Search Results: Titles starting with D from The Wright Collection

Cheyenne: Flintlock Pub. Co., 1967. D.j. (clipped), 167 pp., photos, appendix. History of the Cheyenne Frontier Days which began in 1897 and continues today.. 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good.

Dallas: Dallas Chamber of Commerce, 1942. Cloth (worn, soiled, tears at top & bottom of spine), 11" x 14", 64 pp., tables, statistics. Large map in back pocket. The Dallas Southwest included Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, & Louisiana plus New Mexico, Mississippi and Western Tennessee.. 1st.. Cloth. Good/No D.j. Issued.

N. Y.: Jingle Bob/Crown, 1977. D.j., 220 pp., illus. Facsimile reprint of 1892 edition. The story of the Dalton Gang and their career of crime in the West.. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine.

Columbia: U. Of Missouri Press, 1990. D.j., 287 pp., frontis., photos, index. Lyon was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in 1861. His legacy as the "savior of Missouri" for the union came from his activities in driving secessionists from Missouri.. 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

Columbia: U. Of Missouri Press, 1990. D.j., 287 pp., frontis., photos, index. Lyon was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in 1861. His legacy as the "savior of Missouri" for the union came from his activities in driving secessionists from Missouri.. 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Viking, 1975. D.j. (price clipped), 295 pp. Extremely popular novel set in New Mexico about a struggle by the Navajos against a land developer and the government. . 1st.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Alexandria: Time-Life, 1982. Embossed black leather w/gilt lettering, 288 pp., AEG, ribbon marker. Collector's Library of the Civil War. Facsimile reprint of the 1863 J.W. Daughaday edition. An early Civil War escapade in 1862 that became known as The Great Locomotive Chase. Leather. Fine/No D.j. Issued.

Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Pub., 1968. Stiff paper covers w/illus of "Congress Avenue in Austin, 1866" on front, 284 pp., frontis., map, index. Particularly valuable for the Texas Civil War Historiography from p. 255-270 by Alwyn Barr. Also the appendix of Events significant to Texas & Texans.. 2nd. Ed.. Stiff Dec. Wrs.. Very Good/None.

Austin: Pemberton, 1969. D.j. (repaired tears on edges), 303 pp., frontis, illus., map, index. The first complete biography of Burnet, a pioneer land empresario & partner of Sam Houston. First President of Republic of Texas & later U.S. Senator. All titles by Clarke are scarce.. 1st.. Fine/Very Good.

Houston: N.p., 1932. Stiff paper covers, staples, 86 pp., appendix The story of Capt. N,M. Dawson & his Fayette County company that was massacred by the Mexicans at Salado Creek in 1842. A nice copy with a 1/2" tear at top of the spine.. 1st.. Paper. Very Good.

Denton: UNT, 2009. D.j., 504 pp., 59 black & white photos, 6 maps, index. The definitive truth about the Tom Ketchum gang and related outlaws based on 40 years of research from mainly unpublished sources, comprising family records, personal reminiscences, trial transcripts and other records. Originally published in England in a edition limited to 100 copies, this edition contains additional matierial & photos not found in the original. Robert K. DeArment says-"This is the best work ever done on the New Mexico outlaws at the turn of the twentieth century." SIGNED--"Autographed For: Trails to Yesterday Books No. 9 pf 10 copies.". 2nd Ed.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

Austin: Whitley Co., 1968. Paper covers w/illus. of Rotschild & Diamond Bessie, 16 pp., photos. A story of the romance and murder of Annie Stone Moore Rothschild in Jefferson in 1877. Waviness on the covers & all pages on the bottom 2 inches from moisture.. 1st.. Wrs.. Very Good.

Houston: Union Natl. Bk., 1929. Paper covers, 8 pp. Heroes of Texas Series pub. by Union Natl. Bankd. Extract from Sowell's History of Fort Bend County.. 1st.. Paper. Very Good.

Austin: Jenkins, 1971. D.j., 132 pp., photos. The lives of Orange Cicero and America Connor with emphasis on the period of the Civil War through Reconstruction and the trials and problems it created for them.. 1st.. Fine/Very Good.

Middleton: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1965. D.j., 256 pp., illus., 2 plates, index. Forword by Bruce Catton. A unique record of cadet life and front line action with the Army of the Potomac, at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg & elsewhere.. 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1960. Cloth (spine faded, spine slightly concave), no d.j., 429 pp., photos on endpapers. Baker was a leading Union spy as well as Chief of the Secret Service. Nevins Vol. II p. 77.. 1st.. Cloth. Very Good/None.

Austin: Madrona Press, 1975. Black morocco spine & blue cloth, slipcase. 200 pp. with two original short stories by O'Neill. Frontis illus. by Cisneros. Design by Hertzog. SIGNED by Walker, Hertzog, and Bob Weddle of Madrona Press. #189/200c. Fine biography of O'Neill--Roughrider, Sheriff of Yavapai County & mayor of Prescott, who died in Cuba at San Juan Hill. . 1st.. Quarter Black Morocco & Cloth. Fine/Slipcase.

Austin: Madrona Press, 1975. Black morocco spine & blue cloth, slipcase. 200 pp., illus by Jose Cisneros, design by Carl Hertzog. Contains two original short stories by O'Neill. SIGNED by Walker, Hertzog, and Bob Weddle of Madrona Press. #84/200c. Fine biography of O'Neill--Roughrider, Sheriff of Yavapai County & mayor of Prescott, who died in Cuba at San Juan Hill. . 1st.. Quarter Black Morocco & Cloth. Fine/Slipcase.

N. Y.: Dorset Press, 1989. D.j., 226 pp., 35 maps, index. The progress of the war in both East and West is told at the same time with maps showing the whole pattern of the war.. Cloth & Bds,. Fine/Fine.

Garland: Mullaney Corp., 1999. D.j., 407 pp., photos, index. INSCRIBED by Gatewood. Biography of the Sheriff of Dallas County who knew all of the major criminals--Bonnie & Clyde, Benny Binion, others. Some info. on the Kennedy assassination.. 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.