Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8 1/2, 170 pgs, index, endnotes, bibliography. Contains some information on the Chisum women and a chapter on Billy the Kid. One of the first to drive his cattle from Texas to New Mexico on the Goodnight Loving Trail. Includes..... More
Norman, OK: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Later printing. Trade Paperback. 5 x 8, 356 pgs, b&w illustrations. Very readable, humorous and insightful classic of ranch life in New Mexico, 1880's to 1930's, including grizzly hunts with Montague Stevens and insights on the homestead period in Catron County. More
Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 145 pgs, index, section of historical photos. The author exposes Billy the Kid as a cowardly crook who did not hesitate to kill for money - nicely balances the legend for both scholars and lay readers..... More
Corvallis: Oregon State University, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 190 pgs. The author's prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work..... More
New York: Indian Head Books, 1991. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 365 pgs, b&w illustrations. A facsimile reproduction of "The Life of Hon. William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide" originally published in 1878. More
New York: Indian Head Books, 1991. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 365 pgs, b&w illustrations. A facsimile reproduction of "The Life of Hon. William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide" originally published in 1878. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. Paperback. 5 x 8, 420 pgs, bibliography. The old Southwest was the southern frontier in the early 19th century, not Arizona, New Mexico, etc. Included are representative selections from more than 20 authors ranging from Parson Mason Weems to Davey Crockett to Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 6 9 1/2, 428 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w photos. "Immense wisdom and insight into ancient and still-honored ways of healing" More
Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 223 pgs. A charming memoir that is part biography, part documentary of the people and places in Western United States. Ex-library. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 182 pgs, b&w illustrations. For young adults, a fictionalized account of the life of Bill Cody. More
Aspen, CO: Unbridled Books, 1996. First, thus. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 2148 pgs. The author's debut novel, "moves the cool, magical soul of South American realism to the hot, dry, magical heart of the American Southwest." More
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 179 pgs. Sampling of writing from ten Texas writers including John Edward Griffin, Edwin Shrake, Tom Pendleton, William Buford, Ramona Maher Weeks, William D. Barney, John Graves, James Newcomer, Ilse S. Rothrock and Larry McMurtry. Preface by Jim W...... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1957. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7, 465 pgs, b&w historic photos and illustrations. An interesting biography of this trapper, freighter, rancher, stage-coach contractor, innkeeper, and all round capitalist in the west in the mid 19th century. More
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1992. Hardcover. 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations. From "The American Indians" series, deals with the white intrusion into the Great Plains which led to one of the epic tragedies of American history. By 1890 the original inhabitants had suffered..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 219 pgs. The basis for the movie, "In a land of warriors, in a time of legends, he was the greatest of all..." More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 441 pgs. "The whole story", includes the heroism, the foolishness and above all the brutality of Custer's last stand. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1991. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 441 pgs, index, biblio, section of b&w historical photos. "The Whole Story", includes the heroism, the foolishness, and above all, the brutality of Custer's Last Stand. More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 441 pgs. "The whole story", includes the heroism, the foolishness and above all the brutality of Custer's last stand. More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1938. Hardcover. 4 x 6 1/2, 480 pgs. An account of the westwardpush after the Civil War and life in the Southwest Plains during the late 1870s and early 1880s. The author was himself a buffalo hunter of the times. Previous owner's..... More
Waco, TX: Published/Printed by the compiler, 1968. First limited edition, #162/500. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 64 pgs. Signed by the compiler. A bibliography of many of Dobie's writings with numerous quotations from Dobie. More
Seacacus, NY: Chartwell Books, 1988. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 304 pgs, b&w photos. A nice collection of classic Red Indian tales. H. More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 293 pgs, bibliography. A novel that packs accurate history into a dramatic narrative of this famous Western outlaw. More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 293 pgs, bibliography. A novel that packs accurate history into a dramatic narrative of this famous Western outlaw. More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 293 pgs, bibliography. A novel that packs accurate history into a dramatic narrative of this famous Western outlaw. More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1946. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 270 pgs. Corle's famous novel of twelve hours on a Saturday night in 1938 in Santa Fe. Signed and numbered 99 of 1,500. Chunk of dustjacket near top missing. More