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Vintage The X Bar X Boys On Whirlpool River James Cody Ferris Grosset HC 1926. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Title: The X Bar X Boys on Whirlpool River. Title: The X Bar X Boys on Whirlpool River. Author: James Cody Ferris, American writer of juvenile Western adventure stories. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Publication details: Copyright 1926 by Grosset & Dunlap, with this edition printed in the United States of America as part of the Western Stories for Boys series. Format: Vintage 1926 hardcover volume in the X Bar X Boys series with its original color-illustrated dust jacket depicting two boys running Whirlpool River by canoe. Content: Western adventure novel for boys featuring Roy and Teddy of the X Bar X ranch, combining mystery, rapid action, and outdoor dangers along Whirlpool River and in the surrounding forests. Series: One of THE X BAR X BOYS BOOKS, with other titles listed inside including The X Bar X Boys on the Ranch, The X Bar X Boys in Thunder Canyon, The X Bar X Boys on Big Bison Trail, and The X Bar X Boys at the Round-Up. Subjects: Juvenile Westerns, boys' series fiction, ranch life, river and wilderness adventures, early 20th-century American children's literature. Physical details: English-language text set in a clear serif type with a contents page outlining chapter titles such as "To Whirlpool River," "The Water Trail," and "A Night in the Woods," preceded by standard title and copyright pages. Illustration: Features a black-and-white frontispiece illustration by Walter S. Rogers with the caption "The rushing current swept Teddy out of reach of the rock," facing the title page. Collecting notes: Early Grosset & Dunlap juvenile Western issued long before modern ISBN and UPC barcode systems, so no contemporary numeric identifiers are present in this volume. Please review all photos for a closer look at the dust jacket artwork, series advertisement, title and copyright pages, and interior layout of this vintage boys' Western adventure book.