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A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Armyby: Kimball, Maria Brace

A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Army
by: Kimball, Maria Brace

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and red, white and blue decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 192 pages including index, frontis. portrait plus b&w pales including onr fold-out. Dr. Kimball was on the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 with Generals Stanley and Custer and became quite a good friend of Custer. It was Dr. Kimball who attended to Lieutenant Charles Braden and may have saved his life, after Braden was shot through the left leg by Indians on August 4, 1873. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is also covered. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 383747

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Bartlett's West: Drawing the Mexican Boundaryby: Robert V. Hine

Bartlett's West: Drawing the Mexican Boundary
by: Robert V. Hine

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, ex-library copy with residue to endpapers, stamping to copyright page, spine sticker. 155 pages, illustrated with color and sepia tone plates. Documents the years when John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886)was commissioner of the Mexican Boundary Survey of 1850. A very nice collection of images drawn by a better than average hand. They depict the scenes witnessed by Bartlett along with a biographical text recounting the artist and his travels.

Record # 397359

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Beating Backby: Jennings, Al & Will Irwin

Beating Back
by: Jennings, Al & Will Irwin

Softcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. Spine faded and ripped, cardboard showing, back cover faded. Foxing on edges. Ex-library copy with all usual stamping. Previous owner's inscription.

Record # 511090

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Book of the American Indian, Theby: Garland, Hamlin

Book of the American Indian, The
by: Garland, Hamlin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white plates by Frederic Remington. Brown paper covered boards with cover pastedown of Remington drawing. black cloth spine. Copyright page with 1923 date and Harper's G-B code indicating later printing of 1st edition. Light foxing to outer edges of some pages and plates. Fraying to cloth at top of spine. Light darkening of pages close to gutter. Still an attractive copy.

Record # 606771

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Brass Checks and Red Lights (SIGNED COPY)by: Mazzulla, Fred and Jo

Brass Checks and Red Lights (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mazzulla, Fred and Jo

Hardcover. Denver, CO, Fred and Jo Mazzulla, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 56 pages, b&w photographs. Light foxing to top edge. Very minor soiling to boards; covered by plastic dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851306

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American Westby: Brown, Dee

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American West
by: Brown, Dee

Hardcover. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. The first British edition featuring wrap-around color pictorial artwork by Frederick S. Remington (The Sign of the Buffalo Scout,1907). 487 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos, reproductions, double-page frontis map. Clean copy.

Record # 396589

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Cattle-Raising on the Plains of North Americaby: von Richthofen, Walter Baron

Cattle-Raising on the Plains of North America
by: von Richthofen, Walter Baron

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850993

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Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontierby: Luchetti, Cathy

Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier
by: Luchetti, Cathy

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460733

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Cowboy Upby: Introduction: Johnson, Dirk, Photographer: Frank, Arthur

Cowboy Up
by: Introduction: Johnson, Dirk, Photographer: Frank, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352079

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Dodge City - The Cowboy Capital And The Great Southwest In The Days of The Wild Indian The Buffalo The Cowboy Dance Halls Gambling Halls and Bad Men by: Wright, Robe

Dodge City - The Cowboy Capital And The Great Southwest In The Days of The Wild Indian The Buffalo The Cowboy Dance Halls Gambling Halls and Bad Men
by: Wright, Robe

Hardcover. Wichita KS, Pr. Printed, 2nd Ed., n.d. (1930), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white frontispiece of author. Many black & white photo plates. 342 pages. No date. Nice tight copy. Green covers with bright cover decoration, spine lettering faded otherwise very good. One of the classic books on the policing, range-roving, & settlement of the Western plains.

Record # 67326

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Essays on the History of Bankingby: Anderson, George L.

Essays on the History of Banking
by: Anderson, George L.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, Coronado Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages, green cloth over boards. Limited to 400 copies. The author was a scholar on the banking business in the early American west, especially Kansas.

Record # 403264

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Faces of the Frontierby: Bjorklund, Lorence T.

Faces of the Frontier
by: Bjorklund, Lorence T.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Black & white Illustrations by author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips, otherwise very good. A noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American frontier West in pencil drawings: the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboat captain, vaquero, peddler, gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook, missionary, etc.

