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Adams, Ansel, PHOTOGRAPHS.
Leopard Books, 1995. Reprinted from the 1992 Random House edition., F/F, new, unopened. 5"x 6.25". 32 plates, Afterward, Notes, List of Plates, unpaginated.
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Myers, John, THE ALAMO.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
(Bison Books, 1973). Maps. 240 pages.
~~~ "The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary,
partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to
present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege
of the Alamo in an entirely different light. . . . Myers' story will stand as
the best that has yet been written on the Alamo. . . . It's a
classic."—Boston Post
~~~ "Here is an historian with the vitality and drive to match his subject. A
reporter of the first rank, he can clothe the dry bones of history with the
living stuff of which today's news is made."—Chicago Tribune
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Opler, Morris Edward, MYTHS AND TALES OF THE JICARILLA APACHE INDIANS.
University of Nebraska
Press, 1994. (Originally published in 1938). Introduction by Scott Rushforth. NEW copy. Trade paperback. Page-end notes
throughout, index, 406 pages.
~~~ "The publication of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by the American Folk-Lore Society in 1938
illustrated the richness of the material on the tribes of the Southwest. Still a treasure-house of information, it appears
with a new introduction and for the first time in paperback. Morris Edward Opler based his pioneering work on the accounts
of Jicarilla men and women born in the nineteenth century. In a preface he explains that the stories, sacred and profane,
were meant to be told on winter nights. The book takes up the creation of the universe, the birth of Killer-of-Enemies and
Child-of-the-Water, the slaying of monsters, and the Hactcin ceremony. Other myths center on games and artifacts, hunting
rituals and encounters with supernatural animals, and the trickster Coyote. There are also vivid, earthy stories of
foolishness, unfaithfulness, and perversion; mon-strous enemies; and Dirty Boy's winning of a wife. A professor
emeritus of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, Morris Edward Opler is an authority on the Apaches. In
his introduction Scott Rushforth considers Opler's work as well as the history of the tribe."
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Averell, William Woods. Edited by Edward K. Eckert and Nicholas J. Amato,
TEN YEARS IN THE SADDLE: THE MEMOIR OF
WILLIAM WOODS AVERELL 1851-1862.
Presidio Press, 1978., F/NF. 1st Edition. Original "$16.95" price still intact on
DJ. Slight scuffing & one tiny tear to spine of DJ, otherwise in "as new"
condition. Photographs, sketches, notes, bibliography, index, 443 pp. "West
Point, the Indian Wars, the expanding West, the Civil War~ significant forces
in the growth of our nation, and all experienced by cavalryman William W.
Averell. The discovery and publication of his memoir, Ten Years in the Saddle
is an important addition to the historic literature of the era. In
sensitive and readable prose, Averell captures the mood of America during
a decade of growth and destruction. Averell begins his reminiscences in 1851
with his appointment to the military academy. There the fun-loving youth forms
close freindships~ many to be broken by the wrenching choice between the
North and South. The young graduate's adventures begin at Fort Defiance
in the New Mexico Territory. He vividly describes the frontier: the beautiful
but desolate desert, the battles with hostile Indians, the strange customs
of the people, the throngs of hopeful emigrants moving west. As the Civil War
breaks out, Averell is in Washington. He tells of the stunned disbelief in the
city at the news of the firing on Ft. Sumter . After an exciting secret mission
deep within Confederate territory, Averell, now a Union cavalry commander,
finds himself fighting his former classmates at Bull Run and on the Virginia
Peninsula. To complete the story of Averell's life, the editors have added an
introduction detailing his early years, as well as an epilogue recounting his
controversial removal from command by General Sheridan and his
remarkable later career as an entrepreneur and diplomat. Long neglected
by historians, William Averell's story now emerges ~a vivid portrait of the
man and the time." OUT OF PRINT.
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Bartlett, Richard A., THE NEW COUNTRY: A SOCIAL
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1776-1890.
Oxford, 1974., VG/NF, a nice clean copy. Minor creasing to top of dust jacket,
which is in mylar protector. First Edition Original "$17.50" price intact on dust
jacket. Photographs, engravings, drawings, notes, bibliographical essay,
index, 487 pp. Major sections on "The People", Agriculture, Despoilment,
Transportation and "New Country Society". (Hardcover currently out of print.
Paperback in print at $24.95).
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Billington, Ray Allen and Martin Ridge, AMERICA'S FRONTIER HERITAGE.
University of New Mexico (reprint editon), 1993. 310 pages. NEW copy, still in shrinkwrap.
