Title: Housewife By the Rio Grande
Author: Myrtle White Romero
Illustrator: Chris Lavadie
Trade paperback. In very good condition, a 2" piece of the spine has
come loose (could be reglued). Signed: For Sid and Jackie Mintz with
love Myrtle White Romero on the title page. Also includes a dated
article about the book which has left a dark mark on the pages it was
inserted between. A unique look at life in the southwest by the Rio
Grande, as documented by the author.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Las Trampas: 1971
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Product Type: Book
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 018470
Keywords: RIO GRANDE, SOUTHWESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $25.00
Title: Horse Trails Along the Desert
Author: Sanford C Yoder
Illustrator: Ezra Hershberger
Hardcover. Second printing. Very good condition, light board edgewear,
corners slightly bumped. DJ is poor, price clipped, has chips and tears.
A picture of the west when he was young (1905-08). "The Knights of the
Jingling Spurs" is one story. Cow-punchers and empty desert sands -
empty except for sand, cacti, moonlight, hot wind, a horse and Sanford
Yoder.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Herald Press: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 018766
Keywords: COWBOY RANCHER CATTLE WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $15.00
Title: Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
Author: Kittredge, William
Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1992, stated first edition. In near fine
condition, name and date on front endpapers. The story of a great
pioneer family's decline and fall, and of a childhood dream that turned
into an adulthood of dislocation, the end of a way of life. But it is
also the story of Kittredge's account of coming to terms with this.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1992
ISBN: 0679411666
ISBN 13: 9780679411666
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016765
Keywords: WESTERN HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY,
Price: $25.00
Title: High-Spirited Women of the West
Author: Anne Seagraves
Trade paperback. Near fine condition, bottom right corner bumped. Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Wesanne Publications: 1992
ISBN: 0961908831
ISBN 13: 9780961908836
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 020025
Keywords: WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $12.00
Title: Hardscrabble: A Narrative of the California Hill Country
Author: Kunkler, Anita
Trade paperback. A realistic look back at the old west as it was developing.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: U.S.A., Univ of Nevada Pr: 1993
ISBN: 0874170443
ISBN 13: 9780874170443
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 021854
Price: $15.00
Title: Gold Hunter The Adventures of Marshall Bond
Author: Marshall Bond Jr
Hardcover. University of New Mexico, 1969, stated first edition. In very
good condition, light board edgewear. DJ is very good, some minor
chipping, minor light soiling on front and back panels, has been price
clipped, in mylar cover. Includes a post card, laid in, written by
author (dated 1-5-70) to Rowland Stebbins Jr., thanking "Steb" for.your
kind words.in his review of this book. Marshall Bond (1867-1941) lived
the life that every American dreams of. He followed the path of high
adventure from one frontier world to another.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016902
Keywords: OLD WEST, EXPLORERS, GOLD MINES, WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $75.00
Title: Ghosts and Mysteries of the Old West: True Accounts of New Mexico and the Old West
Author: L'Aloge, Bob
Illustrator: Kwiecinski, David (illustrator)
Trade paperback. Yucca Tree Press, 1991. In very good condition, some
soiling of outside pages, interior clean and bright. Signed: To Pearl,
Happy Trails From the Pale Rider, Bob. True accounts of New Mexico and
the Old West. 104 pages.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A., Barbed Wire Publishing: 1991
ISBN: 0962294055
ISBN 13: 9780962294051
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 006564
Keywords: FOLKLORE UNITED STATES GHOSTS WEST U S HISTORY ANECDOTES STATE LOCAL BODY MIND SPIRIT SUPERNATURAL SOCIAL SCIENCE MYTHOLOGY,
Price: $15.00
Title: Gene Kloss Master Printmaker
Author: Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery
Small softcover, very good condition. An exhibit catalog of 32 pages
showing the artwork of Gene Kloss. She moved to New Mexico with a
60-pound etching press and became a master printmaker.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Sante Fe, NM, U.S.A., Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery: 1999
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 021631
Keywords: Etching, New Mexico, Printmaster,
Price: $25.00
Title: Fur Trade and Empire: George Simpson's Journal
Author: Frederick Merk
Hardcover, no DJ, in mylar cover. Belknap Press, 1968, revised edition.
