VIEWS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Co., (1904). No pagination (32p), 8" x 10", wraps, very good. Several photos on each page with captions.
WESTERN AMERICA
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A TROOPER WITH CUSTER, And Other Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Columbus, Ohio: Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co., 1925. 214p, illustrated, covers soiled, good. First edition. Vol. I of "The Frontier Series." An expanded version was published in Harrisburg, Pa. in 1952. Contains William C. Slaper's account of the Battle of Big Horn. Brininstool contributed several articles about Custer and the Battle.
AB-SA-RA-KA, HOME OF THE CROWS, Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. 284p, cloth, illustrated (incl. fold-out map), bookplate, some loosening and browning of paper, wear to spine ends, minor tear to map mended with tape, good. First edition. Howes. USiana C-175. Much on the Indians and U.S. Army in the West, especially Nebraska, Wyoming.....
NARRATIVE OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITION.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1994. 414p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, illustrations and maps (some in color), very good. Index. Lakeside Classic No. 100. In English and Spanish.
LIFE ON THE PLAINS AND AMONG THE DIGGINGS;. Being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: With Particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West.
Abvurn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. 384p, cloth, illustrated (4 plates), wear to spine ends and corners, front outer hinge beginning, light foxing on some pages, good. First edition, first issue. Howes, U.S.-IANA, D 230; Wagner-Camp, 238:1. A popular book, one of the best "forty-niner" narratives.
ZANE GREY'S ODYSSEY.
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, Inc., 1991. 211p, 11" x 9 3/4", full leather with gilt decoration, all edges gilt, illustrated with black & white illustrations, fine. One of 2500 copies signed by author.
THE TRAIL OF THE BADGER, A Story of the Colorado Border Thirty Years.
Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., 1908. Hamp, Sidford F. THE TRAIL OF THE BADGER, A Story of the Colorado Border Thirty Years Ago. Illustrated by Chase Emerson. Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., (1908). 351p, pictorial cloth, illus. (5 plates), lettering on spine chipping off, o/w very good. First edition. Hamp.....
MY LIFE EAST AND WEST.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1994. 417p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated, very good. Index. Lakeside Classic No. 92.
COLORADO VOLUNTEERS IN NEW MEXICO 1862.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1962. 309p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated, endpapers slightly discolored, otherwise very good. Index.
THE NOTORIOUS JAMES BROTHERS, JESSE AND FRANK.
Baltimore: I. & M. Oppenheimer, 1913. 1913. 192p, illustrated wrappers, illustrated, cover slightly soiled, paper browned and brittle, wraps very good, contents fair.
GRAPHIC SKETCHES OF THE WEST.
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Publishers, 1890. 254p, pictorial wraps, illustrated, 1/8" paper chipped off spine, 1/8" edge tear to rear wrap, very good. Travel stories originally published in NY newspaper. Travels by rail, hunting, mountain climbing, much on California. Very nice copy.
GOLD RUSH:. The Overland Diary of Samuel A. Lane, 1850.
Akron: The Summit County Historical Society, 1984. 59p, wraps, illustrated, vg. Xlibrary. In addition to being an editor, sheriff, mayor and author of FIFTY YEARS AND OVER IN SUMMIT COUNTY, Sam Lane also went to California (the only time he left Akron in 70 years.) Includes introductory information by Akron.....
FROM MEXICAN DAYS TO THE GOLD RUSH. Memoirs of James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum Who Grew Up with California.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1993. 389p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated, very good. Index. Lakeside Classic No. 91.
ECHOES FROM THE RIO GRANDE, From the Thorny Hills of Duval to the Sleepy Rio Grande.
No place: By the author, (1963). 320p, pictorial cloth, sketches and illustrations by the author, also includes photographs, vg in dj with edge wear and tape on verso. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author. 1905 to N.O.W. Tales of wild and wooly times along the Texas-Mexican border country told by.....
THE BORDER AND THE BUFFALO, An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1938. 480p, 6 1/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, frontis, former owner's signature and inscription, very good.
PICTURES OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1949. 383p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, map frontis, illustrated, bookplate of Walter and Dorothy Donnelly, very good. Index. Lakeside Classic no. 47.
ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER WITH THE U.S. CAVALRY.
No place, 1934. 98p, wraps, frontis, very good+. First edition. (Usiana W-259.) The Modoc War, Montana operations, etc. with Troop L, First Cavalry. (Controvich A308). Herman (1856-1944) was the brother of Paul Werner, fonder of the Werner Publishing Co., and was active in veterans affairs in Akron after service in.....
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