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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PROMISCUITY; An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Paperback. 5 x 8, 272 pgs, index, bibliography, references. section of color photos. Investigates the theory that females are as, or more, promiscuous and competitive in regards to reproductive success, than males. More
GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH; The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 680 pgs, index. A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis tells the unforgettable story through the eyes of the hostages, their Iranian captors and the American special operations soldiers and pilots who tried to end the crisis with..... 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
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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
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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
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
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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 SPIRIT OF THE BORDER.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 8 1/2, 274 pgs. Zane Grey's classic of frontier Ohio. Shots of desperate men echoed along the frontier, only to be met by the avenging fury of the Wind of Death. More
MANAGING SEMIDESERT RANGES OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University, 1974. Paperback. 6 x 9, 48 pgs, b&w photos. Cooperative Extension Service circular 456. Natural hazards, how to control brush, seeding, managing grazing and much more. More
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THE NAVAHO.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Revised. Mass Market Paperback. Originally published in 1946.4 x 7, 355 pgs, index, b&w photos. Written as part of an Indian Education Research Project to investigate, analyze, and compare the development of personality in five Indian tribes in the contest of their total environment... 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
ANOTHER DESERT; Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM: Sherman Asher Publishing, 1998. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 174 pgs. Contemporary voices of the Converso Spanish settlers, the merchants and traders of the old West along with urban refugees who established a new Jewish frontier. 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
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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
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THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS.
Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 170 pgs, biblio, b&w photos. A dramatic and thoroughly research account of the bravery, ingenuity and patriotism of these "first Americans" and their duty in WWII. 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
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Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 192 pgs, b&w photos. The Plott hound has reached worldwide fame through the contributions of many colorful characters from the Southern Appalachians. Quill Rose—a legendary local outlaw, moonshiner, gunfighter and more—helped cultivate the bloodline for bear hunting. Revered..... More
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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 BOYS OF WINTER; Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2005. First, thus. Paperback. 6 x 9, 256 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, b&w historical photos. The poignant true story of three young Depression-era ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and uiltimately tragic transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the fabled U.S. Tenth Mountain Division..... More
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