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State, Area: State,Area [CATTLE]
Author: Adams, Andy:
Title: THE OUTLET. Illus. by E. Boyd Smith.
Imprint : Boston & N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge,
Date: 1905.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. gilt-dec. pict. cl. slightly worn at extremities, x, 371, (4, advts.), frontis.-p. with tissue-guard, +5 illus., v.g.
Reference: +Dykes: WESTERN ILLUSTRATORS: E.B. Smith 23.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [PHOTOGRAPHY]
Author: Andrews, Ralph W.:
Title: PICTURE GALLERY PIONEERS.
Imprint : Seattle: Superior Pub. Co.,
Date: (1964.)
Description: Ed.1, 4to, hb, 192pp., many photo-illus., Index, dj., fine.
Reference: +First Photographers of the West, 1850-1875.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [PHOTOGRAPHY]
Author: Andrews, Ralph W.:
Title: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE FRONTIER WEST. Their Lives and Works, 1875 to 1915.
Imprint : Seattle: Superior Pub. Co.,
Date: (1965.)
Description: Ed.1, 4to, orig. cl., 182pp., many photo-illus., Index, v.g.
Price: $40.


State, Area: State,Area [FUR-TRADE]
Author: Berry, Don:
Title: A MAJORITY OF SCOUNDRELS. An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
Imprint : NY: Harper & Brothers,
Date: (1961.)
Description: Ed.1, cl., xiv, 432, illus., 2 fldg. maps in back pocket, Notes, Index, F/dj. repairs.
Price: $125.


State, Area: State,Area [TUNNELS]
Author: Black, Archibald:
Title: THE STORY OF TUNNELS.
Imprint : NY., Whittlesey House,
Date: (1937.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xv, 245pp., frontis-photo, many photos, pvt. name in ink, Index, v.g.
Reference: +NYC's Lincoln Tunnel, Boston Subway, Catskill Aqueduct, Hudson tubes, Phila. subway, Paris, Berlin, Chicago, Colo. River, Moffat Tunnel, Cascade tunnels, &c.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Blanco, Antonio De Fierro (pseud. Charles Nordhoff):
Title: THE JOURNEY OF THE FLAME Being an Account of One Year in the Life of Senor Don Juan Obrigon Known During Past Years in the Three Californias as Juan Colorado and to the Indiada of the Same as THE FLAME Born at San Jose del Arroyo, Lower California, Mexico in 1798 and, having seen Three Centuries change Customs and Manners, died along in 1902 at the Great Cardon, near Rosario, Mexico, with His Face Turned Toward the South. Englished by Walter De Steiguer. With Illus. by Alfredo Ramos Martinez.
Imprint : NY.: Literary Guild,
Date: MCMXXXIII.
Description: Ed.1, orig. orange pict. gilt cl. sl. worn at spine extremities, xviii, 295pp., illus., map endpapers, v.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [FUR TRADE]
Author: Bonner, T. D. (Ed.):
Title: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES BECKWOURTH. Ed., with Intro. by Bernard DeVoto.
Imprint : NY., Alfred A Knopf,
Date: MCMXXXI.
Description: 1st of this ed., hb, xl, 405pp., frontis-illus., notes, uncut, spine faded, v.g.
Reference: +Howes B-602, reprint. "Highly colored, but basically authentic, narrative of a noted mountain character."
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [MEXICO]
Author: Borah, Woodrow:
Title: JUSTICE BY INSURANCE. The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real.
Imprint : Berkeley, L.A., London: U. of CA. Press,
Date: (c.1983.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xix, 477pp., double-p. map, Glossary, Bibliog., Index, dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [ARIZONA]
Author: Bourke, John Gregory:
Title: THE SNAKE DANCE OF THE MOQUIS OF ARIZONA.
Imprint : N.Y.: Charles Scriber's Sons,
Date: 1884. (Reprinted, Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1962.)
Description: Reprint ed., 8vo, hb, 371pp., frontis.-port. + 31 pls., v.g.
Reference: +Flake 758, reprint. Last chapter tells of Mormons in Sunset, Arizona.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [OUTLAWS]
Author: Breakenridge, William M.:
Title: HELLDORADO. Bringing the Law to the Mesquite.
Imprint : Boston & N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xix, 256pp., ports., illus., corners little bumped, extremities slightly worn, pvt. name in ink on endp., a good copy.
Reference: +Howes B-739. Adams 6-GUNS 262. "...Tombstone, AZ in its wild days.." Flake-Draper Suppl. 803a. Mormons mentioned, p. 55, 78-81, 219-220.
Price: $65.


