Search Results: Western Americana from High-Lonesome Books

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 361 pgs. This powerful and gripping novel sweeps one along while providing rich and previously unknown history of San Francisco during the time of the disastrous San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 304 pgs. A nice reprint of Grey's thrilling story of the Old West.

Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press, 1978. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 301 pgs, section of b&w photos. Cherished memories of rugged, honest living in the clean air and mountainous rangeland near Big Timber, Montana by a natural born storyteller and "real" rancher.

Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 301 pgs, section of b&w photos. Cherished memories of rugged, honest living in the clean air and mountainous rangeland near Big Timber, Montana by a natural born storyteller and "real" rancher.

Mason, TX: Published/Printed by the author, 1989. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, unpaginated. Stories of the author's life as a rodeo cowboy. Signed by the author.

Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8 1/2 x 11, 214 pgs, index, b&w and color photos. Nice quality reprint of a paper from the Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 47, 1929-1930,

New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1993. Paperback. Good. 7 1/2 x 9, 150 pgs, b&w photos. The story of Robert Louis Stevenson's journey to American from Scotland and then across America by train to California.

New York: St Martin's Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 347 pgs. In the case made famous by the film, "The Thin Blue Line", an innocent man is convicted in Dallas, and sues the State.

La Jolla, CA: Prospect Avenue Press, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 113 pgs, b&w historical photos.

London: John Murray, 1849. Second edition. Hardcover. Good+. 4 1/2 x 7, 332 pgs. First hand account of travels, personal courage and resourcefulness through a very primitive and unexplored Mexico. Some foxing on pages at front and back of book.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. First, thus. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 298 pgs, sections of b&w photos. Abbey's long awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends. Signed and inscribed to MH Dutch Salmon.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 191 pgs, index, notes. A good anthology of carrefully selected readings on the porfiriato which demonstrates that the thirty-five year dictatorship (1876-1910) was indeed a pivotal period in the economic and political development of modern Mexico.

Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 64 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations. A nice glossy souvenir type history of the Alamo.

Anchorage, AK: Alaska Northwest Books, 1976. 19th Edition. Paperback. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 224 pgs, index, b&w maps. An indispensable reference for those who are traveling to the north or those who already know and love it but want to impress others with their encyclopedic knowledge of Alaska.

League City, TX: Published/Printed by the author, 1996. First edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 86 pgs. Poetry.

New York: Time-Life Books, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 240 pgs, b&w historical photos. Looks at the settling of Alaska; the people, the riches to be had, exploring the interior, and more. Brown padded leather. Bottom of most pages have some slight damp wrinkling.

New York: Knopf, 1998. Two are first editions, The Crossing is a Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 302, 426 and 292 pgs. McCarthy's classic trilogy.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of NM Press, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 7 x 11, 86 pgs, b&w photos. The author includes over 30 poems culled from the last 25 years which truly showcase his life and soul, a soul that was kidnapped by rodeo and stolen by poetry. His poems and the accompanying photographs by Barbara Van Cleve capture the grit of the rodeo style.

Published/Printed by the author, 2010. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 376 pgs. Two western novels in one.

Montana: Montana Magazine, 1998. Paperback. Very Good+. 8 1/2 x 11, 206 pgs, color maps and photos. The authors have walked in the footsteps of the Corps of Discovery, and paddled their canoe in the wake of the expedition's pirogues. They know this country and they know how to write and what information tourists need. This is a perfect guide for a family or a group of campers following Lewis and Clark on their great adventure.