New York: Rizzoli, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 11 x 11, 288 pgs,color photos throughout. Beautiful coffee-table style book presents twenty-five of the most spectacular Western ranches, including important historical structures and those designed for today's newest ranch owners. Includes ranches in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Oregon, New Mexico, and Texas. More about RANCHES OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Santa Fe, NM: Museum of NM Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 8 x 9, 115 pgs, color illustrations throughout. Examples of the holiday cards created by Baumann from his first full year in Santa Fe (1919) until his last Christmas in 1970 as well as cards received by the Baumanns... More about GUSTAVE BAUMANN AND FRIENDS; Artist Cards From Holidays Past
Torrey, UT: Capitol Reef Natural History Association, 1986. Paperback. 6 x 9, 63 pgs, b&w historical photos, damp stain at bottom of most pages. The little community called Fruita, never more than ten families, found itself deep inside Capitol Reef National Monument after a Presidential proclamation in 1937. More about RED ROCK EDEN; The Story of Fruita
New York: Vantage Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 99 pgs, b&w illustrations by John A. Doody. Poetry. Love and life and nostalgia. Inscribed and signed by the author. More about REFLECTIONS IN THE STREAM OF LIFE
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 192 pgs. Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior. More about THE HORSECATCHER
New York: St Martin's Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 10 1/2 x 9, pages unnumbered - about 200 pgs, b&w and color photos throughout. A photo documentary of the modern cowboy. More about COWBOYS; A Vanishing World
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First edition, ninth printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 306 pgs. Looks at the legends of the Kiowas. The Ten Grandmothers refer to the ten Medicine bundles which which were surrounded by legend and superstition. More about THE TEN GRANDMOTHERS; Epic of the Kiowas
New York: Knopf, 1995. Twenty-first Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 306 pgs. Thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches wherein the author tells of the days he gathered cattle "range delivery" in 1930s Texas. Ex-library with minimal markings. More about WILD COW TALES
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1949. First edition, fifth printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 386 pgs, b&w illustrations by Olaus J. Murie. In typical Dobie style, the coyote both as he is biologically and as he exists in human imagination - as he is in life, in literature... More about THE VOICE OF THE COYOTE
Nacogdoches, TX: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2013. Paperback. 6 x 9, 235 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical photos. Traces the lives of these Amarillo pioneers when the population of that city was just two hundred. The story begins in Salado, Texas, and Horn Lake, Mississippi where they spent... More about CIVILIZING THE TEXAS FRONTIER; The Love Story of Mr. and Mrs. James Lowry Smith
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. Originally published in 1859. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 256 pgs, b&w illustrations. A facsimile reproduction of a neat old book for overland expeditions by the pioneers. More about THE PRAIRIE TRAVELER
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 290 pgs, biblio, illustrated. The author traveled from Wyoming to Florida for eighteen months and put together this story of ranch life, ranch women and the problems and pleasures of ranch life. Ex-library, rebound, with usual markings. More about HELL ON HORSES AND WOMEN
New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 192 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A "colorful, action-packed story of a real cowboy". A neat old childrens' book. More about GENE RHODES, COWBOY
New York: Outdoor Life Books, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 246 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung buckskin heroes, surviving on fish and game, fighting or trading with the Native Americans, and forever heading... More about THE MOUNTAIN MEN
Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1978. Second printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 258 pgs. Winner of the Golden Spur Award for fiction for 1978. Orphaned in old Mexico and a runaway to the cattle trails of the turn of the century American Southwest, Ignacio Ortiz comes of... More about RIDERS TO CIBOLA; A Novel
New York: Bramhall House, 1952. Later printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 376 pgs, illustrated by Charles Banks Wilson. The story of the wild horse in America, it's domestication as a Spanish horse, Indian horse, and ranch horse. Many think this is Dobie's best book. Rebound. More about THE MUSTANGS
New York: Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 255 pgs, b&w illustrations. Some consider this to be the best of Doc Green's books. In his inimitible style ol' Ben tells us how he won and lost as a 1930s horse trader. More about SOME MORE HORSE TRADIN'
New York: Knopf, 1974. Thirteenth printing. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 304 pgs, b&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. The author's recollections of his early years as a horse trader. Witty and humorous, great reading. More about HORSE TRADIN'
New York: Harper & Row. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 209 pgs. Another of Hillerman's famous mysteries set on an Anasazi Indian Reservation in the four corners area. More about A THIEF OF TIME
Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 237 pgs. Essays about subjects like: silence, water, air, the Earth as living entity, Hopi spirits, sacred mountains, the world as cosmos, not chaos. More about MOUNTAIN DIALOGUES
New York: Tom Doherty, 1998. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 6 1/2, 560 pgs. Steeped in Indian mysticism, shows how the long-abused Comanches mastered horsemanship and in a single generation became the fiercest warriors of the Plains. More about COMANCHE DAWN
New York: Tom Doherty, 1990. Paperback. 4 x 7, two books from the bestselling saga of prehistoric North America. More about PEOPLE OF THE WOLF and PEOPLE OF THE EARTH
New York: Putnams, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 267 pgs, mapped endsheets. Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming solves another mystery! More about KILLER SUMMER
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1952. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 307 pgs, drawings by author. Lea's well known and very excellent novel of the El Paso region during the Apache Wars era. Portions of dust jacket glued into book. Ex-library with minimal markings. More about THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 631 pgs. This well-known author's famous novel of a family and their story of life in the West. More about A DISTANT TRUMPET