Record # 101506

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First Mail West: Stagecoach Lines on the Santa Fe Trail (SIGNED COPY)by: Taylor, Morris F.

First Mail West: Stagecoach Lines on the Santa Fe Trail (SIGNED COPY)
by: Taylor, Morris F.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 253 pages, INSCRIBED BY TAYLOR on the title page. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean. First Mail West recounts the colorful history of stagecoach lines on the Santa Fe Trail during the height of overland traffic from 1850 to 1879. Desert, rain, snow, wind, outlaws, Indians, buffalo stampedes, and business competitors challenged, and sometimes scuttled, the operation of stage lines between Missouri and New Mexico. The author describes the topography, roads, rolling stock, stations, accommodations, and natural and human dangers along the trail, and analyzes the fierce competition between independent lines for passenger traffic and federal mail contracts.

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Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old Westby: Tilden, Freeman

Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West
by: Tilden, Freeman

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 414 pages, numerous b/w illustrations, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, slight foxing, text clean and sound. Small paper scar at bottom of spine where sticker was removed.

Record # 374950

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Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier 1754-1774by: Dale Van Every

Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier 1754-1774
by: Dale Van Every

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w maps. Edge wear, chipping to price-clipped dust jacket. Light smudging to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy. "Reveals something of the majesty of the westward movement of the American people as they grappled to win and hold the first great West beyond the Appalachians."

Record # 385258

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Frederic Remington - A Biographyby: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Frederic Remington - A Biography
by: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Hardcover. Garden City, Duobleday & Company Inc., First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with white titles to spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751118

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Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal & Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796by: (Ed.) Raymond J. DeMallie et al

Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal & Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796
by: (Ed.) Raymond J. DeMallie et al

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 693 pages with index, 16 pages of plates. A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau's travels and encounters with the numerous Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau's writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade in the region immediately preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803. French and English text. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 384498

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Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American Westby: Holmes, Opal Laurel & Vardis Fisher

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West
by: Holmes, Opal Laurel & Vardis Fisher

Hardcover. Caldwell ID, Caxton Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 466 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book considers the gold rushes, life in the camps, crime and justice, and the special situations and unique events that came out of this period. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Endnotes, illustrations, indexed.

Record # 460203

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Grandma Essie's Covered Wagonby: Williams, David

Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon
by: Williams, David

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.

Record # 406215

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (SIGNED PROOF)by: Matthiessen, Peter

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (SIGNED PROOF)
by: Matthiessen, Peter

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, Uncorr. proof, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers. Unrevised and unpublished proofs. Page numbers hand written, 562 pages. SIGNED BY MATTHIESSEN on half-title page: "With best wishes/Peter Matthiessen". The author's controversial and suppressed book about the confrontation between American Indian activists and the FBI in the early 1970s at Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381952

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Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945by: Trenton, Patricia

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945
by: Trenton, Patricia

Softcover. US, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sun-fade and edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Independent Spirits brings to vivid life the West as seen through the eyes of women painters from 1890 to the end of World War II. Expert scholars and curators identify long-lost talent and reveal how these women were formidable cultural innovators as well as agitators for the rights of artists and women during a period of extraordinary development.

Record # 462631

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J. E. Stimson: Photographer of the Westby: Mark Junge

J. E. Stimson: Photographer of the West
by: Mark Junge

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, 227 plates. Traces the life of the Wyoming photographer and shows his pictures of people, landscapes, stories, street scenes, churches, farms, homes and businesses of the West

Record # 362805

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Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834 - 1843by: Osborne Russell (Author), Aubrey L. Haines (Editor)

Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834 - 1843
by: Osborne Russell (Author), Aubrey L. Haines (Editor)

Softcover. NY, MJF Books, reprint, 1997, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages plus index. In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper. Clean copy.

Record # 383188

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Life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and His Narrative of Explorations and Adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California, Theby: Smucker, Samuel M.

Life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and His Narrative of Explorations and Adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California, The
by: Smucker, Samuel M.

Hardcover. New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white engravings. Foxing to frontis, title page, and occurring to pages surrounding illustrated pages. Brown cloth covers with fading, rubbing moderate wear. Binding is firm. Good + condition.

