Search Results: Authors starting with M from Out The Door

1985. In January 1863 over two hundred Shoshoni men, women, and children died on the banks of the Bear River at the hands of volunteer soldiers from California. Bear River was one of the largest Indian massacres in the Trans-Mississippi West, yet the massacre has gone almost unnoticed as it occurred during a time when national attention was focused on the Civil War, and the deaths of the Shoshoni Indians in a remote corner of the West was of only passing interest.

Some rubbing to cover and paper loss to first few pages.

ASE # 1223 / Strange and Fantastic Stories / Joseph A. Margolies, ed. / 1946 / 512 pages / good / Stories by Arthur Machen and M. R. James, authors identified by H. P. Lovecraft as two of four "modern masters" of horror. Also, stories by Poe, H. G. Wells, and several others. Distributed to the American military in World War II. Most ASEs were bound on the short side of the text block; a few titles near the end of the series were published in traditional paperback format, this is one.

1977. Near Fine. recto, 28 p. Blue paper cover comb bound. Four articles written by reporter Mark Kellogg for the Dakota Column in 1876. First hand account of the march of the 7th cavalry.

"The trails of Southwestern history-makers join at Yuma Crossing, once the only "Safe" ford of the Colorado River, dividing Arizona from California. This is not a story of Yuma, Arizona, but of the tides of history which swept up to that site on the bank of the Colorado River for four centuries." No dust jacket.

Naylor 1942 First Edition Signed in dustjacket; rather elusive as such.

First edition, ex-library, no jacket, 1965

Ex-library, only dust jacket flap remains and is pasted in.

311pp; With xxiv full page plates of line drawings to rear

A man of action in the American frontier during the first half of the 19th century when continued life often depended on violent action.[As] frontier fighter and border entrepreneur; was one of the outstanding figures in the early development of the American Southwest." -from the dust jacket. 242 pp., frontis. by Cisneros, photos, index. Previous owner bookplate

Ex-library

1889 First Edition 205pp plus advertisements at end. Unusual; author is only identified as "The Author".A vocal proponent of black expatriation, Georgia-born Carlyle Mckinley (1847-1904) was a Confederate soldier, journalist, essayist, poet, and associate editor of the Charleston New & Courier. An Appeal to Pharaoh is Mckinley's white supremacist argument, and answer, to the vexing "Negro Problem." Mckinley's solution -a voluntary mass exodus of the entire black American population to Africa. The reasoning behind this extraordinary proposal form the nucleus of the text.

Inside flaps of dust jacket pasted to endpapers.

1911, 9th edition, 8vo, gray wrappers, frontis. port., 123 pp., numerous b&w illus. Profusely illustrated guide. Detailed descriptions of devices/tricks to cheat gamblers.

Signed by Author

1980 Very good to about fine in very good to about fine dust jacket. Red cloth hard cover with gilt lettering on the spine, original red and white dust jacket. Illustrated with line drawings, 128 pages.

First comprehensive history of the region, traces the history of La Junta de los Rios from the formation of the Mexico-Texas border in the mid-19th century to the 1997 ambush shooting of teenage goatherd Esquiel Hernandez by U.S. Marines performing drug interdiction in El Polvo, Texas. 355 pp., 42 photos, 8 maps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

1996 Hard cover with dust jacket, 499 pp, printed on heavy stock,heavily illustrated

c1990, Staple-bound, Side Stitch, 16 pp Condition: (Near Fine) Price penciled in on upper right hand corner of cover. Illustrated brown paper wraps.Treasure Cove Publications. Obscure pamphlet based on eyewitness accounts of Alexander Henry.

, condition: (Very Good +), 28 pp , staple-bound cream wraps. An undated modern reprint of "Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 1, No.3, June 1923" Published: Mike Joki, L'Anse, MI