INDIAN VENGENCE AT JULESBURG
n.p. Privately Printed, 1972. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 16pp. Illus. Fine. Scarce.
n.p. Privately Printed, 1972. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 16pp. Illus. Fine. Scarce.
Prescott: Joshua Eden ca 1981-1983, 1983. First Thus. Soft cover. Not a book. Glossy black & white photographic poster from Dusard's classic book on modern cowboys. This is the Joshua Eden poster print, likely first generation, published not long after the book of the same name. Size with white border.....
Potomac Corral of The Westerners, Garden City, 1960, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. 336pp. Illustrated with photos & chapter head vignettes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Endpaper maps. A series of twenty-five essays by Western historians on twenty-five fights with Indians from the plains to the Pacific Coast. Includes Battle of.....
Arizona, Tucson, 1970, 1970. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 274pp. Charmingly illustrated with pen & ink drawings by Ellison. Index. The Santa Fe New Mexican aptly described this book as "Easy reading, entertaining, the way the cowboy lived, worked, etc... this is real stuff. No punches pulled." This copy with.....
Arthur H. Clark, Glendale, 1965, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Cloth. 368pp. Illust. Bibliography. Index. Fldg map. Vol. X of the Arthur H. Clark Company's Western Frontiersmen Series. A highly sought cowman biography. Fine in dj. 6-guns 682, Clark 78.
Seattle: Univ. of Wash. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to cloth with silver Indian pictorial line details/drawings. 210pp. Illustrated profusely with vintage b/w photos. Index. A long, several line inscription originally written by Farr to May Dull Vallance on a card or other source has been re-written in Vallance's hand on.....
(Wash. D.C., 1847). 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Original U.S. Government printing bound into modern labeled boards. (12pp.). 30th Cong, 1st Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 1. A letter from Bent's Fort to Thomas H. Harvey, Supt. of Indian Affairs dated St. Louis, Sept. 18, 1847. "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, a bright star.....
NY: Historical Society of Montana & University Publishers Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards blind-stamped with cattle brands. 233pp. Illustrated with the wonderful drawings of C. M. Russell, plus b/w photos & reproductions of commercial prints. Two pages in back list Montana Stockgrowers Assoc. Conventions and.....
Norman: OU, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 363pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Maps, including folding map. A very important book by a master historian on the Southeast Civilized Tribes and others, including the Comanches, especially as related to Indian Territory. Near fine, lacking the dj. Rader 1429, Dobie p29.....
New York: Scholastic, 1993. First Thus. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 103pp. For young readers, but illustrated with nice vintage cowboy & range photos. Ink letter/number inside front cover. Vg.
Norman: OU, 1985. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine reprint. Cloth. 304pp. Illustrated with some photos. Maps. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Editor's Introduction. Annotated extensively by Lane, this is the definitive edition of Freeman's rare & important 1890 work on Caldwell, Kansas, with much on outlawry in Southern Kansas & the old Cherokee.....
Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 167pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Endpaper maps with same title as book. Signed by the author, Giles French, who was NOT a relative of the book's subject, according to the author. LAID IN folded is the large map, 17" x......
Denver: Old West, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 243pp. Illus. Appendix. Sources. Index. Fine, as new copy in dj.
Denver: Wyoming Stock Growers Assoc, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 243p. Illust. Bumped upper front cover corner, but good+ in dj that is slightly edgeworn and slightly faded. Herd 852, 6-guns 776, Dykes HS p79. Uncommon now.
NY: Wells, 1873. First edition thus. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped & decorated cloth. 372pp (Frost) & 367pp (Drake). Illustrated with wood cuts/engravings. Appears to be the first printing of the two volumes combined, Wigwam having been published in 1850. A thorough compendium of captivity accounts. Some fraying to cloth of spine heel.....
Norman: Arthur H Clark, 2008. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped hardbound. 218pp. Illus. Map. Notes Bibliography. Index. Copy #6 of an edition of 200 signed by both Editors, who added Commentary & Notes. One of Oklahoma's "Favorite Sons", a cowboy, Spanish-American War Rough Rider, & musician (McGinty's Oklahoma Cowboy Band). Fine, like.....
Univ of Washington, Seattle, 2005, 2005. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 226pp. Illust. Map. Appendix: "The Disosway and Walker Letters". Notes. Works Cited. Index. Signed by Furtwangler. An important, scholarly study of some of the missionary activity in the Pacific Northwest before & after Lewis &.....
San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 188pp. Illustrated with drawings by R. L. McCollister. Printed review slip "To the Literary Editor" from Naylor laid in. Also laid in is a folded t.l.s. (typed letter signed) from Gann on his Lakewood, Colorado letterhead to Robert Perkin of.....
Dallas: First National Bank in Dallas. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Oblong pictorial wraps. 36pp. Illus. Foreword by Chisholm Trail historian Wayne Gard. Published likely in the 1950ss, attractive little booklet giving a little bit of Texas ranch history around their brands. Fine.
Fairfield: Ye Galleon, 1966. Limited/Numbered. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of ltd reprint edition. Ltd to 732 copies. Printed wraps. 16pp. Originally published as HR Doc in 1861. Report on an "entire (emigrant) train of forty-six persons" killed near Salmon Falls in 1860. Fine. WCB 273.
Saanichton & Seattle: Hancock House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial hardbound. 165pp. Illustrated with vintage & recent b/w photos. Has bibliography & index. A well done book on the subject. Back cover lightly rubbed in spots & slightly bumped spine at top corner. Vg.
Parsons: Commercial, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Small 8vo cloth. 144pp. Index. Frontispiece litho of Schoenmakers. Very good condition but we note that the rear free endpaper is half glued to the paste down. Very scarce Kansas item.
Eugene & Salem: Privately printed & Your Town Press, 1995. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Limited edition to 20 special copies bound in gilt-stamped, dark cowhide of which this is #10. Quarto. 204pp. Illustrated with vintage photos, maps, & facsimiles. Bibliography. Laid into this limited edition is a printed limitation card, 4 3/4".....
Eugene & Salem: Private Published, & Your Town, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 31 copies bound in tan sheepskin with titles gilt-stamped & livestock brands black-stamped, with Brown's "Horseshoe Bar" being the centrail motif. 222pp. Illus. Maps. Facsimiles of documents. Appendix. Bibliography. This copy with a full page presentation.....
NY: Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Decorated cloth. 320pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. "The stocks-and-bonds, Havana cigar, mahogany-and-leather side of the cowboy era; politics, investors, and operators from 18j70 to 1900." A scholarly work. Fine in dj.