Record # 611929

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Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier (SIGNED COPY)by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly--and mysteriously--vanished.A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time. 294 pages, clean copy.

Record # 382235

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Massacre at Wickenburg: Arizona's Greatest Mysteryby: Wilson, R. Michael

Massacre at Wickenburg: Arizona's Greatest Mystery
by: Wilson, R. Michael

Softcover. Guilford CT, TwoDot, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w illustrations. The massacre at Wickenburg was one of the most notorious crimes committed in the Wild West--a story revealed in this book through a criminal investigation. November 5, 1871. A westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg in the early morning hours. At 8:00 a.m., six of the passengers were shot dead. One man and the lone woman, severely wounded, escaped into the desert. Debates raged over the identity of the murderous ambushers -- Indians? Mexican bandits? The two survivors? After a massive investigation, the U.S. Army concluded that a band of local Yavapai Indians were responsible, which led to a policy of "removal and concentration" that altered the fate of nearly every Indian in America's Southwest. Clean copy.

Record # 397647

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Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815-1875by: J.P. Dunn Jr.

Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815-1875
by: J.P. Dunn Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Archer House, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 110 b/w illustrations. 669 pages. This is a facsimile reprint of edition first published in 1886. Covering 60 years of merciless bloody conflict, it documents in detail every major Indian battle between 1815 and 1876. Dust jacket spine faded, otherwise a clean, very good copy.

Record # 397956

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Old Iron Road, The: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West (SIGNED COPY)by: Bain, David Haward

Old Iron Road, The: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bain, David Haward

Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 434 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 809012

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Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hartford Publishing Co., 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering and design, embossed rules to covers. 524 pages. Detailed records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast on the newly completed transcontinental railroad. Includes much information on the Mormons, Salt Lake City, Indians, gold mining, etc. 12 engraved plates and one map. Bookplate on inside front cover, light fading to spine gilt. Solid, clean copy.

Record # 382021

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Pelts and Palisades: The Story of Fur and Rivalry for Pelts in Early America by: Nathaniel C. Hale

Pelts and Palisades: The Story of Fur and Rivalry for Pelts in Early America
by: Nathaniel C. Hale

Hardcover. Richmind VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and marks. No dust jacket. Tan cloth covers with gilt stamping.Primarily covers the era of the early American fur trader, as typified by the white trader and the Indian beaver hunter. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385622

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Photography and the Old Westby: Current, Karen; Current; William R.

Photography and the Old West
by: Current, Karen; Current; William R.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Photographs throughout. Spine lightly faded. Photographs portray the actual way of life of the pioneers who settled the American West in the years after the Civil War.

Record # 369031

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Picture Maker of the Old West: William H. Jacksonby: Jackson, Clarence S.

Picture Maker of the Old West: William H. Jackson
by: Jackson, Clarence S.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 308 pages with 393 b&w photographs, endpapers map. As proclaimed on the dust jacket: "This volume, carefully prepared under the direction of the Picture Maker's son, Mr. C. S. Jackson, contains an unrivaled pictorial record which can never be duplicated. It was created by a great artist and photographer who himself played a part in the opening of the frontier country." A truly wonderful work-attractive and informative. "A" On Copyright Page. Light bump to top corner of text block causing a mild crimp to pages at corner. Otherwise very good.

Record # 378429

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Ranch Life in the Far Westby: Roosevelt, Theodore / Frederic Remington

Ranch Life in the Far West
by: Roosevelt, Theodore / Frederic Remington

Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel. B&w drawings by Remington. Reprinted from a series of articles published in The Century Magazine in 1888. During the early 1880s, both Remington the artist and Roosevelt the writer were trying their hands at ranching, Remington in Kansas and Roosevelt in Dakota territory. Their respective records of the experience as perhaps the most important to survive of ranching in that era. Contains specific material on the severe winter of 1886-87 which put an end to ranching for many. Clean copy.

Record # 385821

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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Laborby: Juravich, Tom, Kate Bronfenbrenner

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
by: Juravich, Tom, Kate Bronfenbrenner

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of age wear, top edge has former bookstore stamp. otherwise clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30984

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Romance of the Colorado River, Theby: Dellenbaugh, Frederick S.