State, Area: State,Area [FUR TRADE]
Author: Bright, Verne:
Title: MOUNTAIN MAN.
Imprint : Caldwell, ID.: Caxton Printers,
Date: 1948.
Description: Ed.1, lg. 8vo, #75/500 numbered copies signed by the author, hb, 190pp., uncut, unopened, Review slip, corners bumped, or v.g. in good dj.
Reference: +Narrative poem on Jeff Boone, of Mo., son of Daniel Boone, his adventures as a Western mountain man, fur trapper, husband of Singing Star, and comrade of Joe Meek, Kit Carson, Milt Sublette, et al.
Price: $30.


State, Area: State,Area [NEW MEXICO]
Author: Bryan, Howard:
Title: WILDEST OF THE WILD WEST. True Tales of a Frontier Town on the Santa Fe Trail.
Imprint : (Santa Fe, NM): Clear Light Pub.,
Date: (c.1988.)
Description: Ed.1, hb., xvi, 269pp., photo-illus., Index, dj., fine.
Reference: +Las Vegas, NM.
Price: $13.


State, Area: State,Area [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Burland, Cottie:
Title: NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY.
Imprint : London: Paul Hamlyn,
Date: (1965.)
Description: Ed.1, 4to, hb, 153pp., over 100 b/w illus., 24 col. pls., text maps, Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [CATTLE]
Author: Clay, John:
Title: MY LIFE ON THE RANGE.
Imprint : NY: Argosy-Antiquarian Books,
Date: 1961.
Description: Ed. ltd. to 750 copies, new Intro. by E. E. Dale, orig. cl., (16) 465pp., illus., fine.
Reference: +Reprint of a classic. A Merrill "Aristocrat of the Cow Country." Adams HERD 475. Howes C-470.
Price: $90.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Clements, Edith S., Ph.D.:
Title: FLOWERS OF COAST AND SIERRA. With 32 Color Plates.
Imprint : NY.: H.W. Wilson Co.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, lg. 8vo, orig. col. floral cl., spine little faded & worn, xii, 226pp., col. pls., Index, private inscription on endp., v.g.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [WESTERN FRONTIERS]
Author: Dick, Everett:
Title: VANGUARDS OF THE FRONTIER. A Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker.
Imprint : NY. & London: D. Appleton-Century Co.,
Date: 1941.
Description: Ed.1, 8vo, hb, xvi, 1l., 574pp., many illus., Bibliog., Index, map endpapers, fine.
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 590. Fur trade, mountain men, Battle of the Little Big Horn, Indians, mining, overland, transportation, railroads, cattle, &c. Chap. IX, "Marching to Zion," Mormon history from Nauvoo to Salt Lake.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Dietrich, Dr.:
Title: THE GERMAN EMIGRANTS or Frederick Wohlgemuth's Voyage to California.
Imprint : CA: Stanford U,
Date: 1949.
Description: 1st of this ed., 12mo., 1000 copies printed at Profile Press, NYC on white Dawnflake Text, orig. ptd. bds., 48pp., frontis col. illus., many col. illus., fine in pict. dj. sl. worn with 1" ink mark.,
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [OUTLAWS]
Author: Dimsdale, Thomas J.:
Title: THE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Capture, Trial and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band, &c.
Imprint : Butte, Montana: McKee Printing Co.,
Date: 1929.
Description: 7th ptg., pict. wrps. little soiled & worn, 269pp., photo-illus., good.
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 596, late ptg.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [INDIAN WARS]
Author: Downey, Fairfax:
Title: INDIAN WARS OF THE U.S. ARMY 1776-1865.
Imprint : NY., Doubleday & Co.,
Date: 1963.
Description: Ed.1, hb, ix, 248, illus., Bibliog., Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [ARIZONA]
Author: Dunne, Peter Masten:
Title: JUAN ANTONIO BALTHASAR PADRE VISITADOR TO THE SONORA FRONTIER 1744-1745. Two Original Reports.
Imprint : Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society,
Date: 1957.
Description: Ed.1, 1/600c. Designed & Printed by Lawton Kennedy, orig. dec. gilt cl., iii, 1l., 131pp., Notes, 2 fldg. maps (one in back pocket), Index, uncut, unopened, boards sl. warped, or v.g. in v.g. dj.
Price: $65.