In near fine condition, minor bumping to corners, small mark on rear end
paper. Remarks connected with the fur trade in the course of a voyage
from York Factory to Fort George and back to York Factory 1824-25, with
related documents. Double-spread map depicts North America, circa
1820s-30s, showing the various adminstrative districts of the Hudson's
Bay Company.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Belknap Press: 1968
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016746
Keywords: HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY FUR TRADE OLD WEST WESTERN HISTORY AMERICAN,
Price: $50.00
Title: Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time
Author: Christine L Krueger
Trade
paperback. As new. Addresses the theme of the Victorians' continuing
legacy and its effect on our culture and perception of the world. For
instance, Jack the Ripper on police procedures, the magazine Victoria,
and film television and theatrical adaptations.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Ohio Univ Pr: 2003
ISBN: 0821414615
ISBN 13: 9780821414613
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: As New
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 020953
Keywords: VICTORIAN CULTURE,
Price: $15.00
Title: Frontier Women
Author: Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith
Hardcover,
no DJ, as issued. Barnes & Noble, 1996, first edition. In near fine
condition, light soiling on rear cover. The Frontier's Earliest Women,
Women on the Overland Trail, Frontier Women in the Rural West, Frontier
Women in the Urban West. Filled with photos.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 1996
ISBN: 0760701024
ISBN 13: 9780760701027
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016760
Keywords: FRONTIER WOMEN OLD WEST WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $20.00
Title: Frontier Historian : The Life & Work of Edward Everett Dale
Author: Arrell M Gibson
Hardcover, ex-library. University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. In very good
condition, usual library markings, a small spill on first few outside
book pages. The life and work of Edward Everett Dale, a native Texan.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Norman, OK, U.S.A., University of Oklahoma Press: 1975
ISBN: 0806113057
ISBN 13: 9780806113050
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 001515
Keywords: HISTORIANS UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY HISTORICAL,
Price: $10.00
Title: From the High Plains
Author: Fischer, John
Illustrator: Paul Laune
Hardcover. Harper & Row, 1978, first edition. In near fine
condition, DJ is price clipped, in mylar cover. An account of the hard
men, high-spirited women - and a few rascals - who settled the last
frontier of the Old West. An informal history of the High Plains of
Texas and Oklahoma.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1978
ISBN: 0060112697
ISBN 13: 9780060112691
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016885
Keywords: GREAT PLAINS HISTORY OKLAHOMA TEXAS,
Price: $20.00
Title: Frederic Remington's Own West
Author: Frederic Remington
Illustrator: Frederic Remington
Hardcover. Small stain on front end papers and rear end papers have a
small amount of foxing (appears to be from glue). Two red letters on
page edges at top by spine. Interior is bright and clean. Lovely photos
of Remington's work and authentic tales of cowboy days.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: The Dial Press: 1960
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 021607
Price: $25.00
Title: Following the Frontier with F Jay Haynes Pioneer Photographer of the Old West
Author: Freeman Tilden
Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1964, stated first edition. In near fine
condition, edges lightly bumped. DJ is fair, has chips and some pieces
missing at edges, now in mylar cover. Signed inscription on the front
endpaper to Dean Krakel, from Angus Cameron (Senior Editor at Knopf),
dated 10/5/64. Haynes literally followed the working frontier - from a
tiny shop in Moorehead, Minnesota to his Palace Studio Car, which pulled
in on many a newly laid railroad spur in the Dakota and Montana
territories. He photographed sodbusters, miners, freighters and bull
teams, and cowboys working cattle on the range.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fair
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016792
Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY, TILDEN, DAKOTA, MONTANA, WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $125.00
Title: Fighting Editors
Author: Jo Ann Schmitt
Hardcover.
