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
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
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
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2, 215 pgs, color photos throughout. Sir Peter Blake was a much loved and greatly admired yachtsman and adventurer, and this book is a wonderful tribute to his achievements. Drawn entirely from Peter's logbooks of his last..... More
St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 412 pgs, index. Radical editor, Republican Party operative, freethinking colleague of Karl Marx - Austrian Henry Boerstein was hardly a nobody, but his is one of the 19th century's great unknown lives. This is a collection..... 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
Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2000. Pamphlet. 6 x 9, 390 pgs, index, notes, b&w photos. Bears and bureaucrats, timber and telephone lines, poaching and predators, fires and families - all these play a part in this fascinating and long-overdue study of Canada's national park wardens. 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
Peru, IN: Published/Printed by the author, 2018. First edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 300 pgs, filled with b&w historical photos. Dailey was a trapper who lived in St Lawrence County close to the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. During his life, E.J. was widely recognized as the foremost trapping..... More
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
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
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
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Third printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 264 pgs, index, notes, bibliography.The untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history-that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freedpeople..... More
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. Paperback. 6 x 9, 127 pgs, b&w historical photos, references. On April 19, 1861, the first blood of the Civil War was spilled in the streets of Baltimore. En route to Camden Station, Union forces were confronted by angry Southern sympathizers, and at Pratt..... 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 on islands in Michigan, as well as cottontail thickets in New York, Ohio, West Virginia and around the author’s home in Pennsylvania. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. Great Western Edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 377 pgs. Grey's epic tale of the men who made the West! Ex-library with the usual markings. More
Minneapolis: North American Hunting Club, 1987. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 262 pgs, b&w photos, index. Part of the "Hunter Information" series with detailed how-to for all sorts of bowhunting. Brown leatherette with gold leaf decoration. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9, 806 pgs, sections of b&w photos. An autobiography of Lady Bird Johnson, wife of former President Johnson, during her years as First Lady in the White House. 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
New York: Harper & Bros. 1904. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 179 pgs, b&w photos, fold-out map. Originally published in 1898, paints a very favorable picture of Porfirio Diaz. Of course, it was written 7 years before the Revolution. More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2014. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 300 pgs, b&w illustrations. Anecdotes and stories about the silver mining country and early frontier (1880s) days in this mountainous area of Southwest New Mexico. A Southwest classic! 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
Silver City, NM: The Silver City Enterprise, 1965. First edition. Paperback. 8 x 11, 120 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Stories and news items printed word for word as they appeared in the newspapers covering the years 1888, 1889 and 1890. Lots of great stories! Signed by the editor. 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