State, Area: State,Area [TEXAS]
Author: Duval, John C.:
Title: THE ADVENTURES OF BIG-FOOT WALLACE, THE TEXAS RANGER AND HUNTER.
Imprint : Phila.,
Date: 1871. (Austin, TX.: Steck Co., 1935.)
Description: Facsimile reprint, 12mo, hb, (16) 309pp., pls., v.g.
Reference: +Raines, p.73. Howes D-602, reprint.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [FRONTIER RELIGION]
Author: Engh, Michael E.:
Title: FRONTIER FAITHS. Church, Temple, and Synagogue in Los Angeles. 1846-1888.
Imprint : Albuquerque: U. NM.,
Date: (1992.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, viii, 267pp., photo-illus., illus., maps, Appendix, Bibliog., Index, d.j., v.g.
Reference: +With a few Mormon refs.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [KANSAS]
Author: Faeth, Mary Lillian:
Title: KANSAS IN THE 80's. Being some recollections of life on its Western Frontier.
Imprint : NY.: The Procyon Press,
Date: (c.1947.)
Description: Ed.1, pvt.ptd., orig. cl., ptd. title label, 32pp., (4p., facs. of Butler Bros. Cat., 1888-89, illus.), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, v.g.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [SO. DAKOTA]
Author: Fatout, Paul:
Title: AMBROSE BIERCE AND THE BLACK HILLS.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.,
Date: (1956.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xii, 180pp., illus., 2 maps, Bibliog., Index, fine in little worn dj.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Fay, Eliot:
Title: LORENZO IN SEARCH OF THE SUN. D. H. Lawrence in Italy, Mexico and the American Southwest.
Imprint : N.Y.: Bookman Associates,
Date: (1953.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, 147pp., Bibliog., Index, top corners sl. bumped, good in good dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Fernald, Charles]
Title: A COUNTY JUDGE IN ARCADY. Selected Private Papers of Charles Fernald, Pioneer California Jurist. With Intro. & Notes by Cameron Rogers.
Imprint : Glendale, CA.: A. H. Clark Co.,
Date: 1954.
Description: Ed.1, hb., 268pp., frontis.-port., ports., facs., Index, v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [PACIFIC NW]
Author: Field, Henry M.:
Title: OUR WESTERN ARCHIPELAGO
Imprint : NY.: Charles Scribner's Sons,
Date: 1895.
Description: Ed.1, orig. dec. cl., (6 p.l.), 225pp., 12 photo-illus., col. map, v.g.
Reference: +Pacific NW travels via Canadian Pacific RR.: Lake Superior, Rupert's Land-Hudson Bay Co., Banff, Rocky Mtn. Park, Selkirks, Vancouver & Victoria, Muir Glacier, Alaska, Metlakahtla, Puget Sound, Seattle & Tacoma, Wash. State, Portland, Yellowstone Pk. Adams 6-GUNS 714. Chap. on MT. vigilantes. Soliday Cat. II, 418. Smith 2249.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [PAPAGO INDIANS]
Author: Fontana, Bernard:
Title: OF EARTH AND LITTLE RAIN. THE PAPAGO INDIANS. Photographs by John P. Schaefer.
Imprint : Flagstaff: Northland Press,
Date: (1981).
Description: Ed.1, sm. folio, hb, xii, 140pp., map, many photos-illus., Bibliog., Index, col. pict. endpapers, pvt. names in ink, v.g. in repaired d.j.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [CUSTER, GEO. A.]
Author: Frost, Lawrence A.:
Title: GENERAL CUSTER'S LIBBIE. Illustrations-E. Lisle Reedstrom.
Imprint : Seattle: Superior Pub. Co.,
Date: (1976.)
Description: Ed.1, 4to, hb, 336pp., frontis.-port., many photo-illus., facs., Index, fine in fine dj.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [WYOMING]
Author: Fryxell, Fritiof:
Title: THE TETONS. Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape.
Imprint : Berkeley: U. CA. Press,
Date: 1938.
Description: Ed.1, hb, ix, 77pp., photo-illus., 2 maps (one fldg.), Index, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [TEXAS]
Author: Greene, A.C.:
Title: THE SANTA CLAUS BANK ROBBERY.
Imprint : NY., A. A. Knopf,
Date: 1972.
Description: Ed.1, hb, viii, 267pp., fine in good dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [TEXAS-MEXICO]
Author: Henson, Margaret Swett:
Title: JUAN DAVID BRADBURN. A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac.
Imprint : College Station: Texas A. & M. U. Press,
Date: (1982.)
Description: Ed.1, hb., 159pp., Footnotes, Index, dj., fine.
Reference: +No.6, Essays on the American West.
Price: $10.


