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 about PROSPECTUS OF THE FORWARD MINING DEVELOPMENT CO...GOLDFIELD AND BULLFROG, NEVADA

Rawhide, Nevada: N.E. Johnson, 1908 [1970s]. Softcover. pp: (1) text, (41) views from photographs with captions, (1) portrait of Ned E. Johnson (photographer), folding panorama bound in at back. The one-page text, "Rawhide," is by F.W. Clark, Pacific Coast Agent. Bound in pictorial green wrappers. Private bookplate inside cover, otherwise... More about SOUVENIR VIEWS OF RAWHIDE, NEVADA

Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 6pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Provides for a $2400 appropriation to pay for improvements made by certain settlers on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in the Territory of New Mexico. Self-wrappers. 9" x 5.75" More about JICARILLA APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION. Message from the President of the United States,...

[David Ramsay], [1793]. First Edition. Folded as issued, with scattered foxing, opens to 7.5" x 9" + margins. Removed some time ago, probably from Neele's New Gazetteer, or Modern Geographical Index. At the foot of the page is printed, Geographical Index, with the figure 6 in the top corner. Identifies... More about AN ACCURATE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA WITH THE LATEST DISCOVERIES

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

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 about OKLAHOMA IMPRINTS, 1835-1890

Ryan, Oklahoma: 1909. Original document. Folio, printed form, accomplished by hand. Awards to John M. Stephens a land grant in the town of Ryan, Oklahoma, formerly Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, lot 16 in block 61, for a $30 deposit made 7 March 1902. Signed by: Green McCurtain, Principal Chief of... More about LAND GRANT, SIGNED BY THE CHIEF OF THE CHOCTAWS, THE GOVERNOR OF THE CHICKASAWS, AND THE...

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 about TO OPEN FOR SETTLEMENT CERTAIN LAND IN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. April 3, 1906...Mr. Stephens,...

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co., 1900. First Edition. Broadsheet, folded as issued, opens to 21" x 28". Map printed in terracotta and green. Verso is filled with text, beginning: "How to Reach Western Oregon -- Take any route to New Orleans, El Paso or Ogden, and thence the Southern Pacific... More about MAP OF OREGON: With condensed information about its Resources, Industries, Commerce, Products,...

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., (1910). 1910 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. pp: 27, (3) ads. Full-color map opens to 20" x 28". Folds into tan card covers, printed in black. 6.5" x 4" [OCLC locates two holdings of a 1913 edition of this map, not this 1910 edition. See Smith, Pacific Northwest Americana 8490.]. More about RAND-McNALLY & CO.'S INDEXED COUNTY AND RAILROAD POCKET AND SHIPPER'S GUIDE OF OREGON: ...

Eugene, Oregon: Univ of Oregon Books, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. 305pp with index; 16pp illustrations on pale-green stock. Bound in green and black pictorial cloth, illustrated orange endpapers, pictorial dust wrapper. 10.25" x 6.75" Contains 1,458 entries, some fully annotated. Dedicated to the memory of Douglas C. McMurtrie. More about OREGON IMPRINTS, 1845-1870

Washington: USGPO, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. 76pp, index; frontispiece, 16pp illus from photographs. Bound in pictorial wrappers. 10.25" x 7.5" Contains 341 annotated entries on books, mss., maps, photographs and prints relating to Oregon Territory. More about CENTENNIAL OF THE OREGON TERRITORY: Exhibition...1948...1949

(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 about PETITION OF A NUMBER OF CITIZENS OF INDIANA, PRAYING THE OCCUPATION AND SETTLEMENT OF THE OREGON...