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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FLYING WITHOUT WINGS; Personal Reflections on Being Disabled
New York: Doubleday, 1989. Third printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 189 pgs. The author, a doctor, describes his search to make a new life and find meaning for himself after contracting polio and become a quadriplegic. 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
RECREATIONAL GOLD PROSPECTING FOR FUN AND PROFIT.
Baldwin Park, CA: Gem Guides Book Co., 1998. Paperback. 6 x 9, 207 pgs, b&w photos. Straightforward and complete answers to all of your questions about where to go, what to bring, what to do when you get there and also when you get back home with your new-found gold..... More
MAMMOTH GOLD; The Ghost Towns of Lake District
Mammoth Lakes, CA: Genny Smith Books, 1990. Paperback. 6 x 9, 173 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations including fold-outs. A fine history of the gold mines and explorations in the Mammoth Lakes District, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range. Previous owner notes on inside front fly..... More
FIBERGLASS ROD MAKING.
New York: Winchester Press, 1975. Third printing. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 189 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations. With well organized text and hundreds of step-by-step photos, this book takes the guesswork out of making your own fishing rods. More
SON OF THE MORNING STAR.; Custer and the Little Bighorn.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 441 pgs. "The whole story", includes the heroism, the foolishness and above all the brutality of Custer's last stand. More
INDIAN BASKETMAKERS OF THE SOUTHWEST; The Living Art and Fine Tradition
San Antonio, TX: Museum of NM Press, 2000. Paperback. 9 x 11 1/2, 140 pgs, index, b&w and a section of color photos. Penetrating views of the richness of the traditions, the current state of the art and the beauty of the products. 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
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
THE ULTIMATE FISHING BOOK.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Hardcover. 10 x 13, 255 pgs, b&w and color photos and drawings. Nine essays, commissioned especially for this book by renowned outdoor writers like Ernest Schweibert, John Graves, Ted Williams, Vance Bourjaily, all about fishing. Beautiful coffee-table style book. More
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE.
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 246 pgs. "A novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances and home remedies." Also a Miramax motion picture. Damp wrinkling to most pages. Reading copy. 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 MEMORY CURE; How to Protect Your Brain Against Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 240 pgs, index. More
WHALES.; A Celebration.
Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1983. Hardcover. 12 x 11, 234 pgs, b&w and color illustrations and photos. A coffee-table style book with painters, novelists, poets, sculptors and composers, all join forces to help save the whale from extinction. More
BATTLE MAPS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 8 x 10, 209 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A convenient, easy-to-use reference to 131 battles and engagements of the Civil War. More
THE HEROIC TRIAD.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 256 pgs, mapped endsheets. Horgan's well-known work on the three southwestern cultures. More
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SMALL GAME AND VARMINT HUNTING.; How to Hunt Squirrels, Rabbits, Woodchucks, Coyotes, Foxes, and Other Game Animals.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 252 pgs, index, b&w photos. A veteran hunter reveals the secrets of a challenging and rewarding sport. More
THE ARCTIC WOLF.; Living with the Pack.
Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Roger Caras. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2, 128 pgs, beautiful color photos throughout, coffe-table style volume. Text and photos of the author's experiences living among a pack of wolfes in the frozen High Arctic. 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
LEGENDARY HUNTERS OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS; A Century of Sport and Survival in the Great Smoky Mountains
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 160 pgs, b&w photos. From the heyday of the Cherokee Nation and on through the twentieth century, the Great Smoky Mountains have nurtured some of the most celebrated hunters in American history. Predicting changes in weather and almost..... More
STRIKE & STAY; The Story of the Plott Hound
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
THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN; Mexican-Americans in the Literature of the United States.
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 393 pgs, index, bibliography. Concentrates on the formation of a Chicano identity, from annexation through assimilation and Chicano nationalism, including much on farm labor and the UFW, covering a wide range of literary production, from the corrido..... More
TECUMSEH AND THE DREAM OF AN AMERICAN INDIAN NATION.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1989. Paperback. 7 x 10, 124 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Biography of Tecumseh and his times for children. Ex-library with the usual markings. More