Search Results: Authors starting with R from High-Lonesome Books

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1960. Second edition. Hardcover. Good-. 7 x 10, 153 pgs, index, color illustrations throughout, decorated endsheets. From the American Heritage Junior Library, a good history of America's plains Indians. Ex-library with the usual markings.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. Originally published under the title CATTLE. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 340 pgs, index, sections of b&w photos. The story of cattle and the cowboy; "the story of a great industry, of a pioneering effort of stupendous historical consequences, and of countless deeds of valor and villainy."

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1928. Reprint. Hardcover. Good in Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 294 pgs. The story of the pioneers who moved with the frontier and made the laws as they went - Bat Masterson, Bill Hickok, Frank Leslie, Tom Horn, Pat Garrett, Bucky O'Neill, Billy Tilghman and others.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Good+. Uses the scenarios surrounding fly fishing to offer advice to men who face aging, divorce, new romances, the growth of children and the deaths of friends, mentors and relatives.

New York: William Morrow, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, 352 pgs, index, illustrations. Uses the scenarios surrounding fly fishing to offer advice to men who face aging, divorce, new romances, the growth of children and the deaths of friends, mentors and relatives.

New York: Howell Book House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 211 pgs, b&w illustrations. The perfect antidote to misinformation about equine health care.

Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughn, 1993. Paperback. Very Good+. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 32 pgs, color illustrations. Children's biography book about the first woman chief of the Oklahoma Cherokees.

Silver City, NM, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 56 pgs, b&w illustrations and photos and art. Only Book I is left from this shortlived "3 issue" magazine. It features Steve Bodio's brilliant, controversial article on cock-fighting; plus Zeke Rivers on float fishing; M.H. Salmon on coursing hounds, southwest book reviews by Grant Luna and much more.

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair DJ. 14 x 10, 170 pgs, color photos throughout. Numerous celebrities and their horses.

Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 214 pgs, b&w illustrations. Stories that will introduce you to quiet solutions for resolving training problems from the horse's point of view.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 7 x10, 415 pgs, index, b&w historical photos and illustrations. The story of early north polar explorers to the fur-trade explorers of the late eighteenth century. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Walker Art Center, MN: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1954. Hardcover. Good+. 6 1/2 x 10, 280 pgs, b&w illustrations. The whole human pageant of the Far West in the early years is brought to life in these remarkable pages. Includes biographies of the artists. Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, by the City Art Museum of St. Louis, in collaboration with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. An anthology of great art illustrating the westward expansion. Signed by the editor.

Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1998. First edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 291 pgs, b&w photos. Gives the reader a fresh look at the lives of many famous authors who lived in San Francisco and the surrounding area. It also portrays the development of the city from a Gold Rush boom town through its rapid growth as a commercial port and rail head, its destruction in 1906, its rebirth, and its post-World War II status as a major urban center.

Strasburg, CO: Prairie Publications, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 180 pgs, b&w photos. An authoritative compilation about breeding, raising, training and leasing a racing greyhound.

New York: Scribners, 1938. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 8, 428 pgs, illustrated. Classic novel set in north Florida about a young boy and his wild animal friends. Ex-school library with usual markings.

New York: Winchester Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good in Good DJ. 7 x 10, 205 pgs, b&w illustrations. A collection of fishing stories from all times of the year for all kinds of fish in all sorts of situations. Soiled dj cover.

London: David & Charles, 2003. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 12 x 9, 96 pgs, b&w and color art throughout. A handsome and beautifully illustrated book on gamebird and wildfowl shooting, principally in Britain and Europe. Despite the title this is a book about sport and natural history, not really about guns.

New York: The Alice Harriman Company, 1914. Hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 352 pgs, b&w and color illustrations. Historical novel that uses Winship's "The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542" and Bancroft's "History of Arizona and New Mexico" as a bases.

New York: Random House, 1989. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 384 pgs, index, two sections of b&w photos. The autobiography of US President Ronald Reagan's First Lady, discussing her life and film career, the stars she worked with - including 'Ronnie' Reagan - her husband's life and entry into politics, the 1980s White House years, her struggle with hostile media, her family problems, much more.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 121 pgs, index, b&w photos. A directory of restored historic structures you can visit in California.