Dark brown laminated boards & gilt lettering; issued without dust jacket. "The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and individualism were altered, and they developed distinctively American traits, such as wastefulness, inventiveness, mobility, and a dozen more.
After opening with a summary of the appearance, acceptance, and subsequent dismissal of the theory, the author carefully defines the "frontier" and reviews recent evidence on its political, social, and economic characterstics. He discusses the compulsion to migrate and examines other behavioral patterns and traits in his explanation of how and why pioneers moved west. His extensive bibliographic notes constitute a remarkable guide to the literature of many disciplines dealing with the frontier concept.
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Rudner, Ruth,
A CHORUS OF BUFFALO.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
(Marlowe & Company). 181 pages.
~~~ A Chorus of Buffalo is Ruth
Rudner's lyrical consideration of the American
bison's struggle to exist amid the harsh realities
of human society. Bringing readers to the meadows,
foothills, and wooded regions of Yellowstone
National Park, Rudner describes the lives of these
fragile beasts with wide-ranging depth and
meticulous detail. Rudner considers buffalo from
multiple vantages - as a wild animal on the Great
Plains and on Indian Reservations, as the revered
provider of the necessities of life for Indian
people, as a circus performer, as a symbol of the
earth's struggle for integrity. She charts the
buffalo's affliction with brucellosis, a disease
that puts them in the crosshairs of wildlife
politics in the American West, a milieu in which
ranchers are pitted against environmentalists,
bureaucrats against Native Americans, and
government agencies against each other.
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Bower, B.M., FLYING U RANCH.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).
Illustrated by D.C. Hutchison; introduction by Kate Baird Anderson. 253 pages.
~~~
Life at the Flying U Ranch in the Bear Paw country of Montana was pleasant—until
thousands of sheep invaded the coulee. B. M. Bower casts the ancient enmity
between cattlemen and sheepmen in her own robust and slyly humorous style.
Flying U Ranch brings back the Happy Family of cowboys introduced in
Chip of the Flying U.
~~~
Bertha Muzzy Bower, a Montanan herself, understood the joshing, boasting, and
thoroughly decent young hands who worked at the Flying U—Andy, Pink, Slim, Big
Medicine, Happy Jack, and the other members of the Happy Family. Here they must
confront defiant sheepherders just when Chip and the Old Man are in Chicago.
Bower delights in showing how they deal with rage and frustration without
resorting to violence. The witty and nervy Flying U bunch gets satisfaction
from a difficult situation justly ended.
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Bower, B.M., LONESOME LAND.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997).
Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood; introduction by Pam Houston. 326 pages.
~~~
Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future
full of companionship and bracing freedom, lodges with great fireplaces and
bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and sleek horses, and dazzling sunrises. If
Val had known what was really waiting for her, she simply wouldn’t have gotten
off the train. Oh, the country was impressive, but it could be cruel in winter
and lonesome for a woman stuck on a ranch miles from the nearest neighbor. Val
is cast into circumstances that test her temper, strength, and sanity. Married
to an alcoholic, she is forced to revise her back-East notions about men and
women, duty, and the West itself. She goes from romanticization to "blind
unreasoning terror of the empty land" to decisive action.
~~~ B. M.(Bertha Muzzy) Bower (1871–1940), the first woman to make a
career of writing popular westerns like Chip of the Flying U,
lived on a ranch in Montana and knew from experience Val’s situation, her
awakening and embrace of the unconventional. Originally published in 1912,
Lonesome Land is an extraordinary novel, perhaps Bower’s best. She was
decades ahead of her time in taking on the subjects of divorce and spouse
abuse.
~~~ Pam Houston, who wrote the introduction, is the author of
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories, winner of the 1993 Western States Book
Award. She lives in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
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Bower, B.M., THE HAPPY FAMILY OF THE FLYING U.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).
Illustrated. Introduction by Kate Baird Anderson. 323 pages.
~~~
The boisterous and bow-legged Happy Family of Montana rides high in this sequel
to Chip of the Flying U. Originally published in 1910, The Happy Family
is, like Chip, cinematic in its fast action, unusual in its emphasis on
human relationships, unique in its warmth and humor. Here are the cowpokes who
endeared themselves to generations of readers—Andy, Weary, Irish, Pink, Happy
Jack, Big Medicine, and the rest. They were so popular that their creator
devoted a series of novels to their wrangling on the rangeland and in the
ranchhouse.
~~~ These stories play out in the badlands, on the edge of the Rockies.
