Men of Mexico by James A Magner

Title: Men of Mexico

 

Author Name: James A Magner

Hardcover, no DJ. Second edition. Very good condition, name and address on on back of front cover. Moctezuma II, Hernando Cortes, Bartolome De Las Casas, Juan De Zumarraga, Don Vasco De Quiroga, Antonio De Mendoza, Count Revilla Gigedo II, Miguel Hidalgo, Jose Maria Morelos, Agustin De Itrubide, Antonio Lopez De Santa Ana, Benito Juarez, Maximilian, Porfirio Diaz, Venustiano Carranza, Plutarco Elias Calles, and Lazaro Cardenas.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Bruce Publishing: 1943

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 018864

Keywords: MEXICO SOUTHWESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $20.00

Memoirs of Howard Walker and Other Trivia by Howard Walker

Title: Memoirs of Howard Walker and Other Trivia

 

Author Name: Howard Walker

Hardcover. Near fine condition, residue to front endpaper. DJ spine shows lightening from sun. He was a teacher, a county school superintendent, did appraisal work, and had 35 years in real estate all in Lufkin and East Texas.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Self Published: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 019785

Keywords: LUFKIN EAST TEXAS MEMORIES HISTORY, 

Price: $45.00

Maverick Tales of the Southwest by Jack D Rittenhouse

Title: Maverick Tales of the Southwest

 

Author Name: Rittenhouse, Jack D.

Trade Paperback. University of New Mexico Press, 1987. In near fine condition. How the great explorer La Salle died in a Texas canebrake; how filibusers joined with Mexican patriots in an ill-fated Texas revolt long before the Battle of the Alamo, how the Lone Star navy sailed what became the Texas Main, and more!

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., Univ of New Mexico Pr: 1987

ISBN Number: 0826309461

ISBN Number 13: 9780826309464 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016873

Keywords: SOUTHWEST NEW HISTORY UNITED STATES, 

Price: $20.00

Maverick Tales (Texas) by J D Rittenhouse

Title: Maverick Tales (Texas)

 

Author Name: J D Rittenhouse

Hardcover. Winchester Press, 1971, first edition. In very good condition, with a good DJ - shows edgewear and some scuffing. True stories of early Texas.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Winchester Press: 1971

ISBN Number: 0876910525

ISBN Number 13: 9780876910528 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 007444

Keywords: TEXAS, 

Price: $15.00

Marmalade & Whiskey: British Remittance Men in the West by Lee Olson

Title: Marmalade & Whiskey: British Remittance Men in the West

 

Author Name: Olson, Lee

Trade paperback. Fulcrum Publishing, 1993, first edition. In very good condition. Signed and inscribed on half-title page. "Second sons" were banished to lives of seclusion marked by periods of rampant excess and drinking whenever their remittance checks arrived from home. This is their story and how they influenced the west.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Golden, Colorado, U.S.A., Fulcrum Pub: 1993

ISBN Number: 1555911102

ISBN Number 13: 9781555911102 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Inscription: Signed by Author(s) 

Seller ID: 016833

Keywords: WESTERN HISTORY, BRITISH INFLUENCE, OLD WEST, AMERICAN HISTORY, 

Price: $15.00
 

Main Street Merchant: The Story of the J C Penney Company by Norman Beasley

Title: Main Street Merchant The Story of the J C Penney Company

 

Author Name: Norman Beasley

Hardcover. Whittlesey House, 1948, first edition. In very good condition, pages toning, frontispiece has come loose from binding on backside. The story of the J C Penney Company which began in Kemmerer Wyoming in 1902.

 

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Whittlesey House: 1948

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016814

Keywords: WYOMING HISTORY , BUSINESS MERCHANDISING RETAIL SALES, 

Price: $20.00

Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds by Lois Palken Rudnick

Title: Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds

 

Author Name: Rudnick, Lois Palken

Hardcover, very good condition. Chapters include: Background, European Experiences, Movers and Shakers, Art Nature and Mind Cure, Edge of the Taos Desert, Sybil The Phoenix and the Queen Bee, The Other Side of Paradise, Intimate Moments, and Epilogue.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: 1st Edition

Publisher: U.S.A., Univ of New Mexico Pr: 1984

ISBN Number: 0826307639

ISBN Number 13: 9780826307637 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Jacket Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 021636

Keywords: Taos, New Mexico, 

Price: $15.00

Love Untamed: Romances of the Old West by Joann Chartier; Chris Enss

Title: Love Untamed: Romances of the Old West

 

