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KINO'S HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF PIMERIA ALTA: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF CALIFORNIA,...

Bolton, Herbert Eugene [translated and edited by] Kino, Eusebio, Father

KINO'S HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF PIMERIA ALTA: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF CALIFORNIA, SONORA, AND ARIZONA, BY FATHER EUSEBIO FRANCISCO KINO, S.J., PIONEER MISSIONARY EXPLORER, CARTOGRAPHER, AND RANCHMAN, 1683 - 1711 [TWO VOLUMES]

Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1919. First Edition. Leather_bound. Complete in two volumes. Volume I: 379 pages; Volume II: 329 pages including index. Frontis map to Volume I and large foldout map at end of Volume II. Half brown leather over brown boards with leather corners. Five raised bands to..... More

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PIONEER DAYS OF OREGON HISTORY (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE). S. A. Clarke

Clarke, S.A.

PIONEER DAYS OF OREGON HISTORY (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE)

Portland, OR: J.K. Gill, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Tall octavos, gray cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Corners nudged or bumped, a few spots to covers, numbered paper label pasted down to spines. 729 total pages. With stamp of Northwest novelist and poet Elizabeth Lambert Wood to endpapers..... More

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BILLY THE KID'S WRITINGS, WORDS & WIT (SIGNED). Gale Cooper

Cooper, Gale

BILLY THE KID'S WRITINGS, WORDS & WIT (SIGNED)

Gelcour Books, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. "A definitive study of the written and spoken legacy of the Old West icon, William H. Bonney, aka Billy The Kid, and includes pertinent period documents. 470 pp. of text, PLUS another 100 pp. of Resources, Appendices including photos of Bonney's correspondence..... More

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MEGAHOAX: THE STRANGE PLOT TO EXHUME BILLY THE KID AND BECOME PRESIDENT (SIGNED). Gale Cooper

Cooper, Gale

MEGAHOAX: THE STRANGE PLOT TO EXHUME BILLY THE KID AND BECOME PRESIDENT (SIGNED)

Gelcour Books, 2012. Second Edition. Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Second Edition. legacy of the Old West icon, William H. Bonney, aka Billy The Kid, and includes pertinent period documents. 633 pp. of text, PLUS another 70 pp. listing sources consulted, and including a full annotated bibliography..... More

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HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI...

Coues, Elliott

HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI RIVER, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE COLUMBIA RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6, BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. (FOUR VOLUMES, COMPLETE); A New Edition. Faithfully reprinted from the only authorized edition of 1814, with copious critical commentary, prepared upon examination of unpublished official archives and many other sources of information including a diligent study of the Original Manuscript and Journals and Field Notebooks of the Explorers.

New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Limited Edition. Hardcover. NOTE: Mixed Set. Three text volumes and one map volume. The final volume (IV), which comprises the index and contains in a rear flap the three called-for folding maps, is a foundling from a different set, long, diaspora'd so long, their..... More

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BOOTS AND SADDLES OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER. Elizabeth B. Custer

Custer, Elizabeth B.

BOOTS AND SADDLES OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER

NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Second Issue. Hardcover. Second Issue, with frontis portrait of General George Custer and ouline map of Montana and Dakota. (Howes, 980, p. 146).Brown cloth with lovely gilt and black design to front board, including Sunrise, (Sun's rays ruled in gilt which then, though faded..... More

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Emory, W.H. (William Hemsley)

NOTES OF A MILITARY RECONNOISSANCE, FROM FORT LEAVENWORTH, IN MISSOURI, TO SAN DIEGO, IN CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING PART OF ARKANSAS, DEL NORTE, AND GILA RIVERS; 30th Congress. 1st Season. Executive, No. 7

Washington DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Handsomely reound into two full black leather bindings with spine titles in gilt -- book in one, wall map in the other. 416 pages. 40 plates (includes 26 plates of scenery, 14 plates of botany by Endicott). Three sketch maps..... More

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LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS : A DIARY OF WANDERINGS ON THE SOURCES OF THE RIVERS MISSOURI,...

Ferris, W.A.

LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS : A DIARY OF WANDERINGS ON THE SOURCES OF THE RIVERS MISSOURI, COLUMBIA AND COLORADO FROM FEBRUARY, 1830, TO NOVEMBER, 1835;

Denver, Colorado: The Old West Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth, octavo. Spine decoration and titles in gilt. Faded water-glass ring stain on front cover, some flaking to spine decoration and otherwise bright titles. Textblock square, corners nudged, binding tight. xcv,365 pages including index. Frontis, Foldout map, map..... More

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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OREGON (PEN PICTURES FROM THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD);...

HINES, REV. H.K. (Harvey)

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OREGON (PEN PICTURES FROM THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD); Containing a History of Oregon from the Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-page Portraits of some of its Eminent Men and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Citizens of to-day.

