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London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition (stated). Large octavo in dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. xvi+ 274 pp. with index. Numerous monotone photographic plates and reproductions. A tight, fine example, tasteful vintage bookplate front pastedown. No jacket. The first comprehensive hisotry of the Oregon Trail, expanding signifiicanly on… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1994. First edition thus. Paperback. Illustrated softcovers. 123 pp. With chronology, bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. First trade edition. Generally fine with a touch of rubbing to the lower left spine corner. Mongraph on John Fletcher Lummis, who arrived in Los Angeles from Ohio in 1885 and built El Alisal,… Read more about this item

Indianpolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. As New. Two volumes, first editions. A fully fine, fresh set in buff colored buckram cloth, spines stamped in red and gilt. Volume I: xiii+ 632 pp. Title page printed in red and black. Nine maps and illustrated with duotone photographic plates; Volume II: viii+ 686 pp. with index,… Read more about this item

Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Second edition. Paperback. As New. New, unused copy. Color illustrated softcovers. 331 pp. with index. Illustrated throughout with color photos of each of the featured buildings.

(Cincinnati), 1921. Wraps. Fine. Pamphlet of 16 pp. in printed stiff wrppers. Fine. William Henry Venable (1836-1920) was a noted educator, lecturer and writer of history, poetry, and memoirs, who worked in around Cincinnati, as well as other vareas in Ohio and Indiana.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. fine. First edition. A fine, tight, bright example, light tan paper covered boards decorated ad lettered in dark brown. No jacket. Vii+ 101 pp. Collection of lyrics of 40 songs and ballads of the Old West.

St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1970. first edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. Fardcover in brown faux leather decorated and lettered in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 142 pp. plus index. Illustrated with maps and vintage reproductions. Important professionally researched work that looks first at the decimation of the American buffalo in the 19th century… Read more about this item

Seattle: Superior, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Firts edition stated. Oversized hardcovers. 182 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated throughout with vintage photographs of the Old West as well as portraits of the photographers. Fine (some light foxing to the half-title) in bright, crisp dust jacket with a touch of wear at the spine extremities. The story of… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. First printing. Hardcover, map endpapers, xi+ 211 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of 19th century documents, posters, engravings, paintings. In 1846, John Banvard, who wanted to "paint the biggest picture in the world", unrolled before the audience the first of the huge, moving "panoramas"… Read more about this item

Washington DC: GPO, 1913. Hardcover. Slim 8vo in olive green hardcovers. Deaccessioned from a college library, so stamped on the endapers. 76 pp. with bibliography, folding panoramic photo and other photographic plates. Tight and fine but ex-lib.

New York: Scribners, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Fine in generally fine dust jacket whose only fault is a bit of toning to the spine strip. Oversized hardcover. Map endpapers. ix+ 239 pp. with index. With 352 illustrations including numerous first-hand photographic images.

Austin: Encino Press, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine, bright, price clipped dust jacket. Oblong hardcover. vi+ 190 pp. with index. Nearly 100 maps by Edward Triggs and Lance Wren with Pool's explanatory text illustrate the physical foundation of the state's development --geography, solis, geology, moisture regions, plant life and archaeology--and many other elements such as Indian reibes,… Read more about this item

Marlowe & Company, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. viii+ 215 pp. Novelized recreation of the life of Joshua Norton, an original '49er and resident of San Francisco who in 1859 declared himself Emperor Of The United States and Protector Of Mexico. Until his death in 1880, the eccentric Norton "presided" over public… Read more about this item

Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Historical Society, 1935. Softcover. Fine. Printed stiff wrappers. Seqentially paginated 249-355 with index + viii )contents for all 1935 publications). Fine, some toning about the edges. This issue contains: "Onate a Maurauder?" by G.P. Hammond; "Bourke on the Southwest VII" by L.B. Bloom; "Kit Carson, Catholic" by Father Claudius Antony.

Denver: Chas. J. Kelly, 1896. Second edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wrappers. 99 pp. Inscribed on the top of the title page "Compliments of J.F. Vaile". "Second Edition stated on the front wrap. Treatise on one of the burning questions of the 1896 campaign, the issue of bimetallism. Vaile was a prominent and wealthy Denver lawyer who would… Read more about this item