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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2000.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A continuation of the story of 'Hole in the Sky,' his highly praised memoir of his early life on his family's vast ranch in Oregon. This is part memoir, part travel book, ranging from New York and Venice to the… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, (2006). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A book centered on Kit Carsons role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War. Carson - the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the… Read more about this item

Albuquerque:: University of New Mexico Press,, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941)… Read more about this item

Focal Impressions,, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which "captures the romance of Nevada's past as seen by photographer Jeannette Kerr and her husband, geologist John Kerr.. . [it] captures Nevada's abandoned past which reveals a rich panorama of old ghost towns, lapsed mining claims, a daunting landscape and… Read more about this item

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1963, c 1954. Fine in brown marbled paper covered boards with small black panel and gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj), pictorial dust jacket. . 5th printing. Foreword by William H. Kittrell. A title in "The Western Frontier Library." Originally published… Read more about this item

Pullman, WA:: Washington State University Press,, (2005). First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. An account of one of the first widely publicized murder trials in Oregon history. At the 65, Nimrod O'Kelly trekked from Missouri along the Oregon Trail in 1845 and "became one of the first to… Read more about this item

Palo Alto, CA:: Lewis Osborne, , 1969.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in beige linen cloth with gilt lettering on spine, small decoration on front cover. . Limited, numbered first edition. An account which originally appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of August 1853 which describes Kit Carson and the journey from Los Angeles to Taos over… Read more about this item

Boston:: Little Brown,, (1962). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in in very good dust jacket with edgewear and wear to the folds.. First printing. An informal history of the explorers, settlers, fighters from early days of the American West, including well known figures like Sam… Read more about this item

New York:: The Platt and Munk Co.,, 1936.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in orange boards with black lettering and illustration on front cover, no dust jacket. .. First edition. An informative book on cowboys, written for young people and illustrated throughout by H. C. and Lucille Holling, with both full color, full page plates and… Read more about this item

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1958). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the folds, light sunning to spine of dj). First thus. Reminiscences by General D.J. Cook, Superintendant of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association: A condensed criminal history if the Far West. With an introduction by Everett… Read more about this item

[Templeton, CA:]: By the author,, 1999.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of sunning to the spine of the dj and upper edge of back cover.). 2nd printing. A study of the life of the California vaqueros and buckaroos in the… Read more about this item

Boston:: Little Brown,, 1930. . Hardcover first edition -. Very good in rust-colored cloth with orange and black lettering and decorations, no dust jacket. . First printing. A classic of Western Americana. Born among the outlaws of Robbers Roost, Sage turned to a life of crime. "He drifted along the cattle ranges from Mexico to… Read more about this item

Douglas, AZ:: Ed Ashurst Publishing Company,, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in orange boards with black lettering in a fine dust jacket. . First printing. True stories involving people - real cowboys - whom Arizona-born Ashurst knew and worked with. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Mike Capron. Foreword by Fred Fellows. SIGNED by… Read more about this item

Rome, Italy:: INSTITUTUM HISTORICUM SOCIETATIS JESU,, 1954.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.. First edition. In addition to being a Jesuit missionary, Kino was a geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer. During the last 24 years of his life he worked in the Pimera Alta (modern-day Sonora… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1953.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some fading to the spine of the dj) . First edition. An unusual history book - one which focuses on personal experiences. The front cover of the dust jacket describes this as "The American Far West 1865-1900,… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1998.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. His third book, a collection of fourteen essays by a consistently interesting, informative and sometimes provocative writer - . set in eleven states and focusing on the basic struggle for possession of the American West, Among those who… Read more about this item

Ashland, Oregon: : Lewis Osborne,, 1970.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in coarse oatmeal cloth - Columbia Mills hopsaking - with gilt lettering on the spine, and decoration on the front cover. . Limited first edition. Brewerton's account, as a young Lieutenant, of his journey over the Santa Fe Trail in 1848-49, originally published in three installments… Read more about this item

University of Nebraska Press,, (2012). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Using Virgina City, the boomtown Nevada town in the Comstock Lode and once one of the richest places in the country, as a microcosm of the American West, this book shows how archeology can help bring the past… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. An in-depth look at the battle over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places. "Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by… Read more about this item

Stockton, CA:: University of the Pacific,, 1975.. First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing. Includes articles on The Negro in California before 1890 by Thurman, and on Stockton's Black Pioneers by Virginia Struhsaker, the Crabbe Expedition into Sonora Mexico in 1857, the valley town of Ripon and more. References at end of each article. Illustrated… Read more about this item