Pony Tracks

Census claim confirmed. US first, and Remington's first book as author (he had illustrated others' books earlier). Harper & Brothers, New York, 1895 is the true first; no separately set British edition is documented in the sources consulted, so there is no UK/US precedence contest. The live "first thus" trap is the University of Oklahoma Press edition (Norman, 1961) in The Western Frontier Library, with an introduction by J. Frank Dobie — reset and reduced (c. 174 pp.), and routinely mislisted as a first edition.