State, Area: State,Area [NATIVE AMERICAN ART]
Author: Highwater, Jamake:
Title: THE SWEET GRASS LIVES ON. Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists.
Imprint : NY., Lippincott & Crowell Pub.,
Date: (1980).
Description: Ed.1, hb, 192pp., many photos, some in col., Bibliog., d.j., v.g.
Price: $75.


State, Area: State,Area [SOUTHWEST]
Author: Hollon, W. Eugene:
Title: THE LOST PATHFINDER. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.,
Date: 1949.
Description: Ed.1, hb, xv, 240pp., photo-illus., map, facs., pvt. bk. pl., Bibliog. Index, v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Hunt, Rockwell D.:
Title: CALIFORNIA VIGNETTES.
Imprint : NY.: Exposition Press,
Date: (1948.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, 60pp., v.g. in price-clipped dj.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Jackson, Helen Hunt:
Title: RAMONA. A Story by Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) with an Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Illustrated by Henry Sandham.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.,
Date: 1900.
Description: 2 vols., orig. col. floral-dec. & gilt dark blue cloth w/ orig. cl. dust-covers, xxxv, 2 l., 310pp., tinted frontis., port., illus., 2 pages of neat, pvt. signatures on fr. blanks, (tourists?); 4 p.l., 308pp., illus., t.e.g., FINE SET in original publisher's gilt-cl. box.
Reference: +Beautiful reprint of B.A.L. 10456.
Price: $125.


State, Area: State,Area [COLORADO]
Author: King, Clyde Lyndon:
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF DENVER WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS RELATIONS WITH PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS.
Imprint : Denver: Fisher Book Co.,
Date: 1911.
Description: Ed.1, hb, xvi, 322pp., Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [ARIZONA-UTAH]
Author: Klinck, Richard E.:
Title: LAND OF ROOM ENOUGH AND TIME ENOUGH.
Imprint : Albuquerque: UNM Press,
Date: (1958.)
Description: Ed.2, hb, (8) 136pp., col. frontis., photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, map endp., head of spine sl. bumped, or v.g., dj. good (repairs).
Reference: +Monument Valley in AZ.-UT. "Mormons & Miners," pp. 51-54.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [OREGON]
Author: Landerholm, Carl, Ed.]
Title: Notices & Voyages of the Famed Quebec Mission to the Pacific Northwest. Being the correspondence,notices, etc., of Fathers Blanchet and Demers, together with those ofFathers Bolduc and Langlois. Containing much remarkable information on the areas and inhabitants of the Columbia, Walamette, Cowlitz and Fraser Rivers, Nesqually Bay, Puget Sound, Whidby and Vancouver Islands while on their arduous mission to the engages of the HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY and the pagan natives. 1838 to 1847. With accounts of several voyages around Cape Horn to Valparaiso and to the Sandwich Islands, etc. Englished out of the French by Carl Landerholm from related papers and documents in the Oregon Historical Society collections.
Imprint : (Portland: Champoeg Press),
Date: MCMLVI.
Description: Ed.1, 1/1000 copies, pict. cl., iv, 243, 920pp., (8p., Index), frontis.-photo, photo-illus., fldg fac., uncut, v.g.
Price: $75.


