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WAH'KON-TAH: The Osage and the White Man's Road by Mathews, John Joseph - 1932

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WAH'KON-TAH: The Osage and the White Man's Road by Mathews, John Joseph - 1932

WAH'KON-TAH: The Osage and the White Man's Road

by Mathews, John Joseph

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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1932. Book. Illus. by May Todd Aaron. VG. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. Book is bound in orange cloth-covered boards. Cover has slight edgewear. Clean and tight interior. 359pp., endpaper map, folding map. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to previous owner and dated March 1933. The DJ has minor edge chipping and 2 small tears on the back top edge - now protected in Brodart jacket cover. The history of a proud, noble people, physically and spiritually self-sufficient. Central point of this account is the Osage Agency at Pawhuska, Oklahoma. A rare copy with inscription and DJ..
  • Bookseller K. L. Givens Books US (US)
  • Illustrator May Todd Aaron
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  • Publisher University of Oklahoma
  • Place of Publication Norman, OK
  • Date Published 1932
  • Keywords WESTERN AMERICANA; OKLAHOMA; INDIANS

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Will James the Gilt Edged Cowboy ( Westernlore Great West & Indian Series )

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Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife

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Topeka, KS: Geo. W. Crane & Co. Publishers, 1886. Book. VG. Hardcover. First Edition. The book is a 3/4 leather hard back with gilt title on spine. The book has been rebound with new leather spine and new leather corners while maintaining the original marbled boards. The interior of the book is clean and tight. The title page has been laminated to retain its integrety. 412-page history of Topeka by the first treasurer, first postmaster and first banker of Topeka. In a pocket at the back of the book are bound clippings on additional events in the history of Topeka. One clipping relates Zebulon Pike's first excursion into what is now Kansas in July 1806. Another clipping relates Cyrus K. Holliday's arrival in 1854 to begin to build up the town and bring the railroad to the area - The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. HOWES reports that only 100 copies of this first edition were printed..
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MONROVIA, " THE GEM OF THE FOOTHILLS" CALIFORNIA

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Buffalo Days: Forty Years in the Old West.

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Wheeler, Homer W. Buffalo Days, Forty Years in the Old West: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter and Army Officer, by Wheeler Homer, with introduction by Major General James G. Harbord. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. 1925. Second edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated. frontis, photos, 369 pp. Book and jacket are very good. Minor chipping at top of jacket spine. Howes W322, Rader 3627, Six Guns 2375, Herd 2499. Wheeler served also as a post trader and Indian agent and was in command of Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. Excellent on Indians and Indian government scouts. A chapter on Wild Bill Hickok and one entitled "Western Badmen."
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Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife

Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife

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Thirty Years in Topeka a Historical Sketch
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Topeka, KS: Geo. W. Crane & Co. Publishers, 1886. Book. VG. Hardcover. First Edition. The book is a 3/4 leather hard back with gilt title on spine. The book has been rebound with new leather spine and new leather corners while maintaining the original marbled boards. The interior of the book is clean and tight. The title page has been laminated to retain its integrety. 412-page history of Topeka by the first treasurer, first postmaster and first banker of Topeka. In a pocket at the back of the book are bound clippings on additional events in the history of Topeka. One clipping relates Zebulon Pike's first excursion into what is now Kansas in July 1806. Another clipping relates Cyrus K. Holliday's arrival in 1854 to begin to build up the town and bring the railroad to the area - The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. HOWES reports that only 100 copies of this first edition were printed..
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MONROVIA, " THE GEM OF THE FOOTHILLS" CALIFORNIA

