REMINGTON, Frederic. MILES, Nelson A. Personal Recollections and Observations of General...Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War...the Story of His Indian Campaigns With Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire. Copiously Illustrated by Frederic Remington, et al. Chicago and N.Y., 1896. 1st issue. 590pp.....
MILLER, Lewis B. A Crooked Trail. The Story of a Thousand-Mile Saddle Trip up and down the Texas Frontier in Pursuit of a Runaway Ox, with Adventures by the Way. Pittburgh, [1908]. 1st ed. 182pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good. Howes M-611. Adams Herd 1489. "Published originally as a serial.....
(TEXAS). MORFI, Juan Agustin. History of Texas 1673-1779. Albuquerque: The Quivira Society, 1935. 1st ed. 2 vols. 242; (6), 243-496 pp. Illus. Corners slightly bumped, else a very good set in orig. paper over boards with gilt-lettered cloth spine back. HOWES M-792. 1 of 500 copies. "First complete publication in.....
MUMEY, Nolie. The Life of Jim Baker, 1818-1898. Trapper, Scout, Guide and Indian Fighter. Denver: The World Press Inc., 1931. 1st ed. Large folding maps. illus. 234pp. Orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label on front cover. A fine copy. Howes M-889. Limited to 250 copies signed by the author. Very.....
PALLISER, John. Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies. London: John Murray, 1853. 1st ed. xiv, 326 pp. Frontis, engraved title page, illus. Later 19th-century cloth. Light wear to spine ends, cloth faded, else a very good copy. HOWES P-43, "aa." Graff 3168. Wagner-Camp 228:1. Rader 2578.....
POTTER, Jack. Lead Steer and Other Tales. Clayton, NM: Leader Press, 1939. 1st ed. [6],116,[2]pp. Illus., portraits, plates. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, else a very good copy. HOWES P-513. Campbell 72. Adams, Rampaging Herd 1822, "Scarce." Adams, Six-Guns, 1750. Dobie, p.114. Presentation inscription from the author on front.....
RUXTON, George F. Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. London: John Murray, 1847. 1st ed. viii,332pp. Contemporary 3/4-calf and marbled boards, gilt-decorated raised spine bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Fine. HOWES R-553, "aa." Graff 3620. Field 1356. Rittenhouse 499. Sabin 74501. Wagner-Camp 139:1. George.....
SCHULTZ, James Willard. Red Crow's Brother: Hugh Monroe's Story of His Second Year on the Plains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. 1st ed. Frontis., illus. map endpapers, Orig, cloth, d/j. Light wear to d/j, else near fine. Stories about Indians in the Northwest. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. Rare in.....
SMEDLEY, William. Across the Plains in '62. [Denver: Privately printed, 1916]. 1st ed. Orig. cloth-backed printed boards. 56pp. Portrait frontis., plates, map. Very light rubbing to boards, else near fine. HOWES S-566, "aa." Graff 3820. Mintz 427. Streeter Sale 3220. Mintz 427. One of a very small edition, possibly only.....
STRAHORN, Carrie Adell. Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. 1st ed. xxv,673pp. Portrait frontis., illus., plates. Orig. cloth with pictorial pastedown, pictorial.....
STUART, Granville. Forty Years as Seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart, Gold-Miner, Trader, Merchant, Rancher and Politician. Edited by Paul C. Phillips. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. 1st ed. 2 Vols. 272;265pp. Frontises., plates, portraits. Orig. cloth, T.e.gs. Cloth lightly rubbed, minor wear to spine.....
[VOLLMER, Carl G.W.]. Kalifornien och Guldfebern. Guldgrafvarnes, Mormonernas och Indianernas seder och Bruck, Skildrade, under en Resa Genom Vestra Nordamerika.Af Dr. W.F.A. Zimmermann [pseud]. Stockholm: C.H. Falhstedts Forlag, [1862]. Illus. with 8 plates in color. Orig. calf-backed boards. A very good copy. Howes V-140. Wheat Gold Rush 238. Flake 9491.....
WAGNER, Henry R. The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794. An Annotated Bibliography. Albuquerque: The Quivira Society, 1937. 2 vols. Illus. 553pp. Orig. cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Spines a bit soiled, else a very good set. First edition. Limited to 501 copies.
[WARNER, Juan J. et al.]. An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California. From the Spanish Occupancy, by the Founding of the Mission San Garbriel Archangel, September 8, 1771, to July 4, 1876. Los Angeles: Louis Lewin & Co., 1876. 1st ed, 2nd issue. 88pp. Orig. printed wrappers in custom.....
ALLEN, W[illiam] A[lonzo]. Sheep Eaters. New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1913. 1st ed. 78pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth. Neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, light tanning, else a very good copy. HOWES A-166. Graff 45. Eberstadt 115:11. Presentation inscription on title page, "To My friend Edward Halmquest, Dr. W......
BENAVIDES, Alonso de. The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. Translated by Mrs. Edward E. Ayer. Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1916. 1st ed. xiii,309pp. 44 plates. Orig. cloth, T.e.g. Cloth lightly rubbed, else very good or better. Graff 250. Reese, Best.....
BISHOP, A[lbert] W. Loyalty on the Frontier, or Sketches of Union Men of the South-West; with Incidents and Adventures in the Rebellion on the Border. St. Louis: E.P. Studley, 1863. 1st ed. 8vo. 228pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes B-474. Inscribed by the author. Bishop identifies himself as.....
BOLTON, Herbert E., ed. Historical Memoirs of New California by Fray Francisco Palou. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926. 1st ed. Four vols. A fine set in orig. cloth.
COLT, Mrs. Miriam Davis. Went to Kansas; Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to that Fairy Land, and Its Sad Results; Together With a Sketch of the Life of the Author, and How the World Goes With Her. Watertown: Printed by L. Ingalls & Co., 1862. 1st ed.....
COUES, Elliott, ed. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer: The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garces (Missionary Priest) in His Travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California 1775-1776. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1900. 2 Vols. 1st eds. xxx,312;vii, 313-608 pp. Frontises., illus., maps (including folding maps). Orig. cloth. Fine.....
(NEBRASKA). CURLEY, Edwin A. Nebraska. Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks. Illustrated. N.Y., 1875. 1st American ed. Illus. Folding maps. viii, 433pp. plus advts. Fine in orig. blue pictorial cloth. Adams Herd 625. An immigrant's guide to Nebraska, with chapters on Omaha, and the geography, geology, climate, river, natural resouces, etc......
(TEXAS). DUVAL, J(ohn) C. Early Times in Texas. Austin: H.P.N. Gammel & Co., 1892. 1st ed. 135 & 253pp. A very good copy in orig. flexible cloth. Howes D603.Graff 1188. Basic Texas Books 51."A detailed account of Fannin'scampaign, closing with the massacre. The author...maintains that that Fannin surrendered his men.....
HELPER, Hinton R. The Land of Gold. Reality Versus Fiction. Baltimore: 1855. 1st ed. 300pp. Orig. cloth. Very good. Howes H-401. Sabin-31272. Almost all about California.
HOLLOWAY, Laura C. Howard: The Christian Hero. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. 1st ed. 235pp. Orig. cloth. Spine ends rubbed, rear inner hinge starting, bookplate of Joseph Y. Irwin on front pastedown, library stamp at head of contents page, else very good. Nevins II, p. 70. Not in Dornbusch.....
HUGHES, John T. Doniphan's Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearny's Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan's Campaign against the Navajos; His Unparalleled March upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the Operations of General Price at Santa Fe. With a Sketch of the Life of Col. Doniphan.....