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Illinois Central Railroad

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OFFERS FOR SALE OVER 1,500,000 ACRES, SELECTED FARMING AND WOOD LANDS IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS, TO SUIT PURCHASERS, ON LONG CREDITS AND AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST, SITUATED ON EACH SIDE OF THEIR RAILROAD, EXTENDING ALL THE WAY FROM THE EXTREME NORTH TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. 80pp. Bound in at front: Outline Map of Illinois; Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Rail Road Lands (double-page map); woodcut frontispiece, "Prairie Scene in Illinois." Six woodcuts in the text. Bound in at back: four pages of broadside-style ads..... More

Price: $400.00

Indian Maid

Song sheet: INDIAN MAID OF THE CHAPPARAL. Air--Mary Blane. Written and sung by George Bombarger, in the City of Mexico.

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, (1852). First Edition. Eight verses and chorus, in part: "Now since you have asked a song of me, I will sing a song of woe .... Her father was an Indian chief,-- In ambush he had lain, To rob the wearied soldier boys, Likewise the baggage..... More

Price: $25.00

Indian Territory

1903-1907 GROUP OF NINE (9) HANDWRITTEN LETTERS AND RECEIPTS ON LETTERHEADS AND BILLHEADS FROM VARIOUS INDIAN TERRITORY SETTLEMENTS.

1903. Original documents. Nine items, octavo and duodecimo. (1) Sapulpa Lodge, A.O.U.W [Ancient Order of United Workmen]., ALS re a Medical Examination Policy and Benefits Policy. (2) Addie Lodge, A.O.U.W., ANS re Beneficiary Certificate. (3) US Court in the Indian Territory, receipt for deposit in the Guardianship Case of Lizzie..... More

Price: $150.00

Indian Territory

PHOTO-POSTCARD SHOWING HUNDREDS OF BALES OF COTTON OUTSIDE THE COTTON COMPRESS AT OKLAHOMA CITY

Oklahoma City: H.H. Clarke, (1906). Original document. Photo-illustration in black and white. Messages on front and back are written in sepia ink and pencil. In part: "This is the cotton press in I.T. They have so much cotton there...." Addressed to Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, and signed by Orlena Schenk. 3.5"..... More

Price: $15.00

Indian Territory / Arthur, Chester A. and H. Price

INTEREST DUE OSAGE INDIANS. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,,,, May 15, 1882.

Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Regards "interest due the Osage Indians on the net avails of their trust and diminished reserve lands, sold under...their treaty of September 29, 1865....An estimate of appropriation in the sum of $189,981.17..... More

Price: $15.00

Indian Territory / Arthur, Chester A. and H. Price

PAWNEE INDIAN RESERVATION IN INDIAN TERRITORY. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,,,, June 20, 1882.

Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 3pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Calls for enlarging the Pawnee Reservation, "made necessary by reason of the fact that a number of said tribe have made improvements in good faith upon lands supposed to be within their..... More

Price: $15.00

Indian Territory / Saunders, I.W.

1904 HANDWRITTEN LETTER (ALS) ON LETTERHEAD WITH LOGO OF THE ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMEN, DAVIS LODGE NO. 77: DAVIS, I.T.

1904. Original document. One page, quarto, sepia ink in a bold, legible hand. Addressed to A. Nicodemus, G.R., Norman, Oklahoma, approving the Med[ical] Ex[amination] of Bro. T.H. Smith, sending a $1.00 check for a Ben[eficiary] C[ertificate], etc. Dated Feb. 12, 1904. Signed, "Yours in C.H.& P. / I.W. Saunders." The..... More

Price: $40.00

Indian Territory / US Senate

PAYMENT TO CHEROKEE FREEDMEN. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior ... showing the reason why the payment to the Cherokee Freedmen was suspended ... June 4, 1897.; 55th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 136.

Washington DC: (GPO), 1897. First Edition. Softcover. 29pp, drop-title, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.75" More

Price: $25.00

Indian Territory, Afton / Hubbard, Jeremiah

"THE INDIAN MOCCASIN," Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1894.