Andy Green, "not famous ever for clinging to the truth," encounters Miss Verbena
Martin, who is dedicated to the self-improvement of cowboys and is a character
worthy of Mark Twain. Riding a red roan at a contest in Great Falls, Andy hangs
on to his honor and pride by the seat of his pants. In another story, there is a
crisis concerning the French cook Patsy, whose specialty is heavy pie and not
floating island. All this fun has a western flavor, the smell of sage, and the
feel of cowhide.
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Bryan, Howard, and Max Evans, WILDEST OF THE WILD WEST: TRUE TALES
OF A FRONTIER TOWN ON THE SANTE FE TRAIL.
NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. Clear Light Publishers, 1988. Maps, photographs, bibliography, index, 269 pages.
"Historic photos and a lively text chronicle dramatic events from the time of wagon trains to
the arrival of airplanes. Bryan drew most of these tales, many published here for the first
time in book form, from the pages of early newspapers and from the accounts of New Mexico
old-timers whom Bryan interviewed in the 1950s and 1960s. Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the
focal point of this narrative of a town's and dramatic history on the western frontier.
Real life in the West was wilder than fiction, as these tales of the Santa Fe Trail and
Las Vegas from 1835 to 1915 vividly demonstrate. The cast of characters is a large one,
including Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, "Doc" Holliday, "Mysterious Dave" Mather, Jesse
James, Bod Ford, and the beautiful and mysterious gambling woman, Monte Verde. Historic
photos and a lively text drawn from basic sources chronicle eighty years of dramatic events
from the time of covered wagons to the arrival of airplanes." Hardcover OUT OF PRINT.
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Aleshire, William,
A BUFFALO SOLDIER'S STORY: Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant
Thomas Boyne and His Comrades, 1864 to 1889.
. NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
Heritage Books, 2004, 2006. Illustrations, photographs,
bibliography, index, 709 pages.
~~~ This is the life story of Sergeant Thomas Boyne, a native of Prince George's
County, Maryland, who joined the 2nd Light Artillery Company "B" of the United
States Colored Troops at Point Lookout, Maryland, on February 5, 1864 and went
on to receive our nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor, while
serving in the 9th United States Cavalry during the Indian Wars. This is also
the story of Boyne's comrades-African-American Buffalo Soldiers and the officers
who commanded his various assigned units-who helped to open and preserve the
West while performing their military duty for their country. This is a story
that needs to be told. The integration of official government records,
historical events, and newspaper articles enhance this comprehensive look at the
struggles endured by Sergeant Thomas Boyne, and other African-Americans who
served their country during this period. Sergeant Thomas Boyne's entire military
career is covered in precise detail. Careful transcriptions of original muster
rolls for the period covered include: Muster Roll Records and Returns for
Company "B" 2nd Light Artillery United States Colored Troops, Company "K" 40th
United States Infantry and Company "F" 25th United States Infantry, Company "C"
9th United States Cavalry, Company "L" 9th United States Cavalry, and Company
"H" 25th United States Infantry. Includes numerous specific
details from documents, orders, acts, and news
articles.
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Lewis, J.P. Sinclair,
BUFFALO GORDON ON THE PLAINS.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Black remainder mark on bottom of book. (NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2001). First Edition.
480 pages.
~~ The tumultuous years after the Civil War are
seen through the unique perspective of an escaped
slave who became a sergeant major of the United
States Cavalry in this ambitious, adventurous saga
about one man's experiences as an
African-American Buffalo Soldier.
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Call, Tomme Clark, THE MEXICAN VENTURE: FROM
POLITICAL TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.
New York: Oxford University Press., 1953. VG/.VG. Some chipping to dust jacket,
which is in a mylar protector. First Edition. Endpaper maps, photographs,
bibliography, index, 273 pages.
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Cantor, George, NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANDMARKS: A TRAVELER'S GUIDE.
Gale Research Inc, 1993., NEW, a mint copy. Laminated hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Numerous photographs & maps, glossary, bibliography, index, 409 pp. "Anasazi cliff
dwellings, the Wounded Knee battlefield, Sequoyah's birthplace, Trail of Tears State
Park, and the Little Big Horn National Battlefield are among the more than 300 sites
profiled & illustrated."
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[Carson],
Brewerton, George Douglas, OVERLAND WITH KIT CARSON: A
NARRATIVE OF THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL IN '48.
University of
Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1993. Originally published in
1930 by Coward-McCann, NY., New, unopened. PAPERBACK. Numerous line
illustrations by the author. Maps. New introduction by Marc
Simmons. Notes, bibliography, index. 301 pp. OUT OF PRINT.
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Castillo, Bernal Diaz del, THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF
MEXICO, 1517--1521.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux., 1981. VG. Large trade paperback, very nice condition.
