Brainerd, MN: Published/Printed by the author, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 362 pgs, b&w and color photos. Through the author's chronicles, one gets the strong feeling that he respected coyotes and had great empathy for them. He killed hundreds of them, without hatred or malice. It was his... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2017. First edition, later printing. Paperback. Originally published by Gila Books. 6 x 9, 315 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical photos. Introduction by Robert G. McCubbin. A history of Silver City and southwestern New Mexico. Well-researched and includes the well-known figures as well as the everyday folk. More
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
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
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
Peru, IN: Published/Printed by the author, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 310 pgs, filled with b&w historical photos. A wonderful look at the life of this old-time trapper. Wood trapped the Adirondack Mountains as well as areas in Tennessee, New York, Maryland and Virginia. The book also includes... More
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
Deming, NM: Published/Printed by the author, 2011. Paperback. 6 x 9, 68 pgs. Unknown writers try their hand at fiction. More
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
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 in Pennsylvania, More
Taos, NM: 21st Century Press, 2002. Limited edition. Hardcover. 14 1/2 x 19, 84 pgs, b&w illustrations. #58 of 100. (21st Century was Dickey's privatepress.) The authors lived in Taos for many years. Dickey was originally a Missouri poet but also taught in Pueblo, Colorado. He was a rather headstrong... More
Kingman, AZ: Deer Hunter Enterprises, 1988. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 175 pgs, b&w photos, decorated endsheets. Where and how to hunt, and stories of hunting mule deer, whitetail, Columbian blacktail, Sitka blacktail, and Coues whitetail deer. More
New York: Winchester Press, 1974. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 344 pgs, b&w illustrations. Respectful, technically knowledgeable, witty; almost half the book consists of excerpts from works now difficult to obtain in their original editions. A real collector's item! More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. Later printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 430 and 358 pgs, b&w historical photos. A good history of the Cheyenne Indians. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 452 pgs. A very nice copy of this Hough novel. "How the Star of Good fortune rose and set and rose again, by a woman's grace, for one John Law of Lauriston. " Ex-library with the usual markings. More
New York: Norton, 1987. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 396 pgs, index, biblio, notes, b&w photos. Puts the American West in its proper perspective that lets us see our present west as the continuum that it is and always has been. More
New York: Penguin Books, 2008. First, thus. Paperback. 5 x 8, 220 pgs. The author plunges the reader behind the headlines and into a mesmerizing post-cold war world where reactivated KGB agents, CIA operatives and Apaches combine forces to unravel a double-cross, retracing the operation to find the source of... More
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
Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1990. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 120 pgs, illus/drawings. Shorty Lyon became a legend as a bear and lion hunter and trapper in New Mexico, mid-20th century, and these are some of his best adventures with hounds and critters, mostly bear and lion. More
New York: Scribners, 1972. Book Club. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 268 pgs, index, section of b&w photos, maps. A thorough analysis of the military tactics involved in the Plains Indians Wars in the latter half of the last century. More
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
Powder Springs, GA: Dog Days Publishing, 2014. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 352 pgs, section of b&w photos. A nice collection of stories about coon hunting, coon dogs and the culture surrounding it. It is an easy read to get hooked on as the stories draw you in to... More
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
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
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009. Second edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 190 pgs, b&w photos. The Plott bear hound's story began in 1750, when Johannes Plott left Germany for the North Carolina Mountains. A classic American tale of adventurers and underdogs, this true story is one that author Bob... More