American West

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Oregon Territory / Abernethy, George

MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF OREGON TERRITORY, RELATIVE TO THEIR PRESENT SITUATION AND WANTS. August 10, 1848.; 30th Congress, 1st Session. Ho. of Reps. Miscellaneous, No. 98.

Washington DC: Tippin & Streeper, printers, 1848. First Edition. Softcover. 26pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.5" Abernethy, the Governor of Oregon Territory, and others write here from Oregon City, describing fatal encounters with the local Indians, including the recent massacre..... More

Price: $150.00

Oregon Territory / Missouri

PETITION OF A NUMBER OF THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, PRAYING A DONATION OF LAND TO SETTLERS IN THE OREGON TERRITORY. January 6, 1840.; 26th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, 40. Referred to the Select Committee on the Oregon Territory, and ordered to be printed.

(Washington): Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. 4pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.75" Signed by some 150 residents of the State of Missouri, stating: "That many of us entertain a desire to emigrate to the Territory of Oregon, provided the obstacles which now..... More

Price: $150.00

Oregon, Portland & Seattle, Washington

GRAY LINE GUIDE AND SOUVENIR, 1946

Victoria, BC: Gray Line, 1946. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 96pp; illustrated throughout from photographic views, pictorial ads featuring local hotels, restaurants and other businesses in Portland and Seattle. Contains a driving guide, with historical milestones. Color ad for the Streamliner Kalakala, Seattle to Victoria, on back cover. 8" x...... More

Price: $25.00

Park, Edwards Amasa

THE UTILITY OF COLLEGIATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS: An Address in behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West.; Delivered in Tremont Temple, Boston, May 29, 1850. Reprinted from the Bibliotheca Sacra for October, 1850.

Andover [MA]: Warren F. Draper, 1850. First Separate Edition. Softcover. pp: 26, (2). Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" Park asserts that more colleges and professional schools "are needed, especially in our Western States, to resist the encroachments of foreigners upon..... More

Price: $50.00

Peet, Stephen D.

THE HISTORY OF EXPLORATIONS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

Worcester, MA: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1896. First book edition. Original Wraps. 35pp; 3 full-page maps, 2 text maps. First published in the AAS Proceedings, April 1896. 10.25" x 6.25" More

Price: $40.00

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. Tiny gift inscription on pastedown, dated 1937; top of rear joint neatly mended; otherwise a clean, bright copy. 9.5" x 8.25" Printed at The Torch Press. [Howes, USiana P263 (aa). Decker 46:178.]..... More

Price: $65.00

Pierce, Franklin & Jefferson Davis

INDIAN HOSTILITIES. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, transmitting A letter from the Secretary of War on the subject of Indian Hostilities.; 33d Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 36. January 18, 1855--Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.

Washington DC: (GPO), 1855. First Edition. Removed. 7pp, drop-title, edges uncut; removed from nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 9.5" x 6" Includes a 2-1/2-page printed letter, reporting military reconnaissance on locations and facilities of various tribes in Wyoming, signed by Lt. Col. W. Hoffman, commanding Fort Laramie... More

Price: $75.00

Pitezel, John H.

LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MISSIONARY LIFE: Containing Travels, Sketches, Incidents, and Missionary Efforts, during Nine Years Spent in the Region of Lake Superior.

Cincinnati: Printed at the Western Book Concern, 1857. First Edition. Cloth. 431pp; 4 plates of views. Some scattered foxing, affecting one plate. Rebound in grained, brown cloth; decorative cloth from the original spine and sides, mounted. Bookbinder's gilt label on rear pastedown. 8" x 5" [Howes, U,S.IANA P390.]... More

Price: $120.00

Plehn, Carl Copping

THE SAN FRANCISCO CLEARING HOUSE CERTIFICATES OF 1907-1908.; Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. I, No. I.

Berkeley: Univ of California, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. 14pp; frontispiece showing Old Issue and New Issue certificates. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6" More

Price: $15.00

Powell, Lawrence Clark

A SOUTHWESTERN CENTURY: A Bibliography of One Hundred Books of Non Fiction about the Southwest, chosen and annotated by Lawrence Clark Powell. Illustrations by Tom Lea.

Van Nuys, California: J.E. Reynolds, Bookseller, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xi, 29, colophon; title-page vignette and four full-page drawings by Tom Lea, tailpiece. Bound in purple cloth and tan boards, gilt lettering on spine, price-clipped dust wrapper with a large Tom Lea illustration on the front. 10" x 6.5"..... More

Price: $85.00

Priest, Josiah

AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE WEST:; Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partially Civilized Nations Differing Entirely From Those Of The Present Indians, Peopled America, Many Centuries Before Its Discovery By Columbus. And Inquiries Into Their Origin, With A Copious Description of many of their stupendous Works, now in ruins. With Conjectures Concerning What may Have Become Of Them. Compiled From Travels, Authentic Sources, And The Researches Of Antiquarian Societies. Third Edition, Revised.

Albany: Printed by Hoffman and White, 1833. Third Edition, Revised. Full Leather. 400pp; folding frontispiece and folding map of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Old sheep, expertly rebacked with gilt spine rules and the original red leather label; endbands rolled in period style. 8.5" x 5.25" [Howes, USiana P589. Sabin..... More

Price: $175.00

Reese, William S.

SIX SCORE: The 120 Best Books on the Range Cattle Industry.

New Haven: William Reese Co., 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, author and title indices. Bound in black and brown boards, gilt lettering on spine, black endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper. 10.25" x 7.25" Includes a preface by Bill Reese, and 120 well-annotated entries. More

Price: $30.00

Robertson, Jim

TEXAS JIM ROBERTSON'S COLLECTION OF FAVORITE RECORDED SONGS.; Edited, compiled and arranged by Shelby Darnell.

