Hillsboro, NM: 2019. Paperback. 6 x 9, 215 pgs, b&w historical photos. Arriving in the silver mining boomtown of Kingston in 1886, Sadie Jane Creech Orchard is arguably the most colorful woman in New Mexico history. Sadie opened brothels, worked as a prostitute, built and operated hotels, restaurants, and co-owned..... More
Published/Printed by the author, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 166 pgs, b&w photos. Mar Yum Eh, a thirteen-year-old Chinese boy came to the United States in 1875 with only the clothes on his back and the intense desire to work. He worked on farms and ranches before joining..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 191 pgs, sections of b&w historical photos. Author's experiences as the wife of a medical officer for two years on Baffin Island. Signed by the author. More
Canada: Key Porter Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 256 pgs, b&w photos. The author's childhood memoir, a "tale of a mischievous, immensely gifted young naturalist, recounted with the wisdom and vintage humor of the grown-up Mowat" More
Renton, WA: Lone Pine Publishing, 2001. First printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 240 pgs, b&w historical photos. In the Old West, the law was fragile, the men were armed, tempers were short and socializing took place over shots of rotgut whiskey on a card table in a saloon..... More
St. Louis, MO: The Patrice Press, 1991. Fourth printing. Paperback. 5 x 7, 194 pgs, b&w historical photos. The author was caught in the blizards of 1948-49 and describes the human dramas enacted - the daily heroism, endurance, and generosity of the people on the High Plains. More
British Columbia: Heritage House, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 256 pgs, index, lots of b&w historical photos, notes, bibliography. Biography of a Pioneer of the Canadian West; soldier, prospector, constable, buffalo hunter, mailman, conservationist. More
British Columbia: TouchWood Editions, 2005. First, thus. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 277 pgs, b&w historical photos. An adventure story of a family struggling on Canada's western frontier - the Cariboo region of British Columbia. Some damp staining and wrinkling on some pages. More
Canada: JBS Publishing, 2005. Third printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 196 pgs. "An airplane crash. A scalping. A threatened suicide. A flipped truck. An aircraft chase. Bear attack. Belligerent hunters. Crazy poachers.". Signed by the author. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991. First, thus. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 278 pgs, illus/photos. The author and her husband spent a year in a homebuilt cabin in the remote Brooks Range of Alaska in an attempt to know the lifestyle of the Eskimos. They kept it primitive, hunted..... More
Houston, TX: Iron Mountain Press, 2009. Fourth printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 195 pgs. A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings the author and his wife to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so that he can accept the unusual job of teacher/principal/janitor of a one-room schoolhouse. So..... More
Canada: Megamy Publishing, 2001. Second printing. Paperback. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, 226 pgs. Memoirs of a Canadian Mountie in the mid-20th century. More
New York: Pantheon, 1996. Fourth printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 302 pgs, b&w photos, mapped endsheets. Nicely described narrative of a trek across the Sahara. More
Northwest Territories: Outcrop, Ltd., 1984. Third printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 231 pgs, section of b&w photos. Story of the Great Bear mining Rush of the early 1930's - the discovery of pitchblende near Great Bear Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories. More
New York: Hyperion, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 235 pgs. Experiences of Arctic truck driver. More
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2007. Fourth printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 246 pgs, section of color photos. Peter Allison works as a safari guide in the Okavango Delta. In this oasis of wetland in the middle of the Kalahari desert, he caters to the whims of his wealthy clients. This..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 299 pgs, b&w photos. The author's frank and colorful account of his long career as a Texas Ranger. Signed by the author. More
Nanaimo, BC: Cinnabar Press, 1984. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 207 pgs, b&w photos. The author's experiences in British Columbia from the early 1920s through the 60s, lion hunting. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 224 pgs, b&w illustrations. The true story of a man who turns his back on civilization and stakes a claim in the Canadian Rockies, a modern pioneer. More
New York: Putnams, 1982. Later printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 319 pgs, sections of b&w photos and maps. Foreword by The Dalai Lama.The action packed story of a young adventurer's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his dramatic trek thru rugged..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 243 pgs. The author's two thousand mile three month journey, the people he met, his experiences and more. A wilderness adventure and an exploration of the human spirit. More
New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1972. Seventh printing. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 302 pgs, b&w photos. A many-sided view of the grizzly bear and the world in which he lives, by a noted guide, hunter-naturalist, and photographer. 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
Monte Vista, CO: Adobe Village Press, 2001. Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 39 pgs, b&w photos, maps. Anza's diary with notations explaining places and historical events. More
Monte Vista, CO: Adobe Village Press, 2000. Paperback. 6 x 9, 184 pgs, b&w photos. An in-depth study of the petroglyphs and pictographs of this area of southern Colorado. More