College Station, TX: Early West, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 207 pgs, index, b&w historical photos, decorated endsheets. The story of the championship boxing match between Fitzsimmons and Sharkey which Wyatt Earp, the referee, called for Sharkey and which generated a court hearing. More
College Station, TX: Early West, 1984. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 149 pgs, b&w historical photos, decorated endsheets. Correspondence between Bat Masterson and Teddy Roosevelt, who had great admiration for Bat's career as a lawman and who appointed him Deputy U.S. Marshal in 1905. More
Deming, NM: Published/Printed by the author, 2011. Paperback. 6 x 9, 68 pgs. Unknown writers try their hand at fiction. More
La Veta, CO: Range Writer, 2006. First edition. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 133 pgs. Great stories, some cowboy poetry and nice illustrations Signed by the author and the illustrator. More
New York: Putnam & Grosset Group, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. 8 x 10, 36 pgs, beautiful color illustrations. In spring, the hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this striking plant received its name is told in an..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 92 pgs, b&w illustrations. Stories of giants and animals that talk, of devouring women and supernatural beings, of tricksters and magic and shaking tents, often told in language that is suitably rough, with humour sometimes bawdy and ribald. More
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Paperback. 6 1/2 x 9, 128 pgs, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Established in 1901, the Arizona Rangers have protected and served the citizenry for over 107 years. Though the initial organization was short lived, lasting only until 1909, the company with an authorized strength of..... More
Helena, MT: American Geographic Publishing, 1988. Paperback. 7 1/2 x 10, 96 pgs, color photos throughout, maps. A good history and current status of this Montana mining town. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First, thus. Paperback. 6 1/2 x 8 1/2, 504 pgs, index, maps by Erwin Raisz. The journals as edited for the layman. An interesting & important original narrative of North American exploration. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 272 pgs, index. Documentation, photograph collections, oral histories, etc. More
Flagstaff, AZ: Fretwater Press, 2001. Paperback. 6 x 9 1/2, 288 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. The story of the tragic Colorado River honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde in the late 1920s. Ex-library. More
San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2005. Third edition. Hardcover. 11 x 9 1/2, 144 pgs, index, b&w and color photos. Illustrated throughout with black and white vintage photos opposite contemporary color photos. More
Tucson, AZ: Arizona Historical Society, 2007. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 110 pgs, b&w photos. This issue includes: "That Ought to give Hittler...A Nice Big Headache": Pearl Hunt's Letters from the Home Front, Navajo County, 1939-1945 by Catherine H. Ellis, "Whiskey is the Enemy Most Formidable in This Campaign": Capt..... More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 322 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos. Rigorous evaluation of the oldest North American archeological sites and human remains offers well-reasoned hypotheses about the physical characteristcs, lives, and relationships of the First Americans. Signed by the author..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1939. First edition, second printing (same year). Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 366 pgs, b&w and color illustrations by Tom Lea. Great Dobie stories about the Lost Adams Diggings, The Lost Tayopa Mine, Scalp Hunters' Ledge and more. Signed and inscribed to Stokley Ligon..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 366 pgs, b&w and color illustrations by Tom Lea. Great Dobie stories about the Lost Adams Diggings, The Lost Tayopa Mine, Scalp Hunters' Ledge and more. More
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., 1952. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 237 pgs, b&w photos & drawings. The biography of the famed hunter and houndman. Details Mr. Lilly's life from homesteader/hunter days in the deep South to his mountain man/lion & bear hunting days in the Southwest. Excellent work & has..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 305 pgs, index, b&w photos. Dobie's wonderful collection of essays on people he knew and lived among on ranches in the brush country of Southwest Texas. More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 237 pgs. A gallery of uncommon personalities whose lives warmed the heart and furnished the memory of one of the best-loved storytellers of the great American Southwest; Tom Lea, Walter Prescott Webb, John Lomax and more. More
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
New York: Literary Guild, 1931. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 367 pgs. Dobie's great work on the Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest. Includes the Lost San Saba Mine, the Lost Adams Diggings and some great lost mine stories from the Sierra Madre. More
Dallas, TX: The Southwest Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 367 pgs, b&w illustrations, mapped endsheets. Dobie's famous stories of the Lost San Saba Mine, the Lost Adams Diggings, and some great lost mine stories from the Sierra Madre. More
Dallas: Dealey and Lowe, 1936. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 287 pgs, index. Published for the Texas Centennial in 1936, contains Dobie's favorite episodes and characters from Texas history: black beans, Bigfoot Wallace, the Gone-to-Texas tradition, Peter Ellis Bean, trail driving, buffalo and much more. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1943. Special Printing for SMU. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 111 pgs, b&w illustrations. Dobie wrote this book "primarily to help people of the Southwest see significances in the features of the land to which they belong, to make their environments more interesting to them..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1941. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 388 pgs, index, illustrated by Tom Lea. The story of the Longhorn, including legend and folklore, the cowboys who came to be, the Spanish conquistadores, Colonial ranching, stampedes and more - told by a...... More