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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Monte Vista, CO: Adobe Village Press, 2005. Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 335 pgs, b&w photos, maps, genealogy charts. As mountain man and scout on a primitive frontier where violence was the leverage for survival, Tom Tobin could be a fearsome opponent though he could be humane as well..... 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
Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, 2000. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 239 pgs, index. Known as one of the best officers Texas ever had. He combined the qualities of the frontier Ranger and his modern day counterpart...a peerless horseman and deadly shot, he was also versed in ballistics..... More
College Station, TX: Early West, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 224 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. A biography of the notorious outlaw, Harry A. Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid. The author's husband is a descendant of Longabaugh. Still in shrinkwrap. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Second printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 233 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical photos. He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid--whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh--led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed.A...... More
Guilford, CT: Twodot/Morris, 2007. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 209 pgs, b&w historical photos. The stories behind the lives, deaths, and burials of those ordinary citizens and larger-than-life characters who tamed the Wild West and exemplified its greatest myths. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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