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Los Angeles: N.A. Kovach, 1946 Reprint of the very rare 1868 second edition. Although not indicated, one of 750 copies. Introduction by Lyle H. Wright. Small 8vo. xvii, 87 pp. Title page design, 8 plates. Blue cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Account of the overland trip by the Santa Fe Trail. Udell traveled as far as Santa Fe, thence by Beale's road to California. Of particular interest is the descriptions of the hazards encountered by the first large emigrant party over Beale's new road from Albuquerque, including a violent attack by Mojave Indians. [Mintz, The Trail: 613; Rittenhouse: 592]..

Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1983 First edition. viii, 296. Illustrated with numerous period photographs; advertisements. Index. Blue cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. A much-need bibliography covering the activities and publications of the National Archives since Alaska's purchase from Russia in 1867. Sections include the acquisition of Alaska; industries and trade; natural resources; land and public buildings; governing of Alaska; fiscal matters; conservation; transportation and communication; people of Alaska; military and naval; and miscellaneous publications. .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1954 First edition. 352pp. 24 photographs, 6 maps, endpaper map. Index and bibliography. Addendum tipped-in at rear. Two-tone cloth. A very fine copy with spine-faded pictorial dust jacket. An excellent work covering the Matterhorn to Mt. McKinley and from the Andes to Everest. This work is based on the author's earlier work (High Conquest) and continues the story of mountaineering through the postwar years and the climbing of Mount Everest..

London: Allen Lane (Penguin Books Ltd.), 1981 First edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight fading to extreme upper and lower edges of covers, else a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Selections from the Alpine Journal..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1947 Part of the "American Poets" series. Selected and edited, with a commentary, by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with engravings by Thomas W. Nason. Beige cloth with decorated spine, lettered in gilt. Spine slightly darkened. A fine copy in slightly worn and faded slipcase.. Illus. by Nason, Thomas W..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1965 Limited to 450 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. With an Introductory Essay by Jack Hillier. Tall Folio. 12 full-page color reproductions. Parchment-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. A very fine copy. The fourth and final title of the Grabhorn's Japanese print series. The illustrations were reproduced from the originals in the collection of Edwin & Irma Grabhorn..

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963 First edition. Scarce thus. Review copy with review slip laid in. 314pp. 24 photographs, 5 maps; text illustrations. Bibliography and index. Tan cloth printed in red. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Examines the Sioux Nation from the time the Sioux were put on the reservation to the infamous Battle of Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Utley explores, for the first time, the personalities, policies, and maneuvers of both sides..

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 First edition. xiv, 370pp. Illustrated with historic photographs, maps. Extensive note, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed beige boards. A very fine (as new) copy with pictorial dust jacket. Utley provides a history of the first hundred years of Texas Ranger history, from the 1820's as loose groups to citizen soldiers, transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team. Armed with a revolutionary new weapon (Colt's repeating revolver), they became a deadly fighting force..

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1973 Second printing. xv, [1], 384pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos, maps, and map endpapers; bibliography, index. Red cloth stamped in gilt. A very fine copy with dust jacket. A comprehensive history of the United States Regular and Volunteer armies that confronted the western Indian tribes in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War..