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893. FIRST EDITION. Leather_bound. A massive (1300 pp. 11.5" x 9.75" x 2.5" ) and exhaustive popular history of The State of Oregon covering Topography, Geology, Climate, Indians, Earliest Discoveries, Overland Explorations, Rival Claims, First American Settlement, Missions, Immigrations, Provisional Government, The Territorial Era, Statehood..... More

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MEMOIRS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE NORTH WESTERN ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, A.D. 1812. IN A SERIES OF...

Hull, William.

MEMOIRS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE NORTH WESTERN ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, A.D. 1812. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES OF THE AUTHOR; Memoirs of the Campaign of the North Western Army of the United States, A.D 1812. In a series of letters addressed to the Citizens of the United States. With an appendix containing a brief sketch of the Revolutionary Services of the Author.

Boston, Mass: True & Greene, 1824. Leather-bound. Full calf (Originally issued in green card wraps), with contrasting red leather title label. Front cover detached. 1/2 " chip with leather missing, to head of spine. Age spotting to first 35 pages or so. 229,+ 10 (Appendix). pp. Appears untrimmed, with nice..... More

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NUGGETS FROM CHALK CREEK. Lacy Humbeutel

Humbeutel, Lacy

NUGGETS FROM CHALK CREEK

Colorado Springs, Colorado: Century One Press, 1975. Softcover. Perfect-bound booklet, Tan card covers with black lettering. A bit of staining and rippling to covers. Clipping laid in at rear recounts the author's death by drowning in the very stream -- Chalk Creek -- about which she writes. 96 pp. Includes..... More

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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH : A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS COVERING THE YEARS...

Kurutz, Gary F

THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH : A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS COVERING THE YEARS 1848-1852

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. xxvii, 771 pages. Color frontis, 31 plates. Blue cloth wih gilt design of gold pan, pick and shovel on cover, spine titles in gilt on black background with gilt border. Large thick octavo. Nice bright cover with very light..... More

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MADELEINE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY; (with an Introduction by Judge Ben B. Lindsey). "Madeleine Blair",...

"Madeleine Blair" (Anonymous)

MADELEINE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY; (with an Introduction by Judge Ben B. Lindsey)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth-covered spine over brown boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Faded reddish topstain. Corners just a wee bit nudged. Rear hinge exposes just a inch or two of mull, but binding is solid and strong. "This memoir..... More

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RECORDS OF CALIFORNIA MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1861 TO 1867. Richard H. Orton,...

Orton, Richard H. (Brig.-Gen.) (Revised and Compiled by)

RECORDS OF CALIFORNIA MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1861 TO 1867

Sacramento, California USA: State Office, J.D. Young, Supt. 1890. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, measuring 9.25" x 6.50" x 1.25". Black pebbled cloth, double ruled in blind, with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to extremities and just a .50" inch tear to cloth at top of spine. 10,000..... More

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THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO...

Owen, John (Seymour Dunbar, and Paul C. Phillips

THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO VOLUMES]; EMBRACING HIS PURCHASE OF ST. MARY'S MISSION; THE BUILDING OF FORT OWEN; HIS TRAVELS; HIS RELATION WITH THE INDIANS; HIS WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT; AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS A WESTERN EMPIRE BUILDER FOR TWENTY YEARS

New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume I: xx,346, Volume II: 333 pages. 30 plates [including frontis to each volume], two foldout maps. Edited by Seymour Dunbar with notes to Owen's text by Paul C. Phillips. Red cloth, octavos. Corners bumped, spines rubbed. Volume 2 has small tear..... More

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FRANCIS DRAKE AND OTHER EARLY EXPLORERS ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST (SIGNED). John W....

Robertson, John W.

FRANCIS DRAKE AND OTHER EARLY EXPLORERS ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST (SIGNED)

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 290 pages. Appendix, index. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed on the colophon page by Ed Grabhorn and dated April 1939. Frontis color maps, 27 maps including color. Text drawings. Vellum spine over brown boards. Quarto. Spine titles in gilt. Corners sharp, boards..... More

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MY LIFE AS AN INDIAN : THE STORY OF A RED WOMAN AND WHITE MAN IN THE LODGES OF THE BLACKFEET. J....

Schultz, J.W.

MY LIFE AS AN INDIAN : THE STORY OF A RED WOMAN AND WHITE MAN IN THE LODGES OF THE BLACKFEET

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1907. George Bird Grinnell (Photographs). First Edition. Hardcover. Original red pictorial cloth, octavo. Cover has decorative Indian design of a buffalo skin, and a bird design on spine. Corners nudged, light wear to head and tail of spine as usual, a couple of thin whitish lines..... More

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