SONS OF STRENGTH: A Romance of the Kansas Border Wars.
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: (v), 242. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine and cover lettering. 7.5" x 4.75" [Wright, American Fiction III-3340.]. More
American West
THE PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN 1904:; Extract from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903: David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Natural Resources.
Washington DC: GPO, 1905. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. 175pp. Bound in gray wrappers, cover lettering and seal printed in black. 9" x 5.75" Covers gold and silver minng in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming during 1904. [Alliot, Bibliography..... More
SONGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1968. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xii, 595, bibliography, chord charts, index; illustrated chapter dividers. Contains words and music to nearly 300 songs, arranged by topics such as: Coming Round the Horn; When I Was A Miner; The Mormon Question; The Regular Army, O!; The..... More
ALIAS DIAMOND JACK
Colorado Springs: Published by the author, 1956. Limited Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 19pp; frontispiece from photograph. This is Copy No. 149 of 200 copies, signed by John J. Lipsey. Gray wrappers, cover lettering in red. 8" x 6" "An account of the author's encounter with Diamond Jack, a Chicago gangster..... More
THE FARMER'S AND EMIGRANT'S HAND-BOOK: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE GUIDE FOR THE FARMER AND THE EMIGRANT. Comprising the Clearing of Forest and Prairie Land--Gardening--Farming Generally--Farriery--Cookery--and the Prevention and Cure of Diseases.
new York / Philadelphia: D. Appleton / Geo. S. Appleton, 1845. Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. pp: 492 with index, (34) publisher's ads. Bound in modern red linen, printed paper spine label. 7.75" x 4.5" More
FROM '49 TO '88 IN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA: Chapters from the Life of George Thomas Marye, A Pioneer of '49.
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, (1923). First Edition. Original Cloth. 212pp; 10 plates from photographs (portraits and views). Chapters include: The Journey to California in 1849; Pioneer Life of San Francisco; Virginia City and the Comstock; &c. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine; spine gilt dulled with..... More
KEN MAYNARD'S SONGS OF THE TRAILS:; 25 Sensational Songs.
Chicago: M.M. Cole, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 64pp; 4pp illus from action photos of Ken Maynard and his horse "Tarzan," with other photos, including his Hollywood home, inside the back cover. Contains words and music to 25 cowboy songs (two from Ken's movies), including: Wheels Of Destiny; The..... More
JOURNAL OF THE SUFFERINGS AND HARDSHIPS OF CAPT. PARKER H. FRENCH'S OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA, which left New York City, May 13th, 1850, by way of New Orleans, Lavacca and San Antonia, Texas, El Paso, on the Rio Grande, the River Gila to San Diego on the Pacific, and landed at San Francisco, December 14.; By Wm. Miles, of Carlisle, Pa. Copyright Secured. Chambersburg, PA., 1851.
NY: Cadmus Book Shop, 1916. Limited Edition. Original Wrappers. Limited to 250 copies. 26pp. Sewn, decorative wrappers; small chip from top of cover and first leaf. 9" x 5.75" [This 1916 reprint is a Howes, U.S.iana "aa" title, while the 1851 edition is one of only seven known and a...... More
BOB MILLER'S FAMOUS FOLIO FULL OF ORIGINAL COWBOY SONGS:; Songs You Hear on the Radio and Phonograph Records.
NY: Bob Miller, 1934. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 48pp. Contains lyrics, music, guitar chords and charts to 22 songs by Bob Miller "that cannot be obtained in any other cowboy book." Edited by Arthur H. Gutman. 11.5" x 8.5" Songs include: Big Ball In Texas; Dangerous Dan McGrew; In..... More
MINNESOTA, THE EMPIRE STATE OF THE NEW NORTH-WEST, THE COMMERCIAL, MANUFACTURING AND GEOGRAPHICAL CENTRE OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.
St. Paul: State Board of Immigration, 1878. First Edition. Softcover. 88pp; small railway map in text; large, folding map of Minnesota shows towns, county lines, railroads, post offices, &c., detached from binding and laid in. Bound in printed green wrappers; lower tip chipped from cover, no text loss. 8.5" x...... More
MINNESOTA: ITS ADVANTAGES TO SETTLERS ... Its History and Progress, Climate, Soil, Agricultural and Manufacturing Facilities, Commercial Capacities, and Social Status; Its Lakes, Rivers and Railroads; Homestead and Exemption Laws ... Climatology, in a Hygienic and Sanitary Point of View; Its Unparalleled Salubrity, Growth and Productiveness, as compared with the older states; and the Elements of Its Future Greatness and Prosperity.; Fifth Edition. For Gratuitous Circulation.
St. Paul, Minnesota: Girart Hewitt, 1867. Fifth Edition. Softcover. pp: 36, (8) full-page ads. The ads are by: Winona & St. Peter Railroad, selling "250,000 acres of the finest farming lands in the northwest"; Hastins & Dakota Railway, offering Actual Settlers Only portions of a 1,280,000-acre land grant; Milwaukee &..... More
THE TRAIL: A Bibliography of the Travelers on the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Salt Lake City, and Montana during the Years 1841-1864.
