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1945 Brand Book Containing Twelve Original Papers Relating to Western and Rocky Mountain History

1945 Brand Book Containing Twelve Original Papers Relating to Western and Rocky Mountain History

by BRAYER, Herbert D. (ed)

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Denver: The Westerners, 1946. Popular Edition." Octavo (24cm). Blue and white paper-covered boards; [xiv],251,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, front joint tender and cracking, spine sunned, internally clean: around Very Good. Contains 12 articles on various topics, including Beadle's Dime Novels, the mustang, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, the Mecker Massacre, and "Early Cowboy Days in Wyoming." [62119].
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Army Ballads and Other Poems [Signed and inscribed by author]

Army Ballads and Other Poems [Signed and inscribed by author]

by LEE, Arthur T[racy]

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Location not stated [See description]: Publisher not stated, 1971. Edition not stated. Octavo (17.5cm); brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; 160pp, frontis., 2 plates. Boards moderately worn, especially about extremities; rear panel soiled; spine sunned, with somewhat faded gilt and torn top joint; front pastedown detached from textblock; interiors show some soiling and creasing to edges; signed and inscribed by the author on dedication page (dated May 1874). Overall Very Good. Colonel Arthur T. Lee had a long and storied career in the U.S. Army. He is especially noted for his art; during his service at Fort Davis, he produced many sketches of the area, thus creating an early visual document of the American southwest. Lee illustrated two b/w plates and the frontispiece for this volume of his poetry, which examines the lot of the soldier (of the day) through lyric and rhyme; he also provides a section of footnotes. No publication information is listed in this book, save the… Read More
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Army Exploration in The American West 1803-1863

Army Exploration in The American West 1803-1863

by GOETZMANN, William H.

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. Second Printing. Large Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth spine over mottled blue paper covered boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 509pp. Clean and handsome, light bumping to spine ends and a little very slight wear to extremities, a very good, strong copy in a pictoial dustjacket with some fraying and a couple of closed tears to the upper edges and some dustiness to the white rear panel. Internally clean. Two ink inscriptions to the front flyleaf, one of which is signed "Bill" and is most likely authorial. Illustrated throughout with a 16pp. photographic section before the index and a sheaf of Explorer's Maps in a pocket secured to the rear pastedown. A study of the work and importance of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.
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Army Letters From An Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

Army Letters From An Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

by ROE, Frances M.A.

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New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Gilt-titled blue cloth with small pictorial device to front board and spine; x,387pp; photographic frontispiece (portrait) and 10 inserted leaves of plates reproducing pen-and-ink illustrations by I.W. Taber; text illus. A pretty copy, straight and tight, with faint evidence of an old glue repair to front hinge (internal). The author was married to Lt. Col. (U.S. Infantry) Fayette Washington Roe (1850-1916). The text covers the period of Roe's service in the American West, including Colorado and Utah Territories. "While her husband's career has been described as 'unremarkable,' Roe continues to be known on the basis of her book for the accurate picture of Army life it painted...Roe's was the first documented use of the name...Buffalo Soldiers" to describe the African-American infantry and cavalrymen in the west [Wikipedia, "Frances M.A. Roe," 7/2022]. HOWES R-403.
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Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the...

Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast

by RICHARDSON, Albert D.

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Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1867. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt; brown coated endpapers; [vi],i-xvi [17]-572pp; folding map, decorative title page by Thomas Nast, and black and white illustrations throughout. Bookplate of Irene Stillman. Externally rubbed and edgeworn, hinges cracked, with forward roll: Good or better. Published by subscription.
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Buffalo and Beaver

Buffalo and Beaver

by MEADER, Stephen W.; Charles Beck (illus.)

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); mustard yellow pictorial cloth, stamped in brown, in pictorial dustwrapper; 189pp. Dustwrapper toned, with mild soiling and edgewear; heel and crown of spine slightly chipped. Spot of foxing on textblock fore edge, else interiors unblemished and sound. Very Good or Better. It's time for more action and adventure from Stephen W. Meader, this time tracking the story of Jeff Barlow, an Illinois farm boy who goes to spend his sixteenth winter trapping varmints in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, becoming a grizzled mountain man and successful deerskin painter by the end of it—I guess it's what all the kids were doing back in those days. With Charles Beck's b/w text-illustrations throughout. Other advertised Meader books on dustwrapper and within are consistent with this 1960 first edition date.
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Camping on the Trail, Or Some of My Experiences in the Indian Country

Camping on the Trail, Or Some of My Experiences in the Indian Country

by FARROW, Edward S.

