Search Results: Authors starting with V from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

[Wyoming, Idaho & Utah] Hayden, Dr. F. V. Maps and Panoramas. Twelfth Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 1878. Washington: Department of the Interior, [1883]. Black board portfolio with gilt printing. 24 cm. Nine loose folding maps, some color and one plate with three panoramas. Small splits at the folds, else very good.
OCLC shows 33 holdings, one in Texas (UT-Arlington). Part 3 of the 12th annual report of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey, published in 1883. Table of contents for first 7 sheets inside cover. Includes a very early map of Yellowstone, which was created by the Park Protection Act in 1872. Contents: [1] Economic maps of portions of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah -- [2] Geological map of portions of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah / geology by A.C. Peale, Orestes St. John and F.M. Endlich -- [3] Part of central Wyoming -- [4] Parts of western Wyoming and southeastern Idaho -- [5] Parts of western Wyoming, southeastern Idaho and… Read More

[Civil War] Three Union Civil War Letters. [Circa 1861-63] Two home front letters, one with a colorful Union letter head; one mentioning the draft; with a letter from a soldier at Fort Scott about the death of his former girlfriend.
The first letter has a colorful letterhead The Young Volunteer "Bully for You" depicting a soldier with saber, in front of a canon with an American Flag. Weston [Mass.?] August 6, 1861. News of home, travel. The second letter is from a young woman on a farm to her Aunt. She discusses the draft, so probably 1863. She is happy her Uncle was not drafted. She also notes "they have not drafted here yet. They will in a few days. They have been waiting until they get the wheat threshed." The third letter is from a soldier at Fort Scott, Virginia to his mother. It has the envelope postmarked Alexandria Virginia Aug. 4, 1863. He explains he tried to get a furlough to come home, apparently because his former girlfriend died, but messed up the paperwork. Interesting group about life… Read More

Vestal, Stanley. [Walter S. Campbell] Sitting Bull. Champion of the Sioux. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1932. Reddish brown cloth in dustjacket. Foxing to dust jacket. Book very good.
Unusual advance issue of the book used by salesmen to get orders of the forthcoming book. Howes V82. Luther, Custer High Spot
92. Very scarce in this format. Contains chapter one, two pages of photographs and ten blank leaves, partially un-opened. With two pages of typed information on the book tipped into the front endpaper and first free end paper. A novelist and a historian, Walter Stanley Campbell frequently used his given name and surname, Stanley Vestal, as a pen name during a publishing career that spanned the 1920s through the 1950s. He worked diligently to change Americans' negative perceptions of the Plains Indians. While growing up around Weatherford, young Campbell had counted many Cheyenne as playmates and companions. He learned much about their culture and Plains Indian cultures in general,… Read More

[Texas Revolution] Texas Veteran Association. Proceedings of the Texas Veteran Association at their Thirty-Second Annual Reunion held at Lagrange, Texas, Casino Hall, April 20, 21, 1905. Austin, Texas: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., printers. 1905. Olive printed wraps. 23 cm. 48 pp. Cover chips, light staining, else very good.
OCLC shows two holdings (Sul Ross State Univ. & Texas State Univ,) No listings in Morrison's Texana Guides. These Texas Veteran booklets are rare. Only eight veterans attended, along with some members of the Daughters of the Republic, so not many copies would have been printed. Contents include: Remarks by Mr. Lenert of LaGrange; Address of Mary Manton; Response by Rebecca Fisher; description of the convention events; Address of Rev. J. Raabe; Address by Hon. J. F. Wolters; and memorial of Frances Lubbock.

[Texas Revolution] Texas Veteran Association. Twenty-Fifth Annual Re-Union Texas Veterans. Dallas, April 20 and 21. 1898. [Dallas, Texas?]: Texas Veteran Association. 1898. Color silk ribbon in form of the Texas flag. 5.75 x 20 cm. Very good.
All of these veteran reunion ribbons are scarce. The ribbon is from the 1898 25th reunion in Dallas of Texas veterans who fought in the Texas Revolutionary war with Mexico. The result of winning the war with Mexico Texas gained its Independence and became the Republic of Texas its own country in 1836. There were not that many veterans of the war and not that many were surviving into 1898 so that makes this a pretty rare ribbon. A great display piece.

[Texas Revolution] Texas Veteran Association. Proceedings of the Texas Veteran Association at their Thirty-Second Annual Reunion held at Lagrange, Texas, Casino Hall, April 20, 21, 1905. Austin, Texas: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., printers. 1905. Olive printed wraps. 23 cm. 48 pp. Cover chips, light staining, else very good.
OCLC shows two holdings (Sul Ross State Univ. & Texas State Univ,) No listings in Morrison's Texana Guides. These Texas Veteran booklets are rare. Only eight veterans attended, along with some members of the Daughters of the Republic, so not many copies would have been printed. Contents include: Remarks by Mr. Lenert of LaGrange; Address of Mary Manton; Response by Rebecca Fisher; description of the convention events; Address of Rev. J. Raabe; Address by Hon. J. F. Wolters; and memorial of Frances Lubbock.

[Texas Revolution] Texas Veteran Association. Twenty-Fifth Annual Re-Union Texas Veterans. Dallas, April 20 and 21. 1898. [Dallas, Texas?]: Texas Veteran Association. 1898. Color silk ribbon in form of the Texas flag. 5.75 x 20 cm. Very good.
All of these veteran reunion ribbons are scarce. The ribbon is from the 1898 25th reunion in Dallas of Texas veterans who fought in the Texas Revolutionary war witj Mexico. The result of winning the war with Mexico Texas gained its Independence and became the Republic of Texas its own country in 1836. There were not that many veterans of the war and not that many were surviving into 1898 so that makes this a pretty rare ribbon. A great display piece.

CHANGES TO THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, INCLUDING TEXAS & CALIFORNIA
José María de Ortega; Santiago Vidaurri. Decree. Monterey: [No publication information] 1843. Printed booklet, letter press 31 cm 6 pp. Text on first 5. Signed in type: José María de Ortega and Santiago Vidaurri, secretario. With official manuscript notations.
OCLC shows no holding for this decree. At head of title: Gobierno del Departamento de Nuevo Leon. Reprinting a decree that revises the law of 23 May 1837 and reorganizes the court system, promulgated by a decree of 28 February 1843. Of specific interest is the provision that the salary for judges in California, Texas, New Mexico and Sonora will be higher than for judges in other states and territories. Here the government is still attempting to exercise control over its frontier areas despite the rebellion of the Texans and other problems.