Albuquerque: Univ of New Mexico Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xxv (including a double-page map and six pages of illustrations from photographs), 201 with index. Bound in green cloth, silver lettering on spine. 9.5" x 6" Contains 627 entries. More
THE RESOURCES OF MISSOURI
St. Louis, Mo. Stereotyped & Printed by Aug. Wiebusch & Son, 1867. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 96pp. Printed gray wrappers, sewn. Professor Waterhouse of Washington University, St. Louis, wrote this book for the State Board of Immigration in order to attract settlers. The attractions include education, commerce, railroads, homesteading on..... More
THE WESTERN FARMER OF AMERICA
London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., 1880. First Edition. Softcover. 30pp. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 7" x 4.75". Vertical crease. Examines the economic aspects of agriculture in the western states. "...For what he raises he gets a lower price, and for what he consumes he..... More
1868 TERRITORY OF MONTANA BOND AND COUPONS, SIGNED BY JAMES TUFTS, GOVERNOR OF MONTANA TERRITORY, AND BY OTHER TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS.
[Virginia City, M.T.]: Montana Democrat Print, 1868. Original document. Decorative certificate, printed in blue and black, accomplished by hand, with two engraved vignettes. In part: "It is hereby certified that the Territory of Montana is indebted to Ira H. Ming in the sum of One Hundred Dollars, redeemable at the..... More
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, TRANSMITTING...REPORT REGARDING THE LEASING OF LAND ON THE CROW INDIAN RESERVATION IN MONTANA TERRITORY
Washington DC: US Senate, 48th Congress, 1885. First Edition. Printed self-wraps. 45pp. Spine archivally reinforced. 9" x 5.75" Identifies 329 leases of land on the Crow reservation, naming each of the Native Americans involved: Long Otter, Alligator, Shell on the Neck, Pretty Gutts, Crazy Sister-in-law, Bear in the Water, Fire..... More
REAL-PHOTO POSTCARD OF A RODEO BAREBACK RIDER ON A BUCKING BRONCO, POSTMARKED 1920.
Miles City, Montana: Foster Photo Co., 1920. Original document. The photograph is captioned, "At A Boy Mose." On the verso is a handwritten message to a Pennsylvania woman: "...This is a sample of the real rough west as it is in reality never the less it is the life /..... More
HOW TO GET A FARM, AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. Showing that Homesteads may be had by those desirous of securing them: with the Public Law on the subject of Free Homes, and suggestions from Practical Farmers; together with numerous successful experiences of others, who, though beginning with little or nothing, have become the owners of ample farms.; By the author of "Ten Acres Enough."
New York: James Miller, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: 345, (8) ads. Bound in blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering and device on spine; minor discoloration of binding, text block clean. 7.5" x 4.75" Builds on the 1862 Homestead Act, which granted settlers 160 acres of Federal land if they settled..... More
PROSPECTUS OF THE FORWARD MINING DEVELOPMENT CO...GOLDFIELD AND BULLFROG, NEVADA.
Denver, Colorado: Forward Mining Development Co., (1905). First Edition. Original Wrappers. (12)pp. Bound in decorated white wrappers. On the back cover is a pink-tinted photographic view of "The Famous Combination Mine and Mill at Goldfield." 9.25" x 4" With a capital stock of $500,000, three members of the Patrick family..... More
NEVADA PRINTING HISTORY: A Bibliography of Imprints & Publications, 1858-1880 and [volume two] 1881-1890.
Reno: Univ of Nevada Press, 1981 & 1991. First Editions. Hardcover. Two volumes. pp: (iii), 421 with index; (v), 403 with indices. First volume bound in blue cloth, second one bound in brown cloth, both with gilt spine lettering and printed dust wrappers. 10.25" x 7" The first volume contains..... More
APACHES AT THE MESCALERO AND JICARILLA AGENCIES. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,,,, May 23, 1882.
Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 3pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. "Relates to the consolidation of the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agencies and the civilization of the Indians thereof....and for the removal, with their consent, of the Mescalero Apache Indians to the Jicarilla Reservation..... More
SUN IN THE SKY
Norman: U Oklahoma Press, 1950. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xvii, 261 with index; 84 illustrations from photographs, four full-page maps. Bound in yellow cloth, green spine lettering; in a soiled, price-clipped dust wrapper. 9.25" x 6" Regards the Hopi Indians of the Arizona Mesa lands... More
THE GILCREASE-HARGRETT CATALOGUE OF IMPRINTS. Prepared for publication and with an introduction by G.P. Edwards. Foreword by John C. Ewers.
Norman, Oklahoma: Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xviii, 400 with index; 28 illustrations of title-pages. Bound in brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dust wrapper with slight edge wear. 9.5" x 6.25" Annotated bibliography of printed materials pertaining to Native Americans, especially the Five Civilized Tribes..... More
BROADWAY, LOOKING NORTH, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
Oklahoma City: J. Frank Rice, 1906. Original document. Real-photo postcard, showing the main street of Oklahoma City. Small, pencilled message in lower margin: "11/13/1906 - Am just living here / Papa." Addressed on the verso to Miss Mildred Kalmus, Horton, Kansas, and postmarked Oklahoma, Nov 17, with a 13-star flag..... More
TO OPEN FOR SETTLEMENT CERTAIN LAND IN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. April 3, 1906...Mr. Stephens, Committee on Indian Affairs, Report to accompany H.R. 17507.
1906. First Edition. 2pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Regarding a bill "to open for settlement 505,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservations...." Involves some 480,000 acres of land. 9" x 5.75" More