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350 pages. Presents a handful of the engaging characters from across the country who coax a living, meagre or rich, from the land. You'll meet the poet from the dump, the woman who is the potato industry's worst nightmare, the Portuguese cowboy, and others. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
pp. xi, 311 + Frontis. First fly leaves slightly foxed. Rear hinge cracked. 12mo. Original full red cloth binding. Pictorial front board with a scene of a cowboy on his horse watching the sun set. Extremities slightly rubbed and worn. Hardbound. Good. W6
52 pages. Dozens of helpful diagrams and photos. Tricks include: the flat loop; merry-go-round loops; the wedding ring; body-loop variations; two-rope routines; vertical loops; the butterfly; acrobatic roping; knots; multiple-rope catches; horse catches; the reverse ocean wave; the forward ocean wave; mounted catches; more mounted catches. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
66 pages. Cowboy Issue. Features: Story of the Cowboy; Massacre at Bear River; Legend of the Lariat; The Day the West Went Fence Crazy; Cattleman's War Against the Gray Killer; The "Ten Gallon" Umbrella of the West; The Hired Killer; The American Bronco; Guns That Tamed the Western Frontier; The "Million Dollar" Jackass. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. 28 pages. 8"w x 9 1/2"h. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Pictorial endpapers. Author and illustrator Glen Rounds was the recipient of more than 25 literary awards.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Creases on spine and light wear to cover. 9 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h. 392 pages.
48 pages. Features: There's a New Chic to the Soviet Woman - the tough austerity of Stalin's era has begun to soften, and the ladies are taking the lead - article with great photos; Cowboy Charioteers - brief article and three photos of chariot racing in Idaho; How Billy Barker Won his V.C. (Victoria Cross) - It was One Against 60 so he decided to Ram! - long article with illustrations; Yukon Artist Inger Fiskaa - article with photos; Regina's Wascana Lake Bird Sanctuary - article with photos; Candles With a Twist - a profitable business for Creston, B.C. teacher Sigurd Askevold - story with photos; Princess Alexandra of Kent Becomes a Scotsman's Bride - story with great colour photos; Leo Durocher Explains Why the Spitball Ain't Nasty - photos with story; German Kurt Hill Became a Sarcee Indian in Alberta - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Lowney's Glosette Raisins - back when they came in the red box with the window; Colour photo ad for Angel Face Lipstick; Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: 4"x10" clipping from page 39 only affects recipe and cartoon; Kiddie Who Needs a Caddie - Five-Year-Old Andrew McConnell is a good golfer - short article with five photos; A quality copy. Book
French film magazine [1949] with potted story of the film Les Indomptés (Renegades) starring Evelyn Keyes, Willard Parker and Larry Parks, made in 1946; with accompanying stills from the film. 16pages. Text iin French. General light wear to covers with some light soiling to back cover,
72 pages. Features: The French Lady's Treasure; Scouting the Utes; Did Russia Introduce the Horse?; The Cowboy from Yorkshire; How Green is a Bullfrog?; Those Murdering Herricks; The Death Watch; Leadville's Ice Palace; To My Tormentors, I Bequeath; Charlie Siringo and "Eat Em Up Jake"; "Suicide Ted" Elder. Nice copy. Faint date stamp atop back cover. Magazine
Features: Mountainman - Philander Simmons; The Gold that Floated - Jim Payson; Frenchy the Bronc Rider; Crazy Snake - the last rebel; The Double Life of "Easy" White - artist John White; "I have almost become desperate over the idea of dying a poor man - most cowmen faced that dread every day of their lives; A Family Letter Regarding the Youngers; Milt Hinkle - the great old cowboy; Wild Old Days!; Old Beaverhead's Point of Rocks - it dominated the state road to Virginia City. Coverfold almost fully open else average wear. Book