NY: Bob Miller, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. 34 pages; full-page photo-portrait of Texas Jim. Contains his one-page autobiography as well as words and music to 14 songs, including: Birmingham Woman; Miz O'Reilly's Daughter; Texas Song; When the U.S. Band Plays Dixie in Berlin; and ten more. In the original pictorial..... More

Price: $20.00

Santa Fe Railroad

THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE AND PANHANDLE & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANIES: Local Time Tables, Effective January 14, 1940.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1940. Original edition. Printed self-wraps. 61pp; centerfold map. Original, single fold to pocket size, opens to 9" x 8". First leaf worn along fold. More

Price: $15.00

Santa Fe Railroad

BY THE WAY:; Reprinted January 1935.

Chicago: Santa Fe Railroad Lines, 1935. Second Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 78pp; ten pages of illustrations from photographs, maps. Comprises a place-name history of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico with information on the towns and villages along the Santa Fe Railway Line. Spine roughened. 9" x 8" [Not seen in..... More

Price: $45.00

Schoenberg, Wilfred P., S.J.

JESUIT MISSION PRESSES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: A History and Bibliography of Imprints, 1876-1899.

Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press, 1957. Hardcover. 76pp w/index; tipped frontispiece portrait of Father Joseph Giorda, S.J., rubricated title-page and chapter titles, one plate from a photograph, several other illustrations. Bound in pictorial red cloth, gilt spine title. 10" x 6.5" One of only 804 copies, designed and printed by Lawton..... More

Price: $75.00

Shackleford, William Yancey

BUFFALO BILL CODY: SCOUT AND SHOWMAN

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, (1944). First Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 24pp. Inside the cover is the printed bookplate of William J. Rush, with a verse threatening the gallows for anyone who steals this book. Yellow wrappers, cover title in black. 8.5" x 5.25" [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1981.]... More

Price: $25.00

Shaw, James C.

NORTH FROM TEXAS: Incidents in the Early Life of A Range Cowman in Texas, Dakota and Wyoming, 1852-1883.; Edited by Herbert O. Brayer. Illustrated by David T. Vernon.

Evanston, Illinois: Branding Iron Press, 1952. Limited Edition. Cloth-backed boards. pp: xiii, 109 with index, colophon; two portraits from photographs, map, vignettes. Bound in red cloth and tan boards, endpapers illustrated from brands. 9.25" x 6". This is #411 of 750 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed to George M. Johnson, signed..... More

Price: $110.00

Shebl, James M.

KING, OF THE MOUNTAINS.; Original drawings by L.F. Bjorklund. Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, Monograph Number 5.

Stockton, CA: Univ of Pacific, (1974). First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: (iv), 76; frontispiece portrait, 2 full-page illustrations, 2 maps. Bound in blue cloth, gilt cover and spine lettering. 8.75" x 5.5" Clarence King (1842-1901) served as first Director of the USGS and is best known for his exploration of..... More

Price: $25.00

Sherwin, Sterling

SINGIN' IN THE SADDLE:; A New Collection of Original and Standard Cowboy Songs.

Boston: Boston Music, 1944. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 59pp; illus from photos of rodeos, etc. Contains lyrics, music and guitar charts to 21 cowboy songs, most written by Sterling Sherwin. 11.75" x 8.75" More

Price: $25.00

Silber, Irwin, compiler and editor

SONGS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST:; Music Annotated, Edited and Arranged by Earl Robinson.

NY: Macmillan, 1967. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xvi, 334, bibliography, discography, subject index, and title/first line index. Illustrations are from Remington, Russell, et al. The editor of "Sing Out!" collaborates here with American composer Earl Robinson to present words and music to more than 100 songs sung by 49ers..... More

Price: $15.00

Smith, Charles W.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA: A Check List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the History of the Pacific Northwest. Edition 3, Revised and Extended by Isabel Mayhew.

Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort for Oregon Historical Society, 1950. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. pp: (viii), 381; interleaved throughout with blank leaves for notes, not used. Bound in red cloth over heavy boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover; spine faded. 10.25" x 6.75" Contains 11,298 entries: Idaho, Montana..... More

Price: $50.00

Smith, Jerry

JERRY SMITH'S FOLIO OF ORIGINAL HOME & RANGE SONGS, No. 1: 20 New Favorites introduced by "The Yodeling Cowboy"

Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. (50)pp, Contains words and music to 20 cowboy songs that Smith performed, including: We're Beddin' Down on A New Range Tonight; Ramblin' Rose of the Rio Grande; Git Along, Ole Mule; Cowboy Rangerette; Gamblin' Cowboy Jim; and 15 more. Inside the cover..... More

Price: $25.00

Smith, Jerry

JERRY SMITH'S FOLIO OF ORIGINAL HOME & RANGE SONGS, No. 2

Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1941. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 50pp. Contains 21 songs performed by Jerry Smith. Titles include: Ridin' to the Rhythm of the Saddle; Margy Anne; The Cowboy's Warning; Bunkhouse Blues; Trail Dust; and 16 more. Six illustrations from photographs. 12.25" x 9"... More

Price: $15.00

Souhern Pacific Railroad

TIME TABLES: Four Scenic Routes...; directly serving California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas.

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Lines, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. 55pp; map, two drawings. 9" x 8" The text gives information on dining cars and detailed time tables for all trains in the system, along with ads for the Golden Gate Exposition, bus tours, cruise lines, etc. Includes a map of..... More

Price: $15.00

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