9th printing. "Edited from the only exact copy of the original MS (and published in
Mexico) by Genaro Garcia. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by A.P.
Maudslay. Introduction to the American edition by Irving A. Leonard." Extensive
page-end notes, appendices, index, 478 pages.
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[Catlin],
Dippie, Brian W., CATLIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: THE
POLITICS OF PATRONAGE. University of Nebraska
Press, 1990., New, still in shrink-wrap. 1st edition. Black boards with pictorial dust
wrapper. 7.25"x 10.5". 3 maps, 125 b&w illustrations, 16 half- & full-page color plates.
86 pp of notes, bibliography, index. "...examines how the preeminent painter of western
Indians before the Civil War went about the business of making a living from his work.
Catlin shared with such artists as Seth Eastman and John Mix Stanley a desire to
preserve a visual record of a race seen as doomed and competed with them for
federal assistance. In a young republic with little institutional and govermental
support available, painters, writers, and scholars became rivals and sometimes
bitter adversaries. Dippie untangles the complex web of inter-relationships between
artists , government officials, members of Congress, businessmen, antiquarians and
literati, kings and queens, and the Indians themselves. In this history of the politics of
patronage during the nineteenth century, luminaries like Henry Rowe Schoolcraft,
Henry H. Sibley, John James Audubon, Alfred Jacob Miller, and Karl Bodmer are
linked with Catlin in a contest for the support of the arts, setting a precendent for
later generations." "The best book in American cultural history of the last
twenty-five years. Dippie's organization and presentation of a very complex
subject is a dazzling performance, fully matched by his brilliant and evocative
writing." 553 pp.
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Buffalo Soldiers
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George Armstrong Custer
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Bode, E.A. (Thomas T. Smith, ed),
A DOSE OF FRONTIER SOLDIERING:
The Memoirs of Corporal E.A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1994).
Maps, illustrations, 250 pp.
~~~ “Bode’s literary skills matched an inquisitive eye and wry wit and helped
make his soldier narrative utterly endearing. . . . With unbridled curiosity,
Bode makes sumptuous reading of even the most ordinary
experiences.”—Montana.
“Bode was extraordinary in intelligence, literacy, intellectual curiosity,
and skill at writing and mapmaking. Accounts by privates and corporals in the
post–Civil War infantry are rare; this is one of the best.”—True
West.
~~~ “Bode’s observations offer a truer picture of the frontier military
experience than some other books that try to glamorize such activities.”--Ross
McSwain, Standard Times
~~~ “Uncommon and perceptive memoirs, perhaps the best published account by an
enlisted infantryman from the era.”—Western Historical Quarterly.
~~~ Emil Adolph Bode, a German immigrant down on his luck, enlisted in the U.S.
Army in 1877 and served for five years. More literate than most of his fellow
soldiers, Bode described western flora and fauna, commenting on the American
Indians he encountered as well as the slaughter of the buffalo, the hard and
lonely life of the cowboy, and towns and settlements he passed through. His
observations, seasoned with wry wit and sympathy, offer a truer picture of the
frontier military experience than all the dashing cavalry charges and thundering
artillery in Western literature.
~~~ Thomas T. Smith is a regular army lieutenant colonel of infantry assigned to
Fort Bliss, Texas. He is the editor of Mary Leefe Laurence’s Daughter of the
Regiment (Nebraska 1994).
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Burks, Brian, SOLDIER BOY.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
(Harcourt Children's Books). 148 pages.
~~~
The orphaned son of a prostitute, Johnny "the kid" is forced to face great
challenges in life, but even after he achieves a respectable position in the
cavalry, he stills finds things difficult as he now poses questions to himself
with regard to his new duties.
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Chappell, Gordon, BRASS SPIKES AND HORSETAIL PLUMES: A History of U.S. Army Dress Helmets.
NEW copy. Laminated hardcover without dust jacket, as issued. Still in shrinkwrap. (Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1997).
~~~
Using speciments from museums, private collections, and historic photographs, Chappell has completed the definitive work on American military helmets from 1872 to 1904. Detailed and extensively illustrated
with over 160 photographs. Identifies when, where, and how the helmets were manufactured and worn.
~~~ Originally published at $29.95, now OUT OF PRINT.
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Forsyth, General George,
,
THRILLING DAYS IN ARMY LIFE.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003). Introduction by Sandy Barnard.
Frontier Classics series. Illustrated,
496 pages.
~~~ In this book, the author relates the six-day siege in September that pitted his
small force against 750 Cheyennes and Sioux. Because the battle occurred in a
dry bed of the Arickaree Fork of the Republican River in Western Colorado and
claimed the life of Forsyth's brave lieutenant, Frederick Beecher, it would be
known to history as the Battle of Beecher Island.