Naylor, 1958, first edition. In near fine condition, bottom corner of
page 57/58 was folded over during production so it is untrimmed, with a
very good DJ, has some chips at top and price is written on front flap,
in mylar cover. Fighting pens clash with blazing six-guns and flaming
death as frontier newspaper men establish law and order by focusing the
light of pitiless publicity on the corrupt politician and callous kiler.
Adams - Six Guns #1959.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Naylor: 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016729
Keywords: OLD WEST, WESTERN HISTORY, AMERICAN PUBLISHING,
Price: $40.00
Title: Entrepreneurs of the Old West
Author: Dary, David
Illustrator: Al M Napoletano
Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1986, stated first American edition. In near
fine condition, with a very good DJ, edges slightly chipped, back panel
soiled, in mylar. The silent army of traders, trappers, and wagon
freighters, merchants, cattlemen, railroaders, and goldrushers, town
boosters, land promoters, speculators, and other profit-seeking
individuals who brought capitalism to the nineteenth-century American
west.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1991
ISBN: 0394524055
ISBN 13: 9780394524054
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016881
Keywords: WEST U HISTORY BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
Price: $15.00
Title: Earth Horizon: An Autobiography
Author: Mary Hunter Austin
Softcover,
very good condition. Author of some thirty-five books, Mary Austin
(1868-1934) settled in Sante Fe. About her life and the writers she
met.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: U.S.A., Univ of New Mexico Pr: 1991
ISBN: 0826313167
ISBN 13: 9780826313164
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 021637
Keywords: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Writer, Writing,
Price: $10.00
Title: Don't Fence Them In Memoirs of Montana
Author: Edmund Randolph
Hardcover. William Heinemann, Ltd, first British edition. In very good
condition, edges lightly bumped and pages toning. DJ is poor, has chips,
tears, and a piece missing at the top of the front panel and spine, now
in mylar cover. Originally published in the USA by W W Norton under the
title "Hell Among the Yearlings", mentioned in Adams - Rampaging Hers,
#1861. He was destined for Princeton and a life of high finance, but a
sudden urge took him to a remote part of Montana as a "dude" rancher.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 016818
Keywords: MONTANA, OLD WEST , WESTERN HISTORY, RANDOLPH FAMILY,
Price: $50.00
Title: Disappearing Man
Author: Doug Peterson
Trade paperback. A fictional account based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Kingstone: 2011
ISBN: 1936164337
ISBN 13: 9781936164332
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 022162
Price: $25.00
Title: Dictionary of the American West: Over 5,000 Terms and Expressions from Aarigaa! to Zopilote
Author: Blevins, Winfred;Blevins, Win
Trade
paperback. Near fine condition. Over 5,000 terms and expressions form
Aarigaa to Zopilote. Words brought into English by cowboys, fur
trappers, emigrants, Native peoples, Hispanics, Mormons, miners,
loggers, Russian hide hunters, migrant workers, Alaskan fishermen, and
others.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., Sasquatch Books: 2001
ISBN: 1570613044
ISBN 13: 9781570613043
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Product Type: Book
Seller ID: 019631
Keywords: DICTIONARY WESTERN WEST,
Price: $20.00
Title: Diary : Wyoming Eighteen Eighty-Five to Eighty-Nine (Vol. 6)
Author: Hunton, John
Hardcover, no DJ, covered in mylar. Arthur H. Clarke, 1970. In near fine
condition, light spotting on bottom of front boards. The sixth and
final volume of John Hunton's Diaries.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1970
ISBN: 0870620029
ISBN 13: 9780870620027
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Seller ID: 016803
Keywords: WYOMING, CHEYENNE CLUB, CLAMITY JANE, ESTHER HOBART MORRIS, BIG NOSE GEORGE PARROT, WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $35.00
Title: Destiny Road The Gila Trail and the Opening of the Southwest
Author: Odie B Faulk
Hardcover.