Afton, I.T. Jeremiah Hubbard, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp, printed in a small and legible typeface. Self-wrappers. 9" x 6". The first 2-3/4 pages recount Quaker missionary Hubbard's train trip with his wife and young son from Afton, I.T. to Oakland, California, including a visit to the Midwinter Fair in..... More

Price: $160.00

Indian Territory, Guthrie

ENGRAVED CHECK DRAWN ON THE BANK OF INDIAN TERRITORY

Guthrie, OK: Bank of Indian Territory, 1899. Original document. This check features the portrait of a Native American and the name of Ferdinand Ritterbusch, Treasurer, Logan County. Datelined Guthrie, Okla. Jun. 3rd, 1899 [changed to 1900]. In the amount of $25.75, the check is payable to J.M. McDowell. Signed at..... More

Price: $60.00

Indian...sheet music

INDIAN RAIN DANCE.; Piano music by John Stockbridge.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Oliver Ditson, 1938. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 4pp; piano music. 12.25" x 9.25" The cover features an artist's conception of a Southwestern Indian Rain Dance. More

Price: $15.00

Indiana Territory, Franklin County

SHERIFF'S BOND, HOLDING WILLIAM HUFF AND PATRICK McCARTY BOUND UNTO ROBERT HANNA, SHERIFF OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA TERRITORY

1813. Original manuscript. One page, folio, written in sepia ink. Sheriff's bond in the "penal sum of fifty six Dollars & seventy-five Cents with Interest thereon from the Twenty second day of March 1809 for the true payment whereof we do bind our selves and each of our heirs....This Third..... More

Price: $100.00

Iowa / Galland, Isaac

IOWA EMIGRANT: Containing a Map, and General Descriptions of Iowa Territory.

Chillicothe / Iowa City: Printed by Wm. C. Jones / Prairie Press, 1840 / 1950? Limited Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xiv, 28, (5), colophon; b&w folding map tipped to rear pastedown. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine lettering. 9.25" x 6" [Howes, U.S.IANA G22.]. More

Price: $40.00

Iowa / Parvin, Theodore Sutton

WHO MADE IOWA? An Address Delivered on "Pioneer and Old Settlers' Day," at the Semi-Centennial Celebration, Burlington, October 2, 1896.

Burlington, Iowa: Egbert, Fidlar, & Chambers, Printers, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. 51pp; frontispiece portrait, tissue guard; other illustrations from portraits and views, one full-page. Bound in printed wrappers; two chips from rear cover, else clean and tight. 9" x 5.75" More

Price: $50.00

Iowa / Petersen, William J.

STEAMBOATING ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI, THE WATER WAY TO IOWA: Some River History

Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1937. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 575pp w/index. Gilt-stamped decorative green cloth. Small private bookplate on pastedown, prior owner's signature on endpaper, otherwise a clean, bright copy. 9.5" x 8.25" Laid into this volume is a four-page brochure, circa 1950, showing a steamboat and..... More

Price: $60.00

James, Jesse, Jr. [McDonald, A.B.?]

JESSE JAMES, MY FATHER. The First and Only True Story of His Adventures Ever Written

Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, (1906). Second Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. pp: 189, (1) publisher's ad; 3 frontispiece portraits. Printed on pulp stock. Moderate wear along spine. 7" x 5" First published at Kansas City in 1899. [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1150. Howes, U.S.IANA J48: "Probably ghost-written by A.B. McDonald."]... More

Price: $85.00

Johnson, Broderick H., editor

STORIES OF TRADITIONAL NAVAJO LIFE AND CULTURE, BY TWENTY-TWO NAVAJO MEN AND WOMEN: Alk?ida´a´? ye´e´k?ehgo Diné Kéédahat?ine´e´ Baa Nahane?