MONROVIA, " THE GEM OF THE FOOTHILLS" CALIFORNIA

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Monrovia, CA: Press of the Monrovia News. Near Fine. 1915. First Edition. Soft Cover. Clean tan soft pictorial cover with a closing flap for mailing. Ca: 1915. Illustrated with sepia photographs. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Of all the lovely suburbs of Los Angeles, none offers such alluring attractions as Monrovia. West, Southern California, Monrovia, Los Angeles; Sepia Photographs; 8vo; 34 pages .
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Wheeler, Homer W. Buffalo Days, Forty Years in the Old West: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter and Army Officer, by Wheeler Homer, with introduction by Major General James G. Harbord. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. 1925. Second edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated. frontis, photos, 369 pp. Book and jacket are very good. Minor chipping at top of jacket spine. Howes W322, Rader 3627, Six Guns 2375, Herd 2499. Wheeler served also as a post trader and Indian agent and was in command of Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. Excellent on Indians and Indian government scouts. A chapter on Wild Bill Hickok and one entitled "Western Badmen."
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Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and The White Man's Road

by Mathews, John Joseph

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. Aaron, May Todd. Large, sturdy book, orange cloth, a Native American design in black at top front and spine top, a labeled map of the "Osage Agency inside covers and adjacent end papers, 359 pages. some illustrations.DJ light brown background, yellow stripes and dark brown design with black Native American designs to front, DJ worn and torn at most edges and tips. Fair DJ/Fine book.
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Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road. Illustrated by May Todd aaron

by Mathews, John Joseph

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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Plates, pictorial endpapers. Former owner's ink signature, edges lightly foxed. A very good copy in very good d.j. Jacket has some light fading, a little foxing, and a few small chips.
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Wah'Kon-Tah

by MATHEWS, John Joseph

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Norman, OK: University of Nebraska Press, 1932. 359pp/illus and fold-out map. The first book by this Osage writer, a history of his tribe and an account of life on the reservation during the tenure of its first federal Indian agent, Major Laban J. Miles, whose journal entry recounting his coming to the Osage reservation provides the book's introduction. An early book in Oklahoma's "Civilization of the American Indian" series. Black mark across lower spine.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Wah'Kon-Tah; the Osage and the White Man's Road

by Mathews, John Joseph

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Norman: University of Olkahoma press, 1932. First edition. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. A Fine Copy In Near Fine Dust Jacket. Authors 1st book 5 p. l., 13-359, [1] p. incl. front, ., plates. : fold. map.; 24 cm. [The Civilization of the American Indian series]. Includes: Maps, Plates. John Joseph Mathews, a member of the Osage Indian tribe, born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, the Mathews home adjoining the Osage Agency tells the history of a proud, noble people, physically and spiritually self-sufficient; a homogenious race living in simplicity of understanding with one another and in a heroic culture. It is the story of how these people were driven from their ancestral empire, herded into a restricted reservation and brought into contact, almost within a generation, with the machine-dominated culture of the Americans.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River

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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife

Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife

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Defending Eden. New Mexican Pioneers in the San Bernardino Valley.
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THE HELMET OF MAMBRINO
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Thus. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Near Fine. (xx), 1, 21, 1 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Gilt spine-titling. 5 1/4" x 8". Slipcase. Limited to 350 copies printed by The University of California Press. Per the Introduction, "'The Helmet of Mambrino' well supports the claim of (Clarence) King's friends that his casual conversation often equalled the best literature of his day, for this letter to a friend was undoubtedly produced spontaneously without thought of publication." A beautifully produced small book. Neat pictorial bookplate at front pastedown; small bookseller's stamp removal scar to rear pastedown, but a Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus (slight abrasions at opening ends) slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.
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In the Big Horn Mountains: Deer Haven Lodge Tensleep, Wyoming on Highway No. 16
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THE GATHERING OF ZION. THE STORY OF THE MORMON TRAIL
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THE GATHERING OF ZION. THE STORY OF THE MORMON TRAIL

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New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
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Philo White's Narrative Of A Cruize In The Pacific To South America And California On The U.S....

Philo White's Narrative Of A Cruize In The Pacific To South America And California On The U.S. Sloop-Of-War Dale 1841-1843; Edited by Charles L. Camp

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Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.
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Legislative History: Arizona, 1864-1912
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Legislative History: Arizona, 1864-1912

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Phoenix: Manufacturing Stationers Inc., 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition; possibly rebound, as the date is stamped on the spine but not recently; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; vg (spine ends bumped and rubbed; top corner of front board bumped; edges and pages toning); ten fine folding maps, 399pp incl. index.
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