First printing.
His fourth book, a novel set in one summer in Montana in the 1930's, a coming of age story set against the backdrop of the late Depression, in the sprawling Two Medicine ranch country.
The first of his three Montana novels - English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana - which form the "McCaskill trilogy", covering the first century of Montana statehood from 1889 to 1989.
Double page handdrawn map.
Long comment by Wallace Stegner on the back cover ending with "Here is teh read Montana, the real West, through the eyes of a real writer.
" SIGNED by Doig on the title page with the words "Welcome to" above the title and "Cowboy Hall of Fame" below his signature.
Laid in a brochure from the 1983-84 Bellevue Hall Town Lecture series.
339 pp.
Dust jacket art by Paul Bacon.
Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (appears unread, price-clipped)