Author Name: Chartier, Joann; Enss, Chris

Trade paperback. Falcon Press, fifth edition, second printing, 2002. In very good condition. From Doc Holliday and "Big Nose" Kate to Frank Butler and Annie Oakley.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Helena, Montana, U.S.A., Falcon Pr Pub Co: 2002

ISBN Number: 0762711426

ISBN Number 13: 9780762711420 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 011194

Keywords: MAN WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS LOVE FRONTIER

Price: $8.00

Louis Felsenthal, Citizen-Soldier of Territorial New Mexico by Jacqueline Meketa; Historical Society of New Mexico

Title: Louis Felsenthal, Citizen-Soldier of Territorial New Mexico

 

Author Name: Meketa, Jacqueline; Historical Society of New Mexico

Trade paperback. University of New Mexico Press, 1982, stated first edition. In very good condition, light edgewear on cover. In 1858, a young Prussian Jew came to Sante Fe. He spent 40 years in the territory, and he was involved in business, politics, law, and soldiering.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press: 1982

ISBN Number: 0826306047

ISBN Number 13: 9780826306043 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016782

Keywords: NEW MEXICO HISTORY UNITED STATES, 

Price: $12.00

Lord Beresford and Lady Flo by Eugene O Porter

Title: Lord Beresford and Lady Flo

 

Author Name: Eugene O Porter

Hardcover, no DJ as issued. Near fine condition. Lord Beresford was Irish and settled in Texas and Medicine Hat. He brought with him Lady Flo, who was Florida J Wolfe, and not a real lady. This is Southwestern Studies Monograph No. 25, and provides info from the newspaper articles at the time of his death and other historical references to the times and trouble they had, some of it related to the fact that Flo was a negress.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: El Paso, TX, University of Texas Press: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 018759

Keywords: TEXAS, MEDICINE HAT, TRAIN WRECK, 

Price: $25.00

Living Pioneers: The Epic of the West By Those Who Lived It by Harold Preece

Title: Living Pioneers The Epic of the West By Those Who Lived It

 

Author Name: Harold Preece

Hardcover. The World Publishing Company, 1952, stated first edition. In near fine condition, some light toning on endpapers. DJ is good, shows some edgewear, now in mylar cover. The pony trails, the Indian raids, the gambling halls of Virginia City have all disappeared, but the stories are still alive!

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016853

Keywords: OLD WEST, PIONEERS, LAWMEN, OUTLAWS, WESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $35.00

Life on the Texas Range by J Evetts Haley

Title: Life on the Texas Range

 

Author Name: J Evetts Haley

Illustrator: Erwin E Smith

Hardcover, in slipcase. University of Texas Press, 1952, first edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated (June 3, 1975) by Haley on the half-title page. In near fine condition, split beginning at top of front hinge. Slipcase had minor bumping to corners and some minor scuffing on bottom edge. Erwin E Smith was the outstanding cowboy photographer of the West. The prints from which the gravure plates in this book have been engraved were made in 1936 by Erwin E Smith for the Texas Centennial celebration and are now a part of the permanent display of Smith's range photography in The Texas Memorial Museum.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: University of Texas Press: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Inscription: Signed by Author(s) 

Seller ID: 016850

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY, WESTERN HISTORY, TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM, 

Price: $350.00

Letters on an Elk Hunt by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Title: Letters on an Elk Hunt

 

Author Name: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt

Trade paperback. University of Nebraska Press, 1980, fourth printing. In very good condition, minor edgewear. Southwestern Wyoming, the fall of 1914, and her letters to old friends and new acquaintances, telling about the land and the beauty she has found in it.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., Univ of Nebraska Pr: 1980

ISBN Number: 0803291124

ISBN Number 13: 9780803291126 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book

Seller ID: 016772

Keywords: WESTERN HISTORY, AMERICAN WYOMING, PIONEERS, 

Price: $15.00

Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors by Stephen Collector

Title: Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors

 

Author Name: Collector, Stephen

Oversized hardcover. In near fine condition, DJ is in mylar. Brand inspectors, range detectives - each man has a close-mouthed story idiosycratic as his name, specific on his face, and yet the sum of fifty biographies reveals a western everyman's tale. From Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Livingston, Montana, U.S.A., Clark City Pr: 1991

ISBN Number: 0944439454

ISBN Number 13: 9780944439456 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 017988

