Next to the youngest among a family of five boys and two girls, Claire Boyce is the narrator of this work which includes an autobiographical description of a Montana cowboy covering the period of about 1910 to present.  In covering his role in thie period, he delves back in time to the patriarch of the Boyce family, Stephen Boyce, born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1847.  As a young man, Stephen Boyce traveled west to California, then north through Oregon and into what was to be the state of Washington.  From there he came east into Montana.  ...
Book is in fair condition
Missing any front end pages - title page is first page
Overall soiling from heavy handling, visible to closed page edges and covers - see images
Hand-written note and previous owner's name and address label inside front cover
Overall smokey smell from previous owner's wood burning stove.
This book weighs 7.2 ounces - prior to packaging
included is an age yellowed newspaper clipping of a cowboy poem
TABLE OF CONTENTS basic section titles:
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
SECTION ONE - EARLY DAYS
SECTION TWO - TEENAGE YEARS
SECTION THREE - CBC EXPERIENCES
SECTION FOUR - TRAVELING YEARS
SECTION FIVE - A BRIEF WRAP-UP
SECTION SIX - THE REST OF THE STORY
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