BILLY THE KID.; A Novel.
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
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BILLY THE KID.; A Novel.
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
BURRO ALLEY.
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
COARSE GOLD.
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1952. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 251 pgs. First published in 1942. Limited edition. No. 599 of 1000 copies. Signed by Corle and printer Ward Ritchie. ''A prospector strikes it rich as a young man and then stays on through the long years in the..... More
TEXAS WOMEN; Frontier to Future
Austin, TX: State House Press, 1998. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 375 pgs, b&w photos. Covers twenty-four famous Texas women - from Jane Maria McManus Storms Cazneau to Kay Bailey Hutchison. More
LAW AND ORDER, LTD.; The Rousing Life Of Elfego Baca
Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 219 pgs, b&w historical photos. Wonderful collection of incidents involving Elfego Baca which bring out the interest and humor and strangeness of the Old West in which he lived. More
IT HAPPENED IN OREGON.
Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, 1994. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 111 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. Stories of 31 events that helped make Oregon what it is today. More
ZUNI FETISHES.
Las Vegas, NV: KC Publications, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 43 pgs, b&w illustrations and photos. Originally printed in 1883, this is Cushing's report to the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian in 1880-81. A neat study of fetishes, their role, their meanings, etc. More
THE GREAT NORTH TRAIL.; America's Route of the Ages.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 383 pgs, index, sources, maps. The migration routes and trails of North America and the people and animals who used them from prehistory. More
THE GREAT NORTH TRAIL.; America's Route of the Ages.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. First edition/Fourth printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 383 pgs, index, sources, maps. The migration routes and trails of North America and the people and animals who used them from prehistory. More
DARGAN HISTORICAL ESSAYS.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1952. Paperback. 6 x 9, 118 pgs. Historical studies presented to Marion Dargan and his colleagues and former students at the University of New Mexico. Number Four of the Unversity of New Mexico Publications in History. More
1906; A Novel
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 361 pgs. This powerful and gripping novel sweeps one along while providing rich and previously unknown history of San Francisco during the time of the disastrous San Francisco earthquake of 1906. More
STANDING BEAR IS A PERSON; The True Story of a Native America's Quest for Justice
Cambridge: Da Capo, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 259 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, section of b&w historical photos. The true story of a Native American's quest for justice follows the most important Indian rights case in U.S. history and the fascinating characters who played a part in this..... More
THE SPANISH WEST.
New York: Time-Life Books, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2 x 11, 240 pgs, full of b&w and color historical prints. The story of the Spanish settlers of the West. Padded brown leather. More
COWBOY CULTURE.; A Saga of Five Centuries.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1989. First, thus. Paperback. 6 x 9, 385 pgs, index, notes, biblio, b&w historical photos, maps. For the first time in a single volume, a five-hundred-year saga of the men, the cattle, the horses - the lives & the social circumstances - that made..... More
THE ALAMO - LONG BARRACK MUSEUM.
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 64 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations. A nice glossy souvenir type history of the Alamo. More
SILVER CITY; Images of America
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 6 1/2 x 9, 126 pgs, b&w historical photos throughout. Wonderful collection of historic photos tells the history of this southwestern New Mexico Old West town and its environs. More
THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.; Pioneers, Settlers & Cowboys, 1800-1899.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Reprint. Paperback. 10 x 13, 256 pgs, b&w and color, mostly historical photos, colored, mapped endsheets. Portrays the lives of the ordinary men and women of the West through artifacts from the magnificent collections of the Buffalo Bill Historicl Center, Cody, Wyoming. More
THE ILLUSTRATED DIRECTORY OF THE OLD WEST.
St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing, 2002. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2, 480 pgs, b&w and color illustrations throughout. This extraordinary story is detailed in this fact-filled and illustration-packed reference featuring specially commissioned photographs of surviving weapons, implements, tools, and equipment, as well as Native American artifacts. More
RETURN OF MONTEZUMA.
Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 123 pgs. In 1934 drug-addicted Pedro Montoya, thinking he is Montezuma II, sets out to reverse the course of Mexican history. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
GENE RHODES, COWBOY.
New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 192 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A "colorful, action-packed story of a real cowboy". A neat old childrens' book. More
GENE RHODES, COWBOY.
New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 192 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A "colorful, action-packed story of a real cowboy". A neat old childrens' book. More
GENE RHODES, COWBOY; (Eugene Manlove Rhodes)
Columbus, OH: Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 1954. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 192 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A "colorful, action-packed story of a real cowboy". A neat old childrens' book. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
GERONIMO.; The Man, His Time, His Place.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 480 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Uses Geronimo's own account of his life, traditional historical studies and first-hand narratives of warriors who followed him into battle, and men and women who knew him personally for a wonderful..... More
OKLAHOMA; Foot-Loose and Fancy-Free
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Second printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 266 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. Debo cuts a wide swath through her home state: pioneers, Indians, oil, etc. More