Denver, Colorado: Forward Mining Development Co. / App Printing Co., (1904). First Edition. Softcover. 24pp, narrow octavo; map on verso title, 7 views from photographs. Compiles detailed information on Goldfield from various sources. Topics include: Mineral Belt; Ore at Depth; Production; Grade of Ore; Camp in its Infancy; Abnormally Rich;... More about "FACTS" ABOUT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA: The Greatest Gold Camp in the World
s.l. s.n., circa 1862. Original document. Three-quarter photographic portrait of General John C. Fremont in the uniform of a one-star General. Image measures 3.5" x 2.25". Overall card size is 3-7/8" x 2-1/2". No photographer's imprint. Fremont (1813-1890) led five expeditions into the American West in the 1840s, served as... More about CARTE DE VISITE OF GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT IN HIS CIVIL WAR OFFICER'S UNIFORM
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. 19pp; frontispiece showing the list of names approved by the Committee on Qualification. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6" More about PAPERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE OF 1861 / II.; Publications of the Academy of...
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1910. First Edition. Softcover. 69pp; frontispiece showing the signatures of the Committee of Vigilance.. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6" More about PAPERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE OF 1861; Publications of the Academy of...
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. 59pp; frontispiece showing the first page of the original Gaspar de Portola diary.. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6" More about DIARY OF GASPAR DE PORTOLA DURING THE CALIFORNIA EXPEDITION OF 1760-1770. Edited by Donald...
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. 15pp; frontispiece showing the first page of the original Portola account. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6" More about THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE PORTOLA EXPEDITION OF 1769-1770. Edited by Frederick J. Teggart.;...
Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Co., 1884. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: (xiv), 298; engraved frontispiece portrait, tissue guard. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering and rules in gilt, cover rules in black and blind, floral-pattern endpapers. 8" x 5" The author was a member of the Central Ohio... More about CRUMBS FROM MY SADDLE BAGS OR, REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER LIFE AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Tours: A. Mame et Cie, 1853. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. 188pp; 8 full-color, chromolithographed plates. Text in the original French. This is the tale of a Frenchman and two boys who journey from Le Havre to California in search of gold. We are told of their hard work at the... More about LES PETITS VOYAGEURS EN CALIFORNIE
Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Printing Co., 1900. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Leatherette. 145pp; frontispiece portrait of author, other full-page portraits and views from photographs. Bound in grained leatherette, gilt cover title; tail of spine chipped. 6.25" x 4.25" Written on the front endpaper: "Presentation copy from Eugene Ware," historian and... More about MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF C.W. GOODLANDER OF THE EARLY DAYS OF FORT SCOTT: From April 29,...
Washington DC: Committee on Indian Affairs, 1871. First Edition. Softcover. 23pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.75" More about MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMUNICATING A COPY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE...
Detroit: Republican Executive Congressional Committee, 1860. First Edition. Printed self-wraps. 8pp, two-column text. Removed, spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.5" Grow spoke within the Presidential Campaign of 1860, arguing in favor of homestead law. Printed at the Detroit Tribune Office. More about FREE HOMES FOR FREE MEN:; Speech of Hon. G.A. Grow, of Pennsylvania. Delivered in the House of...
Stockton, CA: Frank L. Van Eaton, (1953). Third Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. pp: xiii, 303; frontispiece portrait of Judge Parker and 20pp illus from photographs, printed on coated stock; text printed on pulp paper, still clean and tight. Tan wrappers, cover picture. 7.75" x 5" [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather... More about HELL ON THE BORDER: A History of the Great United States Criminal Court at Fort Smith and of...
New-York: Sarony, 1860s. Original document. Full-length, sepiatone image with excellent contrast, shows Harte standing in front of an ornate, carved slant-top desk, wearing pants, vest, and wide-lapel overcoat, right hand in his pocket, left hand holding several leaves of paper, and looking at the camera. Captioned "Brete Harte" Harte (1836-1902)... More about CARTE DE VISITE OF AMERICAN AUTHOR BRET HARTE, PHOTOGRAPHED BY NAPOLEON SARONY
Cambridge: University Press: John Wilson and Son, 1880. First Edition. Softcover. 40pp; slip stating author's name is tipped in at front; errata slip at rear. Printed blue wrappers; back cover lacking. Neatly removed from a nonce volume. 8.5" x 5.5" More about AN ARGUMENT FOR A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. THE FARMER'S QUESTION; Being A Reply to the Cobden Club...
