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
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Eugene, OR: Oregon Council, Inc of the Federation of Fly Fishers, Inc., 1997. First printing. Spiral Bound. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 94 pgs, b&w photos. Instruction manual on how to tie different kinds of flies. Signed by Gretchen Beatty. More
LA ESENCIA GRAFICA KYRON 1972-1988, MEXICO.
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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
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New York: Sol Lews and Liveright, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 288 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. An interpretation of General Custer's tenure in Texas following the Civil War. Custer, long regarded either as a hero who died with his troops at the Little Bighorn, or as a foolhardy..... More
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Peru, IN: Published/Printed by the author, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 300 pgs, filled with b&w historical photos. Gibbs was a trapper and trap manufacturer in the early 1900s. He was not only instrumental in trap improvement but also in the knowledge of muskrat biology. He made in-depth..... More
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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
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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
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8 1/2, 342 pgs, index. A valuable portrait of Thomas Keam, a key figure in the changing Hopi and Navajo worlds of the late nineteenth century. More
THE WINTER WAR.
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 247 pgs.Story follows the Indian fighting in the Montana Territory in the fateful summer and winter of 1876. The Indian chiefs Crazy Horse, Stitting Bull, and Lightning's Friend for the first and only time had formed a...... More
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New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 342 pgs. Tales of life as a country vet rendered in Herriot's famous style, with skill, grace and savor full of warmth, humor, drama, color and humanity. Damp wrinkling throughout. More
OF BLIND PIGS AND BIG BUCKS; Huntin' Action, Adventures, & Advice
Powder Springs, GA: Blue Jay Book Publishers, 2002. First edition. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 230 pgs, b&w photos. A collection of writings by this popular outdoor magazine writer from the 1960's through the present. Topics include bowhunting, tracking a Utah lion, deerhunting in Nebraska, elk hunting, an Alaskan moose..... More
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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1959. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 607 pgs, index, lots of red underlining. Contents: preface, 5 parts, 23 chapters, maps and charts, and an index. 5 parts: one - China; two - Japan; three - India; four - Pakistan; five - Indonesia. Includes suggested..... More
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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
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First, thus. Paperback. Originally published in 1922. 5 1/2 x 8, 402 pgs, section of b&w photos. A detailed social history of the manners, customs, and daily routine of the men who herded cattle in the late nineteenth century. More
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. . UNM Press, Albuquerque, 1983, 1st edition. 6 x 9, 291 pgs, b&w illustrations. Discusses and describes 137 rare species of plants occurring in New Mexico. More