Tsaile, Navajo Nation, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press, 1977. First Edition. Original Cloth. 335pp; text illustrated from photographs and drawings. Bound in pictorial green cloth, pictorial green endpapers. 9" x 5.75" "...contains personal, true accounts by 22 elderly Navajo men and women...." (foreword). More

Price: $25.00

Jones, Buck

BUCK JONES COLLECTION OF SONGS OF THE WESTERN TRAILS

Chicago: Chart Music, 1940. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 58pp; 4pp illus from photographs. A biography of Buck Jones inside the cover precedes the words and music to 30 songs, including: Big Bad Bill From Brimstone; I'm A-leavin' Cheyenne; Nestin' Time In Nevada; Range Ridin' Fool From Texas; Weary Cowboy;..... More

Price: $40.00

Kansas

KANSAS: Kenyon's Complete, Indexed Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide; With latest official census, showing in complete form all Railroads, Cities, Towns, Post Offices, Rivers, Telegraph Stations, Money Order Post Offices, and chief Auto Roads. Also the name of the Railroads and Express Companies entering each Town and the Express Company doing business over each road.

Des Moines, Iowa: Kenyon Co., Map Makers, (1916). 1916 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. (26)pp text. Full-color map, folded inside card covers, opens to 15" x 20". Blue card covers, printed in black. Fresh, clean condition. 6.25" x 4" [WorldCat locates four holdings of this map: Princeton, Yale, U Missouri-KC, U...... More

Price: $125.00

Kansas / Fisher, Charles Edward

KANZAS AND THE CONSTITUTION. By "Cecil."

Boston: Printed by Damrell & Moore, 1856. First Separate Edition. Softcover. 16pp. Printed self-wrappers. 9.25" x 5.75" A pro-slavery lawyer looks at Southern intent to extend slavery into the territories to balance the power of the Free States. [First published in the Philadelphia North American for July 31, 1856, and..... More

Price: $45.00

Kansas / Reed, J.W.

MAP OF AND GUIDE TO THE KANSAS GOLD REGION.; By Dr. J.W. Reed. The Map embracing both routes--the Northern and Southern--from the Missouri River to the Gold Region. The Guide giving a description of the Country, Game, Water-courses, Distances from Camp to Camp; also, general directions for Outfitting, Travelling, etc.

Denver, Colorado: Nolie Mumey, 1959. Limited Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 24pp; Nolie Mumey's commentary on leaf tipped at front; large, folding map at rear. Bound in decorative paper covers in facsimile of the original. In a simulated wood-grain shelf box, paper spine label. 7.25" x 4.75" This is #225 of..... More

Price: $50.00

Kansas / Socolofsky, Homer E. & Virgil W. Dean

KANSAS HISTORY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Westport: Greenwood Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xxiv, (i) map, 587 with author and subject indices. Bound in blue cloth, red blocks and gilt lettering on spine and cover. 9.5" x 6" Contains 4,565 entries. More

Price: $40.00

Kansas / Thayer, Eli

A HISTORY OF THE KANSAS CRUSADE: Its Friends and Its Foes. Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xxii, 294 with index, (6) adverts. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine lettering; cover spotted, spine sunned. Prior owner's label on front pastedown. Inscribed on the free-endpaper: "With love and best wishes from the grandson of the author." Tipped..... More

Price: $60.00

Kansas, Comanche County

LANDS IN COMANCHE COUNTY, KANSAS:; Grid of 36 tracts, three marked as settled.

Coldwater, Kansas: Talisman Print Shop, Circa 1905. Original edition. One page. Indicated in pencil are three properties: one at $7,500; One at $6,500 with a house; one with three houses. Five mail boxes are pencilled in at the end of the road. 10.5" x 8.5" Comanche County was created in..... More

Price: $45.00

King, Pee Wee and others

GOLDEN WEST COWBOYS' FOLIO OF SONGS OF THE GOLDEN WEST, No. 1.

Portland, OR: American Music, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. 58 pages. Contains words and music to "20 new songs, introduced by J.L. Frank's original Golden West Cowboys," including: My Madonna of the Trail; Rocky Mountain Trail; Swim, You Lazy Cattle, Swim; I'll Never Be A Saddle-tramp Again; It's Swing-time in the..... More

Price: $35.00

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