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Features: Gold Canyon - the true saga of a lost mine; The Tragic Ward Family - Lay Creek, Colorado; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Come Hard, Go Easy Country - Lost Horse Mine and Billy Keys; Jack Morrow - Road Rancher, Benton, Wyoming; Buck Jones - Hero; The Boom Days of Staging - California Express Companies; Oregon's Buried Tresure; The Courier's Ordeal - Brigadier-General O.O. Howard; Ruby - 8th in a series of 'Ghosts along the Yukon'; A Bank for the 'Little Guys" - A.P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy; The Mystery of Little Wing's Medicine Sack - did she has ESP?; Wild Old Days; Identify these objects!; Mexican Bullion on the Flying H Bar Ranch; Cowboys in Town - Thad Sowder at the 1902 Mountain and Plain Festival; Messages in Beeswax from a Missing Galleon - does this spot at the mouth of the Nehalem River mark the final destination of the San Francisco Xavier?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
Features: Pete Kitchen's Road of Deam Men; Jim Baker - Forgotten Plainsman; Can the Gila Monster Kill?; Trailing the Horse Thieves; Hangman's Hill in South Dakota; Sen-nes or Curly Jim - Diplomat of the Spokanes; The Yocum Silver Dollar; Andy Adams, Author; Death in the Yellowstone; Holdup!; A Cabin on Price River; Buckskin Jim Cutler and his Montana Water Fights; Making Do; Wishart of the Oxcart Brigade; Wild Old Days; The Towns the Ghosts Forgot - Sacramento; Chili Bean the mule; Rosebuds and Whiskey and Whistling Springs; Land of Shalam - one of the world's least known religions. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice 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: Austell Small; Bodie - Archangel of the Mining Camps; What Bodie Did to Lottie Johl; Choctaw Wilson N. Jones; The Lost Barkley Mine; Anna Petrovna's Ghost; Hacienda De Santa Rita; Old Nig - an unforgettable horse; Snake River Gold; Wild Old Days!; Curse of the Indian; The Killing of George Lewis - Grand Junction, Colorado. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: What was your name in the States? - the use of the alias; Gold Bars From the Barnard Express - a story from near Kamloops, British Columbia; Ishi - a most remarkable Indian; A Stranger Rode with the Posse - Bill Everheart of Grayson County, Texas; The Palm of a Three-Fingered Glove; Tragedy of the Moffat Road; The blood of a hundred men! - Tom Starr of Oklahoma; Livin' High and Layin' Low in the Toquimas - to try it, head to Manhattan, Nevada; The Best Darn Vacation I Ever Had! - When a Kansan drinks water from the Pecos he knows he's been somewhere!; Cantankerous a Man as Ever Lived - Amos Hill of Green River; Wild Old Days!; Old West Curiosa - photos; The "Trunkman" Mystery. Average wear. One inch opening at top of coverfold. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: A Case of Forgery in Old San Francisco - Isaiah Lees was a great criminal catcher; The Brookings - a family history; Waybills of the Virginia & Truckee RR.; Nancy Parker a - a lady backed to the wall on the Texas Frontier; Burn-out of a Boom Town - Keifer, Oklahoma; R.I.P. Henry Wickenburg - the discoverer of the Vulture Mine; Soul Saving - Kind words for the family of the circuit rider; Life Along the Canadian River - it flowed through Comanche land; Josanie - Apache Warrior. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: A Perilous Border - Living on the Rio Bravo was a challenge! - Pancho Villa, Pascual Orosco, etc.; Preacher in the Gold Rush - Oscar Penn Fitzgerald - Sonora and San Quentin; A Stripped-Down Trail Drive - The Jones boys make a stab at reaching Montana grass and saving their herdsThe Victor, Colorado Water Heist - gunmen divert water!; A Range Rider on the Navajo Reserve - Lyo Lee; Grabill - Early-Day Photographer; Outlaw Rock - where Billy the Kid holed up from May-December 1880; Jack Dalton - Klondike Trailblazer; Palo Pinto's Lonely Mausoleum; William Pollock - Indian Artist and Rough Rider; Hay Gatherers on the High Plains - great photos of early hay technology; Quartet of Texas Ranger Tintypes. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound 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: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: The Biggest Prize of All - A Memorable fishing trip to Eagle River; Interrupted Journey - a springtime trip to the interior; For Mukluk or Parka - the Eskimo housewife is proficient at skin sewing; Fur Trapping and Ranching - the 5th of 6th articles in a series of 'What to Expect in Alaska"; A Dogface's Dog Team - a gift of a husky pup involved a sailor in the intricacies of raising and training sled dogs; Photo of Mrs. E.W. Parker astride a large brown bear that charged her and her husband; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Defence of Fort Vercheres against the Iroquois; How History Came to the Blindman River in 1895; The Conquering Cook - Chinaman Lee Poon; Renata, B.C. - Eden of the Arrow Lakes; Gold - The ABC's of Gold Panning; Collins' Overland Telegraph (part 2); Disaster at Dejardins Canal - 59 passengers and crewmen rode the train onto the bridge to disaster; John Costello, aka "Billy the Bug"; 1679 - The Mystery of the Griffon - 300 years after La Salle's trading ship sailed into oblivion the mystery remains unsolved; An Earful; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Cover Car - Cool California Carrier - '57 Ford Ranchero of George Metobe of Artesia, CA; Merc Taillights for your Ford in 15 minutes; '58 Impala of Tony Del Rio; How to Buy a Used Engine; Theme for a Dream Car - '49 Merc of Jim Doyle is restyled by California specialists; Basic Restyling II; Body Swapping - the next step in customizing?; 15 ideas for Corvettes and T-Birds; Phil Sheehan and his '54 T-Bird; '57 Corvette of Bob Moreira; Shift Faster with a Stick; and more. Above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