Romance of the Colorado River, The
by: Dellenbaugh, Frederick S.

New York , Putnams, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece by Thomas Moran. Many B&W photos. 399 pages + ads. previous owner's bookplate front end paper.

Record # 175277

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Saga Of The Comstock Lode, The - Boom Days In Virginia Cityby: Lyman, George D.

Saga Of The Comstock Lode, The - Boom Days In Virginia City
by: Lyman, George D.

NY, Scribners, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Black & white Illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated end papers. Light edgewear and soil to covers.

Record # 202550

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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by: Brands, H.W.

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by: Brands, H.W.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The discovery of gold by a team of Mormon mill workers in 1848 sparked a frenzy that shook the world. People swarmed to California from as far as China and Australia. They came from England and France, from Ireland and Chile, leaving behind their families and everything they owned in the hope of making their fortunes in the new world. They came by ship and overland, braving Tierra del Fuego and the pestilences of Panama, lured by the promise of gold. In a spellbinding narrative that spans several continents, Brands brings the fervour and excitement of the gold rush vividly to life. The Age of Gold is narrative history at its best -- the astonishing tale of one of the most extraordinary speculative frenzies in history, told by a master historian. 547 pages, clean copy.

Record # 382233

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The Black Infantry in the West, 1869

The Black Infantry in the West, 1869

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars, nearly overshadowing the critical support role of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries. Now Arlen L. Fowler brings to light the story of African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.

Record # 381744

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THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the Westby: Leckie William H. & Leckie Shirley A.

THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West
by: Leckie William H. & Leckie Shirley A.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Revised Ed., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. B&w illustrations. A well-researched and authoritative study of 'negro' soldiers who wished to remain in the United States Army following the Civil War. They were eventually organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments their service in controlling Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unpraised. With Bibliography and Index. Clean copy.

Record # 381591

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The Great Buffalo Hunt by: Gard, Wayne

The Great Buffalo Hunt
by: Gard, Wayne

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages plus index. Illustrated with 17 halftone reproductions from various sources and with line drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. A comprehensive history of the slaughter of the buffalo, the battles between the hunters and Indians. Also tells of the buffalo hunting for sport by Washington Irving and the Russian Prince Alexis. Describes Buffalo Bill's killing buffaloes to feed the men who were building a railroad across the plains. Most of the book, however chronicles the hide hunters who swarmed over the ranges in 1871 and reduced the herds of nearly forty million buffaloes to fewer than one-thousand, taking the hides and leaving the meat to rot. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387866

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The Great North Trail: America's Route of the Ages from Asia Across Alaska Down the Rocky Mountains to the Plains of Texas by: Cushman, Dan

The Great North Trail: America's Route of the Ages from Asia Across Alaska Down the Rocky Mountains to the Plains of Texas
by: Cushman, Dan

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The American Trails Series, edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. 383 pages, includes a two-page map. This book offers an account of the route between Siberia and Alaska that continues southward along the Rockies all the way to Mexico and beyond. Cushman details the stories of the many groups who have traversed parts of the route from prehistoric peoples to Native Americans, Spanish explorers, fur traders, cowboys, and whiskey runners of the Prohibition era. A clean and pristine copy of the first printing,

Record # 387599

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The Great Plains by: Webb, Walter Prescott

The Great Plains
by: Webb, Walter Prescott

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering, 525 pages with index. B&w maps, illustrations. A historical interpretation of the semi-arid Short grass Country, the so called Cattle Kingdom. A well written book with a long chapter on the cattle industry. Copyright page states 1931, but titles listed in front date to 1937. Name on front fly leaf, mild musty odor.

Record # 398090

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The Legacy of Conquest The Unbroken Past of the American Westby: Limerick, Patricia Nelson

The Legacy of Conquest The Unbroken Past of the American West
by: Limerick, Patricia Nelson

NY, W W Norton & Co , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality and hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today. Clean copy.

Record # 382017

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The Long Death; The Last Days of the Plains Indianby: Andrist, Ralph K.

