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Rare and rather crudely printed account of frontier life in the wilds of North Dakota. Howes notes "Less than 100 copies ptd." On the inside of the front wrapper is printed, upside down, the title of the author/printer's Early History of Devil's Lake County - he was evidently employing unused cover sheets. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by the author, to Geo. S. Godard at the Connecticut State Library, Dec. 17, 1922, describing how he was forced to suspend work on printing the book in the fall of 1921, after the title-page was printed, owing to cold weather, and was not able to resume until May of 1922, and then his paper stock gave out. There was further delay in filling his order, and it was not until nearly a year after stopping the print job that he was able to resume and complete the printing and binding. Howes A219.