Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. Reprint. Paperback. Western Frontier Library edition. 5 x 7 1/2, 280 pgs, b&w historical photos. A realistic and appealing account of a woman's life with the U.S. Army in the very early West. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1952. Paperback. 6 x 9, 118 pgs. Historical studies presented to Marion Dargan and his colleagues and former students at the University of New Mexico. Number Four of the Unversity of New Mexico Publications in History. More
Sherwood, OR: USFW, Cultural Resources Team, Region 1, 2005. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 50 pgs, b&w photos, illustrations and maps. Noted by Lewis and Clark, an interesting history of this Chinookian Indian village on the Columbia River: the environment, the society, the houses, and the effects of contact. Publication..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. New Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2, 207 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos and illustrations. A classic study of ranching on the Great Plains from 1865 to 1925. The author's writings were pioneering works in the historiography of the range cattle industry..... More
Denver: Swallow/Sage, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 218 pgs, biblio, b&w photos. Tells the story of thirty-five of Colorado's most notable homes and their inhabitants. More
Cambridge: Da Capo, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 259 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, section of b&w historical photos. The true story of a Native American's quest for justice follows the most important Indian rights case in U.S. history and the fascinating characters who played a part in this..... More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1989. First, thus. Paperback. 6 x 9, 385 pgs, index, notes, biblio, b&w historical photos, maps. For the first time in a single volume, a five-hundred-year saga of the men, the cattle, the horses - the lives & the social circumstances - that made..... More
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 64 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations. A nice glossy souvenir type history of the Alamo. 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
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 533 pgs, b&w photos and maps. From archaeological records and documentary sources, an accurate history of the Postclassic peope of Central Mexico who flourished from about A.D. 900 to A.D. 1179. More
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 2002. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 255 pgs, b&w and color photos, b&w illustrations. A glorious tribute to men in the saddle who have proved themselves as some of the strongest fibers in the fabric of American tradition. Signed and inscribed by Ford and Webb. More
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 6 1/2 x 9, 126 pgs, b&w historical photos throughout. Wonderful collection of historic photos tells the history of this southwestern New Mexico Old West town and its environs. More
Tucson, AZ: Sanpete Publications, 2003. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 229 pgs, index, b&w historical photos, foreword by Marc Simmons. The life story of Robert Nelson "Nat" Straw, legendary Gila mountain man and grizzly bear and mountain lion hunter. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Reprint. Paperback. 10 x 13, 256 pgs, b&w and color, mostly historical photos, colored, mapped endsheets. Portrays the lives of the ordinary men and women of the West through artifacts from the magnificent collections of the Buffalo Bill Historicl Center, Cody, Wyoming. More
St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing, 2002. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2, 480 pgs, b&w and color illustrations throughout. This extraordinary story is detailed in this fact-filled and illustration-packed reference featuring specially commissioned photographs of surviving weapons, implements, tools, and equipment, as well as Native American artifacts. More
Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 123 pgs. In 1934 drug-addicted Pedro Montoya, thinking he is Montezuma II, sets out to reverse the course of Mexican history. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
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
Columbus, OH: Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 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. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 2000. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 172 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w historical photos. Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across fifteen hundred miles of wild western country..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Second printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 266 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. Debo cuts a wide swath through her home state: pioneers, Indians, oil, etc. More
Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, 1985. Third edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 253 pgs, index, section of b&w historical photos. "A work halfway between history and fiction, Prairie City is the one great book about Oklahoma's settlement. Published initially by Alfred Knopf in 1944, it is a poetic..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1974. First edition. Paperback. 7 x 9 1/2, 114 pgs, index, b&w and color photos throughout. A concise discussion of the history of the art, an outline of the process of making rugs from raising the wool to weaving it, and frank discussions on how to..... More
Carlisle, MA: Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1994. Paperback. 5 x 7 1/2, 64 pgs, b&w photos. Excerpts from articles, essays, and memoirs recount the development of the atomic bomb, its use against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and its effect on the world. More
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, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 180 pgs, index, biblio, b&w historical photos, decorated endsheets. Based on correspondence between Pat Garrett and Teddy Roosevelt, dating from Garrett's appointment as Collector of Customs until his dismissal. Still in shrinkwrap. More