Features: Breakthrough - in 1906 the Imperial Valley suffered one of the worst man-made disasters of all time; A Story That Never Got Written - Timberline, the old Wyoming cowboy; The Little Green Tents - Walt Mason, "Poet Laureate of Ameica"; The Last Powwow and the Nicholson Family; Wolf-Kill Treasure - making life tough for prospectors; Who was George Matics?; General Ranald S. Mackenzie - his insanity and death; Mementos of Notriety - imfamous weapons; Grass-grown streets in Sierra Nevada - Part V - Columbia, Chinese Camp, Coulterville, Bagby and Bear Valley; Remember 'Chip of the Flying U"? - the B.M. Bower Books are in demand again; Wild Old Days; Travelin' Lilght - Tom Lipps; Tall Wolf's Macabre Necklace. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Vinegroon - the saga of Judge Roy Bean, "Law West of the Pecos"; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Dawson (Klondike/Yukon)- Paris of the North; Liver-Eating Johnson's Last Trail; Guns of the Old West - the Colt Forty-Five; Al Wetherill of the Mesa Verde; Geronimo/Fimbres; Cavalryman vs. Cowboy - a famous race; The Grizzly Bear - King of the California Wilderness - Grapevine Canyon; Two Minutes to Live; Maryhill Castle - Sam Hill; Bottle Bugs - old western bottle; Wheelock Academy and the fighting brothers; Cedros - the magic island; Blood for Blood - the Snake Indians on Bear River in California; Death Rode the Snows - 56 die in Rogers Pass slide; Wild Old Days - underwater - Parker Canyon Lake. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Rodolpho Fierro - Bloody Butcher for Pancho Villa; Guthrie - Grand Old Lady of Oklahoma; Ten Days to Die - the battle of Fort Ridgely; Green River Knives - They Played a Role in Opening the West; The Pioneers Talked Turkey - old west cookery; Kansas State Historical Society Museum opens; Recollections of an Early Montana Cowboy - Roland Matthews. Western Hunting Knives; Bowie Knife - Legend in Steel; Jim Bowie and the 'Sandbar' Fight; Mississippi Rifle on the Plains 1848-1860; Mountain Man Rendezvous; She faced the Cheyenne alone - Ada Reed; Kerrville, Texas - home of the cowboy artists of America. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: The Secret of the Grosches - Virginia City; Wanted Posters - from a lawman's private collection; Three Seconds in Ekalaka - Marmarth, North Dakota; Hellish Years at Ashurst Run; This was Tahlequah; Razorbacks in Texas; Beholden to a Sheepholder - a cowboy gets help in Wyoming; Never by Chance - the saga of Signal Hill, California; Carl Collins could take it from Scratch; Wild Oats Days!. Average wear. Contents partially yellowed with age. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Pirate's Cove, California - Drake's Golden Hinde; Bugler, Sound the Advance! - the Cavalry; Breezy Cox - Champion all-round cowboy; Best of the Pockethunters - Pike Bell; N.C. Wyeth - Painter of men in action!; The Bitter Trip Back - Nathaniel Wyeth and the Green River Rendezvous; Treasure in a Syrup Can - a metal detecting success story; Revenge - Montenegrin style - Taft, Montana; Cache of the Thundering Horses - the Organ Mountains, New Mexico; How a Great Lawman Died - Bill Tilghman, Cromwell, Oklahoma; Lost Gold of the Lavas, Idaho; Old Sharpy of Buzzard Roost Ranch - W.T. (Tom) Sharp of Malahite in the Huerfano Valley, Colorado; Bulldoggers!; Wild Old Days!; Terlingua Flapdoodle. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Remembering Walt - Pat Coburn is interviewed about her late husband, the "King of the Pulps" - Walt Coburn; Uncle Billy Jacobs' Story - a runaway boy hires on with the Pecos Carter and his Panhandle Pool outfit; Buried Treasure in Squirrel Gulch - the Colt 45, once belonged to William Brocius Graham, the famous Curly Bill; In Quest of a Coquillard Wagon; The Evenin' I Met Cull Mims; Taking a head count - the census; Christening the Red Onion - northwest Colorado; Arkichita and a wicked Texas Cowboy - Indian tracker versus Army bully... and guess who won! - Fort Wadsworth; What became of Cambria, Wyoming?; The Mysterious Pinkerton - undercover work at its most dangerous; California's Killer Flood - the winter of 1861-62; Living with "Aunt Sam" James; A Tenderfoot's Dangerous Trip - Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Saga of John Moss; Outwitting the Daltons - Jerome S. Workman; The Earps in Jonopah; Legendary Tom Threepersons; Yosemite Turnpike's Crack Reinsman - George Monroe; 137 Years Old - Francisco Sais; When a Cowboy Falls in Love - a bit of romance involving