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Spokane:: Arthur H. Clark Co. ,, 1995.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in red cloth, no dj as issued. . First printing. An introduction to the lives and memoirs of 11 early American travelers and settlers in California, and of the role the books which these men wrote played in promoting California to Americans back east. The Merchant & Traders included Alfred Robinson, William Heath Davis, and William Dana Phelps; those who came ' Before the Mast' included Richard Henry Dana, and William Henry Thomes; the Mountain Men included James Pattie, Kit Carson, Zenas Leonard and others, and finally the 'Exponents of Empire' included Thomas Jefferson Farnham and Henry Augustus Wise. Volume 24 in the Western Frontiersmen Series. 5 pages of portraits and plates. Bibliography and index. 278 pp.

Chicago:: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., 1977.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt.. First printing. Lakeside Classic #75. Previously unpublished account of Robert Rose, who came to the frontier state of Wyoming as a young man in 1914. Edited and with an historical introduction by Gene M. Gressley.. Publisher's preface. Illustrated with a frontispiece, double page map and photographs. Index. List of Lakeside Classics titles. lix, 328 pp.

Washington, D.C.:: Government Printing Office,, 1930.. First edition -. Very good in printed gray wrappers (light crease to front cover, usual toning to the pages). First edition. Fisheries Document 1086. A review of the salmon, herring, halibut, whales and cod fisheries, as well as the fur seal industry of the Pribilof Islands. llustrated with photographs. pp 205-339.

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, 1979.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/G+ (rubbing and fading to dj.). First printing. Articles by several contributors discussing areas of Western scholarship, especially in 3 categories: the American West in a frontier context, as reflected in fiction, and in the rise of a new urbanized West.

College Station, TX:: Texas A&M University Press, , (1976.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.). First printing. The first essay in on Yellowstone National Park, the second looks at the 'Western Impact on the Nation', and the third, one of Frantz's most controversial, is called 'The American West: Child of Federal Subsidy' and was originally presented in 1963. Foreword by W. Eugene Holton. The first book to be published in the series 'Essays on the American West.' sponsored by the Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation. 82 pp.

Reno & Las Vegas:: University of Nevada Press,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dustjacket.. First printing. A fascinating, entertaining and scholarly look at this important, but often neglected, aspect of social history. While the book focuses on the California gold rush of 49 and the Nevada mines in the early 1900's much more is covered - including nutrition on the Overland trail, restaurants in the mining towns, etc. Much of the material is based on early diaries. Profusely illustrated. Index, bibliography. 246 pages.

Guilford, CT & Helena, MT:: TwoDot ,, (2014). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback. A "collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old WestÕs most egregiously bad family-based gangs caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the James brothers and lesser known families just as the Deautremonts, the Newtons, and many more." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. ix, 229 pp.

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1963, c 1954. Fine in brown marbled paper covered boards with small black panel and gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj), pictorial dust jacket. . 5th printing. Foreword by William H. Kittrell. A title in "The Western Frontier Library." Originally published in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1894, this eyewitness account of the range war in Johnson County, Wyoming in 1892 - when 52 cattlemen and hired gunmen invaded the county - was suppressed so few copies of the original exist today. l, 195 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1966.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. First printing. "The stocks-and-bonds, Havana-cigar, mahogany-and-leather side of the cowboy era. - Politics, investors and operators from 1870-1900." No gunslingers in this book, but instead it focuses on the Eastern capitalists who financed the business of raising capital and arrived in Pullman trains, rather than on horseback - men like Marshall Field, William Rockefeller, E. C. Converse and Nathan Thayer. Photographs, bibliography and index. xix, 319, vii pp.

Golden, CO:: Fulcrum Publishing, (2006). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A photographic tribute to historic barns of the West, from the California ghost town of Bodie, to New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and more, based on several years of traveling and research. In addition to the photographs, this book also contains the history behind the barns, such as the round Fountain Grove Barn of Santa Rosa, California, which had been the site of a commune, and a sucessful winery for a while. SIGNED on the half title page. Oblong format. 104 pp.

