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State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Armstrong, Virginia I.:
Title: I HAVE SPOKEN. American History Through the Voices of the Indians. Intro. by Frederick W. Turner III.
Imprint : Chicago: Sage Books.
Date: (c.1971).
Description: Ed.1, 1st ptg., xxii, 206, Notes, Bibliog, Index, Review slip, dj., fine.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Arnold, Oren:
Title: SUN IN YOUR EYES. Illus. by L.L. Goff.
Imprint : Albuquerque: U. NM.,
Date: (1947).
Description: Ed.1, (xiii), 253.
Reference: +Adams HERD 169.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Arps, Louisa Ward.
Title: DENVER IN SLICES:
Imprint : Denver: Sage Bks.,
Date: (c.1959).
Description: Ed.1, 263, photo-illus., map endp., vg/g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Bain, William E.:
Title: FRISCO FOLKS. Stories and pictures of the great steam days of the Frisco Road (St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company).
Imprint : Denver: Sage Books,
Date: (c.1961).
Description: Ed.1, 272, photo illus., review slip, fine in edge-worn dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Bancroft, Caroline:
Title: COLORFUL COLORADO.
Imprint : Denver: Sage Bks.,
Date: (c.1959).
Description: Ed.1, 128, Illus. in color & black & white, maps, Bibliog., Index, map endpapers, dj., v..g.,
Price: $20.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Bancroft, Caroline:
Title: GULCH OF GOLD. A History of Central City, Colorado.
Imprint : Denver: Sage Bks.,
Date: (c.1958).
Description: Ed.1, 387, photo-illus., map endpapers, review slip, fine in sl. worn dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [ARIZONA]
Author: Barnes, Will C.:
Title: ARIZONA PLACE NAMES. Revised & enlarged by Byrd H. Granger. Illus. by Anne M. Peck.
Imprint : Tucson: U. of AZ,
Date: 1960.
Description: 4to, orig. cl., 1st ed. thus, xix, 519, illus., Bibliog., Index, Publisher's Complimentary slip, v.g.
Price: $125.


State, Area: [NEVADA]
Author: Beebe, Lucius & Charles Clegg:
Title: VIRGINIA & TRUCKEE. A Story of Virginia City and Comstock Times.
Imprint : Oakland, CA.,
Date: 1949.
Description: Ed.1, 58, (5), illus., maps, v.g., dj. sl. wn.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [RAILROADS]
Author: Beebe, Lucius:
Title: MIXED TRAIN DAILY. A Book of Short-Line Railroads.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, 4to, xiii, 367, Index, photo-illus., v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Bernstein, Alison R.:
Title: AMERICAN INDIANS AND WORLD WAR II.
Imprint : Norman & London,
Date: (1991).
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 247, Bibliog., Index, dj.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Bolton, Herbert E.:
Title: CORONADO KNIGHT OF PUEBLOS AND PLAINS.
Imprint : U. NM.,
Date: (c.1964).
Description: Or. cl., 491, illus., maps, Bibliog., Index, sl. wn., good.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [BUFFALO]
Author: Branch, E. Douglas:
Title: THE HUNTING OF THE BUFFALO.
Imprint : NY. & London,
Date: 1929.
Description: Ed.1, (vii), (v), 240, illus., Index, v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Brandon, William:
Title: THE MEN AND THE MOUNTAIN. Fremont's Fourth Expedition.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1955.
Description: Ed.1, xii, 337, maps, Bibliog., Index, fine, no dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [ARIZONA]
Author: Breakenridge, William M.:
Title: HELLDORADO.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. soiled, xi, 256, ports., photo-illus., good.
Reference: +Howes B-739. Adams SIX-GUNS 262. "A most interesting book about Tombstone, Arizona, in its wild days, told by one of the law officers of that period..."
Price: $45.