State, Area: State,Area [ROCKY MOUNTAINS]
Author: Lavender, David:
Title: THE ROCKIES.
Imprint : NY., Harper & Row,
Date: (1975.)
Description: 1st rev. & enlarged ed., hb, xii, 433pp., 4 fold-out maps, Bibliog., Index, pict. endpapers, fine in v.g. dj.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [SO. DAKOTA]
Author: Lee, Wayne C.:
Title: SCOTTY PHILIP, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE BUFFALO.
Imprint : Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers,
Date: 1975.
Description: Ed.1, hb, xii, 334pp., many photos, Review slip, dj., fine. little soiled.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [ARIZONA]
Author: Lockwood, Frank C.:
Title: PIONEER DAYS IN ARIZONA. From the Spanish Occupation to Statehood.
Imprint : NY., Macmillan co.,
Date: 1932.
Description: Ed.1, hb, xiv, 387pp., frontis-port., photo-illus., ilus., map, spine estr. some worn, quite good, Index, v.g.
Reference: Howes L-417
Price: $100.


State, Area: State,Area [CATTLE]
Author: Maddux, Vernon R.:
Title: JOHN HITTSON. Cattle King on the Texas and Colorado Frontier.
Imprint : University Press of Colorado,
Date: (c.1994.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xii, 1l., 214pp., 12 illus., 13 maps, Notes, Bibliog., Index, fine in dj.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [SANTA FE TRAIL]
Author: Magoffin, Susan Shelby:
Title: DOWN THE SANTA FE TRAIL INTO MEXICO. The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin 1846-1847. Ed. by Stella M. Drumm.
Imprint : New Haven: Yale U. Press,
Date: MDCCCXXVI.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xxv, 294pp., frontis-port., photo-illus., fldg. map, Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Reference: +Howes M-211.
Price: $150.


