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

London: Ward Lock, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 96 pgs, index, b&w illustrations and a section of color photos. Expert advice to guide you through the huge range of tack and clothing now available.

Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 234 pgs, b&w photos. Evaluates cutting-edge tactics and equipment in the tactical shooting field for either close-quarters combat or precision standoff duty. Uses "lessons learned" from live encounters, training scenarios, and competitions as proving grounds to determine what tactics and equipment work when shots really matter.

Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good+. 8 1/2 x 11, 165 pgs, b&w photos. A complete training manual for police and practical shooters.

Washington DC: American Resources Information Network, 1994. Paperback. Very Good+. 7 x 8 1/2, 48 pgs, b&w photos. Includes a foreword by the Honorable Randall T. Shepart, Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court. A straightforward explanation of the law of takings and property rights.

Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1995. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Introduction by Francis Fugate. Design by Carl Hertzog. Reprint of Texas Western Press, 1958. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 64 pgs, b&w historical photos. The author's lively memoirs of his days in this "ghost town", Indians, desperados, mountain lions, Ben Lilly & more.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 x 8 1/2, 86 pgs. New England tales by this educator, remodeling contractor, and wilderness enthusiast who has been writing his regional newspaper column, A Yankee Notebook, since 1981. Signed by the author with gift inscription to Dutch Salmon.

Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1995. Second printing. Paperback. New. 6 x 9, 64 pgs, b&w historical photos. Introduction by Francis Fugate. Design by Carl Hertzog. Reprint of Texas Western Press, 1958. The author's lively memoirs of his days in this "ghost town", Indians, desperados, mountain lions, Ben Lilly & more.

Santa Fe, NM: Published/Printed by the author, 1926. Stiff Wraps. Very Good. 6 x 9, 123 pgs. "This little collection is composed, for the most part, of yarns told by cow-punchers who worked at various times with the Closed-H wagon."

Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing. Hardcover. Good+. 4 1/2 x 7, pages unnumbered. Contents include: Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa, Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, The Drums of the Fore and Aft, Namgay Doola, Moti Guj- Mutineer, A Conference of the Powers, and The Head of the District.

Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2012. Second edition. Hardcover. New. 6 x 9, 245 pgs, b&w illustrations. In this collection of twenty essays and five pieces of short fiction. M.H. Salmon recalls a life of sport in which he seldom casts a fly and rarely swings on a bird. Instead, he roams the Southwest, Midwest, and the north woods in search of what William Faulkner called "the ancient and unremitting context," which is the pursuit of game with hounds. Along the way he reflects on mountain men, wilderness, urban blight, and hunting ethics; mules, trotline fishing and other scenes in a vanishing rural America; and some great game fish, like Smallmouth Bass, his "dream fish," and the surprising catfish, which ultimately offers both a lively challenge and a metaphor for life itself. Finally, in "Home with the Hounds," there is the all-day pursuit of a forty-pound Brush Wolf, and "the ambivalence any sentient hunter feels on killing an animal that has provided… Read More

Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1999. First, thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 308 pgs, sections of b&w photos. The early days and colorful characters of East Africa during the heyday of African safaris. Originally published in 1954.

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1979. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 1/2 x 9, 488 pgs, b&w illustrations. The complete novels of White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild and Cruise of the Dazzler, plus 15 short stories...all with original illustrations.

Published/Printed by the author, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 101 pgs, b&w photos, foreword by H. Lea Lawrence. The ultimate how-to book on turkey hunting. A must for the beginner and chock full of facts for the experienced hunter.

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Good. 6 x 9, 307 pgs, index, b&w photos of writers. Twelve interviews with the likes of Larry McMurtry, John Graves, Elmer Kelton, Tom Lea, Leon Hale and others.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 347 pgs, index, bibliography, section of b&w photos.Combines environmental, social and political history to record white Australians' implacable exploitation of nature. It shows how settler Australia employed the "Enlightenment" ideas of progress, economic gowth and development to conquer nature.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 133 pgs, glossary, introduction by Joan B. Townsend. "These tales, called suk-tus (legend-stories) were originally told among the Indians mainly for entertainment. Stemming from the seventeenth century, they are anecdotal narratives centred on a particular animal or animals common to the Tanaina country."

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 197 pgs, illus. Tells all about preparing skins and furs, from coyote pelts to fish skins, from tanning to marketing, to making your own moccasins.

Los Angeles: Brooke House, 1959. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 478 pgs. Wonderful novel set in New Mexico in 1680 of a whole culture in revolt.

Los Alamos, NM: Exceptional Books, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 10 x 8 1/2, 154 pgs, index, b&w drawings throughout. With pen and ink drawings and a descriptive narrative, this title illuminates Taos' colourful landmarks and legends. The cast of colourful characters includes the magnetic Mabel Dodge Luhan, the mysterious Arthur Manby and the gregarious gambler and transport tycoon 'Long' John Dunn. Signed.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 252 pgs. A nice reprint of Grey's thrilling story of the Old West. Still has protective wrapper.