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The Life and Adventures of Christopher Carson the Celebrated Rocky Mountain Hunter, Trapper, and Guide by Burdett, Charles - 1860
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The Life and Adventures of Christopher Carson the Celebrated Rocky Mountain Hunter, Trapper, and Guide
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Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860. Original cloth binding. Color has faded significantly. Edgewear, corners bumped and show some fraying. Private library bookplate on front endpaper, former owner's name opposite. Rear yellow endpaper missing through to other side, about 1 inch by 4.5 inch portion missing. Some soil to page edges. Text block generally white and bright. Binding is holding fine. Front free endpaper and first blank pulled away from binding at bottom for approx. one inch. Illustrated frontispiece, tissue intact. Illustrations throughout.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated.
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- Keywords Western Americana, Biography, Kit Carson, Old West
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LAMY OF SANTA FE HIS LIFE AND TIMES
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AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE WEST:; Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partially Civilized Nations Differing Entirely From Those Of The Present Indians, Peopled America, Many Centuries Before Its Discovery By Columbus. And Inquiries Into Their Origin, With A Copious Description of many of their stupendous Works, now in ruins. With Conjectures Concerning What may Have Become Of Them. Compiled From Travels, Authentic Sources, And The Researches Of Antiquarian Societies. Third Edition, Revised
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Albany: Printed by Hoffman and White, 1833. Third Edition, Revised. Full Leather. Very Good. 400pp; folding frontispiece and folding map of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Old sheep, expertly rebacked with gilt spine rules and the original red leather label; endbands rolled in period style. 8.5" x 5.25" [Howes, USiana P589. Sabin 65484. Field, Indian Bibliography 1245. Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 6755: "Derisive reference to the Book of Mormon." Decker 35:566.].
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The Colorado River and Ehrenburg, Arizona, (Stereo Card)
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[1877]: Continental Stereoscopic Company. 1 Photograph print on stereo card showing adobe buildings at Ehrenburg with adobe buildings and lean to's at the Colorado River. OCLC locates that only copy at the Library of Congress. upper front corner has chip but not extending to photograph. Carl Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers notes he worked out of Prescott and also did work in Tucson.
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Kaniksu: Stories of the Northwest
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Sandpoint: Keokee Co., Publishing, 1994. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good +. Thomas Hunter. Limited collector's edition of 225 copies. This is number 76. Octavo, grey gilt-stamped cloth with grizzly bear motif. 142, (3)pp. Illustrated by Thomas Hunter. Very good or better. This copy has an original watercolor by Thomas Hunter on the front free endpapers. The image is titled as follows: "The train from Spokane ran through the tunnel in the Bitterroot Mountains". It is signed, dated and titled by the artist. The limitation statement on the half-title is also in the hand of the artist.BIBLIO-LIVE-3.
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GOLDEN SONGS OF THE GOLDEN STATE; [Collection of poems about California selected by Wilkinson]
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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition. Includes 3 poems by Wilkinson who provides a 9-page foreword describing her selection process. Also includes poems by Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Sterling, Bayard Taylor, Edwin Markham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joaquin Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Harriet Monroe, et al. (Refreshingly, it would appear that around 40% of the poems are by women.) 12mo green cloth boards stamped in gilt and yellow; 153 pages including index. Bright and near fine with just a touch of minor wear; in good, somewhat stained and edge-worn dust jacket with large chip from base of spine extending slightly to front and back panels but nonetheless bright and attractive. Scarce to rare in dust jacket.
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BORN OF THE SUN
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1959. BORN OF THE SUN- John H. Culp- William Sloane Associates- New York- 1959- 1st Edition-1st Printing- 1959 on copyright and title page- $4.95 dj price on inner flap- Hardcover:-8vo- Near FINE/VG dj is unclipped at $4.95, light rubs at extremities, some chipping at crown of spine, bright and clean- 1/2 orange cloth and brown boards are tight and square- 444pp are clean, no tears or writing- SEE PHOTOS- Jacket art by Ezra Jack Keats- Author's first novel- "An epic novel of youth in a young land, overflowing with the excitement and color of early Texas adn the cattle trails- authentic Americana at it's best."- A scarce and very collectible western- Fiction-western-west-frontier-Texas-Americana (3413) . 1st Edition-1st Printing. Cloth. Near FINE/VG. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Palacios By-The-Sea.: The Friendly Land that Loves a Playmate.
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Chamber of Commerce. Palacios By-The-Sea. The Friendly Land that Loves a Playmate. Dallas, Texas: Melton Printing Co. [Circa 1923]. Pictorial wraps. One sheet 48 x 64 cm folded to 24 x 32 cm. Illustrated. Map. Edge wear, reinforced with tissue. Good.OCLC shows no holdings. Promoting both agriculture and tourism. Date is from one of the testimonial letters mentioning the crop of 1922.