Oxford Univeristy, 1973, first edition. In near fine condition, minor
bottom board wear. DJ is very good, spine is sunlightened, now in mylar
cover. The story of the trail that first opened this land to settlement,
and of the men who built it, followed it, and fought over it.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1973
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Seller ID: 016837
Keywords: GILA TRAIL, PIONEERS, INDIANS, MOUNTAIN MEN, FUR TRADERS, OLD WEST, WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $25.00
Title: Desert Wife
Author: Wetherill, Hilda Faunce
Trade paperback. Near fine condition. Third printing. She was the wife
of an Indian trader in the desert wilderness of the Navajos before World
War I.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., Bison Books, 1981
ISBN: 080326853X
ISBN 13: 9780803268531
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Seller ID: 019817
Keywords: WESTERN HISTORY AMERICANA NAVAJO ARIZONA,
Price: $12.00
Title: DeGrazia the Irreverent Angel
Author: William Reed
Hardcover. The white cover shows dirt and has some small tears.
Filled with photos of DeGrazia's artwork. His work is commonly seen in
the southwest and has its own grace and charm.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Frontier Publication, 1971
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Seller ID: 021866
Price: $40.00
Title: Dassonville: William E. Dassonville, California Photographer (1879-1957)
Author: Hertzmann, Paul; Herzig, Susan
Oversized hardcover. As new. 60 illustrations, including 47 color and
duotone plates. Essay by Peter Palmquist. Not only was he a photographer
and self-taught chemist, he developed and marketed his own line of
photographic paper: Charcoal Black. Even Ansel Adams used it.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Nevada City, California, U.S.A., Carl Mautz Pub, 1999
ISBN: 1887694161
ISBN 13: 9781887694162
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Seller ID: 019503
Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHERS BIOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY ARTISTIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
Price: $50.00
Title: Crooked Trails
Author: Frederic Remington
Hardcover. Bonanza Books, 1975, "a" letter, a facsimile of the 1898
edition. In near fine condition, minor bumping to corners. DJ is very
good and in mylar. "He Knew the Horse" is the simple epitaph the man
chose for himself, as plain as the word REMINGTON on his gravestone.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Bonaza Books, 1975
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Seller ID: 016888
Price: $15.00
Title: Cowpokes, Nesters, & So Forth
Author: Judge Orland L Sims
Hardcover.
Very good with minor foxing on outside page edges and endpapers. DJ is
good, has edgewear and two small holes and a thumb print on back cover. A
virtual history of West Texas from the close of the frontier to the
present.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Encino Press, 1970
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Seller ID: 020964
Keywords: WEST TEXAS HISTORY,
Price: $50.00
Title: Cowboys Talk Right Purty
Author: Potter, Edgar R.; Potter, Edgar
Trade paperback. In near fine condition. Colorful cowboy sayings,
stories and poetry told by a hundred-year-old cowboy. "Ma'am, I think
youre as purty as a little red heifter in a flower bed!"
Categories: Americana - The People,
Publisher: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., Golden West Pub, 1995
ISBN: 1885590008
ISBN 13: 9781885590008
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Seller ID: 017849
Keywords: COWBOYS ENGLISH LANGUAGE SLANG AMERICANISMS,
Price: $15.00
Title: Cowboys of the Wild West
Author: Russell Freedman
Softcover. In very good condition, some cover wear. Interior is clean
and bright. Full of photos from the days of the Old West. Text is
written for young adults. Go cattle punching with the crew.
Categories: Americana - The People,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Scholastic, 1993
ISBN: 0590475657
ISBN 13: 9780590475655
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Seller ID: 017833
Keywords: COWBOYS CATTLE COWPUNCHERS WESTERN HISTORY,
Price: $10.00