a lady's watch and an automatic pistol; Getting Acquainted with Mules; Mollie Thumm - an honest gold digger in the Yukon; A Mix of Shrewdness and Nerve - Bill Hay; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: A Man Called Shep; The Kiowa Raiders of Rainy Mountain - great photos; Bill Hickok's Friends; There's still Gold in Oregon; The Mystery of Pranty Wash - Gila County, Arizona; Charley Smith (1856-1882) Still Wears his Six-Gun - a ranger and the outlaw who killed him; Bloodshed in Kansas - Hugoton and Woodsdale were at war ninety years ago; Amanda Alberta, aka 'Cowboy Joe'; A Matter of Survival - 150 feet and four days of hell; The Wild West that Flickered - not all the action in a movie house was on the silver screen!; Trail Tragedy - and to Caleb Magill it was a private affair; 95-year-old fishin' hole - the Gunnison River and the Hillside Resort. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Binding intact. Pages yellowed with age. A sound copy. Book
Features: "Rascals" and Rangers - hot blood courses through the coal veins at Thurber, Texas; Lost Gold at Robbers Roost; The Private War of Henson Wiseman; Localisms and Familyisms - Hillfold talk in the Rockies; Wild Old Days!; The Fatal Quart of Strawberries - Patrick S. Coughlin; Ticket Scalpin' on the Railroad; Great Falls, Montana - First Black Cowboy, Walter Jackson; Under the Devil's Blanket - the most dangerous mail route in the world in Alaska; The Benevolent Ghost - Oakalla, Texas; Frying Pan Charlie - Charles Alzamora; Pima County, Arizona Territory. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
78 pages. Features: Fermin Rodriguez' 1974 Chevy Stepside; Pleasure Den - Larry & Gloria Everett's 1975 Chevrolet C-10; Flint Systems' Open Air Conversion for mini Blazer and Jimmy owners; Project Low Ram; California Cowboy - Dave Perez' 1972 Ford Ranchero; Jeff & Cyndi Higday and their 1978 Chevrolet LUV; Mike & Pam Biddlecome and their 1956 Ford F-100 Stepside; Ken Davis ' 1979 Chevrolet LUV stepside; Gil Canales' 1953 Chevy truck; Dressed to Kill - chrome motor parts; Valley Run One; Pile of the Month - Kirk McCracken's '70 Bronco; Stan & Sandra Phinney's 1972 Pinto Pickup 4X4. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards with pasted down brightly colored illustration by the author on cover and throughout. 7 3/8"w x 9 1/2"h. 32 pages.
92 pages. Features: Renault 16TS ad; In Search of a Community - Blacks in Canada; Labor turmoil in U.S.; Black America 1970 - major article with great photos; Mounting uneasiness in Southeast Asia; Color Cadillac ad features a grey 1970 hardtop Sedan deVille; Mideast conflict news; Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev - how to cope with the Arab armies; Notes from a Soviet Asylum - former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko; Groovy men's color fashion ad for "The Blazer Suit" by Michaels Stern; Education - Young Blacks getting it together - with content on Laura Calhoun, Jennye Guy, Bruce Dalton, Michael Johnson, Chezzie Jordan, and others; Show Business - article with photos of Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx and Flip Wilson; Nice color-photo ad for a blue 1970 Olds Cutlass Supreme; What America Would Be Like Without Blacks; Excellent one-page color photo of Dana Chandler Jr. standing beside his painting honouring Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton; Two pages of colour photos of amazing black graffitti art on buildings; Color photos of Malcolm Bailey, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, David Hammons, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson and Joe Overstreet; Environment - Ecology of a Ghetto; Behavior - Black Hangups; Interracial Relationships; Dallas Cowboy running back Calvin Hill; Working in the white man's world; The beginnings of black capitalism; Passing of Joe Pyne, Martin Tananbaum, Major General James Earl Rudder, Oscar Johnson, Vice Admiral Ralph E. Jennings and Jesse M. Donadson; The Black Church - Joseph H. Jackson, Samuel W. Williams; Music - with photos of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman; Blacks in the Press; and more. Provides a marvelous snapshot of how blacks fit into America in 1970. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; The Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book