RANSON'S FOLLY. By Richard Harding Davis, With Illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E. M. Ashe & F. Dorr Steele, Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1907.
 
Fiction Western Novel - Adventure
 
In the adventurous 1880s, gallant young U.S. Cavalryman Richard Barthelmess (as Ranson) fights Native American Indians, and courts pretty Dorothy Mackaill (as Mary Cahill), daughter of "Post Trader" Anders Randolf (as George Cahill). His fun-loving antics get him in trouble.
 
Ranson's Folly is a 1926 American silent Western film produced by and starring Richard Barthelmess and co-starring Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on a Richard Harding Davis novel and 1904 play, Ranson's Folly, and was filmed previously in 1910 and in 1915 by Edison.
 
The author Richard Harding Davis wrote six books; Soldiers of Fortune; Gallegher, Captain Macklin, Ranson's Folly, the Lion and the Unicorn, and the King's Jackal.
 
Burgundy cover with gilt spine title, gilt front center emblem art piece and gilt top edge. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear. About 7-3/4 x 5-1/4 with 344 pages.