Keywords: WEST U HISTORY BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 

Price: $50.00

Last of the Great Scouts (Buffalo Bill) by Helen Cody Wetmore

Title: Last of the Great Scouts (Buffalo Bill) 

Author Name: Helen Cody Wetmore

 

Hardcover, no DJ, ex-library. Grosset & Dunlap, c. 1918. In good condition, usual library markings, some color removed from back boards with library tag. Foreward by Zane Grey. The story of a legend.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 008905

Price: $10.00

Land of Enchantment by Mrs Hal Russell; Garnet M Brayer

Title: Land of Enchantment

 

Author Name: Mrs Hal Russell; Garnet M Brayer

Illustrator: David T Vernon

Hardcover. Memoirs of Marian Russell along the Santa Fe Trail. Limited to 750 copies, this one is unnumbered.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Branding Iron Press: 1954

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Jacket Condition: No Jacket 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 021853

Price: $40.00

Knight in the Sun Harper B Lee First Yankee Matador by Marshall Hail

Title: Knight in the Sun Harper B Lee First Yankee Matador

 

Author Name: Marshall Hail

Illustrator: Tom Lea

Hardcover, no DJ, ex-library. Little Brown & Co, 1962, first edition. In good condition, usual library markings, interior is clean and bright. Signed: For Mrs. Forrest Gresso, with friendship, appreciation, and all good wishes. Marshall Hail, July 19, 1962.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good 

Type: Book 

Inscription: Signed by Author(s) 

Seller ID: 015952

Keywords: MATADOR, YANKEE, WESTERN HISTORY, HARPER LEE, 

Price: $15.00

Klondike The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers

Title: Klondike The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers

 

Author Name: 

Hardcover, no DJ. Very good condition, cover shows significant wear, book has been professionally repaired - replaced endpapers, new headbands, repaired damage plate, tightened up text block, put back in case. The pages are toning, minor soiling on outside bookpages, now in mylar cover. The illustrations are outstanding. All the facts, figures and knowledge obtainable about the gold-bearing lads in Alaska and the British Yukon district. It suggests the owner may wish to take it with him on his journey, but the book weighs too much to make it over Chilkoot Pass. 555 pages with ads in the back.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Monarch Book Company: 1897

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 018289

Keywords: GOLD MINERS ALASKA CHICAGO AMERICAN HISTORY, 

Price: $200.00

Kit Carson The Happy Warrior of the Old West A Biography by Stanley Vestal

Title: Kit Carson The Happy Warrior of the Old West A Biography

 

Author Name: Stanley Vestal

Hardcover, no DJ, in mylar cover now. In good condition, corner edgewear and scuffing, bottom boards show wear, some cover color removed. Interior is very good. The author states: For nearly thirty years I have felt the need of an authentic portrait of Christopher Carson.

Categories: Americana - The People,

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: 1928

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 017917

Keywords: KIT CARSON OLD WEST MOUNTAIN MAN INDIAN FIGHTER SOLDIER WESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $25.00

Kit Carson: A Portrait in Courage by M Morgan Estergreen

Title: Kit Carson A Portrait in Courage

 

Author Name: M Morgan Estergreen

Hardcover. University of Oklahoma, 1967, second printing. In near fine condition with a very good DJ, price clipped, has some minor edgewear, now in mylar. Signed by author on title page. Born in the wilderness of Iredell County in western North Carolina on December 24, 1809, Kit grew up on the frontier as it moved ever westward. In Missouri, he ran away from the saddlers to whom he had been apprenticed and joined a Santa Fe-bound caravan at Independence. Trader, interpreter, teamster, scout, trapper, guide, express rider, Indian agent, brevet brigadier general, Indian fighter - and more!

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: University of Oklahoma: 1967

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Type: Book 

Inscription: Signed by Author(s) 

Seller ID: 016919

Keywords: OLD WEST, EXPLORER, TRAPPER, KIT CARSON, 

Price: $40.00

Juan of Santo Nino by Charles Ethrige Minton

Title: Juan of Santo Nino

 

Author Name: Minton, Charles Ethrige

Trade paperback. Sunstone Press, 1973, stated first edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. In very good condition, light cover soiling, interior is clean and bright. An authentic account of pioneer life in New Mexico 1863-1864.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Sunstone Press: 1973

ISBN Number: 0913270229

ISBN Number 13: 9780913270226 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Inscription: Signed by Author(s) 

