NICHOLL, Edith M. Observations of a Ranchwoman in New Mexico. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898. 1st ed. 271pp. Frontis., title vignette, plates. Orig. blindstamped pictorial cloth in custom cloth slipcase. Rear inner hinge starting, cracked internally, very light wear to lower spine end and corners, else a very good copy.....
REVERE, Joseph Warren. A Tour of Duty in California; Including a Description of the Gold Region: and an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the Principal Events Attending the Conquest of the Californias. Edited by Joseph N. Balestier.....
SAVAGE MINING COMPANY. Annual Report of the Savage Mining Company, for the Fiscal Year Ending July 10, 1867. San Francisco: Printed at the Office of the Commercial Herald, 1867. 1st ed. 16pp. Folding map frontis., charts (some folding). Orig. printed wrappers. Front wrapper professionally repaired, wrappers rubbed, light toning, else.....
SCHARMAN, H[erman] B. Scharman's Overland Journey to California. From the Pages of a Pioneer's Diary. Translated from the German. [N.Y.: Privately printed, 1918]. Frontis. 114pp. Orig. green cloth. Howes S-149. Wagner-Camp 217b. Cowan, p. 571. One of 50 copies printed. First edition in English of a narrative first published in.....
(OREGON). (KLAMATH CO.). SISEMORE, Linsy, ed. History of Klamath County, Oregon, Its Resources and Its People. Klamath Falls, OR: 1941. 4to. 1st ed. xix, 598, [6] pp. Illus., portraits. Orig. cloth. Lettering dulled, slightly shaken, else a very good copy.
(UTAH). SLOAN, Edward L., Editor and Compiler. Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogen, Provo, and Salt Lake Cities, for 1884.... Containing A History of Utah, Her Resources, Attractions, Statistics, Etc. With Business Directory of the Territory and General Directories of the Four Principal Cities. Salt Lake City: Printed for.....
TAYLOR, Joseph Henry. Beavers Their Ways and Other Sketches. Washburn, N.D., 1904. 1st ed. Frontis., illus. 178pp. plus advts. Orig. 1/2-cloth and pictorial paper covered boards. Some scuffing to boards, else a very good copy. Howes T-66. Contains much about hunting and trapping in the West with plates illustrating the.....
TOWNSEND, John K. Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c. with a Scientific Appendix. Phila.: Henry Perkins, 1839. 352pp. Rebacked, original blindstamped cloth laid down, spine in matching cloth, black morocco spine label. Light scattered foxing.....
WAGNER, Henry R. The Spanish Southwest 1542-1794. Albuquerque, NM: The Quivira Society, 1937. 2 Vols. 1st ed. 270;275-553 pp. Portrait frontis., facsimile plates, many folding. Orig. cloth-backed paper-covered boards, glassine d/js. A fine set. One of 401 copies. An extensive descriptive bibliography.
(COLORADO). History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado. Containing a History of the State of Colorado, from its earliest settlement to the present time.... Chicago, 1880. 1st ed. 4to. Many plates of buildings and portraits. 652pp. Orig. 3/4 morocco and cloth, a.e.g. A very good copy. Howes.....
(TEXAS). (DENTON CO.) BATES, Edmond F. History and Reminiscences of Denton County. Denton, TX: McNitzky Printing Company, [1918]. 1st ed. xi, 412 pp. Portrait frontis., illus, portraits, folding plate. Later cloth, orig. front label retained. small chip in margin of one leaf, not affecting text, else a very good copy.....
FORREST, Earle R. Missions and Pueblos of the Old Southwest: Their Myths, Legends, Fiestas, and Ceremonies, with Some Accounts of the Indian Tribes and Their Dances; and of the Penitentes. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929. 1st ed. 2 Vols. 386;209pp. Frontises., plates, folding maps. Orig. cloth, T.e.g. Very.....
FURBER, George C. The Twelve Months Volunteer; or, Journal of a Private, in the Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, in the Campaign of Mexico, 1846-7 ... Including a Complete History of the War with Mexico. Cincinnati: Published by U.P. James, 1857. 5th ed. 640 pp. Illus., plans, folding map. Orig. cloth.....
GREENHOW, Robert. The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of North America; Accompanied by a Geographical View and Map of Those Countries, and a Number of Documents as Proof and Illustrations of the History. New-York: D. Appleton & co., 1845.3rd ed., Revised, Corrected.....
LARPENTEUR, Charles. Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri. The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur 1833-1872.... New York, 1898. 2 Vols. 18 maps and plates, plus ads. Portraits. Original cloth, spines gilt. Near fine. Howes C-800. Graff 2404. Rader 2204. Smith 5700. Hubach, p. 77. From an edition.....
OWEN, John. The Journals and Letters of Major John Owen, Pioneer of the Northwest, 1850-1871. Transcribed and Edited from the Original Manuscripts...by Seymour Dunbar: And With Notes to Owen's Texts by Paul C. Phillips. N.Y.: Edward Eberstadt, 1927. Two vols. Maps and plates. A very fine set in publisher's box.....
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. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Rebacked, orig. spine laid down, corners worn, light uniform toning, and small amount of faint scattered foxing, else a very good.....
VOORHEES, Luke. Personal Recollections of Pioneer Life on the Mountains and Plains of the Great West. [Cheyenne, WY: 1920]. 1st ed. 75pp. Portrait. Orig. cloth. Spine very lightly sunned, else a near fine copy. Signed by the author on title page. HOWES V-142. Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 2277 "Contains.....
WISTAR, Isaac Jones. Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905: Half a Century in War and Peace. Phila.: Printed by the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1914. 1st ed. 4to. 2 Vols. 1st ed. 341;191pp. Illus., folding map. Orig. cloth, leather spine labels. A very good or better set. HOWES.....
(WYOMING). BEARD, Frances Birhead, ed. Wyoming from Territorial Days to the Present. Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1933. 1st ed. 3 Vols. 4tos. xxvi;512;523pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Near fine. Volume One covers the history of Wyoming from the earliest exploration through the pioneers.....
CLAY, John. My Life on the Range. Chicago: Privately printed, [1924]. 1st ed. Illus. 366pp. Uncut. T.e.g. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes C-470. A classic. "One of the best histories of the cattle ranges ever published. It contains a vast amount of information nowhere else obtainable."--Peter Decker...
CREMONY, John C. Life Among the Apaches. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1868. 1st ed. 322pp. A near fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes C-879. "A cavalry officer's adventures on the frontiers of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico."
GOVE, Jesse A. The Utah Expedition, 1857-1858. Letters of Capt. Jesse A. Gove, 10th Inf., U.S.A., of Concord, N.H., to Mrs. Gove, and special correspondence of the New York Herald. Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1928. 4to. Illus. 442pp. Orig. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Very good. Howes G-279.....
(COLORADO). (CRIPPLE CREEK). HILLS, Fred. The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, U.S.A. Colorado Springs, CO: Fred Hills, 1900. 1st ed. 4to. Frontis., illus.. plates, maps (including large color folding map in rear pocket). Later cloth. Very old waterstain, else very good. Detailed record of the more than.....
HUGHES, John T. Doniphan's Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan's Campaign Against the Navajos...Illustrated with Plans of Battle Fields, A Map, and Fine Engravings. Cincinnati, 1848. 407pp. plus folding map. Two Frontispiece portraits. Original black cloth. Spine ends a......