Search Results: Titles starting with C from High-Lonesome Books

El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9, 99 pgs, b&w photos. Biography and bibliography of Sonnichsen. One of the "Southwestern Studies" monographs.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1947. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 418 pgs, index. In the building of America, there is no more ancient and notable landmark than the Santa Fe whose history and ways of life the author traces so attractively.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 380 pgs. In the building of America, there is no more ancient and notable landmark than the Santa Fe whose history and ways of life Mrs. Barker traces so attractively.

Eugene, OR: Navillus Press, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 280 pgs. A couple's experiences living 25 summers in their self-built log cabin in the wilds of Oregon's Coast Range.

Menlo Park, CA: Briarcliff Press, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 113 pgs, b&w photos. Describes the cable car's invention and its growth in popularity during Victorian years, and how the last three cable carl ines were saves and how the system continues to operate in San Francisco today.

New York: Orange Judd, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 9, 202 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. A scarce western novel set up for a play that begins around the time of Black Friday and the Panic of 1873, moves on to life on the plains of Colorado and New Mexico, followed by trailing the Indians with Custer in the Dakotas as well as the massacre that followed, and ending with life at home on a ranch along the Cache La Poudre River.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1950. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good- DJ. 6 x 9, 135 pgs, b&w and color photos and b&w illustrations. Includes glued in Index, at back cover, for the second edition. A classic!

Tucson, AZ: Rio Nuevo Pubishers, 2001. Third printing. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 88 pgs, color photos throughout. The botanist and educator author describes eighty significant cacti of the Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts.

El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good- DJ. 9 x 10 1/2, 56 pgs, beautiful color illustrations. A bilingual songbook for kids.

Chicago: Sears Readers Club, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 408 pgs, mapped endsheets. Herman Wouk's third novel, published in 1951, makes use of Wouk's experience as a Naval officer in the war to evoke a drama of duty, courage, and psychological insight. When a typhoon strikes the U.S.S. Caine, Captain Queeg's series of panicked commands completely destroy what little confidence and loyalty his crew has invested in him. Queeg's sanity is called into question by the higher ranking members of his crew. The resulting mutiny and court martial scenes dramatize the issues of obedience, military order, and justifiable insubordination. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Hardcover. New. Originally published in 1927. 5 x 8 1/2, 356 pgs, b&w illustrations and historical photos. A good early biography of this very colorfun Western "lady"

New York: Tom Doherty, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 284 pgs, sources. The author uncovers the truth about some of the American West's most famous and infamous figures. He delves deep into some of the most enduring myths and legends of the Old West to unveil the real stories beneath them, including: Who was the first American to make a transcontinental journey across the Western United States to the Pacific Ocean Lewis and Clark or a Yazoo Indian who preceded them by more than sixty years? What was the true relationship between Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane and who was the woman who claimed to have proof she was their daughter?

Los Angeles: Fred Harvey, 1919. Fourth edition. Paperback. Fair. 9 1/2 x 7, 64 pgs, color illustrations throughout. Neat old travel guide, Some tears and folds to outside edges and extremeties. Interior in better condition than cover. Title page has large tear. Very collectible.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 552 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Covers from the earliest Spanish explorations in fhe 16th century to the present.

Pacific Grove, CA: The Boxwood Press, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 8 1/2, 172 pgs, index, b&w photos. Provides enough of the biology of the sea otter and of its behavior to make otter-watching more meaningful and more fun.

Aptos, CA, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 96 pgs, b&w illustrations. An issue devoted to "gold fever"

Arroyo Grande, CA: Hubert A. Lowman, 1980. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 96 pgs, b&w illustrations. Details the history and present condition of the Franciscan missions located along California's El Camino Real.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 122 pgs, b&w illustrations, maps, section of color photos. Intended for the layman who has no particular botanical training but who likes to know something about his surroundings in nature.

Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2016. Second edition. Paperback. New. 6 x 9, 280 pgs, b&w photos. A life-long hunter and guide relates the mysteries of the mountains and reveals facts about lions and bears, secrets of scent and successful hound training and breed philosophies.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 8, 291 pgs. 1950s reprint of this Grey classic. Still has protective wrapper.