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La Jolla, CA: Prospect Avenue Press. Very Good. 1970. 2nd Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. (the book was first issued in hardback). The cardstock covers have some light edge wear and beginning rippling, along with some light scuffling and spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. "Opened while Arizona was still a U. S. Territory, the prison accepted its first inmate on July 1, 1876. For the next 33 years 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from murder to polygamy. The prison was under continuous construction with labor provided by the prisoners. In 1909, the last prisoner left the Territorial Prison for the newly constructed Arizona State Prison Complex located in Florence, Arizona. It was also the third historic park in Arizona. The state historic park also contains a graveyard where 104 of the…
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Adobe and Iron The Story of the Arizona Territorial Prison At Yuma
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Ambrose Bierce The Wickedest Man in San Francisco
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San Francisco, CA: Colt Press. Very Good+. 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited to 550 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, especially the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brant) on the front pastedown page. The rear pastedown page has a very small inked number. "Grabhorn founded the Colt Press (19381942) in San Francisco with William M. Roth and Jane Swinerton. The press focused primarily on subjects related to California. Notable publications include their first, Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California, by Oscar Lewis (1938) ; Kamehameha, King of the Hawaiian Islands, by Marie Louise Burke (1939) , which was chosen as one of the fifty "Books of the Year" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts; and McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank…
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American Endurance Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West
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Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2016. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1588345750 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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American Indians Yesterday And Today A Profusely Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Indian
by Grant, Bruce
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1958. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and beginning spots of fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of rubbing. .
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Antonio De Espejo, As A Familiar Of The Mexican Inquisition, 1572-1578
by Conway, G. R. G. (George Robert Graham Conway)
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New Mexico: New Mexico Historical Review. Very Good-. 1931. offprint. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is an offprint reprinted after an initial publication in the New Mexico Historical Review. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. Th book covers have some light edge wear and rubbing. There is a small edge tear to the top rear panel. The text pages are generally clean, though somewhat toned throughout. Onway spent much of his spare time, and much of his own money, in researching the early colonial history of Mexico. He transcribed and translated great quantities of material from the Mexican archives, much of it relating to the inquisition. He was particularly interested in the fate of the English seamen captured by the Spanish and turned over to the inquisition, though individuals of other nationalities also figure in the records. He made gifts and bequests of his material to several libraries. James Williamson commented on the value of…
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Arizona and its Heritage April 1, 1936; Vol. VII, No. 3
by University Of Arizona
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Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Very Good. 1936. 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have strips of toning to the top and spine edges. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the inner rear cover. .
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The Army Post On The Northern Plains 1865-1885
by Mattison, Ray H.
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Gering, NE: Oregon Trail Museum Association. Very Good+. 1962. 2nd printing thus. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and wsa issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some light spots of ground-in dirt. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Ray Harold Mattison was born on September 15, 1903 near Belgrade, Nebraska. In 1910, the Mattison relocated to a farm by Albion, in Boone County Nebraska, where Mattison remained until he attended Wayne State College. After earning a teaching certificate, and a BA in education, Mattison completed an MA in history, and even participated in doctorate coursework. After his schooling, Mattison joined the Bureau of Reclamation in 1940, and worked as a tour guide at Boulder Dam. However, Mattison spent the majority of his career in the U. S. National Park Service. He worked in several U. S.…
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An Authentic Wagon Trail Journal of 1853 From Indiana to California
by Wills, Barbara
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Mokelumne Hill, CA: Barbara Wills. Very Good+. 1985. 1st Printing. Plastic comb binding. This booklet has been signed by the author on the dedication page. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a spiral binding. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright. There is one small spot of black marker mark covering the price. The text pages are clean and bright. ; Signed by Author .
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Bill Carlisle Lone Bandit An Autobiography
by Carlisle, Bill
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Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with both black and white photographs, and also by three full page black and white drawings by Charles M. Russell. The map endpapers were drawn by Clarence Ellsworth. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light, but noticeable rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Bill Carlisle was a cowboy gone wrong! He admits it - Bill is honest - far more honorable than many men who have never been closer to the bars than a traffic citation. To read the story of his life - in plain, unvarnished language - is to understand the tragedy of an orphan, unwanted and unloved. But somewhere in his blood was the iron that forged the Old West - for…
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Biographical Sketch And Bibliography Of Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier
by Hodge, Frederick Webb
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New Mexico: New Mexico Historical Review. Very Good-. 1932. offprint. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The covers have some light bumping, and there is a crease to the top front cover, along with a wrinkled tear with an associated chip, again to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 March 18, 1914) was a Swiss-born American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the new fields of archeology and ethnology. Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico was named for him, as his studies established the significance of this area in the Jemez Mountains for archeological and historic preservation of sites of Ancestral Puebloans dating to…
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Bret Harte's Stories Of The Old West
by Harper, Wilhelmina and Aimee M. Peters (Francis Bret Harte)
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1940. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and smallish chips missing. The dust jacket has some rubbing to the spine and flap joints along with several creases. "Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction." (from Wikipedia) .