The Long Death; The Last Days of the Plains Indian
by: Andrist, Ralph K.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 5th pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. 371 pages with index. A vivid, swiftly paced account of the dispossession of the Plains Indians during the half century after 1840. Epic in sweep, magnificent in detail - here is the tragedy of the Indians who once roamed and hunted on the Great Plains. Included in this great saga are the names one expects: Red Cloud of the Sioux, Black Kettle of the Cheyennes, Generals Sheridan, Sherman, and Custer, Colonel Miles, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces. No marking.

Record # 382023

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The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by: Corbett Christopher

The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West
by: Corbett Christopher

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 218 pages, b&w illustrations. When gold rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco on their way to seek their fortunes. They were called sojourners, for they never intended to stay. Polly, a young Chinese concubine, was brought by her owner to a remote mining camp in the highlands of Idaho. There he lost her in a poker game. Polly found her way with her new owner to an isolated ranch on the banks of the Salmon River in central Idaho. As the gold rush receded, it took with it the Chinese miners-or their bones, which were disinterred and shipped back to their homeland in accordance with Chinese custom. But it left behind Polly, who would make headlines. Clean copy.

Record # 374682

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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent by: Lavender, David

The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
by: Lavender, David

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, BC Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. The dramatic true story of one of the great adventures of our nation's earliest years - the Lewis and Clark expedition 1803-6 to explore the American continent to the Pacific and return. This book includes in-depth profiles of the expedition's members and recounts the varying reactions of the Indians, from helpful to hostile and even violent. It provides compelling accounts of each leg of the journey. An engrossing reexamination of the expedition written by a master of narrative history. 444 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 382144

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The West That Wasby: Eggen, John E.

The West That Was
by: Eggen, John E.

Hardcover. Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Much of early Americana has been destroyed and lost forever. But occasionally, and almost miraculously, some parts of its survive. So it is with the photographs in this book. Saved from an ignominious end in the city dump, they chronicle and enliven the cowboy's life on the range. The result is a beautiful volume of real-life images of western cattlemen. These unretouched photographs taken from the original 5" x 7" negatives give an unprecedented look at life on the ranch and trail. We are presented with real people seen on the job. We see the costumes, the work, the everyday necessities of the range. And as the cowboys stare back at the camera or work with one another, the reader will get the sense of knowing them and their way of living. This is an important volume of history that every student of the Old West will cherish.

Record # 351381

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This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest by: Robert Glass Cleland

This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest
by: Robert Glass Cleland

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 361 pages, color frontis, preface, list of b&w illustrations and maps, prologue, 1. Beaver and Mountain Men; 2. Jedediah Strong Smith: From the Big Lake to the Sea; 3. Kedediah Strong Smith: The End of the Long Trail; 4. To Santa Fe and Beyond; 5. Perils of the Wilderness: The Wanderings of James Ohio Pattie; 6. "Joaquin Yong" and the Men of Taos; 7. From Santa Fe to California; 8. Joseph Reddeford Walker: To the "Extreme End of the Great West; 9. Partisans versus Mountain Men; epilogue, bibliographical notes, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 387869

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Trade and Currency in Early Oregon. A Study in the Commercial and Monetary History of the Pacific Northwestby: James Henry Gilbert

Trade and Currency in Early Oregon. A Study in the Commercial and Monetary History of the Pacific Northwest
by: James Henry Gilbert

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt stamping, 126 pages. Ex-library with light markings and stamping. Much on the fur trade, early agriculture, gold dust and Civil War currency and trade in Oregon during the 1800s.

Record # 381970

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Under God's Spell: Frontier Evangelists 1772-1915by: Luchetti, Cathy

Under God's Spell: Frontier Evangelists 1772-1915
by: Luchetti, Cathy

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Illustrated with over 100 archival photos of religion on the American frontier. Three quarter brown paper over boards with rust cloth around spine and gilt text on spine; no defects. Illustrated dust jacket with maroon and black text on upper and mint green and maroon text on spine; no chips, tears or edge wear; no price clipped. Interior pages clean, remainder line on top edge, otherwise clean. Binding is tight.

Record # 412420

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