Category: Western Americana

Art of the Golden West.

By: Axelrod, Alan.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Abbeville Press, [1990].

Seller ID: m2830

Folio, hardcover (cloth), 418 pp. Color plates, illus. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Hippocrates in a Red Vest: The Biography of a Frontier Doctor.

By: Beshoar, Barron B. [Beshoar, Michael].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, California: American West Publishing Company, [1973].

Seller ID: 00537sc

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 352 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes several small chips. Ò...A warm, human biography of a frontier doctor who not only brought his compassion and healing talents to the rugged country of southern Colorado, but who envisioned the land as one of myriad opportunities and numerous challenges. By the time he reached his mid-thirties (circa 1866) Michael Beshoar had participated on both sides in the Civil War as a surgeon, had established a private medical practic...
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Faces of the Frontier.

By: Bjorklund, Lorence F.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1967].

Seller ID: 30436s

Quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), 119 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signiture, in a Good dust jacket with some soiling to covers and shelfwear that includes several chips along top edge. ÒA noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American fronteir West -- the personalities who made it the rough-and-ready, always colorful, sometimes cruel palce it was. Here you meet -- in pencil portraits, background drawings, and through word sketches that capture the essence and flavor of each character -- the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboa...
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The Frontier Years: L. A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains. With 125 Photographs from the Famous L. A. Huffman Originals.

By: Brown, Mark H. and W. R. Felton. [Huffman, L. A.].

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1995).

Seller ID: qms1662

Quarto, black cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 272 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate, in a badly torn dust jacket. From dust jacket: Before the railroad came, in the time just after the last war with the Sioux, L. A. Huffman came to Fort Keogh as post photographer. He set up a studio in Miles City. He went into forbidden reservations among the Indians. He trekked through Montana territory, went on hunting expeditions for the bear, the buffalo, and the buck. He ranched to make ends meet. He explored deep into Yellowstone country, made pictures there of sights no white m...
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The Oil Business as I Saw It: Half a Century with Sinclair.

By: Connelly, W. L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1954). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4124bda

Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), xiv, 177 pp. Photos. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped and rubbed dust jacket.
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Crofutt's Overland Tours. Consisting of Nearly Five Thousand Miles of Main Tours, and Three Thousand miles of Side Tours. Also Two Thousand Miles by Stage and Water.

By: Crofutt, Geoge A.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Chicago: Arthur H. Day & Co., 1888.

Seller ID: m1799

1st edition. Slim octavo, flexible dark green cloth, 254 pp. Large fold-out map, illustrations throughout. Very Good; front hinge tender, otherwise clean and tight.
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Builders of the West: Explorers, Trappers, Miners and Settlers West of the Mississippi.

By: Danford, H. E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Vantage Press, [1959].

Seller ID: m2488

1st edition. Octavo, yellow boards, 142 pp. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its HIstory, Legends, and Lore.

By: Dary, David.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2000). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9834gcs

Octavo, black & brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, uncut, xii + 368 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: From 1610, when the Spanish founded the city of Santa Fe, to the 1860s, when the railroad brought unprecedented changes: here is the full, fascinating story of the great Santa Fe Trail which ran between Missouri and Kansas and New Mexico -- a lifeline to and from the Southwest for more than two centuries. Drawing from letters, journals, expedition reports, business records, and newspaper stories, David Dary -- one of our foremost...
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Jim Marshall's New Pianner and Other Western Stories. (Specially Adapted for Public Reading.) With Illustrations by Dolph Levino and J. Morningstar.

By: Devere, William.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1897.

Seller ID: m1962

1st edition. Octavo, silver-decorated purple cloth, 130 pp. Plates, illus. Near-Fine; minor shelf wear.
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The Santa Fe Trail.

By: Duffus, R. L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930.

Seller ID: 212fd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, illus. endpapers, xi + 283 pp. Near-Fine, with protective mylar wrapper.
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The Custer Tragedy: Events Leading Up To and Following The Little Big Horn Campaign of 1876. Also Including Echoes from the Little Big Horn Fight, A Rare Booklet in Which the Author Revised His Earlier Interpretation of Reno's Positions in the Valley. Introduction by Frank Mercatante. With The Dustin Corrections from The Presonal Copy of the Author.

By: Dustin, Fred.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: El Segundo, CA: Upton & Sons, 1987.

Seller ID: es4235

Quarto, grey cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xxix + 275 pp. Two (of 3) folding maps in rear pocket; otherwise, Near-Fine, with slight foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges.
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Boot Hill: Historic Graves of the Old West.

