Search Results: Titles starting with W from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

[Civil War][Women][African Americans] Samuel W. Bridgham. Woman's Central Association of Relief Scrapbook. [New York?]: Privately prepared. [Circa 1863-1882] Leather spine and boards. 26.5 x 33 cm. 40 pp. Ownership signature by Bridgham. Some foxing, spotting, wear and splits to spine. Contents foxed, discolored, age toning.
Samuel Willard Bridgham (1813-1870), a partner in the New York banking firm of Jacob Little & Co., became Secretary, Director and General Superintendent of the Women's Central Relief Association (WCRA), the New York City branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. This is a scrapbook he compiled, containing 28 photographs, 20 printed and manuscript documents, 6 original letters and 3 badges, many relating to the women behind much of the effort. Two items relate to the NY Colored Troops regiments.
Photographs: a Mathew Brady photo of Rev. Dr. Henry Whitney Bellows (Sanitary Commission President); Howard Potter, (Treasurer); Samuel Bridgham; Louisa Lee Schuyler, Chair of… Read More

Sheep Laws of Wyoming together with rules adopted by the Board of Sheep Commissioners, with extracts from the bounty laws, and other data of interest to Sheep Men. Cheyenne, Wyo.: S. A. Bristol Company, Printers and Bookbinders. 1900. Tan printed wraps. 21 cm. Map. 91 [ad] pp. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this issue. The 1899 issue is held by only University of Wyoming. In 1899 there were more than two million sheep in Wyoming. There were bounties on coyotes, wolves and mountain lions.

The Rand-McNally War Map of Mexico. [Panel title] Chicago: Rand McNally. 1914. Color map 47 x 65 cm folded into a red paper cover 17 x 11 cm. Cover chipped. Map is very good.
OCLC shows seven holdings (Univ. Ill.; Univ. Mich.; Univ. Mont.; St. Lib. Ohio; Carnegie Univ.; Texas Tech & UT-Arlington). Information on the military situation has been added in red to the base map The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Mexico. Title above border: The Mexican Situation. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Indexed to principal cities. Inset: State of Mexico and surrounding country. Text on Mexican events, 1913-1914, with war figures and statistics on the United States Army and Navy, and on the Mexican Army and Navy, as well as a map of North America from "The Rand-McNally new commercial atlas," ©1912, on verso.

[Texas] Prairie Cattle Company, Limited. Warranty Deed. [No publication information] 1908. Printed broadsheet with manuscript insertions. Executed by Hugh Miller and J. M. Rusk, Directors of the Company and embossed with the Prairie Cattle Company seal. Attested to at the American Embassy in Edinburgh, Scotland. Docketing information from Hartley County, Texas.
Not in Adams, Herd. See #1829-31 for three other Prairie Cattle Company items Adams calls "rare." Memorializes the sale on November 24, 1908 of 337 acres of land in Hartley County, Texas, to E. Newsom of Thornberry, Texas for $938.70. The Prairie Cattle Company, Limited, is sometimes called the "mother of British cattle companies" since it was the first foreign syndicate to take advantage of the southwestern "Beef Bonanza" of the early 1880s. It was established in 1880 by the Scottish American Mortgage Company, based in Edinburgh, and by the following year it had purchased the JJ spread in southeastern Colorado and the Hall… Read More

[Sheep Ranching] Western Photo Album. No publication information. [Circa 1890s?] Black album, stiff boards. 6 x 7 in. 21 black and white photos 3 x 5 in. Album pages detached at binding. Photos are glossy and there is glare in some of the images; not glued down. Very good.
Photos include sheep ranching and sheep dipping; wagons, including logging wagons; log cabin and horse with western saddle and rig; boating on a lake; carriages; horseman and barn; people in their Sunday best. Perhaps Utah, Colorado, Montana or the Pacific Northwest? Date is based on clothing, saddle and equipment.

[Texas] Rhodes, Fuller. Where the Trail Divides by Fuller Rhodes The Cowboy Preacher. [Texas?]: [No publication information] [Circa 1934]. Blue pictorial wraps. 22 cm. Illustrated. [8] pp. Has been folded; age toning, else very good.
OCLC shows seven holdings (Baylor; Yale; Amon Carter; UT-Austin; Princeton; NY Pub. Lib.; & UC Berkley). Adams, Herd
1882: "Scarce." Rhodes recounts his life as a trail driver, horse thief, outlaw and later, as a cowboy preacher. Contains songs composed by him while an inmate in Huntsville prison, and reprints his pardon from Governor Miriam (Ma) Ferguson and a letter from the pastor of the Idalou, Texas Methodist Church about seeking his pardon.

[Texas] Where to go in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas. Fishing, hunting, vacationing, touring. Dallas, Tex., Sportsman's Pub. Co. 1947. Blue pictorial wraps. 20 cm. Illustrated. 270 [ad][1] pp.
OCLC shows 4 holdings (Cen. Ark. Lib.; Pub. Lib. Cincinnati; U. Oklahoma & SA Pub. Lib.) Nice guide and source for research.

[Arizona][Cattle][Food] Gill, E. E. and G. A. Kellond. (Comp.) Why an Arizona Beefsteak. A Publication in the Interest of "Arizona Beef Preferred." Tucson, Arizona: Acme Printing Inc. 1932. First edition. Copper metal pictorial covers. Illustrated. Map. 16 un-numbered pages. Copper cover discolored from oxidation. Interior near fine.
OCLC shows six holdings (Ariz. His. Soc.; U. Ariz.; TAMU, UT-Austin; Yale and Utah St.U.) Not in Adams, Herd. Contains the article "A Brief History of the Cattle Industry in Arizona and Pima County." Charming pamphlet promoting the Arizona beef industry, with unusual wraps made from a thin sheet of copper – appropriate due to the Arizona copper mining industry. The last four pages include "Menus built around Arizona beef," together with recipes and a chart of the cuts of beef.