Son of the Gamblin' Man: A Novel Based on the Lives of John Jackson Cozad and Robert Henri

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed with a small flower doodle by author on front endpaper ('For Grant R. Denniston, with best wishes for a little good gambler's luck. Mari Sandoz'). Jacket spine and edges faded, light stain on rear jacket panel along spine, ink date in different hand beneath inscription. 1960 Hard Cover. x, 333 pp. The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the story of the ambitious promoter and of frontier people fighting hunger, cold, blizzards, drouths, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and ruthless cattlemen.