State, Area: State,Area [ROCKY MTNS.]
Author: Margaret, Helene:
Title: FATHER DESMET. Pioneer Priest of the Rockies.
Imprint : NY & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart,
Date: (1940.)
Description: Ed.1, recent black buckram gilt, (8), 371pp., frontis.-port., chronology, map, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [ALASKA]
Author: Martinsen, Ella Lung as told by her father Edward B. Lung.
Title: BLACK SAND AND GOLD. True Alaska-Yukon Gold-Rush Story.
Imprint : Portland, OR.: Metropolitan Press,
Date: 1967.
Description: Alaska Cent. Ed., PRES. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, hb, 424pp., frontis-port., photo-illus., lower corners sl. bumped, Index, d.j., v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: State,Area [TEXAS]
Author: McCutchan, Joseph D:
Title: MIER EXPEDITION DIARY. A Texan Prisoner's Account. Joseph Milton Nance Ed.
Imprint : Austin & London: U. TX Press,
Date: (1978.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xxiv, 246pp., illus., maps, Appendix, Bibliog., map endpapers, Index, d.j.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [BUFFALO]
Author: McHugh, Tom:
Title: THE TIME OF THE BUFFALO. With Assistance of Victoria Hobson.
Imprint : NY., Alfred A. Knopf,
Date: 1972.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xiii, 339, xi, (4)pp., photo-illus., illus., maps, pict. endpapers, few small cover stains, v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: State,Area [MONTANA]
Author: Mecklenburg, George:
Title: THE LAST OF THE OLD WEST.
Imprint : Wash., Capital Bk. Co.,
Date: (1927.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. some soiled, 149pp., pls., ports., SIGNED BY AUTHOR, soiled, good.
Reference: +Adams HERD 1467.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [ALASKA]
Author: Norris, Luther "Doc":
Title: SOURDOUGH TALES. Illus. by James A. Tapscott.
Imprint : Prairie City, Illinois: Press of James A. Decker,
Date: (c.1947.)
Description: Ed.1, cl., 99pp., 2 frontis.-ports., illus.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Northern California Historical Records Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Works Progress Administration:
Title: INVENTORY OF THE COUNTY ARCHIVES OF CALIFORNIA: NO.1. ALAMEDA COUNTY (OAKLAND) VOL.II.
Imprint : S.F.,
Date: 1942.
Description: 4to, cl.-backed pict. card covers, (2 ll.), 381pp., illus., mimeographed.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [CATTLE]
Author: O'Brien, Esse Forrester:
Title: THE FIRST BULLDOGGER. Foreword by Franklin Reynolds.
Imprint : San Antonio: The Naylor Co.,
Date: (1961.)
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, pict. cl., xi, 58pp., frontis.-port. of Bill Picket, illus. by Tom Jones, top corners bumped, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, v.g. in good dj.
Reference: +Story of Bill Picket, Negro rider for the 101 Ranch.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [FREMONT]
Author: Phelps, Captain William Dane:
Title: FREMONT'S PRIVATE NAVY. The 1846 Journal of Captain William Dane Phelps. Ed. by Briton Cooper Busch.
Imprint : Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark,
Date: 1987.
Description: Ed.1, 1/500 copies signed by the Editor, orig. cl., 79pp., Index, fine in orig. plain dj.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [TEXAS]
Author: Poage, W. R. (Bob):
Title: AFTER THE PIONEERS. Recollections of W. R. Poage. Intro. by Abner V. McCall.
Imprint : Baylor U., TX.,
Date: 1969.
Description: Ed.1, hb, ix, 178pp., photo-illus., Index, dj., fine.
Reference: +Lawyer, Texas politician, MC from Texas for many years, early central Texas ranch life.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [GUNMEN]
Author: Raine, William MacLeod:
Title: GUNS OF THE FRONTIER. The Story of How Law Came to the West.
Imprint : Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge,
Date: 1940.
Description: Ed.1, rebound in buckram gilt (few back cover stains), x, (iv), 282pp., photo-illus., including some from the Rose Collection, Bibliog., Index, good.
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 1786.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Read, Georgia Willis:
Title: A PIONEER OF 1850. George Willis Read, 1819-1880. The record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, ...& an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panbama, in 1862, capture by the confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863. Edited by Georgia Willis Read. Illus. from old prints.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
Date: 1927.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xxvi, 185pp., illus., fldg. map, Bibliog., Index (one Index leaf carelessly opened, torn, repaired with no loss), or v.g.
Reference: +Flake 6828.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Reid, Bernard J.:
Title: OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA WITH THE PIONEER LINE. The Gold Rush Diary of Bernard J. Reid. Ed. by Mary McDougall Gordon.
Imprint : Stanford U. Press, CA.,
Date: (1985.)
Description: Ed.1, 2d ptg., hb, new Preface with new material, xviii, 247pp., illus., maps, map endp., Bibliog., Index, fine.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [REMINGTON]
Author: Remington, Frederic:
Title: FREDERIC REMINGTON'S OWN WEST. Written & Illus. by Frederic Remington. Ed. with Intro. Harold McCracken.
Imprint : NY: Dial Press,
Date: 1960.
Description: Ed.1, 4to, orig. cl. gilt, 254pp., col. frontis.-p., many b.-w. illus., F/VG.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [INDIAN CAPTIVITIES]
Author: Rister, Carl Coke:
Title: BORDER CAPTIVES. The Traffic in Prisoners by Southern Plains Indians, 1835-1875.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.,
Date: 1940.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xi, 220pp., photo-illus., 2 fldg. maps, Bibliog., Index, "Compliments of University Press-Norman, Okla. 4-1-1940" on endpaper in ink, name erasd, two small red lines on lower edge, or v.g.
Price: $125.


State, Area: State,Area [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Rogers, Samuel L., Director of Census:
Title: Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. INDIAN POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA. 1910.
Imprint : Wash.: GPO,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, sm. folio, red cl. gilt, 1l., 285pp., fldg. col. map repaired at joint, maps, diagrams, good.
Price: $85.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Root, Frank A. and William Elsey Connelley:
Title: THE OVERLAND STAGE TO CALIFORNIA. Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.
Imprint : Topeka, Kansas,
Date: 1901. Reprinted by Long's College Book Co., Columbus, Ohio, 1950.
Description: Ed.2, hb, xvii, 630pp., many illus., photo-illus., fldg. map, v.g. in worn dj.
Reference: +Howes R 434, repr.
Price: $75.


State, Area: State,Area [GUNFIGHTERS]
Author: Rosa, Joseph G.:
Title: THE GUNFIGHTER -MAN OR MYTH?
Imprint : Norman: U. OK.
Date: (1969.)
Description: Ed.1, 2d ptg., hb, xv, 229pp., illus., Bibliog., Index, lower corners sl. bumped, PRES. SLIP, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR tipped to front free endp., VG/VG.
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 1900.
Price: $50.


