HUNTER, J[ohn] Marvin. Trail Drivers of Texas. New intro. by Harry Sinclair Drago. N.Y.: Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., 1963. 2 vols. xxviii, 549; vii, 549-1070pp. Portraits. Half leather and tan boards, gilt spine titles & tops. Publisher's slipcase. A fine set. One of 97 specially bound and numbered copies. Signed by Drago.....
LEONARD, Zenas. Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836. Reprinted from the Rare Original of 1839. Edited by W.F. Wagner. Cleveland, 1904. Illus. maps. 317pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth. Howes L-264. Limited to 520 copies.Inscribed by the editor.
McCONNELL, H.H. Five Years a Cavalryman; or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, Twenty off years ago. Jacksboro, Texas, 1889. 1st ed. Orig. cloth. 319pp. Howes M-59. Adams Herd-1380. A very scarce book printed for the author by a local press on pink paper. the author was.....
[MERRIAM, C. Hart, ed.]. Harriman Alaska Expedition... New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902-5. 9 (of 13) Vols. Vols. 1, 3, 4, 8-13. Frontises, illus., chromolithographs, photogravures, maps. Orig. gilt-decorated cloth, T.e.g. Vols. 4, 8. 20, and 11 in original green cloth dustjackets. Ex-library with bookplates and spine numbers, perforarted.....
(CALIFORNIA). [MUNRO-FRASER, J.P.] History of Contra Costa County, California, Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography and Description.... San Francisco: W.A. Slocum & Co., 1882. (iii)-vi, xiii-710pp. 67 portraits. Full leather. Restored copy, neatly recased with new end leaves, edges of a few leaves frayed, bookplate removed. Very good. Howes C-718.....
PARKER, Samuel. Journal of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the Direction of the A.B.C.F.M. Containing a Description of the Geography, Geology, Climate, Productions of the Country, and the Numbers, Manners, and Customs of the Natives: with a Map of Oregon Territory. Ithaca, NY: Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlet.....
(CALIFORNIA). PLAYER-FROWD, J.G. Sixth Months in California. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1872. 164pp. plus publisher's advts. Orig. green cloth. Some rubbing to corners and spine ends. Very good. An Englishman in California. Contains chapters on the Sierras, Yosemite, mines and mining, San Francisco, agriculture, climate, and geology.
(LEWIS AND CLARK). QUAIFE, Milo M., ed. The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sargeant John Ordway Kept on the Expedition of Western Exploration, 1803-1806. Madison, Wis., 1916. 1st ed. Illus. maps (two folding). facs. 444pp. Fine in orig. cloth. Howes L-318.
RICHARDSON, Rupert Norval. The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement. A century and a half of savage resistance to the advancing white frontier. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1933. 1st ed. Illus. 424pp. Orig. cloth. Fine copy.
RUSSELL, Osborne. Journal of a Trapper or Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834-1843. Being a General Description of the Country, Climate, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains.... [Boise, Idaho], 1921. 2nd ed. 149pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes R-537. One of the classic fur trade books. The second edition contains.....
SANTA ANNA, Antonio Lopez de. The Eagle. The Autobiography of Santa Anna. Edited by Ann Fears Crawford. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1967. 1st ed. Illus. xix, 299pp. Orig. morocco-backed boards, publisher's slipcase. Fine. Limited to 135 copies. An original broadside announcing one of Santa Anna's presidential decrees is laid in...
SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Notes on the Iroquois; or, Contributions to American History, Antiquities and General Ethnology. Albany, N.Y., 1847. 1st ed. Large 8vo. Illus. with two fine chromolithographs depicting an Indian chief and Pocahontas, as well as other woodcuts in the text. xv, 498pp. plus advts. A very good copy.....
SMALLEY, Eugene V. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad. N.Y., 1883. 1st ed. Large paper copy. [26] 5-437pp. Six maps, two folding. Orig. full morocco with railroad initials in gilt on front cover, t.e.g. A little scuffing to spine. A very good unopened copy. Howes S-561. Howes calls for "48pls".....
WAGNER, Henry R. The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. 2 vols. Lg. 4tos, in slip case. Berkeley, 1937. 1st ed. Illus. with 40 reproductions of maps(12 of which are folding). Fine set in d/js in publisher's box. Howes W-7. An excellent and extensive account.....
WEBB, William Seward. California and Alaska and Over the Canadian Pacific Railway. N.Y. & London, 1890. 4to. xix, 190pp. plus 92 plates (4 etchings, the rest photogravures). Full leather with gilt stamping. Recased with the major portion of the original backstrip laid down, edges scuffed, front e.p. detached, interior clean.....
WHITE, David A., comp. News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865: Original Narratives of Overland travel and Adventure Selected from the Wagner-Camp and Becker Bibliography of Western Americana. Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996-2001. 4to. 8 Vols. [with] WHITE, David A., comp. Plains & Rockies, 1800-1865: One Hundred.....
WHITE, John. Sketches from America: Part I - Canada; Part II - A Pic-Nic to the Rocky Mountains; Part III - The Irish in America. London, Sampson, 1870. [8], 373, [16 ads] pp. Original cloth. 1st edition. Very good copy. Howes W-358. Adams Herd 2505. Part II contains the description.....
(NORTH DAKOTA). Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Grand Forks, ND: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1906-1925. 1st eds. 7 vols. Illus., portraits, maps. Vols. 1-4 in later cloth, Vols. 5-7 in orig. cloth. Light scattered foxing, else a very good or better set. Articles include.....
ALLEN, William A. Adventures with Indians and Game or Twenty Years in the Rocky Mountains. Chicago, 1903. 1st ed. Octavo; pp. [1]-250, 253-264, 267-302; frontispiece and 25 plates, all but 6 part of pagination, plus 2 illustrations in text. A very good copy in publisher's half roan and marbled boards.....
ASHTON, John. Historic Ravenswood: Its Founder and Its Cattle. [Columbia, MO: Printed by E.W. Stephens Publishing Co., 1926]. 1st ed. 157pp. Portrait frontis., plates. Orig. blindstamped cloth with pictorial pastedown on front board in custom cloth slipcase. A very good or better copy. One of 50 numbered copies. History of.....
AUDUBON, John W. Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850. Being the Ms. Record of a Trip from New York to Texas, and an Overland Journey Through Mexico and Arizona to the Gold-Field of California. With Biographical Memoir by His Daughter Maria R. Audubon. Introduction, Notes and Index by Frank Heywood Hodder. Cleveland.....
CHITTENDEN, Hiram M. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River. Life and Adventures of Joseph LaBarge, Pioneer Navigator and Indian Trader.... N.Y., 1903. 1st ed. Two vols. Illus. map. xiv, 461pp. Very good, untrimmed set in orig. cloth. Bkpls. removed. Howes C-391. Limited to 950 sets.
CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. Illustrated. xiii,[4],702 pp. 8vo. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889. Second edition. Original green cloth. Very good. Luthert High Spot #5; Dustin #77; Rader 1009; Smith #2186.
FORBES, Alexander. California: A History of Upper & Lower California from Their First Discovery to the Present Time Comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A Full View of the Missionary Establishments and Condition of the Free & Domesticated Indians with an Appendix Relating to.....
HAGEDORN, Hermann. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. 1st ed. xxvi,491 pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits, map endpaper. Orig. clothbacked boards. Some light sunning to front board, else a very good or better copy. Theodore Roosevelt's life on the frontier. One of 375 numbered large paper.....