NY: Tudor Publishing Co., 1943. copyright 1930. Original Cloth. 392pp with index; frontispiece and 32pp of illustrations from photographs on plate stock. Bound in tan hopsacking, green lettering, in the original dust wrapper with a wrap-around illustration of the Hopi Pine Tree Dance. 9.25" x 6.25" More about ANCIENT LIFE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.; With an Introduction on the General History of the...
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 about MINNESOTA: ITS ADVANTAGES TO SETTLERS ... Its History and Progress, Climate, Soil, Agricultural...
NY: Chappell, 1938. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 6pp, words and music, in part: "Horses come and horses go, But there is one that you all know .... Give me the reins, There's pep in my veins, Onward Westward, ho! Hi-yo, Silver, Hi-yo!..." Name pencilled at top of cover. 12" x.... More about HI-YO SILVER: The Lone Ranger's Song; Words and music by Vaughn De Leath and Jack Erickson
1892. Original manuscript. One page, octavo. Written in sepia ink, somewhat faded but readable: "This is to certify that I am willing that part of the money due me from uncle Jacob's estate can be used for tombs at the graves of uncle Jacob & wife. [signed] M.M. Hilliard." 8" x 5" More about HANDWRITTEN LETTER OF PERMISSION FROM BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO, NOV. 29th, 1892
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. First Edition. Cloth. Two volumes. pp: (iii), 337; (iii), 346. Expertly recased and rebound in terracotta cloth. Embellished signature of "Harry Warner / May 6, 1835" on flyleaf of first volume, along with later custom bookplate of Dr. Ulrich Danckers on front pastedown. A tight... More about A WINTER IN THE WEST. By a New-Yorker
Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1892. Third Edition. Hardcover. pp: 419, v index; frontispiece portrait of author, 32 plates from photographs, including portraits of Native Americans. Bound in gilt-stamped green cloth; spine scarred at top and bottom; free endpaper removed; old historical society label on pastedown, marked Duplicate; text block sound... More about ONCE THEIR HOME, OR, OUR LEGACY FROM THE DAHKOTAHS: Historical, Biographical and Incidental from...
Chicago: Saul Brothers, 1918. First Edition. Original Cloth. 156pp; full-color frontispiece, 1 b&w plate, 1 full-page sketch. Bound in pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering, cover illustration in black. 7.25" x 4.5" Inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "Presented to Nolie Dandridge, by the author, Wm. F. Hooker[signed], New York, Sept. 9... More about THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER
Denver, Colorado: The Westerners, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xxi, 297 with index; 32pp illustrations from photographs and drawings, printed on coated stock, pictorial endpapers. Bound in pictorial red cloth. 9.25" x 6" This is No. 51 of 500 copies. More about 1952 BRAND BOOK: Sixteen original studies in Western history. With special sketches by H.D. Bugbee
Detroit: Wayne State Univ Press, (1998). Second printing. Hardcover. pp: xii, 149 with index, (2) publisher's ads. Bound in pictorial blue cloth, copper lettering on spine and cover. 11.25" x 8.5" First publshed in 1961, and here reissued with a foreword by John C. Dann, Director of the Clements Library. More about EARLY MIDWESTERN TRAVEL NARRATIVES: An Annotated Bibliography, 1634-1850
Albuquerque, NM: Fred Harvey, Indian Department, 1934. Fifth Edition. Original Wrappers. Unpaginated; 31 full-color plates from paintings, text on facing versos. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers, pictograph endpapers; spine ends bumped. In the original mailing portfolio, worn at the edges. 11.5" x 8.5" More about AMERICAN INDIANS: FIRST FAMILIES OF THE SOUTHWEST
Boise: Idaho Chamber of Commerce, 1950. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. 16pp; illus from photographs, map. Describes and pictures the "Gem of the Mountains": its hunting and fishing opportunities, wildlife, lumbering, etc. The front cover shows a mounted Native American in full headdress and regalia. 7.5" x 5.5" More about IDAHO INVITES YOU