ARCTIC FRONTIERS.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 232 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. An interesting discussion of U.S. exporations in the far north. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 232 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. An interesting discussion of U.S. exporations in the far north. More
New York: Knopf, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. 6 x 8, 343 pgs, b&w illustrations. Willa Cather's great novel of New Mexico in the middle of the nineteenth century. A classic! Ex-school library, tapes spine, and the usual. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 244 pgs. Cather's 1918 romantic novel of a pioneer woman. More
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 244 pgs. Cather's 1918 romantic novel of a pioneer woman. More
Rodeo, NM: ECO Herpetological Publishing & Distribution, 2020. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 139 pgs, color photos throughout. A trove of information about the Apache wars of southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and the northern states of Chihuahua and Sonora, a land often referred to as Apacheria. Signed by..... More
Missoula, MT: Roundhouse Publishing, 1998. First edition. Paperback. 9 1/2 x 8, 218 pgs, b&w and color photos. A remarkable "Who's-Who" of Native American leaders, artists and actors contribute through interview and prose to create a unique literary experience. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1962. Hardcover. 6 x 9, index, b&w photos and illustrations. Was the Royal Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 by the King of Spain, beneficial or detrimental to the development of a valid, living art in Mexico? The answer lies in the archives..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 325 pgs, 1st edition. A novel about love's labors lost unraveling the fictions we weave to justify loving the wrong mate. Ex-library with minimal markings. More
Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc., 2011. First edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 442 pgs. A new novel, imagines a compelling alternative history when New Mexico was at the center of an international conspiracy that threatened statehood. The unjust commitment of a woman to an insane asylum reveals a plot..... More
Pecos, NM: Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 1951. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 44 pgs, b&w illustrationsand photos. The history of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Four Apparitions. More
Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City Press, 1988. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 8 1/2, 90 pages, b&w illustrations. In English and Navaho both. Delightful childrens stories by this Newberry award winng author. More
Las Vegas, NJ: Desert Rose Publishing, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 10, 64 pgs, color illustrations. A children's story: Quiet One enters this life silently to the surprise of his parents, and so receives his name. As he grows, he learns from his grandfather, Wise Owl - the..... More
New York: Picador USA, 1997. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 406 pgs, bibliography. A glorious history of the Columbia River of the northwest. 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
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