By: Florin, Lambert.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Seattle, Washington: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. F

Seller ID: 30449s

irst Edition, As Stated. Quarto, blue cloth (hardcover), 192 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with slight edgewear. Illus. History of Pioneer Western cemeteries.
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Makin' Circles with a Rope: The Lore of the Lasso Wizards. Introduction by Sara Dobberteen. Photographs from the Author's Collection.

By: Girard, Marv ÒSlim.Ó

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Francestown, NH: Marshall Jones Company, 1985. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas772

Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, red textured boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 83 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From Introduction: Ever since I headed west and climbed atop Persimmon Hill to join the Cowboy Hall of Fame, I've had an insatiable appetite for trick roping. After watching that choice old film of Will Rogers' , The Ropin' Fool, dozens of times, it still beats me how he could spin those big, lazy loops so effortlessly. I've stared endlessly at photos of legendary ropers like Chester Byers and Junior Eskew and the dashing Mexican charros who compe...
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Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould's History of River Navigation. Containing a History of the Introduction of Steam as a Propelling Power on Ocean, Lakes and Rivers -- The First Steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio Rivers -- Navigation of Western Rivers before the Introduction of Steam -- Character of the Early Navigation -- Description of First Steamboats -- Steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and Sixty Consecutive Boats, When and Where Built -- Their Effect Upon the Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi -- Character and Speed of Boats at Different Periods -- Appropirations by Congress for the Improvement of Western Water Ways -- Floods in the Mississippi Valley for 150 YEars -- Mississippi River Commission and Its Work. Rapid Increace and Decline of River Transportation: Causes of the Decline -- Destruction of Steamboats on Western Waters -- Biographies of Prominent Steamboatmen -- Illustrated by Photographs and Cuts of Steamboats at Different Periods.

By: Gould, E. W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio: Long's College Book Co., 1951.

Seller ID: els2906

Octavo, illus. burgundy cloth (hardcover), gitl letters and decorations to upper cover, 750 pp. Fine; in a Very Good dust jacket, in protective mylar wrapper, with edgewear that includes light chipping.
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Little Big Horn Biographies.

By: Hammer, Kenneth.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association, 1964. Edward S. Luce Memorial Edition.

Seller ID: qms626

Octavo, paperbound (stiff blue stapled wrappers), 55 pp. Marginal notes and tanning to edges.
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Lives on the Mississippi: Literature and Culture along the Great River from the Collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. A Checklist for an exhibition held at the Grolier Club in New York, February 23 - May 1, 2010.

By: Hoover, John Neal; Executive Director, St. Louis Mercantile Library Association.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St. Louis: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, 2010.

Seller ID: 2529qms

Octavo, softbound (slick, stiff, full-color illus. wrappers), 48 pp. With map. Fine (As New).
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Outlaws and Owlhoots in the Old West.

By: Hoyt, Janice; Lundberg, Hazel; Stanwood, Ruthe M.; Stephenson, Gwen.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Denver, CO: Colorado Historical Institute for Children, Colorado Fever Publications, (1988).

Seller ID: 2895els

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, stapled, full-color illus. gold wrappers), 30 pp. Near-Fine.
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Buffalo Bill's Flag of Truce; Or, A Bid for Peace.

By: Ingraham, Colonel Prentiss.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Street & Smith, [1914]. Buffalo Bill Border Stories No. 203.

Seller ID: 28344

Octavo, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 315 pp. Good; head of spine chipped.
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Buffalo Bill, the Whirlwind; Or, On the Heels of Death.

By: Ingraham, Colonel Prentiss.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Street & Smith, [1907]. Buffalo Bill Border Stories No. 196.

Seller ID: 28345

Octavo, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 314 pp. Poor; spine badly chipped.
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Frontier Cavalryman: Lieutenant John Bigelow with the Buffalo Soldiers in Texas.

By: Kinevan, Marcos; Brigadier General, USAF (Ret.), Professor Emeritus of Law, USAF Academy.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Texas Western Press, 1998.

Seller ID: 9984gcs

Octavo, red & gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xvii, 338 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In 177, John Bigelow Jr. and seventy-five other cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after which he chronicled his experiences, observations, opinions, and musings as a young Cavalry lieutenant in Texas. Sixty of the new lieutenants, including Bigelow and seventeen others who were assigned to black regiments called Buffalo Soldiers, soon departed for the frontier where they were scattered over numerous small and often ramshackle posts ...
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Category: Western Americana