Western Americana from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

(Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2001-2005): Stackpole. First Editions. Thick Octavo. In five volumes, illustrated. Extensive bibliography and index. The author has assembled a wide variety of first- person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere, relying primarily on unpublished manuscript accounts, special military reports, and contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles. Each account it meticulously documented to enhance its historical… Read more

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Octavo. 462p. index. bibliography. It was rugged frontiersmen like Al Sieber that were essential to winning of the Army's battles in the West. As Thrapp repeatedly shows when Sieber was not present, Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles were in losing battles. Of course it was Crook that recognized how valuable… Read more

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1942. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies signed by Author, the present copy is number 155. 213pp., illustrated. Facsimile reproduction of the First Directory in envelope in front, large folding map at rear and examples of the news papers bound in. A near fine copy bound in 1/4 white cloth over… Read more

Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. First Edition. Quarto. xxv, 206 pages, maps, illustrations, portraits. Bibliographic references, p. 197-201. One of the half dozen best of the travel diaries of the California gold rush, rising above the merely routine and often momentous accounts. Here he was able to capture the anticipation, the drama, and the terror. The work… Read more

Virginia City, Montana: Madison County Historical Association, 1976. Thick Heavy Quarto. xii, 1029 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. Plus, laid in is a (4)p. insert of two families the printer failed to include (Jacob Albright, Edward and Amelia Trout). The Bicentennial edition. On the Steering Committee page, five of the members have signed their… Read more

Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938. Large Octavo. 268 pages, bibliography, index, with 48 plates. The importance of this work was that it was the first to show the Toroweap (formerly known as the Aubrey) with all the permian rocks of this expanded region. The author has not only listed the newly discovered items but given more thorough… Read more

Np/(1997): Historical Research Associates / Glenn G. Boyer. Octavo. Signed by the author. 135pp. Reprint of rare 1967 first issue, with the addition of un-published plates. Illustrated with period photographs. Bound in black cloth lettered in white, spine lettering white, in a peach illustrated dust jacket with fading to spine. lightly rubbed along the… Read more

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. Quarto. . 2 large folding maps and profile plan, 31 plates (including 7 in color of Indians) and several folding line drawings and textual woodcuts. While one of the most important and best illustrated army surveys of the American West, the report according to Goetzmann is the best of the individual army reports where… Read more

Chicago(nd. ca.1920): Curt Teich. Oblong Quarto. unpaginated; 23 full-page sepia illustrations, mounted (including a folding double-page panorama), map, two pages of text containing illustration descriptions, (most copies record only 22 illustrations). Bound in tan pictorial wrappers lettered in green & gilt, photographic image mounted on upper cover entitled: "Crossing Great Salt Lake at Sunset". Ribbon ties at spine… Read more

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1939. Octavo. 261 pages illustrated by James Wallis His accounts of his time with Francisco Madero are important as is his description of Villa. The Texas frontier and the turbulence of the era and the nightmare of stage coach travel barely improved with the early railroads. He covers West Texas with time… Read more

Los Angeles: Historic Record cO, 1919. First Edition. Thick Quarto. In two volumes. A massive set (2,603 pages) with plates, portraits. Much on its vast agricultural history as well as California outlaws, one to Vasquez, one to the Evans-Sontag gang, and another to various criminals of the county, including Murieta" - Bound in 3/4 black cloth… Read more

Tucson, Az; (1970): University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Octavo. 222pp. The last years of Apache freedom, seen through the eyes of a 10 year old survivor of violence. Illustrated with historic photographs. Notes to text. Bibliography (written and oral). Index. Bound in beige cloth lettered in red, spine lettering red, some toning… Read more

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. First Edition. Octavo. 123 pages. Published in a small print run, it traces the early history of the Creek Indian Nation and early explorers to its early ranching, pioneering, industrial development and how it became the "Oil Capital of the World." Since Angie Debo had already written about the Creeks, she… Read more

Chico, California: Hurst & Yount, 1958. Limited Edition. Octavo. . 78 pages. Signed by W.H. Hutchinson and numbered 329 in a limited edition of 500 copies. Drawings by James Bodrero. Originally, this was part of a series in the Saturday Evening Post began on August 13, 1910. Although violence had already been introduced to the American… Read more

Flagstaff, Arizona; (1975): Northland Press. First Edition. Quarto. 1 of 150 copies of the superb limited edition. Foreword by Lloyd Kiva New. 197pp. This is the publisher's copy (Paul Weaver). Mr. Weaver founded the Northland Press in 1959 and made it the finest press on Indian life in the Southwest. In 1979 the New York… Read more

Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. 135 pages. The author's collection of hundreds photographs with their negatives of San Xavier del Bac was given to the Library of Congress. His details in the original photographs are yet to be fully published but this was his major work. A few marks… Read more

1966. 15 pages of the document prepared for the firm of Pickrell, Hunter, Bartlett & Penn from James B. Boxley of the Library of Congress on the total copyrights of Ross Santee who passed away in 1965. It includes not only his books but also articles in magazines revealing most items which did have a renewal of copyright. It… Read more

Salt Lake City: Howe Bros, 1987. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 125 copies. The present copy is number 15 and signed by the editors Smith and Crampton. xix, 305 pages, illustrations, maps. Bibliographic references (pages 287-293), Index. Robert B. Stanton's work was the next important study after that of John Wesley Powell. His was an engineering… Read more

Sante Fe: E. Brevooort, 1874. First Edition. Octavo. 176 pages. Brevoort was a speculator who in the era wrote one of the earliest locally printed histories and the definitive work of its period, based on information furnished by early settlers and the author's own residence of 24 years. He already had substantial interest in land grants he had purchased… Read more

Guthrie, OK; (1936): Co-Operative Publication Co. First Edition. Octavo. 591 p. plus original folding map. 52 illustrations. A history of the world's greatest cattle trail, approximately 800 miles long, from Abilene, Kansas, to San Antonio Texas. Old trails, cow-camps, plains and frontier.Bound in a black pictorial cloth accented in yellow and green, spine lettering yellow and green, a… Read more