Salt Lake City:: Peregrine Smith Books,, (1990). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to dj at top of spine and on front cover) . First printing. Five thoughtful essays on the past and the future of the Western United States, with a foreword by Governor George Sinner. Illustrated with many pages of beautiful full color photographs. Large format. 162 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (2010). Near fine.. Trade paperback. Gripping account by this National Book Award winning author of the worst wild fire in the history of the United States. ÑA wind-swept wildfire that began on August 20, 1910, and consumed three million acres of forest in Idaho, Montana and Washington in just 36 hours. But paradoxically, this forest fire was the event that cemented the heroism of the young Forest Service (only 5 years old at the time) in the public mind and galvanized Teddy Roosevelt's campaign for public lands. Winner of the 2010 Washington State Book Award for history. Map, photographs, notes on sources, index. 324 pp.

Fresno, California:: Word Dancer Press,, (1995.). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy.). Trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. "The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him." Biography of the legendary robber Black Bart, who plagued Wells Fargo & Co. and was responsible for at least 28 stagecoach robberies in California's gold country - robberies conducted on foot and with an unloaded shotgun. Meanwhile he was leading a double life in San Francisco, where he was known as the very polite Charles Boles, until he disappeared without a trace in 1888. Illustrated with vintage photographs, bibliography, index. 168 pp.

Niwot:: University Press of Colorado,, 1993.. Hardcover first edition -. F/F (as new.). First printing. Previously unpublished letters and journals of the Glasgow brothers , merchants from St. Louis, who were hauling several wagon loads of goods to Mexico when war broke out. Their letters include details of trail life, encounters with historical figures like Stephen Watts Kearny and firsthand accounts of the battles of Sacramento and Santa Cruz de Rosales. Edited and annotated by Gardner, foreword by Marc Simmons. Illustrated. 229 pgs including notes, bibliography & index.

Lincoln:: University of Nebraska Press,, (2012). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A new, definitive edition of the biography of William Cody by the press agent/advance man who was responsible for turning William Cody into Buffalo Bill. Edited and with an introduction by Chris Dixon. includes the full text and all the photographs and line drawings of Burke's original. Notes, bibliography. xxiv, 335 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Creative Arts Book Co.,, 1988.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a bit of wear to the covers and a few spots to the edges of the textblock, but a clean and tight copy with no spine creases, etc.) . First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of 32 prose pieces about growing up in California now long gone; the authors include Devorah Majors, James D. Houston, Genny Lim,, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, M. F. K. Fisher, Mary Helen Ponce, Gerald Haslam, Hisaye Yamamote, Richard Dokey, Domenic Stansberry, Soto himself and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors at their selections: Maxine Hong Kingston, Genny Lim and Floyd Salas. 255 pp plus notes on the contributors.

Berkeley, CA:: Creative Arts Book Co.,, 1988.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of 32 prose pieces about growing up in California now long gone; the authors include Devorah Majors, James D. Houston, Genny Lim,, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, M. F. K. Fisher, Mary Helen Ponce, Gerald Haslam, Hisaye Yamamote, Richard Dokey, Domenic Stansberry, Soto himself and many others. SIGNED by TWO authors: INSCRIBED on the title page by Gary Soto and SIGNED by Maxine Hong Kingston at her story "The Quiet Girl". 255 pp plus notes on the contributors.

Sonoma, CA:: Zanel Publications,, 1980. Fine.. Paperback original , not issued in hardcover. Large format (approx 11 x 8 1/2 inches) in stapled wrappers and illustrated with many vintage photographs. A title in the mini-history series. The story of the Gold Rush towns of the Motherlode in the Sierra foothills - contrasts the towns then and now. Included are Coloma, Auburn, Sutter Creek, Murphys, Volcano, Jamestown, Grass Valley and more. Map. Several pages of advertisements. 64 pages.

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. An award-winning book which looks at the influence Carleton Watkins had in shaping American thought. He is " widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. . . Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Unions disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studios horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkinss work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkinss pictures, Congress would pass legislation, later signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the… Read More

Sonoma, CA:: Zanel Publications,, 1984.. Near fine.. Paperback original , not issued in hardcover. Large format (approx 11 x 8 1/2 inches) in stapled wrappers and illustrated with many vintage photographs. A title in the mini-history series. 56 pages.