Search Results: Authors starting with U from High-Lonesome Books

Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good+ DJ. 8 x 10, 162 pgs, color photos throughout. Foreword by Governor George Sinner. A collection of essays by leading Western writers looking at the future of the misunderstood region.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen press, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, AZ, 2000. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 258 pgs. Novel of northern New Mexico and of the Hispanic and Anglo cultures; heavy on atmosphere, local beliefs, and familial connections. Signed by the author.

Las Cruces, NM: Published/Printed by the author, 2007. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 140 pgs. Novel, set in New Mexico, crime, politics, deception, revenge, and romance.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 7 x 9 1/2, 395 pgs, index, biblio, b&w illustrations. A comprehensive study of Indian societies from the first Stone Age hunters to the American citizens of today. Begins with the first migrations from Siberia to Alaska.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good+. 4 1/2 x 7, 418 pgs. Contributions from Jack London, John Wesley Powell, John Muir, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Victor Hugo, and more.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 320 pgs. Not only introduces you to the wonderful world of bowhunting, it will take you through all the levels - from beginner to expert. Did you get a deer last season with your bow? Did you even see a buck - or bull elk, bear, moose, mulie, or pronghorn? If you answered 'No' to any of these questions, this is just the book for you. In fact, it's for you even if you answered 'Yes'. Why? Because this is the most detailed, up-to-date, fact-filled book on bowhunting you can find.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2002. Third edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 320 pgs. Not only introduces you to the wonderful world of bowhunting, it will take you through all the levels - from beginner to expert. Did you get a deer last season with your bow? Did you even see a buck - or bull elk, bear, moose, mulie, or pronghorn? If you answered 'No' to any of these questions, this is just the book for you. In fact, it's for you even if you answered 'Yes'. Why? Because this is the most detailed, up-to-date, fact-filled book on bowhunting you can find.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. First, thus. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 308 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. This is the first book to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career. The author describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 325 pgs, index, b&w historical photos, maps. The dramatic events of the final half-century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. First, thus. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 384 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos and maps, mapped endsheets. The story of how the blueclad frontiersmen of the Regular and Volunteer Armies skirmished with the Indians in the West: protecting the settlements, policing travel routes, their achievements and their failures between 1848 and 1865.

New York: Henry Holt, 1993. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 413 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical photos and illustrations. A vivid historical biography corrects the many misconceptions about the life of the Native American leader who resisted the full force of the U.S. government for twenty-five years.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 116 pgs, index, notes. This book, based upon the first of the Calvin P. Horn Lectures on Western History and Culture, the author examines four principal actors in the Lincoln County War: Alexander McSween, Billy the Kid, Col. Nathan A.M. Dudley and Lew Wallace (Governor of New Mexico).

New York: Berkeley Books, 2003. Second printing. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 370 pgs, two sections of b&w photos and drawings. Interesting history of the Rangers' beginnings revealing the rather rag-and-bone, catch-as-catch-can beginning in a time when the Texas frontier was very far from being stable or safe.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 9, 302 pgs, index, biblio, notes, b&w historical photos & illustrations. The best portrait to date of the real Kid. The facts are meager and confusing but Utley has woven them into a clear, graceful and rich anrrative.