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Carbine & Lance The Story of Old Fort Sill
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1942. 2nd Edition Revised. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one printed note on the title page by a former owner. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small chips missing. The rear spine joint has completely cracked and has been repaired by a previous owner on the reverse of the jacket. "In 1933, Lieut. Wilbur S. Nye arrived at Fort Sill to attend field artillery school. He began writing a history of the fort, and in the process, talked to many old Indians. Nye talked to Hoodle-tau-goodle. She told him that Fiffis did make it back to Oklahoma to visit her." (from: A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885) .
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Carl S. English, Jr. Gardens At The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks Lake Washington Ship Canal
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Seattle, WA: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Very Good+. 1976. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet / guidebook for the Carl. S. English Jr. Gardens in Seattle, Washington. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a laid-in map with walking tours notated. "The Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens (7 acres) are botanical gardens located on the grounds of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks at 3015 NW 54th Street, Seattle, Washington. They are open daily 7 a. M. To 9 p. M. Without charge. After the locks were built in 1911, landscape architect Carl English of the United States Army Corps of Engineers transformed the construction site into garden in an English landscape style. All told, he spent 43 years planting and tending the gardens. Today they contain more than 500 species and 1,500 varieties of plants from around the world, including fan palms, oaks, Mexican pines,…
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The Chequemegon Shay-Wah-Me-Gon
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New York: William-Frederick Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1949. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The top edge of the text block has foxing. The dust jacket has several large chips missing, including to the top and bottom spine ends. "After graduation, Allen returned to French Gulch to mine with his father. He also became associated with Marcus Daly in his Electric Light, Street Railway, and Water Works department. After his father's death in 1898, Allen began to develop his Elkhorn Mine at Brundy (later renamed Coolidge for the President). The Elkhorn Mine became a major producer with a large processing mill. For eight years, starting in 1903, Allen also was a timber developer. He then began branching out into other enterprises,…
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Colorado Without Mountains A High Plains Memoir
by Hamil, Harold
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Kansas City, MO: The Lowell Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0913504335 . B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the front endpaper. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several very small edge nicks and tears, along with some light rubbing and wear. "Prior to 1868 the Capote (Kapota) band of Ute Indians lived in the valley. The Utes made a treaty of peace with the United States in 1849 after the Mexican War. Shortly thereafter settlers from New Mexico established several small settlements in what is now Colorado and in 1868 the Utes were removed to a reservation in western Colorado. They continued to play a role in Saguache in the northwestern corner of the valley from the Los Pinos Agency to the west of Saguache until they lost their…
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Cut & Assemble a Western Frontier Town 10 Picturesque Full-Color Buildings in H-O Scale
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New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. Near Fine. 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. All cut-out portions are complete and un-cut. "The American West experienced a great period of growth during the last half of the nineteenth century. Cheap land offers, expanding railroad transportation and the great Gold Rush contributed to the decision of thousands of settlers to make their homes in the frontier territories west of the Mississippi." .
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Daughter of Ramona A Heart Appealing Story of Romance, Ambition and Adventure in the West
by Callahan, Robert E.
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New York: Gaines Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1930. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners have bumping and nicking . The front cover has a couple of small spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. Tipped in is a 5 x 7" photo of the author on the reverse of the first free page. This copy has been signed, with an inscription by the author, on the half title page. "...Robert E. Callahan, an early silent screen actor and author of novels centering around Native American culture. From 1926 the early 1960s, Callahan, operated an amusement park-like attraction called Callahans Mission Village in Culver City. The historically themed park featured teepees and other recreated pieces of early California history, including the Ramona Chapel and a schoolhouse." ; Signed by Author .
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Daughters of the West
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Hayden, ID: Wesanne Publications. Near Fine. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0961908858 . B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. .
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Days On The Road Crossing the Plains 1865
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New York: Burr Printing House. Very Good-. 1902. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are generally clean and bright, with some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There are several spots of discoloration to the front and rear panels. The text pages are generally clean - however there is tidemarking / foxing to the top inner hinges and edges of the pages by the hinges (travelling down about two inches and about an inch in length) which mostly affects the endpapers and pages closest to the endpapers. "Resident of Virginia City, Mont. ; seamstress, school teacher. The Raymond family arrived in Virginia City by wagon train from Missouri in September 1865. They were Mrs. Delilah Raymond and her children Sarah (Sallie) , William Hillhouse, and Winthrop. Mrs. Raymond started a boarding house and the boys soon had purchased a ranch they called Belmont Park . Sarah began teaching school in…
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Denver Illustrated
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Denver, CO: Chain & Hardy Booksellers & Stationers. Very Good. 1881. 1st Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format book with red decorated cloth covers and gilt lettering to the front cover. This is a book of souvenir photographs published by Chain & Hardy Booksellers and Stationers, featuring multiple photographs in and around Denver, Co. From 1881. The book is in generally clean, bright condition, though there are spots of water damage / fading to the front and rear covers. The photographic pages are clean and bright, but the accordion style photos are now three separate sections as the page creases tore and broke apart. All pages are included. Scarce. .
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