State, Area: [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Bruce, John:
Title: GAUDY CENTURY..San Francisco's 100 Years of Robust Journalism.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1948).
Description: Ed.1, Intro. by Jos. H. Jackson, xvii, 302, dj. sl. wn.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [LATIN AMERICA]
Author: Cameron, Roderick:
Title: VICEROYALTIES OF THE WEST. The Spanish Empire in Latin America.
Imprint : Boston,
Date: (c1968).
Description: 1st Amer. Ed., (16), 275, many photo-illus., Index, Review slip, dj., v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [FISHING]
Author: Carhart,Arthur H.:
Title: FISHING IN THE WEST.
Imprint : Denver: Sage Books,
Date: (c.1950), 1960.
Description: Ed.1, (10), 144, many illus., review slip, dj., v.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [TEXAS]
Author: Casey, Robt. J.:
Title: THE TEXAS BORDER AND SOME BORDERLINERS.
Imprint : Indpls. & NY.,
Date: (c.1950).
Description: Ed.1, 440, photo-illus., Index, map endpapers, back pocket guide book, v.g.
Reference: f
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Catlin, George:
Title: THE BOY'S CATLIN. My Life Among the Indians.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (1909), 1911.
Description: Ed.1, Ed. with Biographical Sketch by Mary Gay Humphreys, viii, 380, (iv, advts.), 16 illus. from the Author's original drawings, Index, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [ARCHAEOLOGY]
Author: Ceram, C. W.:
Title: THE FIRST AMERICAN. A Story of North American Archaeology.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1971).
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 357, photo-ills., Bibliog., Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Chase, C.M.:
Title: THE EDITOR'S RUN IN NEW MEXICO & COLORADO.
Imprint : Fort Davis, TX.,
Date: 1968.
Description: Cl., 233, illus., Index.
Reference: +Howes C-315, repr.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [OREGON]
Author: Cole, George E.:
Title: EARLY OREGON. Jottings of Personal Recollections of a Pioneer of 1850.
Imprint : (Spokane,
Date: 1905).
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl., 95, frontis.-port. of the author, corners bumped, or very good.
Reference: +Soliday IV, 412. "..first appeared in the 'Sunday Oregonian' in 1901."
Price: $65.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Conard, Howard Louis:
Title: "UNCLE DICK" WOOTTON, THE PIONEER FRONTIERSMAN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION.
Imprint : Columbus, OH.,
Date: 1950.
Description: Orig. cl., #57 of ltd. ed. of 500, 472, many illus., v.g.
Reference: +Howes C-659, repr.
Price: $50.


State, Area: [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Costanso, Miguel:
Title: THE COSTANSO' NARRATIVE OF THE PORTOLA' EXPEDITION. First Chronicle of the Spanish Conquest of Alta California.
Imprint : Newhall, CA.,
Date: (c.1970).
Description: Translated, with Intro. and Bibliog. by Ray Brandes, Ph.D., 1st ed. thus, sm. 4to, fabricoid, 112, facs. of orig. ed., port., map endpapers, v.g.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Curtis, Natalie:
Title: THE INDIAN'S BOOK...Indian Lore, Musical & Narrative...Songs & Legends of Their Race.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1935).
Description: Orig. cl. soiled, some worn, 3d ptg., iii, 582, Illus. from photographs & orig. drawings by Indians, music, ex-school liby., blank lower corners torn off a few leaves, corners bumped, good.
Price: $40.