Seller ID: 016835

Keywords: NEW MEXICO, PIONEERS, WESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $25.00

John Colter His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris

Title: John Colter His Years in the Rockies
 
Author Name: Burton Harris

Hardcover. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952, first edition. In near fine condition, with a fair DJ, has chips and pieces missing, is price clipped, and now is in mylar cover. Signed and inscribed on the reverse of the front endpaper. Much of John Colter's life was made into a legend, and Mr. Harris has sifted the facts to rescue the real John Colter and present his story here.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Jacket Condition: Fair

Type: Book

Inscription: Signed by Author(s) 

Seller ID: 016799

Keywords: JOHN COLTER, YELLOWSTONE, COLTER'S HELL, MONTANA, WYOMING, LEWIS & CLARK, WESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $250.00

Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal

Title: Joe Meek The Merry Mountain Man
 
Author Name: Stanley Vestal

Hardcover, no DJ. Caxton Printers, 1952, second edition. In very good condition, corners bumped, bottom boards a bit worn. The story of Joe Meek, mountain man, trapper, Indian fighter, friend to Jim Bridger and Kit Carson.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Caxton Printers: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good 

Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016808

Keywords: MOUNTAIN MAN , TRAPPER INDIAN FIGHTER JIM BRIDGER, KIT CARSON, OLD WEST WESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $45.00

Jesse Chisholm: Ambassador of the Plains by Stan Hoig

Title: Jesse Chisholm: Ambassador of the Plains
 
Author: Hoig, Stan

Hardcover. University Press of Colorado, 1991, first edition. In near fine condition, DJ in mylar. Descended on one side from the wise and courageous Cherokee Chief Corn Tassel and on the other from a flamboyant Scottish rogue of the Old South, Chisholm spent his childhood among the Cherokees in Arkansas Territory.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A., Univ Pr of Colorado: 1991

ISBN: 0870811983

ISBN 13: 9780870811982 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Product Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016896

Keywords: GREAT PLAINS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 

Price: $30.00

Images of the Old West by Dee Brown

Title: Images of the Old West 

Author: Brown, Dee

Illustrator: Kunstler, Mort

Hardcover. In near fine condition. DJ is covered with mylar. Beautiful, realistic paintings interspersed with historical notes by Dee Brown. An exceptionally nice book for an art lover.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Park Lane: 1996

ISBN: 0517200120

ISBN 13: 9780517200124 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Product Type: Book 

Seller ID: 017839

Keywords: WEST U HISTORY PICTORIAL WORKS, 

Price: $30.00

Images and Conversations: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past by Patricia Preciado Martin

Title: Images and Conversations: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past
 
Author: Patricia Preciado Martin

Illustrator: Louis Carlos Bernal

Softcover. Second edition. As new, partial remainder mark on bottom of book pages. Thirteen first-person accounts of southern Arizona residents, capturing a spirit evocative of the Hispanic presence in the Southwest.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., Univ of Arizona Pr: 1996

ISBN: 0816508038

ISBN 13: 9780816508037 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: As New 

Product Type: Book

Seller ID: 018937

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHY MEXICAN AMERICANS WESTERN HISTORY, 

Price: $15.00

I See by My Get-Up by Ron Querry

Title: I See by My Get-Up
 
Author: Querry, Ron

Hardcover. Near fine condition, corners lightly bumped. DJ is very good, light edgewear. Ron Querry lost his job at the University of Oklahoma, so he took up ranching in New Mexico. He also married the beautiful lady rancher next door and learned the 24 hour a day job of dealing with a herd of stubborn cattle as well as assorted horses, dogs, cats, tumbleweeds, rattlesnakes, and neighbors.

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., Univ of New Mexico Pr: 1987

ISBN: 0826309798

ISBN 13: 9780826309792 

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Product Type: Book 

Seller ID: 019784

Keywords: RANCHING NEW MEXICO, 

Price: $20.00
 

I Never Rode Alone by Dr Lindley J Stiles

Title: I Never Rode Alone
 
Author: Dr Lindley J Stiles

Trade paperback. Printline, 1998, second edition. In near fine condition. My Boyhood on New Mexico Cattle Ranch. Life wasn't boring on a cattle ranch!

Categories: Americana - The People, 

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine 

Product Type: Book 

Seller ID: 016829

Keywords: NEW MEXICO, WESTERN HISTORY, RANCHING, COWBOYS, 

Price: $20.00