Search Results: Authors starting with F from Old West Books

Spokane Washington: The Arthur Clark Company, 1996. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 186 pages, illustrations, limited to 750 copies. Fairholme a Lieutenant of the British light infantry, recorded his account of travel from the Canadian border to Western Kansas in 1841..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Original pictorial wraps, 281 pages, illustration. Overland emigrants, men and womens work on the trail, etc..

N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 580 pages, illustrations. Cowboys, Vasquez, Kit Carson, vigilantes, etc..

San Antonio Texas: The Naylor Co., 1945. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 171 pages, frontis, illustrations. "Collection of 156 stories of Texas and Texans." Alamo, Texas Rangers, cowboys, pioneers, outlaws, etc. Herd 783, Six-Guns, 696. "Has a chapter on gunplay in which the author gives sketches of many of the outlaws of the Southwest.".

San Antonio Texas: The Naylor Co., 1950. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 196 pages, illustrations, minor chipping to jacket edges. Six-Guns 695, "Covers most of the Texas gunmen," Ben Thompson, John Wesley Hardin, Clay Allison, John Selman, etc..

San Antonio Texas: The Naylor Company, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 127 pages, photos. Stories of the Old West, told to the author by those who were there. Interview with William S. Hart..

N.Y.: Published By the Author, 1881. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 248 pages + ads, illustrations, . Farrow was an instructor of tactics at West Point, and Commanded Indian scouts in the Department of the Columbia. A "how to" hand-book for officers and soldiers on the frontier. Information on horses, equipment and supplies, how to travel in the mountains, marching, crossing rivers, the camp, mess, living off the country, tracking Indians, the trail, signs, and signals. Also a 36 page appendix on Chinook Vocabulary, Swimming exercises and rowing. Originally published in 1881, most useful in its day. Howes F56, Rader 1345.

N.Y.: Published By the Author, 1881. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 284 pages + ads, illustrations, rebound in full leather, raised bands on spine, signature of author attached to front fly leaf (most likely transferred when it was rebound.) Housed in a slipcase with the original front cover with title in gilt. Farrow was an instructor of tactics at West Point, and Commanded Indian scouts in the Department of the Columbia. A ¿how to¿ hand-book for officers and soldiers on the frontier. Information on horses, equipment and supplies, how to travel in the mountains, marching, crossing rivers, the camp, mess, living off the country, tracking Indians, the trail, signs, and signals. Also a 36 page appendix on Chinook Vocabulary, Swimming exercises and rowing. Originally published in 1881, most useful in its day. Howes F56, Rader 1345..

Philadelphia: American Arms Publishing CO., 1902. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 284 pages, illustrations, original green pictorial cloth, lettering slightly dulled on spine, slight edge wear. Farrow was an instructor of tactics at West Point, and Commanded Indian scouts in the Department of the Columbia. A how to hand-book for officers and soldiers on the frontier. Information on horses, equipment and supplies, how to travel in the mountains, marching, crossing rivers, the camp, mess, living off the country, tracking Indians, the trail, signs, and signals. Also a section on Chinook Vocabulary. Originally published in 1881, most useful in its day. Howes F56, Rader 1345..

San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 106 pages, photos, minor wear to jacket. New material added, revised from the 1957 edition. Six-Guns 699, Texas Rangers, John Wesley Hardin, Sam Bass, Kingfisher, Taylor Sutton feud, cattle thieves, etc.".

Honolulu, Hawaii : Talei Publisher's Inc. , 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 944 pages, photos, illustrations, very slight wear, bound in paddle leather. Oversize item..

N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1972. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 242 pages, illustrations, wear to jacket edges, signed by the author. Announcement for the book laid in. .

N.Y. : Oxford University Press , 1977. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 227 pages, photos, illustrations, slight wear. Wyatt Earp, Custer and Hancock, Charles Goodnight, Bat Masterson, cowboys, cattle drives, Indians, etc..

N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1973. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 232 pages, maps, illustrations, slight fade to jacket spine, original publisher's announcement for the book laid in. Trail ran from Texas to San Diego. Freighting, overland mail, Civil War, travelers, cattle drives etc..

N.Y.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 245 pages, illustrations. Charles Gatewood, Bourke, Crook, Miles, Tom Horn, Victorio and Sitting Bull who finally surrendered 1886..

N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 237 pages, photos, illustrations, wear to jacket edges, inscribed by the author..

N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1973. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 232 pages, maps, illustrations, slight wear to jacket edges. Trail ran from Texas to San Diego. Freighting, overland mail, Civil War, travelers, cattle drives etc..

Univ. OK. Press, 1962. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Thus. 234pgs Inscription on FEP else VG-/VG- Williams born in 1787, was an itinerant preacher, a missionary to the Osage Indians, became a master trapper, and was a guide on the Sibley survey of the Santa Fe Trail in1825. He was a guide on two o f Fremont¿s expeditions. Williams was blamed for the failure and disaster of the Fremont expedition of 1848 when they tried to cross the mountains in winter. The author believes that Williams was falsely accused..

St. Paul.: Minnesota Historical Society, 1970. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Thus. 2 volumes, Vol. 1, 416 pages, frontis, maps, Vol. 2, 372 pages, frontis, map, very slight exterior wear, slipcase, lightly rubbed. Reprint of the 1847 edition. Account of two expeditions taken by Featherstonhaugh, the 1st in 1835 from Washing D.C to Pittsburg, Cleveland, the Great Lakes and Green Bay across Wisconsin, and up the Mississippi River to the Minnesota River. In 1837 he extended from Prairie du Chien down the Mississippi by steamboat to Missouri, then east to kentucky, tennesse, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas..

N.Y.: Wilkerson-Erickson, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 346 pages, frontis, maps, illustrations. The Yellowstone, Lolo Trail, Idaho, Oregon Trail, Big Hole fight, General Howard, General Miles, Nez Perce, etc. Also contains a bibliography on the subject. Rader 1352.