State, Area: [PACIFIC NORTHWEST]
Author: Cushing, Caleb:
Title: THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON: Its Negotiation, Execution, and the Discussions Relating thereto.
Imprint : N.Y.: Harper,
Date: 1873.
Description: Ed.1, orig. blue cl. gilt, 280, v.g.
Reference: +Soliday II, 273. Includes the Alabama Claims, Northwestern Boundary Line, The Fisheries, Commercial Intercourse and Transportation, & the Treaty of Washington: Decision and Award.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Dallas, Sandra:
Title: NO MORE THAN FIVE IN A BED. Colorado Hotels in the Old Days.
Imprint : Norman: U. of OK.,
Date: (c.1967).
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 208, photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, dj.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Davis, Sally & Baldwin, Betty:
Title: DENVER DWELLINGS AND DESCENDANTS.
Imprint : Denver: Sage Books,
Date: (c.1963).
Description: Ed.1, Review slip, 250, many photo illus., Bibliog., d.j., v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Deming, Alden O.:
Title: MANABOZHO. The Indian's Story of Hiawatha.
Imprint : Phila.,
Date: 1938.
Description: Ed.1, tall 8vo, v, 87, Illus. by Edwin W. Deming incl. 6 color pls., v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [HORSES]
Author: Denhardt, Robert Moorman:
Title: THE HORSE OF THE AMERICAS.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, xvii, 296, illus., Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [OVERLAND]
Author: DeVoto, Bernard:
Title: ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI.
Imprint : Boston,
Date: (c.1947).
Description: Ed.1, xxvii, 482, many illus. by Alfred J. Miller, Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [WESTWARD MOVEMENT]
Author: DeVoto.Bernard:
Title: THE COURSE OF EMPIRE.
Imprint : Boston,
Date: (c.1952).
Description: Orig. cl., xvii, 647, maps, Bibliog., Index.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [FRONTIER TALES]
Author: Dick, Everett:
Title: TALES OF THE FRONTIER From Lewis & Clark to the Last Roundup.
Imprint : Lincoln: U.NE.,
Date: (1963).
Description: Ed.1, 390, maps, dj., review slip, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Donnelly, Thomas C.:
Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN POLITICS.
Imprint : Albuquerque: U. NM.,
Date: (c.1940).
Description: Orig. cl., vi, (ii), 304, maps, Bibliog., Index.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Duffus, R.L.:
Title: THE SANTA FE TRAIL.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: Feb., 1931.
Description: 2d ptg., xi, 283, Bibliog., Index, photo illus., map endpapers, pvt. name in ink on half-title, v.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [MEXICO]
Author: Dunn, H. H.:
Title: THE CRIMSON JESTER ZAPATA OF MEXICO.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1934).
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 304, fldg. map laid in, v.g.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [TEXAS]
Author: Duval, John C.;
Title: THE ADVENTURES OF BIG-FOOT WALLACE, THE TEXAS RANGER & HUNTER.
Imprint : NY: Time-Life,
Date: (1983).
Description: Repr. of Ed.1 (1871), lea. gilt, xi, 291, illus., a.e.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [ARIZONA]
Author: Editors of LOOK ....with Paul Horgan:
Title: LOOK AT AMERICA. THE SOUTHWEST. A Handbook in Pictures, Maps and Text...
Imprint : Boston,
Date: (c.1947).
Description: Orig. cl., 393, photo illus., maps, fine in torn, worn dj. (repaired).
Price: $20.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Emmitt, Robert:
Title: THE LAST WAR TRAIL. THE UTES AND THE SETTLEMENT OF COLORADO.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.,
Date: (c.1954).
Description: Ed.1, ix, 333, drawings by Bettina Steinke, 3 maps, Bibliog., Index, dj., review slip, v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Ewan, John:
Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATURALISTS.
Imprint : Denver,
Date: (c.1950).
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 358, Index, fine in little worn dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Fergusson, Erna:
Title: OUR SOUTHWEST.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1941.
Description: Ed.1, 2d ptg., (xiv), 376, vi, Index, 2 fldg. maps, map endpapers, good.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [MINING]
Author: Fisher, Vardis & Holmes, Opal Laurel:
Title: GOLD RUSHES AND MINING CAMPS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN WEST.
Imprint : Caldwell, ID.,
Date: 1968.
Description: Ed.1, 4to, xiii, 466, many photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Forrest, Earle R.:
Title: THE SNAKE DANCE OF THE HOPI INDIANS.
Imprint : L.A.: Westernlore,
Date: 1961.
Description: Ed.1, 172, photo-illus. by Author, Bibliog., Index, map endp., dj. sl. wn., v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Gillmor, Frances & L.W. Wetherill:
Title: TRADERS TO THE NAVAJOS.
Imprint : U. NM.,
Date: (1934)(c.1952).
Description: Ed.2, 265, Bibliog., Review slip, dj., v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Goetz, Delia & Morley, Sylvanus G.:
Title: POPOL VUH THE SACRED BOOK OF THE ANCIENT QUICHE MAYA.
Imprint : Norman: U. of OK.,
Date: (c.1950).
Description: Ed.1, xix, 267, map, facs., illus., dj. little worn, v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Grinnell, George Bird:
Title: THE FIGHTING CHEYENNES.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.,
Date: (c.1956).
Description: 1st of this ed., xvii, 453, photo-illus., maps, Index, dj. some wn., head of spine bumped, or v.g.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [WESTERN ARTIFACTS]
Author: Harris, Foster:
Title: THE LOOK OF THE OLD WEST.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1955.
Description: Ed.1, 4to, 316, Bibliog., Index, Illus. by Evelyn Curro, dj., v.g.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Hewett, Edgar Lee:
Title: ANCIENT LIFE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.
Imprint : Indpls.,
Date: (c.1930).
Description: Orig. cl. sl. wn., xvii, 392, photo-illus., Index, map endp.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Holbrook, Stewart H.:
Title: THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVOLUTION.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: c.1956).
Description: Ed.1, 318, Index, Review slip, Map endpapers, dj., v.g.,
Price: $25.