136 pages. 12.5 x 10.5". Chronology. Illustrated endpapers. "This extraordinary book portrays a rich and flourishing culture. An extended essay illustrated with archival photographs sets the scene. Then 80 stunning colour images chronicle an annual cycle of activity from the oolichan harvest to the coming of winter, from the raising of the first new totem pole in a century to documenting ceremonies rooted in pre-history. The interweaving of image with words from an oral tradition, which predates the Greeks by thousands of years, reveals a wonderfully sophisticated understanding of the human and natural world." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A lovely copy of the handsome tribute to the Nisgaa people. Book
51, [4] pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Footnotes. Unmarked with average wear. Spine sunned. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative Ontario local history. BISHOP p.1155. Book
330 pages. Author's second volume of articles on the history of Paris, Ontario and district. Includes such interesting topics as: Street Walkers; Medicinal Quackery; Paris Constabulary 1852-87; Rowdyism; Prohibition; Bad Language 1881-1910; The Grand Valley Railway; and dozens more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
34 pages. Features: News about Square Dancing (vinyl) records; Californians barnstorm Texas; Square of the Month- Slim Brough; Emblems help build club spirit; Guest Caller - Pat Harvey; The Dallas Route; Hot Time; Abilene's Square Dance Center; Swanee River; Nice one-page photo ad for Fenton "Jonesy" Jones' calling book; Photo feature of staffer Eunice Reithard; Large beautiful photo ad for Kathy's Cottons inside back cover features Joan Vohs, M.G.M. starlet; Other nice vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
176 pages. Printed upon glossy stock which has moderately tanned with age. Contains reproductions of archival black and white photos. A sampling of the extensive contents includes: John Matthew Rutland; Upper Keremeos and Ollala; Penticton from 1900-1908; George Muterer Watt - a Tribute; Driving Logs by River and Lake (1910); The Reverend Philip Stocks; Lawrence Guichon; and much more. Somewhat above-average wear to red card covers. Binding intact. Reference library card pocket inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound reference copy. Book
56 pages. Includes lists of additional sources and postmasters. "...Relates to the establishment of postal service and the anchoring of a name to a community. The postmarks reproduced here can be considered to be the official seal of the communities" - from introduction. Discusses the following postal service communities: Aleza Lake, Chief Lake, Cranberry Lake, Croydon Station, Dewey, Dome Creek, Dunster, Giscome, Giscome Portage, Henningville, Hutton Mills, Longworth, Loos, Lucerne Station, McBride, Newlands Station, Nichol, Penny, Prince George, Raush Valley, Tete Jaune and Willow River. Publisher's ink stamp inside front cover otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Undated but printed in recent years - we estimate in 1990. A nice copy. Book
264 pages. Reprint of the 1915 first edition. All twenty-nine full-page black and white plates present. Lacking both maps. "The purpose of this book is chiefly to tell of the country along the Hudson Bay Railway now under construction, of Hudson Bay, the Mediterranean Sea of North America, and of the resources to be found in Manitoba's new territory, including the great inland sea on which it border." - from Preface. Heavy wear to reddish-brown cloth library binding. Former library copy with usual markings. No dust jacket. A worthy reading copy. Book
292 pages. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. "The story of hardy people who dared to follow a dream. While trapping in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Beaverlodge, Alberta, Alex Monkman came upon a low pass the Indians had been using for hundreds of years. He recognized it as a potential shortcut fo the Pacific coast for the people of the Peace River Country in northeastern British Columbia... The Monkman Pass Highway Association was formed in 1936... The ingenuity, courage and endurance of the people who worked on the Pass is a story that begged to be told and this book is dedicated to them." - from back cover. Prior owner's details and blind stamp upon first page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Raft - a group of Australians are set adrift in a vast inland sea during a disastrous inundation; The Haunted Tanker - as told by David Kellar, an officer of the Merchant Navy; The Black Pearls of Fatu-Hiva - A weird story from the South Seas as told by Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart; Bill Miner-Bandit - The amazing life-history of one of the most notorious outlaws who ever troubled Canada and the Western States; Act of God - An incident in Karachi, Pakistan; Shooting Star - Am amusing tale from the Sudan; River of the Dead - a gripping story from the little-known interior of Brazil involving the fierce Chavantes people; The Village of Ladders - the Swiss hamlet of Albinen is accessible only by a series of rough ladders; They Live in Trees - The Tree-Dwellers of Travancore State in India; "Living Native" in the South Seas. Illustrated in black and white. Back cover detached. Contents in good condition. Pencil name atop back cover. Magazine
6 pages. Nicely-color-illustrated cover features inset photo of Ethel Kirk and Billy Fogarty, who originally introduced this song. Above-average wear. Covers taped together. Faint store stamp atop page 3, otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Sheet music
1st Founders edition. Original, beautifully decorated boards. 8vo. 256 pages, 19 cm. Inscribed on front end paper by Henry Collins Brown in 1917. Loaded with photos of New York City from the early 20th Century. The stated mission of the manual was to serve as a visitors guide of the city. SUBJECTS: New York (N.Y.) - History. Description and travel. Previous owners notes about the series on blank fron end paper. Very good condition. Beautiful copy (AMR-54-61)
