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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LETTERS FROM THE COUNTRY.
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 184 pgs. Thirty essays about cultural and daily life in the countryside, one of the author's best known and best loved books--a contemporary classic that welcomes readers to life in the small town of..... More
THE RINGS OF ALLAH; Usama bin Laden's 14 Year Master Plan!
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004. 6 x 9, 331 pgs. A grand saga in the genre of James Clavell's Shogun and Tia-Pan, with a little Clancy thrown in. Spanning over sixty years the story sweeps across Russia, central Asia, and into the United States. The cast of characters include Soviet scientists..... More
THE ARMCHAIR ANGLER.
New York: Galahad Books, 1994. First, thus. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 9, 404 pgs, b&w illustrations. The best fish stories, fact and fiction, from Ray Bergman, Roy Blount, Jr., Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, A.J. McClane, Thomas McGuane, Izaak Walton, Ted Williams and many more. 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
THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS - FAR AND NEAR; Volume XIII of 17 volume set
Boston: Houghton Mifflin-Riverside Press, 1904. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 298 pgs, b&w photos with tissue protectors. Early 20th century natural history. More
MY ANTONIA.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 244 pgs. Cather's 1918 romantic novel of a pioneer woman. More
A PART OF SPACE: TEN TEXAS WRITERS.
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 179 pgs. Sampling of writing from ten Texas writers including John Edward Griffin, Edwin Shrake, Tom Pendleton, William Buford, Ramona Maher Weeks, William D. Barney, John Graves, James Newcomer, Ilse S. Rothrock and Larry McMurtry. Preface by Jim W...... More
BEARTRACKER!
Published/Printed by the author, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 211 pgs, b&w photos. Great stories of bearhunting with hounds from this veteran outfitter and 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
CAZADOR DE LOS LLANOS,; Hunter of the Plains
Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 82 pgs, b&w photos. Man has created an imbalance in nature. It is now up to man to try to correct the imbalance by keeping the numbers of wild animals at a sustainable level. Ernest Eichwald is a retired teacher..... More
DISCOVERY; The Quest for the Great South Land
New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 286 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, b&w illustrations. Six centuries before the birth of Christ people began to imagine an immense land at the bottom of the world, a land of marvels, of enormous wealth and mystery. This is..... More
OKLAHOMA; Land of the Fair God
Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 341 pgs, index, b&w photos. A history of Oklahoma and its pioneers. 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
TEXAS; A Bicentennial History
New York: Norton, 1976. Second edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 222 pgs, index, section of b&w photos. From the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, Texas Rangers, the Civil War, football, Scott Joplin, Van Cliburn, and lots more. More
THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. Hardcover. 5 x 7, 389 pgs. Classic western fiction. Worn corners and previous one owner's name on front fly and another on last page of book. Otherwise no markings. More
THE REDISCOVERY OF NEW MEXICO, 1580-1594.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1966. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 341 pgs, index. The explorations of Chamuscado, Espejo, Cantano de Sosa, Morlete, and Leyva de Bonilla and Humana. More
CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL; Volume 50, Number 9
Aptos, CA: 1981. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 96 pgs, b&w illustrations. An issue devoted to "gold fever" 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
GONE HUNTIN'.
Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2004. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 389 pgs, b&w photos. A modern-day "Ben Lilly", Hughes has lived and hunted in New Mexico since the days of the Depression. Today he is still an avid sports hunter and a dedicated conservationist for the preservation of..... More
THE EXPLORER; A Novel
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Book Club. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 433 pgs. Main character of this book was inspired by the life of Hiram Bingham, discover of Machu Picchu. More
BEN LILLY'S TALES OF BEARS, LIONS AND HOUNDS.
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2016. Fourth printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 224 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. Ben Lilly left behind enough writings to fill a book - this is it! Includes Ben's hunting diaries, magazine articles, an interview, personal letters, etc. More
FRONT ROW SEAT; A Veteran Reporter Relives The Four Decades That Reshaped America
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 270 pgs, b&w photos. Inscribed and signed. Through the author's eyes revisit the Kennedy assassination and trial of Jack Ruby; the civil rights movement; the Vietnam War, the maverick presidential campaign of Ross Perot, and more. More
ON TO OKLAHOMA.
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma State Department of Education, 1989. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 30 pgs, b&w drawings, large fold-out. A coloring book and school book for elementary students. 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