College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 307 pgs, index, b&w photos of writers. Twelve interviews with the likes of Larry McMurtry, John Graves, Elmer Kelton, Tom Lea, Leon Hale and others. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. '6 x 9, 412 pgs, index, b&w photos, fold-outs, ephemera tipped in. An anthropological study of the Tarahumara. More
New York: Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 476 pgs, index & bibliography. A cogent history and distillation of the great Klondike gold rush in narrative form. Fine history of the great event of the Yukon. More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1891. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 320 pgs, index, b&w photos, decorated endsheets. The author brings the Canadian past alive with true stories of mystery and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to the weird saga..... More
San Antonio, TX: Naylor, 1950. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 84 pgs. Chisos in Spanish is said to mean "ghosts" or "spirits" or "enchantment" - as in witchcraft. So it's no surprise the Spanish called the moutons and the larger region by that name. But it's not just Big Bend National..... More
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019. Paperback. 6 x 9, 159 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos. Includes descriptions of little-known yet highly important Civil War battles, the tragedies of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache internments, and other dramatic frontier stories. More
New York: Putnams, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 312 pgs. Neat old novel. The story of Santa Fe and the romantic, bloodless conquest that added hundreds of thousands of square miles of territory to the country. More
Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 2002. First edition. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 126 pgs, index, b&w photos. Moving portraits, the famous and the not so famous, New Mexicans as they really are in their natural environment. More
New York: Scholastic, 2002. Paperback. 6 x 9, 28 pgs, color illustrations. From the 'First Biographies" collection, a children's book about a Native American who played an important in history with the English settlers in Plymouth. More
Los Angeles: Brooke House, 1959. Third edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 478 pgs. Wonderful novel set in New Mexico in 1680 of a whole culture in revolt. 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
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 170 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. Narrative of twelve important episodes in the "Indian Wars" with sympathy for both sides. By the author of "Dances with Wolves." More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 170 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. Narrative of twelve important episodes in the "Indian Wars" with sympathy for both sides. By the author of "Dances with Wolves." More
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
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1964. Reprint. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 317 pgs, b&w illustrations. The author's reminiscences of cowboying at the turn of the century in the Northern cow country. Fold-out map at front of book. More
Austin, TX: The Pemberton Press, 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 164 pgs, b&w photos. Biography, critique and lots of photos; captures the true spirit and life of Texas' greatest man of letters, J. Frank Dobie. More
Tyrone, PA: Behind the Ranges Press, 2018. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 175 pgs. A well-told tale of the many human conflicts of the New West, both philosophical and physical. More
Santo Domingo: 1988. Paperback. 8 x 10, 96 pgs, b&w illustrations and photos, printed on light brown paper. All in Spanish, an art book. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 180 pgs. Historical novel based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the 17th-century Spanish painter Velazquez. More
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 160 pgs. Historical novel based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the 17th-century Spanish painter Velazquez. More
Fresno, CA: Panorama West Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 177 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, mapped endsheets, b&w historical photos. Colorful stories of one family's experience in the early American mining scene, and tracing the origins of the U.S. Mining Laws adopted by the U.S. Government in 1876..... More
New York: Time-Life Books, 1980. Later printing. Leather Bound. Classics of the Old West Edition, originally published in 1891. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 491 pgs, facsimile reproduction. A first-hand account of Crook's campaigns during the Plains Indian wars an din the Southwest - really brings to life the whole..... More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 111 pgs, illustrated with b&w block prints, decorated endsheets. "A story that illuminates momentarily the long Mexican revolution as a flash of lightning might reveal a forest in the midst of a night of storm." More
New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. 5 x 7 1/2, 355 pgs. A rich and moving novel about the price of the American Dream. More
Basin, WY: Big Horn Publishing, 1976. Second printing. Hardcover. 8 x 10 1/2, 239 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations. A Broad look at the color and action of Wyoming's past. More