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Philadelphia: American Arms Publishing Co, 1902. Octavo (19cm). Green cloth stamped in brown and white; green and white patterned endpapers; 284pp. Bookplate of the War Service Library; Library of Congress stamp to t.p. verso; multiple ownership marks to front blank. A straight copy, rubbed at edges, titling partly rubbed away on spine, sewing slightly loosened, overall Very Good. A guide to military camping and travel in the American West, originally published in 1881 as Mountain Scouting. Includes a section on Chinook Jargon. HOWES F56.
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The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell

The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell

by [GEOLOGICAL SURVEY] RABBITT, Mary C. et al.

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Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1969. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (30cm). Brown and cream pictorial paper-covered boards; [xii],145,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Bumped at corners, else clean and sturdy: Very Good. Geological Survey Professional Paper 669. "A collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River, 1869-1969."With articles by Mary C. Rabbitt, Edwin D. McKee, Charles B. Hunt, and Luna B. Leopold. [63822].
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Crofutt's Grip-Sack Guide of Colorado. A Complete Encyclopedia of the State [Vol. I]

Crofutt's Grip-Sack Guide of Colorado. A Complete Encyclopedia of the State [Vol. I]

by [COLORADO] CROFUTT, Geo. A.

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Omaha: Overland Publishing Co, 1881. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Red paper over boards, stamped in gilt and blind; plain endpapers printed with advertisements; [vi],[23]-183,[1]pp; additional advertisements at rear; folding hand-colored map (detached but present), frontispiece, extensive black and white wood engravings, with folding hand-colored map. Solid but rubbed at edges, with chips at head and tail, internally uniformly toned, folding map neatly detached, with chip to one margin, else whole: Very Good. Extensive traveler's guide to Colorado, including railway information, details of sites and scenes, "nearly one hundred illustrations, and the best map of Colorado ever published" (preface). The notable map by Louis Nell ("Nell's New Topographical and Township Map of Colorado") also includes a view of Leadville, CO, and a railway travel scene on the verso. The "artotype" forntispiece (likely a collotype) depicts 12 "Belles of Colorado," one of them Native American. Though the… Read More
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Diné Bikéyah (The Navajo's Country)

Diné Bikéyah (The Navajo's Country)

by VAN VALKENBURGH, Richard F. ADAMS, Lucy Wilcox and MCPHEE, John C. (editors); Charles Keetsie Shirley (maps)

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Window Rock, AZ: United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Navajo Service, 1941. First Edition. Small quarto (26.25cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; [vi], 180pp, [20]; illus. Former owner's name in ink to front wrapper, with chipping, thin splits, and short tears to same; thin, vertical paint streak to rear wrapper; text remains fresh and clean; Very Good. Guide book and gazeteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions compiled by Richard Fowler Van Valkenburgh, a former Bureau of Indian Affairs worker and long-time archeological assistant with the L.A. County Museum of History, Art and Science. Contains a 4pp key to the Navajo alphabet (palatalization and labialization), an extensive list of Navajo place names, providing detailed information regarding their origins, history, and significance. Illustrated throughout with maps drawn by Charles Keetsie Shirley. Scarce in commerce.
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Forlorn Hope: the Battle of White Bird Canyon and the Beginning of the Nez Perce War

Forlorn Hope: the Battle of White Bird Canyon and the Beginning of the Nez Perce War

by McDERMOTT, John D.

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Boise: Idaho State Historical Society, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 227pp; illus. Tight, square copy with a few tiny spots of soil to covers; Near Fine.
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Fort Phil Kearny: an American Saga

Fort Phil Kearny: an American Saga

by BROWN, Dee

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth linen spine over red cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; map endpapers; 251pp; 4 inserted leaves of unnumbered plates; includes bibliography. Gentle rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight, clean copy, about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap); very slightly sunned on spine panel, with minute wear at head and heel, else crisp and clean; Near Fine. Detailed account by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Fort Kearny, Wyoming and the so-called "Fetterman Massacre" of 1866.
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From '49 to '83 in California and Nevada: Chapters from the Life of George Thomas Marye, A...

From '49 to '83 in California and Nevada: Chapters from the Life of George Thomas Marye, A Pioneer o f'49

by MARYE, George Thomas, Jr.

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San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1923. Second Edition. With complete index. Octavo (20.5cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; [ii],217,[5]pp; 10 halftone plates. Erasure to halftitle; 1944 ownership inscription to title page. Sound, lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, last few leaves rippled: Very Good. COWAN pp.417-18.
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Guide Lines to Educational Relationships Between Farmers and Workers. Findings of a Seminar...

