Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. Hardcover. 2 3/4 x 4 1/2, 269 pgs. A neat old game rule book contains the rules and practice of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-Un, Cassino, Put, All Fours, Pope Joan, Thirty-One, Brag, Commerce, Cribbage, Matrimony, Chess, Catch the Ten, Billiards, Tennis, Goff, or Golf... More about HOYLE'S GAMES
Grand Canyon, AZ: Grand Canyon Association, 2017. First edition. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 8, 154 pgs, b&w and color photos throughout. For nearly eight decades Ellsworth and Emery Kolb explored and photographed Grand Canyon from rim to river, rappelling down cliff faces with makeshift ropes and anchors, running the Colorado... More about THE AMAZING KOLB BROTHERS OF GRAND CANYON; Photographers, Adventurers, Pioneers
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2007. Hardcover. Originally published in 1921. 5 x 8, 242 pgs, b&w historical photos. Quality reprint of a neat Old West reminiscence. More about LET 'ER BUCK; A Story of the Passing of the Old West
Houston: The Frontier Press o Texas, 1955. Hardcover. Originally published in 1903. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 135 pgs, b&w historical photos. An autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla captain and outlaw, his capture and prison life, and the only authentic account of the Northfield raid ever published. More about THE STORY OF COLE YOUNGER BY HIMSELF
New York: Time-Life Books, 1980. Later printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1890. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 472 pgs, b&w historic photos and illustrations, a "Classics of the Old West" edition. An interesting biography of this trapper, freighter, rancher, stage-coach contractor, innkeeper, and all round capitalist in the west in... More about "UNCLE DICK" WOOTTON
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 282 pgs, index, b&w family photos. A collection of autobiographical pieces edited by Bertha Dobie after the death of the great story-teller. Covers the period from Dobie's birth in 1888 to the thirties when he was... More about SOME PART OF MYSELF
Tucson, AZ: Published/Printed by the author, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 199 pgs. The author's journeys and thoughts between 1978 and 1990, a la Ed Abbey. Signed by the author. More about TREK! - MAN ALONE IN THE ARIZONA WILDS; The Desert Journals of Geoffrey Platts
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 10 x 8, 268 pgs, notes, b&w illustrations. Colorful anecdotal stories portray the travail and joy of the pioneer. Taped and well used! More about PIONEERS & PREACHERS; Stories of the Old Frontier
New York: Seaview Books, 1979. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 565 pgs, notes, index, two sections of b&w historical photos. The life and legend of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific scientist in history and, at one time, the best-known American in the world. More about A STREAK OF LUCK; The Life & Legend of Thomas Alva Edison
New York: Peter Smith, 1950. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 614 pgs, index, maps. The final work of this great American historian who opened up a new period in interpreting the history of the United States by emphasizing the importance of the frontier in shaping American culture. Copious neat... More about THE UNITED STATES 1830-1850; The Nation and Its Sections
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956. Book Club. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 594 pgs, index. Volume Two of Truman's memoirs. More about YEARS OF TRIAL AND HOPE, 1946-1952
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. Third printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 258 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, section of b&w photos. Operation Ajax, as the plot was code-named, reshaped the history of Iran, the Middle East, and the world. It restored Mohammad Reza Shah to the Peacock Throne... More about ALL THE SHAH'S MEN; An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 236 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos. Based on newspaper reports, court transcripts, literary accounts, and recollections of participants, the author chronicles the abduction of Oklahoma City businessman Charles Urschel in 1933 and his transport to a desolate... More about MACHINE GUN KELLY'S LAST STAND
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 381 pgs, index, section of b&w historical photos. Churchill's experience as a prisoner in the Boer War is the jumping off point of this book, and the author puts her narrative gifts to work as she describes... More about HERO OF THE EMPIRE; The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. First printing. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 330 pgs, two sections of b&w and color historical photos. Rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build... More about THE PIONEERS
El Paso, TX: Published/Printed by the author. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 35 pgs, b&w illustrations. A look at this old west ghost town in southwestern New Mexico. More about SKETCHES OF MOGOLLON ( Pronounced (Muggy-yone)) GHOST TOWN
England: Palomino Books, 2015. First edition. Leather Bound. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 192 pgs, index, bibliography, section of color photos. Burrow stands out at the head of those who sprang from obscurity into infamy during 1887 as perpetrators of the unprecedented rush of train robberies that would capture innumerable... More about A BIG YEAR IN A BAD LIFE; The Criminal Career of Reuben Houston Burrow
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 322 pgs, b&w historical photos, notes, index. Historians have long assumed that new industrial machines and power sources eliminated work animals from nineteenth-century America, yet a bird's-eye view of nineteenth-century society would show millions of horses supplying the energy... More about HORSES AT WORK; Harnessing Power in Industrial America
New York: Dodd Mead, 1914. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 249 pgs, introduction by Robert J. Burdette. A hard to find old cowboy poetry book with verses of cowboy life, the cattle range and desert. Spine wording faded. Light damp staining at top of some pages and on cover. More about TRAIL DUST OF A MAVERICK; Verses of Cowboy Life, the Cattle Range and Desert
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1990. Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 260 pgs, b&w historical photos. Covers women of cattle country, the commercial cowgirls, wild wild women, and the cowboys' point of view. More about THE COWGIRLS
New York: Knopf, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 303 pgs. An astonishingly honest memoir, recounting life on remote cattle and wheat ranches in the Big Sky country of northeast Montana. The author's sharply honed survival skills enabled her to endure bouts of loneliness, the seemingly endless... More about BREAKING CLEAN
Albuquerque, NM: Calvin Horn, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 270 pgs, indexed, first edition, historical photos, mapped endsheets. The story of the author's grandfather and family and people and events of New Mexico's frontier period. More about THE MORLEYS.; Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier
Southwest New Mexico: Privately Published, no date (1980s). First printing. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 136 pgs, b&w photos, maps. A reminiscence history of Clairmont, Fort Bayard, Tyrone, Leopold, Mule Creek, Santa Rita, Georgetown, Hanover, Faywood, Cook's Peak, Pleasanton, Glenwood, Riverside, Buckhorn, Mogollon, Mangus, Alma, Cliff and Gila. Binding cracked... More about MORE FOOTPRINTS; Mogollon Throgh Cook's Peak
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 261 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w historical photos. A good biography of this Cimarron, New Mexico lawyer and newspaperman in the 1870s, and a good look at New Mexico Territory at the time. More about FRANK SPRINGER & NEW MEXICO; From the Colfax County War to the Emergence of Modern Santa Fe
New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Third printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 1152 pgs, index, b&w maps, illustrations and photos. From America's native Indian sons, through the European discovery, the Spaniards, the forming of the colonies, decade by decade and war by war, a comprehensive history of the U.S. More about THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE