Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Western Frontier Library Novel. Originally published in 1931. 5 x 8, 189 pgs. Classic Rhodes novel of those "ragged individualists" of the Old West. Back of dustjacket and front flap are at back of book. Complimentary card and signed by the author. Bernard..... More
Albuquerque, NM: 1987. Hardcover. 8 1/2 x 11, 99 pgs, b&w photos. A Shriner's 'annual' for 1987. More
Richardson, TX: Richardson Woman's Club, 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 372 pgs, b&w illustrations, color photos, index. Texas favorites plus scrumptious specialties from around the world. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1958. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 460 pgs, b&w photos. Presents a history of Texas with roles played by Spanish priests and conqueroros, filibusters and empresarios, frontiersmen from Tennessee, and planters from Alabama. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1953. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 460 pgs, b&w photos. Presents a history of Texas with roles played by Spanish priests and conqueroros, filibusters and empresarios, frontiersmen from Tennessee, and planters from Alabama. More
Crow Agency, MT: Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association, 1956. Paperback. 6 x 9, 37 pgs, b&w historical photos. While the attention of the nation in 1862 was focused on the early phases of the Civil War, the eastern Sioux rose in one of the most devastating Indian outbreaks in..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 333 pgs. Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed; 22 American writers recall childhood in their native land. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
New York: Winchester Press, 1972. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 248 pgs. Covers the colorful episodes of Texana that conventional brief histories ignore including a battle in the Civil War that occurred five weeks after Lee's surrender. Ex-library. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Later printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 368 pgs, index, biblio, notes, section of b&w photos. An epic story of the battles between the Apaches and the U.S. Army for land and freedom. Slight damp wrinkling to front cover and first few pages. More
New York: The Free Press, 2001. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 356 pgs, section of b&w photos. Meticulously researched and vividly written, recounts the actual battle plus provides background and studies the way the incident has affected modern attitudes. More
Austin, TX: State House Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 9, 392 pgs, footnotes, bibliography, index, b&w historical photos and maps, foreword by Stan Hoig. The detailed accounts of Mackenzies many expeditions including the famous battle of Palo Duro Canyon and the Powder River expedition. More
New York: Random House, 2000. Third edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 352 pgs, index, notes. A modern retelling of this storied organization, based on new material and written with the encouragement of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. More
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 538 pgs, b&w historical photos. An old Southwest history book. More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 393 pgs, index, bibliography. Concentrates on the formation of a Chicano identity, from annexation through assimilation and Chicano nationalism, including much on farm labor and the UFW, covering a wide range of literary production, from the corrido..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1971. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 9, 86 pgs, monotone illustrations. The illustrations are adaptations of pencil portraits and sketches George Catlin made while he was living and working among the Plains Indians of the West and other Tribes. Ex-library with the usual markings. Front fly missing. More
New York: Harper Collins, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. 5 x 8, 239 pgs. Collection of short stories includes 'My Ride, My Revolution', 'Las Chicas Chuecas', and 'Miss East L.A.' among others. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First, thus. Paperback. Originally published in 1922. 5 1/2 x 8, 402 pgs, section of b&w photos. A detailed social history of the manners, customs, and daily routine of the men who herded cattle in the late nineteenth century. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. First edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 246 pgs. Covers sites in seventeen western states, including the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana, Willa Cather's Nebraska prairies and the Murrah building bombing site Oklahoma. Uncorrected page proofs. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Second printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 302 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos and maps. The author focuses on the life of We'wha, the famous berdache (an individual combining work and traits of both male and female) and follows with a study of..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 300 pgs, index, bibliography. "In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the 19th-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape exposed him to the oral history of the Inuit. Collectively..... More
New York: Knopf, 1971. Second printing. Hardcover-spiral. 6 x 8 1/2, 298 pgs, b&w photos. The autobiography of the famous Canadian outdoorsman and his life in the Rockies as cowboy, hunter, trapper, guide and defender of wilderness. More
Chicago: Britannica Books, 1962. Second printing. Hardcover. 8 x 11, 34 pgs, color photos and illustrations. Encyclopaedia Britannica True-to-Life Series. Illustrated with two color illustrations and color photographs from the educational film Indian Family of Long Ago. More
Memphis, TN: Towery Publishing, 1998. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 208 pgs, b&w and color photos. Local stories, folk legends and wonderful images make this a riveting story of San Antonio. More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 203 pgs, index, b&w photos. A classic piece of Western Americana which has been described as the best account of a trapper in the Rocky Mountains when the trade was at its peak. More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 217 pgs, index & bib. This inciteful book looks at the great modern range war between the ranchers and the environmentalists and seeks resolution to the conflict of livestock on public lands. More