Guide Lines to Educational Relationships Between Farmers and Workers. Findings of a Seminar Attended by Representatives of Organized Workers and Organied Farmers. Issued for a Joint Committee of Organized Farmers and Organized Workers in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota

by [AMERICAN LABOR EDUCATION SERVICE]

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New York: American Labor Education Service, 1957. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled sheets; 21pp. Near Fine. Proceedings of a seminar conducted under the sponsorship of the American Labor Education Service (ALES) and the Northwest Education Conference of Farmers and Workers. Introduction signed in type by Chester A. Graham, "Field Associate." Graham (1892-1980) a long-time labor and pacifist activist; in addition to his work for ALES in the Fifties, he was a prominent field organizer for the National Farmers Union during and after WW2; his papers are held by the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
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Hall Jackson Kelley: Prophet of Oregon

by [OREGON] POWELL, Fred Wilbur

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Portland: Ivy Press, 1917. First Separate Edition. First printing; one of 100 copies according to Howes. Octavo (24cm); printed card wrappers with printed paper spine label; 185pp; frontispiece portrait; 2 folding maps, one inserted plate leaf. External wear, with shallow losses to spine ends and brief splits to wrappers at bound edge; internally tight with early pencil marginalia in an unknown hand; a presentable, Very Good copy. A rarity, privately printed by Powell for distribution to friends. We trace two copies in commerce over the last century: the first in the Soliday sale (1945), another offered by Boston bookseller J.S. Canner in 1967. The work originally appeared serialized in 4 issues of the Oregon Historical Society journal, 1917. HOWES P524.
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The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains
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The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains

by MCCOOK, Henry C[hristopher]

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1882. Octavo (23cm). In red orange publisher's cloth, boards bevelled, titled in gilt on spine; brown coated endpapers; [1-4] 5-188, [2]; one-page prospectus requesting subscribers for McCook's next work, on American Spiders; 13 tinted lithographs, depicting ants and ant habitats. A straight copy, rubbed, especially at extremities, spine darkened, both hinges cracked through and glued; text somewhat browned, but plates bright: Good. An early account of the social habits of American ants, based on research trips to Colorado, Nebraska, and elsewhere in the American West.
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Hunting in the Great West. (Rustlings in the Rockies.) Hunting and Fishing by Mountain and Stream

Hunting in the Great West. (Rustlings in the Rockies.) Hunting and Fishing by Mountain and Stream

by SHIELDS, G. O. ("Coquina")

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Chicago: Donohue Brothers, [n.d.]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth series binding stamped in green and black; vi,ix-[xviii],9-306pp; frontispiece and relief illustrations. Sound, edges rubbed, internally very browned and brittle, rear hinge cracked through but holding: just Very Good. Shields was the editor of the outdoor sports magazine Recreation, where he wrote under the pseudonym Coquina. #61866.
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The Indian Side of the Story. Being a concourse of presentations historical and biographical in...

The Indian Side of the Story. Being a concourse of presentations historical and biographical in character relating to the Indian Wars, and to the treatment accorded the Indians, in Washington Territory east of the Cascade Mountains during the period from 1853 to 1889..

by BROWN, Wm. Compton [William]

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Spokane: Privately Printed (C.W. Hill Printing Co), 1961. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; xiv,469pp; portr. frontispiece, 16 leaves of photographic plates, all inserted ahead of text. Covers slightly dusty, contents clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Somewhat uncommon local history of Native American conflict in Eastern Washington, written from a perspective highly sympathetic to the native tribes. The author was long-time Superior Court judge for Okanogan and Ferry Counties (Washington).
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Joe Meek, the Merry Mountain Man. A Biography. Illustrated with photographs

Joe Meek, the Merry Mountain Man. A Biography. Illustrated with photographs

by VESTAL, Stanley [pseud Walter S. Campbell]

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Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,[1]-336pp; frontispiece and eight unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Previous owner's name ("Earl T. Anderson") on front endpaper, dated 1952; the same hand has annotated the title page, neatly penning the name "Campbell" beside the author's name. A tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00 on front flap), quite bright and clean though a shade sunned on spine panel; Very Good or better. Standard biography of the famous mountaineer and Northwest pioneer. An excellent copy of a sought-after Vestal title.
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Life and Adventures of a Drummer-Boy; or, Seven Years A Soldier

Life and Adventures of a Drummer-Boy; or, Seven Years A Soldier

by LOCKWOOD, James D.

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Albany: John Skinner, 1893. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Taupe cloth stamped in black and grey; plain endpapers; 101,[1]pp; frontispiece. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Bumped at corners, frayed at spine ends, minor dustsoil to cloth, but internally clean: Very Good. Civil War memoir, incluing "campaigns in Wyoming after the Civil War." HOWES L418.
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