Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2002. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 310 pgs, b&w historical photos. Behan's story as a 40-year lawman and public servant who was skilled with gun and horse, yet who consistently fought crime and arrested bad guys without killing anyone. The lawman that everyone has..... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 308 pgs, b&w historical photos. Volume I of Lawmen, Outlaws and S.O.Bs. sold out in short order. The characters in Volume II are just as tough, ornery, and contradictory, some wearing badges and going to jail all in..... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2004. First edition, later printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 310 pgs, b&w historical photos. Short biographies of fifteen notable gunmen of the old Southwest, most of them largely lost to history. Well documented with a remarkable collection of old photographs. More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2006. First edition. Stamped Cloth. 6 x 9, 200 pgs, b&w historical photos. In November, 1883, near a railroad siding called Gage in southwest New Mexico, four mounted outlaws derailed the eastbound Southern Pacific, killed the engineer, and robbed the train and passengers of far..... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 311 pgs, b&w historical photos, index. A great biography of this 19th century Grant County, NM, sheriff. He jailed Billy the Kid, knew the infamous rustler John Kinney, lived through the Apache Wars, beat Pat Garrett at the..... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2005. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 311 pgs, b&w historical photos, index. A great biography of this 19th century Grant county, NM, sheriff. He jailed Billy the Kid, knew the infamous rustler John Kinney, lived through the Apache Wars, beat Pat Garrett at the..... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2017. First edition, later printing. Paperback. Originally published by Gila Books. 6 x 9, 315 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical photos. Introduction by Robert G. McCubbin. A history of Silver City and southwestern New Mexico. Well-researched and includes the well-known figures as well as the..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1993. Paperback. 6 x 9, 223 pgs. Short stories that depict, with fierce determination, all the elements of modern Native American life. More
New York: Warner Books, 1996. Paperback. 5 x 8, 306 pgs. A novel. The life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar. Inspired by this gift, Thomas forms Coyote Springs, an all-Indian..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. 5 x 8, 399 pgs. Allende's superb historical novels are rich in extraordinary characters and events that come to vibrant life in the voice of this master storyteller. More
New York: Penguin/Plume, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. 5 x 8, 290 pgs. Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the..... More
New York: American Heritage Press, 1970. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 384 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. A collection of Western adventure stories by writers like Donald Culross Peattie, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Ralph K. Andrist and more. More
New York: Warner Bros. 1994. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 293 pgs. About family, greed, lust for power, and the ironies of racial purity in a city where three cultures have collided since 1846. This novel will help you see Albu"r"querque in a whole new light. More
Washington DC: U.S. Gov't Printing Office, 1962. Paperback. 6 x 9, 48 pgs. Previously published in 1941, and revised in this edition, and entered into the U.S. Senate documents, give a short historical sketch, lists governors, senators, and congressional representatives since the beginning of statehood, along with the industries and..... More
New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 9 1/2, 1358 pgs. An epic novel of genius, obsession, and mystery surrounding the Baroque-era Mexican nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, who at the time of her death in 1695 was arguable the greatest writer working in..... More
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 128 pgs, b&w and color photos. Edited and with a foreword by David Brower.The author's experiences living with the Navajos. More
Santa Fe, NM: Rydal Press, 1941. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 175 pgs. Novel of early New Mexico. "The author has gleaned the historical part of this story from old books and legends, from old Spanish inhabitants, from rare volumes." Introduction by Ina Sizer Cassidy, designed and processed by Louie Ewing..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 223 pgs. Nearly 1,000 powerful & poignant L'Amour quotations selected by his daughter, with an introduction by Louis L'Amour himself. More
El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 163 pgs, index, notes, b&w Lea illustrations, decorated endsheets. Focuses on Lea's literary works and his importance as an American author. More
New York: Macmillan, 1940. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 242 pgs, decorated endsheets. A classic history of cattle brands. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2, 253 pgs, illustrations and decorated endsheets. A 1940s introduction to the sun country, part desert, part plains, part mountains -- our American Southwest. Plains lore, desert talk, and mountain medicine. 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
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 308 pgs, index, notes, b&w photos, fold-out map. An intellectual evaluation of the pioneer cattleman in his unique western habitat; cattle wars, cowtown disorders, the cattle man as a manager and employer, etc. More
New York: Doubleday, 1978. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 252 pgs, sections of b&w photos. Autobiography of the "Singing Cowboy" More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1978. Paperback. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 258 pgs. There have probably been more pictures than words published about The Grand Canyon. And while there are some photographs included in this book it a book of stories by 23 of the most talented authors about this..... More