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[Morris, Edmund]

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

Price: $180.00

(Muirhead, James Fullarton)

THE UNITED STATES, WITH AN EXCURSION INTO MEXICO: Handbook for Travellers.; Edited by Karl Baedeker. With 19 Maps and 24 Plans.

Leipsic / NY: Baedeker / Scribner's, 1899. Second Revised Edition. Original Cloth. pp: c, 579 with index; complete with 19 maps in color (some folded) and 24 plans (some folded). Red cloth, gilt lettering. Prior owner's name and 1902 date on front endpaper. Spine expertly mended with original backstrip laid..... More

Price: $175.00

Nevada

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

Price: $50.00

Nevada / Armstrong, Robert D.

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

Price: $75.00

New Mexico / Arthur, Chester A. and H. Price

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

Price: $25.00

O'Kane, Walter Collins

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

Price: $40.00

O'Meara, James

THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF 1856:; By A Pioneer California Journalist.

San Francisco: James H. Barry, 1887. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 57pp. Printed salmon wrappers; small abrasion at foot of spine. 7.25" x 5" First Edition, with title-page date of 1887 and cover date of 1890. Howes, US-iana II: O87. The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a popular ad hoc..... More

Price: $85.00

Oklahoma / Hargrett, Lester

OKLAHOMA IMPRINTS, 1835-1890.

New York: R.R. Bowker for the Bibliographical Society of America, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xvii, 267 with index. Bound in brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. 9.25" x 6" Catalogues 797 titles, of which "no copies of 102 have been found despite a wide search for them." More

Price: $30.00

Oklahoma / Hargrett, Lester, compiler

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

Price: $35.00

Oklahoma Territory

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

Price: $50.00

Oklahoma Territory

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

Price: $15.00

Oklahoma, Oakwood

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF STUDENTS AND THEIR MALE TEACHER, OUTSIDE A ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE WITH BELFRY

1908. Black-and-white image, 5" x 8", on a gray photo-mount. Shown are 22 boys and girls in mostly homemade clothes. Off to the side is a large man wearing a double-breasted suit. Two of the boys hold small slates on which is written: "Pleasant Valley, Dist. no 30. J.C. Barney..... More

Price: $100.00

Oregon

OREGON: The Land of Opportunity.

Portland: Chamber of Commerce, 1911. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. pp: 32 + vii full-page colored views and map on heavy stock. 10.75" x 8.5" Here is a memento of the days when Oregon was courting settlers--"the homeseeker, the manufacturer, or the investor"--describing Oregon as "the last West." Illustrated throughout..... More

Price: $50.00

Oregon Territory

MEMORIAL OF THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, RESIDING IN THE TERRITORY OF OREGON, PRAYING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DISTRICT TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, TO EMBRACE OREGON AND ITS ADJACENT SEA COASTS, &c. December 2, 1845.; 29th Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 3, Ho. of Reps. Read, and laid upon the table.

(Washington): Ritchie & Heiss, printers, 1845. First Edition. Removed. 5pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume; faint trace of foxing. 8.75" x 5.5" Requests that the lands of the Willamette Valley be surveyed, and that a channel of water egress be established from the interior of the country to..... More

Price: $160.00

Oregon Territory

PETITION OF A NUMBER OF CITIZENS OF INDIANA, PRAYING THE OCCUPATION AND SETTLEMENT OF THE OREGON TERRITORY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ROAD THERETO; AND REMONSTRATING AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROPOSED SHIP-CANAL ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN. March 4, 1846.; 26th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, 244. Referred to the Select Committee on the Oregon Territory, and ordered to be printed.

(Washington): Blair & Rives, Printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. 3pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.5" The extended title says it all. Signed in type by 44 male residents of Indiana, meaning to attract settlers to the Oregon Territory and to ease the journey. [Eberstadt 138:581.]..... More

Price: $75.00

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

Parkinson, Edward S.

WONDERLAND; OR, TWELVE WEEKS IN AND OUT OF THE UNITED STATES,; Brief account of a trip across the continent--Short run into Mexico--Ride to the Yosemite Valley--Steamer Voyage to Alaska, the land of glaciers--Visit to the great Shoshone Falls and a stage ride through the Yellowstone National Park.

Trenton, N.J. MacCrellish & Quigley, 1894. First Edition. Original Cloth. 259pp; 24 illustrations, some full-page, some vignettes. The frontispiece is from a photograph of the 11 male and female travelers at Muir Glacier. Red cloth, gilt lettering, patterned endpapers. 7.5" x 5.25" "Edward S. Parkinson was a New Jersey newspaperman..... More

Price: $200.00

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

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