"Trouble in the Gulch" story and illustrations by Sanford Tousey, published by Albert Whitman and Co Chicago, First Edition with 1944 imprinted on the bottom of the title page and copyright, no printing stated [later printings of this edition are stated on the copyright page]

Hard boards, yellow cloth, decorated front board, white lettering on spine [some soiling and wear: see photos]; 7" x 9.1/4"; 32 pages, fully illustrated, discarded school library book with a few stamps and damaged back endpaper [removed library back], some soiling and wear, strong binding, good / very good condition. See photos.

Lloyd King and White Cloud, two young men who are the stars of this Western tale of their introduction to the treacherous Nugget Stubbs who the boys come upon one summer day prospecting for Gold in a nearby stream. Telling fabulous tales of prospecting and Nugget’s travels through hostile Indian territory, he teaches both boys how to pan for gold for themselves. Based on the author’s early life in the West, the book is written with authenticity and clarity, and the full color and black and white illustrations give added interest.

Thomas Sanford Tousey (1883-1961) was an American artist, illustrator and writer of Western stories for children. He was born and spent his early childhood on a ranch in east Kansas. When Tousey was just eight years old, his family gave up life in the West and moved to Indiana. Throughout his childhood, Tousey returned to his great-grandfather’s ranch near the Potawatami Indian Reservation, to relive the western way of life he had left behind. He later recounted his experiences in his first children’s book, Cowboy Tommy (1932).

Toursey studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago under J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951) and Frederic William Goudy (1865-1941). After that, Tousey went further east, to Wilmington, Delaware, for studies under Howard Pyle (1853-1911), and to the Art Students League in New York. He finished art school in Paris before long settled into a career as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist in New York. For the next twenty years or so, he made sales to leading popular magazines, including Ballyhoo, Collier’s, Harper’s, Judge, Liberty, Life, Puck, The Saturday Evening Post, and Scribner’s.

During the early 1930s, Tousey gave up freelancing and turned to writing and illustrating children’s books. Over forty titles followed the publication of Cowboy Tommy in 1932, most involving cowboys, Indians, horses, and the Old West. Tousey became one of the bestselling children’s book authors of his day. In addition to authoring and illustrating a series of biographies of famed westerners such as Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, and Jim Bridger, Tousey illustrated books by others, including Boy on Horseback (1935) by Lincoln Steffens. Tousey retired in the mid-1950s.

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