State, Area: [WESTERN PLAINS]
Author: Holder, Preston:
Title: THE HOE AND THE HORSE ON THE PLAINS.
Imprint : U. NE.,
Date: (c.1970).
Description: Ed.1, xii, 176, illus., map, Bibliog., Index, Review slip, fine in little soiled dj.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Hollister, Ovando J.:
Title: THE MINES OF COLORADO.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1974.
Description: Ed.1, vii, 450, facs., dj., v.g.,
Reference: +Howes H-602, reprint of 2d ed.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Hollister, U. S.:
Title: THE NAVAJO AND HIS BLANKET.
Imprint : Glorieta, NM.,
Date: (c.1972), (1974).
Description: 4to, 2d ptg. of this ed. (reprint of the 1903 ed.), 144, photo-illus., + col. illus. of Navaho blankets, v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [ANTHROPOLOGY]
Author: Holmes, W. H.:
Title: HANDBOOK OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. PART.I. Introductory to the Lithic Industries.
Imprint : Wash.: GPO,
Date: 1919.
Description: Ed.1, B.A.E. Bulletin 60, orig. cl. (corners little bumped), xvii, 380, many illus., Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $50.


State, Area: [ALASKA]
Author: Holzworth, John M.:
Title: THE TWIN GRIZZLIES OF ADMIRALTY ISLAND.
Imprint : Phila. & Lond.,
Date: (c.1932).
Description: Ed.4, 250, photo-illus., pres. copy, signed by the author, v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NEW MEXICO]
Author: Horgan, Paul:
Title: THE CENTURIES OF SANTA FE.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1956.
Description: Ed.1, xiii, 363, Bibliog., Index, map end papers, pvt. namestamp on title, v.g.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [NEW MEXICO]
Author: Horka-Follick, Lorayne Ann, Ph.D.:
Title: LOS HERMANOS PENITENTES.
Imprint : L.A.: Westernlore,
Date: 1969.
Description: Ed.1, xi, 226, photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Howe, Elvon L., Ed.:
Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPIRE.. from the pages of the Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine of The Denver Post.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1950).
Description: Orig. cl., xi, 272, illus., map endpapers,
Price: $15.


State, Area: [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Jaeger, Edmund C:
Title: THE CALIFORNIA DESERTS. A Visitor's Handbook.
Imprint : Stanford U. Press,
Date: 1938.
Description: Rev. Ed., x, 209, illus., maps, map endpapers, v.g.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [PACIFIC NORTHWEST]
Author: Johansen, Dorothy O.:
Title: ROBERT NEWELL'S MEMORANDA: TRAVLES IN THE TERITORY OF MISSOURIE; TRAVLE TO THE KAYUSE WAR; TOGETHER WITH A REPORT ON THE INDIANS SOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER.
Imprint : Portland, OR.,
Date: (c.1959).
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 1000c., designed & printed by Lawton Kennedy, 4to, 159, map, v.g.
Price: $65.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Johnson, Charles A.:
Title: DENVER'S MAYOR SPEER.
Imprint : (Denver: Green Mountain Press,
Date: c.1969).
Description: Ed.1, xxviii, port., photo-illus., 255, Biblio, Index, review slip, map endpapers, dj., fine.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Johnson, Overton & Winter,, William H.:
Title: ROUTE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
Imprint : Readex Micro.,
Date: (c.1966).
Description: Repr., v, 152, v.g.,
Price: $20.


State, Area: [COLORADO]
Author: Karsner, David:
Title: SILVER DOLLAR, Story of the Tabors.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1943).
Description: Cl., viii, (2), 354, photo-illus., Index, v.g.,
Price: $15.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Kelley, Jane Holden:
Title: THE TALL CANDLE: Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian.
Imprint : U. of NE.
Date: (c.1971).
Description: Ed.1, lviii, 251, Index, photo-illus., dj., review slip, v.g.
Price: $35.

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