State, Area: State,Area [KANSAS]
Author: Ruede, Howard:
Title: SOD-HOUSE DAYS. Letters from a Kansas Homesteader 1877-78. Ed. by John Ise.
Imprint : NY: Columbia U. Press,
Date: 1937.
Description: Ed.1, hb, xii, 248pp., illus., Index, slight spinewear, v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: State,Area [ARIZONA]
Author: Rynning, Captain Thomas H., as Told to Al Cohn and Joe Chisholm:
Title: GUN NOTCHES. The Life Story of a Cowboy-Soldier. Foreword by Rupert Hughes.
Imprint : NY.: Frederick A. Stokes Co.,
Date: 1931.
Description: Ed.1, hb., xvii, 332pp., fine in worn pictorial dj. (repaired).
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 1924. "..deals with many of the Arizona outlaws Rynning pursued while serving as an Arizona Ranger." Adams HERD 1983.
Price: $65.


State, Area: State,Area [CATTLE]
Author: Santee, Ross:
Title: COWBOY. Illus. by the Author.
Imprint : NY., Cosmopolitan Book Corp.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 257pp., illus., pvt. name in ink, uncut, fine.
Reference: +Adams HERD 2008.
Price: $100.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Scherer, James A.B.:
Title: THE FIRST FORTY-NINER. and the Story of the Golden Tea-Caddy.
Imprint : NY., Minton, Balch & Co.,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. backed- bds., 127pp., frontis-port., photo-illus., v.g.
Reference: +Flake 7556. Tells of Sam Brannan leading Mormons to CA.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [YELLOWSTONE]
Author: Skinner, M.P.:
Title: BEARS IN THE YELLOWSTONE.
Imprint : Chicago: A. C. McClung & Co.,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, 8vo, orig. pict. cl., some cover damp stains, light insect traces, (12), 158pp., frontis. + num. photo-illus., good.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Stegmaier, Mark J. & David H. Miller:
Title: JAMES MILLIGAN. His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853-1854; his adventurous life on land and sea.
Imprint : Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark,
Date: 1988.
Description: Ed.1, 1/500c, orig. cl. gilt, 300pp., illus., maps, Bibliog., Index, fine (no dj issued).
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [CUSTER, GEO. A.]
Author: Stewart, Edgar I.:
Title: CUSTER'S LUCK.
Imprint : Norman: U. OK. Press,
Date: (1955.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xvi, 522pp., illus., maps, Bibliog., Index, v.g. in worn, repaired dj.
Price: $60.


State, Area: State,Area [ARIZONA]
Author: Stuart, Gordon:
Title: ARIZONA 1900 AND BITS OF THE WEST.
Imprint : (Pacific Palisades, CA., Printed in Ye Old Hobby Shop on a hand-press,
Date: 1976.)
Description: Ed.1, printed card covers, plastic spiral binding, (20) 221 (1)pp., many photo-illus., Liby. of Congress Surplus Duplicate, good.
Reference: +Interesting account of western travels in AZ., NV., OR., &c., mostly by auto.
Price: $25.


State, Area: State,Area [AMERICAN TRAVEL]
Author: Tuckerman, Henry T.:
Title: AMERICA AND HER COMMENTATORS. With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States.
Imprint : NY., Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,
Date: 1961. (1864.)
Description: Reprint ed., ltd. to 750 copies, hb, viii, 459pp., Index, corners bumped, or v.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [NEW MEXICO]
Author: Vargas, Don Diego de]
Title: FIRST EXPEDITION OF VARGAS INTO NEW MEXICO, 1692. Translated, with Intro. and Notes.
Imprint : Albuquerque: U. NM.,
Date: 1940.
Description: Ed.1, Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940, Vol. X, 4to, orig. gilt cl. (cover spots & dampspots, corners bumped), x, 1l., 319pp., frontis.-port., Index, uncut, contents v.g., a fairly good copy.
Price: $75.


State, Area: State,Area [YELLOWSTONE PARK]
Author: Vinton, Stallo:
Title: JOHN COLTER, Discoverer of Yellowtone Park. An Account of His Exploration in 1807 and ..Adventures as Hunter; Trapper; Indian Fighter; Pathfinder and Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Imprint : NY: E. Eberstadt,
Date: 1926. Reprinted, CT., 1999.
Description: Ed. 2, ltd. to 150 numbered copies, 8vo, cl. gilt, 114pp., frontis., map, Index, fine.
Price: $40.