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Tour the Columbia Gorge via the Columbia River Highway & Evergreen Highway: from tidewater to the Inland Empire.
by [AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY]. [BURNHAM, Howard Johnson]
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[Vancouver, WA: Mid-Columbia Chamber of Commerce, 1932]. Tall 8vo. 4 x 8.8 in. 15, [1] pp., printed in green & black throughout, with photo illustrations, centerfold pictorial map by Burnham showing routes along Evergreen & Columbia River Highways. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, splendid wraparound Art Deco cover art of the Columbia River Gorge by Burnham (slight shelfwear), NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce photo-illustrated travel guide to the Columbia River Gorge, by driving the Evergreen Highway on the Washington side past Beacon Rock and along the Columbia River Highway as far as Celilo Falls and The Dalles. The charming pictorial map by Burnham shows mountaineers on Mt. St. Helens, skiers on Mt. Hood, fishermen in Washougal and on Merwin Lake, sailing on the Columbia River, and more. Burnham (1900-1985) was at the time the Chairmen of the Vancouver City Planning Commission, and a fervent advocate of tourism improvements, pushed for reconstructing the Fort Vancouver…
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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chief city of a new empire in the great Southwest.: Two Large Fold Out Plates
by H. B. Hening; E Dana Johnson
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[New Mexico] H. B. Hening; E Dana Johnson. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chief city of a new empire in the great Southwest. Albuquerque, N.M.: Press of the Albuquerque Morning Journal. 1908. Tan pictorial wraps. 28 x 21 cm. Illustrated. [43] pp. Cover wear, edge chips; interior very good. OCLC shows 14 holdings. Compiled by H.B. Hening and E. Dana Johnson and published with the endorsement of the City Government of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Commercial Club and with the approval of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration. Great photographs including two large panoramas of Albuquerque and the Santa Fe train station.
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Flint Spears; Cowboy Rodeo Contestant
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Will James. [8.5x6in]; xiv, 269 pp., [38], frontispiece color illustration of cowboy on bucking bull by James, 29 illustrations with one double page and others in text, 21 black and white images of rodeo action with commentary; Red-orange linen covers with dark blue ink lettering on front and spine between six ink bands, all edges trimmed; Cream dust jacket with cream lettering in a gray field on front and spine, red bands on spine, color illustration (same as frontispiece) on front, black and white image of bucking horse and rider with description of the book and rodeos on back; Minimal shelf wear to covers, edges or corners with light rubbing, light age toning of text; Some shelf wear to dust jacket with age toning, small chips and closed tears along top and bottom edges, significant darkening of spine and at front and back joints, not price clipped. [Frazier p. 120]. William Roderick James (1892-1942), a…
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The Life and Adventures of Christopher Carson the Celebrated Rocky Mountain Hunter, Trapper, and Guide
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Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860. Hardcover. VG. Rebound hard back, blue cloth with some foxing, still nice tight copy. 12mo - over 6ľ" - 7ľ" tall. 374 pp, 22 pp of ads, 6 engraved plates including frontispiece.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife
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Kansas City, KS: E. B. Barnett, Publisher Book. VG. Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Book is blue cloth covered boards with paste-on American flag on front. The book has minor shelf edge wear with no other defects to note. No date - circa 1919. 91 pages with black and white frontis - a picture of the author in fancy dress in Washington in 1909. Married to an officer of the 2nd Cavalry in 1866, Sargent relates to experiences at Fort Bidwell, Fort Walla Walla, to Arizona. Four years at Fort Huachuca, Fort Bowie, to Fort Logan, Colorado and at Fort Wingate. .
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Defending Eden. New Mexican Pioneers in the San Bernardino Valley.
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THE HELMET OF MAMBRINO
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Thus. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Near Fine. (xx), 1, 21, 1 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Gilt spine-titling. 5 1/4" x 8". Slipcase. Limited to 350 copies printed by The University of California Press. Per the Introduction, "'The Helmet of Mambrino' well supports the claim of (Clarence) King's friends that his casual conversation often equalled the best literature of his day, for this letter to a friend was undoubtedly produced spontaneously without thought of publication." A beautifully produced small book. Neat pictorial bookplate at front pastedown; small bookseller's stamp removal scar to rear pastedown, but a Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus (slight abrasions at opening ends) slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.
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THE GATHERING OF ZION. THE STORY OF THE MORMON TRAIL
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New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
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Philo White's Narrative Of A Cruize In The Pacific To South America And California On The U.S. Sloop-Of-War Dale 1841-1843; Edited by Charles L. Camp
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Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.
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Los Fundadores
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"Herein are listed the first families of California and also other persons with family names that were in California 1769-1785 except those who died at San Diego in 1769."
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Legislative History: Arizona, 1864-1912
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Phoenix: Manufacturing Stationers Inc., 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition; possibly rebound, as the date is stamped on the spine but not recently; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; vg (spine ends bumped and rubbed; top corner of front board bumped; edges and pages toning); ten fine folding maps, 399pp incl. index.
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Abstract of the Official Record of Proceeding of the Reno Court of Inquiry
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Harrisburg, PA; (1954): Stackpole Co. First Edition. Octavo. Convened at Chicago, Illinios, 13 January 1879. xxx, 303 p. illus., port., maps (part fold.) Vital and revealing testimony of participants in the Battle of the ittle Big Horn. Battlefield map endpapers. Bound in gray cloth lettered in blue, spine lettering blue, in clipped dust jacket with some cipping to head and edge wear.
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The Hunters' Feast; or, Conversations Around the Camp-Fire
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London. Thomas Hodgson. [1854]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. 16cm, The First Edition, 336p., without the series title, in quarter tan russian, black raised bands, gilt rule borders in the panels, gilt panel devices and titles, french marbled boards and endpapers, attractive heraldic bookplate, some slight wear on the board edges else very good to fine copy (ILC). ~Loeber R-32. Sadleir 3662. Sabin 69051, indicates London, 1855. ~ Stories of hunting in the Americas by Irish adventure author, hunter and naturalist, Mayne Read (1818-1883). Animals hunted and studied include bears, buffalo, cougar passenger pigeons, raccoons, muskrat, wild hogs, vicuna, squirrel, deer, moose, and wolves. "Hunters' Feast" first appeared in serial form in 1854.
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