Search Results: Titles starting with N from Old West Books

N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes, original cloth, 405, 406 pages, map, very minor wear, in amazing condition, rarely found in this condition. A near fine set. "The Texan Santa Fe expedition was conceived by Mirabeau B. Lamar in an attempt to open a trade route which would lure away some of the traffic hitherto utilizing the Santa Fe trade, and also to extend his greetings to residents of New Mexico, whom he wished to participate in Texas government as residents of territory claimed by Texas in an act of 1836. Due to poor navigation, faulty planning, and harassment by Indians, the expedition lost most of its momentum. Upon their arrival in New Mexico, the entire force was taken captive under orders of Gov. Manuel Armijo. The prisoners were forcibly marched to Mexico City, and the affair brought relations between Texas, the United States, and Mexico to a boiling point. Those who survived the march and imprisonment were released in April 1842, six… Read More

Pittsburg: D. and M. Maclean, 1828. Book. Good +. Hardcover. TITLE CONTINUED.ALLEGHENY RIVER, ETC., DURING THE YEARS 1790, 91, 92, 93, 94. Communicated By Herself. . 98pgs, original cloth, with minor wear, binding tight & solid, 4 pages have been photographically reproduced and attached (appears to have been done many years ago), old water marks to first half of book, text very legible , a rare item. Important narrative on the Ohio-Pennsylvania frontier, with account of St. Clair's defeat. Howes H179aa, Graff 1775.

N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NARRATIVE OF THE TEXAN SANTA FE EXPEDITION. COMPRISING A DESCRIPTION OF A TOUR THROUGH TEXAS, AND ACROSS THE GREAT SOUTHWESTERN PRAIRIES, THE CAMANCHE AND CAYUGA HUNTING GROUNDS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUFFERINGS FROM WANT OF FOOD, LOSSES FROM HOSTILE INDIANS, AND FINAL CAPTURE OF THE TEXANS, AND THEIR MARCH, AS PRISONERS TO THE CITY OF MEXICO WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP Harper & Brothers N.Y. 1844 1st ed. HB VG+ 2 volumes, rebound in blue cloth with leather labels on spine, housed in a matching slipcase, 405, 406 pages, fold-out map is very nice, 5 plates, scattered mild foxing. "The Texan Santa Fe expedition was conceived by Mirabeau B. Lamar in an attempt to open a trade route which would lure away some of the traffic hitherto utilizing the Santa Fe trade, and also to extend his greetings to residents of New Mexico, whom he wished to participate in Texas government as residents of territory claimed by Texas in an… Read More

N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes, original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked most of original spine, rubbing and edge wear, 405, 406 pages, fold-out map with small tear where bound in, 5 plates, scattered mild foxing. "The Texan Santa Fe expedition was conceived by Mirabeau B. Lamar in an attempt to open a trade route which would lure away some of the traffic hitherto utilizing the Santa Fe trade, and also to extend his greetings to residents of New Mexico, whom he wished to participate in Texas government as residents of territory claimed by Texas in an act of 1836. Due to poor navigation, faulty planning, and harassment by Indians, the expedition lost most of its momentum. Upon their arrival in New Mexico, the entire force was taken captive under orders of Gov. Manuel Armijo. The prisoners were forcibly marched to Mexico City, and the affair brought relations between Texas, the United States, and Mexico to a boiling point. Those who survived… Read More

Washington: Press of the Engineer School, 1912. Book. Very Good -. Original Wraps. Title continued.the March Captain, First Delaware Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, Revised Under the Direction of the Commandant Engineer School, United States Army by John W. Schulz Corps of Engineers 46 pages, original printed wraps, chipping to spine. "First edition of this publication of Captain Seville's journal. The engineers in 1858, went in advance of the Mormon Battalion to prepare a new road from the Platte to the Green River. Seville includes meetings with Indians along the route and his description of Fort Bridger and the usual disparaging remarks about the Mormons at the time." Graff 3734, Howes S300, Mintz 415, "Contains some material on the Mormon Trail and the Utah Expedition.".

San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1930. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Original two-tone cloth, 232 pages, frontis, fold-out map showing Simpsons route, limited edition of 250 copies, this copy not numbered. Simpson who was governor of the Hudsons Bay Companys American territories, visited Alaska, Hawaii, San Francisco, Monterey and Santa Barbara and gives an excellent account of California in the last decade of Mexican rule. Brief discussion of cattle herds and how they were a menace to solitary individuals. Howes S495, Graff 3785n..

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Ross & Haines Inc., 1959. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to of 1,500 2 Vols. In one illus, fold out map,706 pgs + intro and Appendix Keating acted as a geologist and historian of Major Long¿s second expedition. "This book is a full record of Long¿s second expedition a p rime source of historical information on the early exploration and Indian activity in the upper mid-west Howes K20.

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 367 pages, illustrations, top edge gilt. Lakeside Press edition. Traveling to Idaho with an emigrant train from her home in Kansas, the nineteen-year-old Mrs. Kelly was captured west of Ft. Laramie by a band of Oglalla Sioux on July 12, 1864, and was held prisoner until December 12 of that year..

Chicago: The American Historical Society Inc., 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 458 pages, frontis, illustrations, marbled page edges and end-papers, minor wear, Early history, Lewis and Clark, fur trade, Black Hawk War, etc..

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1966. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 87 pages, illustrations, map end-papers..

Boston: The Gorham Press, 1914. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 366 pages, frontis, illustrations., top edge gilt. Six-Guns 847, "Has a chapter on Robert Ford and the killing of Jesse James.".

University of Nebraska Press, 1966. Book. Good +. Stiff Wraps. 366pgs, "The editors have used letters, diaries, reminiscences, government records, newspaper and magazine stories, to recreate every facet of the pioneer experience.".

Viking Penguin, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 474 pages, frontis, illustrations, inscribed by Nabokov. Expanded edition of the 1978 edition..

Phillips Petroleum Company , 1956. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Original pictorial wraps, 38 pages, color text illustrations, minor wear. There were 6 pamphlets issued in this series. .

Lake Mills Iowa : Graphic Publishing Co. , 1978. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 174 pages, illustrations, minor edge wear to the jacket, inscribed by the author, #60 of 250 copies. Custer and the Black Hills Expedition..

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 111 pages, frontis, map end-papers, limited to 600 copies, light sunning to jacket. Previously unpublished reports of four reconnaissance missions conducted in 1859 near Fort Defiance..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 299 pages, illustrations, very slight wear to jacket. History of the Navajos, Kit Carson and the long march, reservation life, etc..

Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 382 pages, frontis, illustrations, minor cover wear. Spain in the West XI..

Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Edition. 382 pages, frontis, illustrations, minor cover wear. Spain in the West XI..

Nebraska State Historical Society, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 289 pgs. Illustrations. Minor wear the jacket. The life of Bartlett Richards, Sr. 1862-1911, pioneer cattleman of the Nebraska Sandhills. This book was written by his son Bartlett Richards Jr..