State, Area: State,Area [CATTLE]
Author: Walker, Don D.:
Title: CLIO'S COWBOYS. Studies in the Historiography of the Cattle Trade.
Imprint : Lincoln & London; U. Nebraska Press,
Date: (1981.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xxi, 210pp., d.j., Index, v.g.
Price: $45.


State, Area: State,Area [NEW MEXICO]
Author: Wallace, Susan E.:
Title: THE LAND OF THE PUEBLOS.
Imprint : NY., John B. Alden, Pub.,
Date: 1889. (c.1888.)
Description: Not Ed.1, 12mo, pict. cl. gilt, small dent in upper front cover edge, 285pp,, frontis.-p., photo-illus., v.g.
Price: $40.


State, Area: State,Area [OUTLAWS]
Author: Waller, Brown:
Title: LAST OF THE GREAT WESTERN TRAIN ROBBERS.
Imprint : South Brunswick, N.Y., London: A.S. Barnes,
Date: (1968.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 272pp., photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, VG/G.
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 2296.
Price: $30.


State, Area: State,Area [OUTLAWS]
Author: White, Owen P.:
Title: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DURABLE SINNER.
Imprint : NY.: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Date: (1942.)
Description: Ed.1, issue 2 (later state: orig. pp. 239-244 deleted, & new material tipped-in), hb, vi, 344pp., Index, lower front corners little bumped, or v.g. in quite worn & repaired dj.
Reference: +Adams 6-GUNS 2381. Howes W-363.
Price: $65.


State, Area: State,Area [WESTERN WATER]
Author: Williams, Albert N.:
Title: THE WATER AND THE POWER. Development of the Five Great Rivers of the West.
Imprint : NY., Duell, Sloan & Pearce,
Date: (1951.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xiv, 378pp., photo-illus., many maps, map endpapers, Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [NEZ PERCE]
Author: Wilson, Alva Baker & Edwin G. Wilson:
Title: THUNDER ROLLING IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Imprint : NY.: Pageant Press,
Date: (1954.)
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl., 56pp., 4 photo-illus. (2 of Chief Joseph).
Reference: +Poetic account of Chief Joseph & Nez Perce Indians.
Price: $10.


State, Area: State,Area [CANADA]
Author: Wilson, Charles]
Title: MAPPING THE FRONTIER. Charles Wilson's Diary of the Survey of the 49th Parallel, 1858-1862, while Secretary of the British Boundary Commission. Ed. with intro by George F. G. Stanley.
Imprint : Toronto: Macmillan of Canada,
Date: (1970.)
Description: 1st Canadian ed., cl., (8) 182pp., frontis.-port., 3 maps, Bibliog., Index, VG/VG.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [NATIVE AMERICAN]
Author: Wissler, Clark:
Title: THE AMERICAN INDIAN. An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World.
Imprint : NY.: Oxford U. Press, London, Toronto, Melbourne & Bombay,
Date: 1922.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., xxi, 474pp., many illus. & maps, Bibliography, Index, fldg. map at back, v.g.
Price: $30.


State, Area: State,Area [WESTERN FICTION]
Author: Wister, Owen:
Title: THE VIRGINIAN. A Horseman of the Plains. With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller.
Imprint : NY.: Macmillan,
Date: 1902.
Description: Orig. ed., later ptg. (same yr. as Ed.1), col.-dec. & gilt cl., some spinewear, xiii, 504pp., (6, advts.), illus., pvt. name in ink, good/v.g.
Price: $35.


State, Area: State,Area [KANSAS]
Author: Wood, Charles L.:
Title: THE KANSAS BEEF INDUSTRY.
Imprint : Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas,
Date: (1980.)
Description: Ed.1, hb, xiii, 352pp., photo-illus., diag., Notes, Bibliog., Index, d.j., v.g.
Price: $20.


State, Area: State,Area [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Zabriskie, George A.:
Title: THE PATHFINDER.
Imprint : Ormond Beach, FL.,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, pvt. ptd., SIGNED BY AUTHOR, orig. cl. gilt, 24pp., frontis-port. of J.C. Fremont, photo-illus., dec. endpapers, few marginal dampstains, dj., good.
Price: $35.

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