AAGAARD'S AFRICA.; A Hunter Remembers.
Washington DC: National Rifle Association, 1991. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 196 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. The author's lifetime of hunting experiences in his native Kenya. More
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THE BIOLOGY OF THYSANOSOMA ACTINIOIDES (CESTODA: ANOPLOCEPHALIDAE) A PARASITE OF DOMESTIC AND WILD RUMINANTS.
Las Cruces, NM: NMSU Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin, 1973. Staplebound Pamplet. 6 x 9, 69 pgs, photos, illustrations, charts. Study of tape worm parasites. More
GOODBYE MOUNTAIN MAN!.
New Castle, PA: Privately Printed, 1989. Fourth edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 112 pgs, b&w photos. A look at great mountain men of yesterday, their crafts and ways of life. Full of fun and woods-lore. More
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WARNER GLENN; A Glimpse Into The American West
Douglas, AZ: Ed Ashurst Publishing, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10 323 pgs, b&w photos throughout. "Warner Glenn epitomizes the ruggedness of the Southwest. There are a small group of ranchers who live and thrive in one of our country's most inhospitable - and dramatic - environments: the Southern..... More
FRONTIER FORTS AND OUTPOSTS OF NEW MEXICO.
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019. Paperback. 6 x 9, 159 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos. Includes descriptions of little-known yet highly important Civil War battles, the tragedies of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache internments, and other dramatic frontier stories. More
DANCING IN THE MOVIES.
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 144 pgs. Encompassing a vast gamut of personalities, situations, and emotions, these stories penetrate our motives for doing what is right. Won the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. Signed and inscribed..... More
HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE BLACK RANGE; The Real Story of the Lost Adams Diggings
Colorado CIty, CO: Frontier Shadows, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 268 pgs, leather bound, color photos throughout. The evidence laid out herein clearly shows that the Lost Adams Diggings are located in the Black Range and not in any of the other places that some who have searched..... More
THE TEXAS BORDER.; And Some Borderliners.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 440 pgs, b&w photos, paperback "guide" tucked in at back endsheet. Amusing, extraordinary and informative stories of the Texas Border: spindletop, the bloody Salt Wars, the King Ranch, the Alamo, Big Bend National Park, and much more. Spine of..... More
THEY CALLED HIM "WILDCAT".
Marshfield, MO: Pendleton Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 137 pgs, b&w photos and drawings. The life and legend of V.E. "Wildcat" Lynch, born in 1884, in Missouri and who lived most of his life in Maine. A famous hunter and sportsman, his specialty was hounddogs and bobcats!..... More
PORTRAITS FROM NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE.
New York: Tasche, 1997. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 71/2, 576 pgs, sepia photo reproductions. The 81 sepia prints contained within are part of Curtis's monumental work of 2500 photographs. His immense project, while well-known, was not widely viewed before his death, because the size of the original sets were so..... More
MOGOLLON MOUNTAIN MAN NAT STRAW; Grizzly Hunter and Trapper.
Tucson, AZ: Sanpete Publications, 2003. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 229 pgs, index, b&w historical photos, foreword by Marc Simmons. The life story of Robert Nelson "Nat" Straw, legendary Gila mountain man and grizzly bear and mountain lion hunter. More
FIREARMS AUCTION CATALOGS; 2 Catalogs - December 13, 2009 and March 7, 2010
Milford, NH: J.C. Devine, Inc., 2010. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 135 pgs each, b&w and color photos of the firearms to be sold. Includes price ranges. More
THE BEN LILLY LEGEND.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 237 pgs. The biography of the famous hunter, houndman, & mountain man. Details Mr. Lilly's life from homesteader/hunter days in the deep South to his lion & bear hunting days in the West. This reprint has..... More
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BILLY-THE-KID.
Las Cruces, NM: Barbed Wire Publishing, 2002. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 26 pgs. Western satire at its finest. More
MINK, MARY AND ME.
Ripley, WV: John Houben, 2020. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 260 pgs, section of b&w photos. The true story of a family's experiences living and trapping in the North Woods of Mackenzie Territory, Canada in the early part of the 20th century. More
I'D RATHER BE RABBIT HUNTING.
Smithfield, PA: LinDavid Productions, 1997. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 218 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Stories of rabbit hunting with beagles on islands in Michigan, as well as cottontail thickets in New York, Ohio, West Virginia and around the author’s home in Pennsylvania. More
THE DANGER.
New York: Putnams, 1984. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 320 pgs. Francis' mystery with Andrew Douglas who works for a company specializing in returning kidnap victims to their families. When Italy's foremost woman jockey is kidnapped, then a racehorse owner's son and finally the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club, Douglas..... More
THE MAGIC OF BLOOD.
New York: Grove Press, 1994. Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 288 pgs. Stories of the Southwest working class by the Chicano storyteller whose work has been likened to Chekhov and Gogol. More
THE MAVERICK QUEEN.
New York: Walter J. Black, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 246 pgs. A nice reprint of Grey's thrilling story of the Old West. Still has protective wrapper. More
AMERICANA AS TAUGHT TO THE TUNE OF A HICKORY STICK.
New York: Women's National Book Association, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 92 pgs, b&w illustrations, introduction by Mary Ellen Chase. Material from popular elementary textbooks, beginning with The New England Primer of 1643. More
LAST TRAIN TO EL PASO; The Mysterious Unsolved Murder of a Cattle Baron
Ft. Worth, TX: Cross Timbers Press, 2014. Paperback. 6 x 9, 263 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Thomas Lyons, a prominent Grant County civic leader, owned a ranching enterprise spread over 1.5 million acres. He was murdered not long after he arrived at Union Station in El Paso..... More
THEY NEVER SURRENDERED.; Bronco Apaches of the Sierra Madres, 1890-1935.
Tucson, AZ: Westernlore Press, 1993. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 205 pgs, index, biblio, b&w historical photos. The story of the Apaches who never surrendered; and of Francisco Fimbres, a Sonoran rancher who relentlessly pursued; and those who fought the "last" Apache campaign during the Great Depression. More
THE THRILL OF THE CHASE; Stories of Hunters, Hounds and Hunts of the Past
Powder Springs, GA: Dog Days Publishing, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 318 pgs, b&w photos. This is the second book in the series of stories of hunting, hounds and houndsmen. It includes accounts of past hunts and photos of the hunts, dogs and hunters who made it all..... More
FIREARMS IN THE AMERICAN WEST 1700-1900.
England: The Crowood Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 10, 176 pgs, b&w photos. This book tells the story of the guns used in the west during this period, which included the Indian Wars, The Civil War, and the Gold Rushes. More
OLD MOSE - KING OF THE GRIZZLIES.
Monte Vista, CO: Adobe Village Press, 2002. Paperback. 6 x 9, 106 pgs, historical photos. Tells the story of a renegade grizzly that killed at least one man & a lot of livestock and eluded capture for two decades in central Colorado around 1900 until houndman James Anthony ran him..... More