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Langellier, John P.,
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BLUECOATS: The U.S. Army in the West,
1848-1897.
NEW copy, oversized PAPERBACK.
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1995).
Part of the "G.I. Series: The Illustrated History of the
American Soldier, His Uniform and His Equiment."
Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings & color plates,
80 pages.
~~~ After the conclusion of the war with Mexico in 1848 to the end of the 1890s, U.S. frontier troops garrisoned scattered posts from the Mississippi to the Pacific and from the border with Mexico to Canada. The 100 superb images and informative text in this volume vividly record the uniforms, weapons and campaigns of the Bluecoats who lived and fought in the American West.
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Langellier, John P. and Kurt Hamilton Cox
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LONGKNIVES: The U.S. Cavalry and Other Mounted Forces,
1845-1942.
NEW copy, oversized PAPERBACK.
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996).
Part of the "G.I. Series: The Illustrated History of the
American Soldier, His Uniform and His Equiment."
Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings & color plates,
80 pages.
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Merrill, James M.,
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SPURS TO GLORY: The Story of the United States Cavalry
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VG/VG. Cornerwear to jacket; 1/2-inch piece missing from head of jacket spine; 1/4-inch circle from jacket spine scuffed off (not all the way through).
Original "$6.95" price intact on jacket flap. Book itself has two flaws: right upper corner of front cover bumped; small gift inscription in ink on upper corner of half-title page. Book otherwise clean and tight.
(NY: Rand, McNally & Co., 1966). First Printing.
Full & half-page illustrations, bibliography, index, 302 pages.
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Parker, James,
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THE OLD ARMY: Memories,
1872-1918.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003). Introduction by Sandy Barnard.
Frontier Classics series. Illustrated,
496 pages.
~~~ Brigadier General James "Galloping Jim" Parker (1854-1924) had a remarkable and
exciting military career. The blunt, opinionated, and brilliant officer
participated in several prominent battles, including Ranald Mackenzie's raids
against the Kickapoo in 1878, the Ute campaign of 1879, and the Geronimo
campaign. The Old Army: Memories, 1872-1918 is not only an essential source for
the Indian Wars, but also for the Spanish-American War, the Philippines
insurrection, and the Regular army at the turn of the century.
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Prucha, Paul,
BROADAX AND BAYONET:
The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1995). Introduction by Edward M. Coffman.
Map, 277 pp.
~~~
"In a style that is clear, unhurried and . . . vigorous, Francis P. Prucha
has written a definitive study of [the] frontier army that was itself a pioneer.
It pushed the line of occupation far beyond settlements. It raised crops, herded
cattle, cut timber, quarried stone, built sawmills and performed the manifold
duties of pioneers. It restrained lawless traders, pursued fugitives, ejected
squatters, maintained order during peace negotiations and guarded Indians who
came to receive annuities."—New York Times Book Review.
~~~ "A work of original research which stands almost alone in relating the Army’s
work to the peaceful processes of territorial expansion and social development.
Studying the thirteen army posts established in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and
northern Illinois, the author demonstrates their importance for Indian and land
policy administration, as cash markets for the early settlers, and as centers of
exploration, road-building, and cultural developments."—A Guide to the Study
of the United States of America.
~~~ "Well-written. . . . a significant contribution to the study of . . . both
the westward movement and our military establishment."—Mississippi Valley
Historical Review.
~~~ Known for his books about American Indian government policy and the frontier
army, Francis Paul Prucha, S.J., is an emeritus professor of history at
Marquette University. Introducing this edition is Edward M. Coffman, a professor
of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of The Old
Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784–1898
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Prucha, Francis Paul.
GUIDE TO THE MILITARY POSTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Madison, Wisconsin.: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1966. As new
condition. 11x8. Very minor flaws to jacket. Original "$7.50" price still
intact on jacket flap. Originally published in 1964, this is the Second
Printing from 1966, with a number of corrections. Includes the following: ~A
brief chronological history of the expansion and contraction of the military
frontier; ~An alphabetical catalog of military posts of every description:
forts, camps, barracks & cantonments; ~A chronological series of cartographs
showing the distribution of regular army troops; ~A set of detailed two-color
maps locating the posts in their topographical setting; ~An outline of army
territorial commands; ~An extensive bibliography on military posts; ~A
selection of 18 etchings & photographic plates ilustrating the military
frontier. The material has been gathered from the official records of the War
Department and the cartographic collections of the National Archives. This one
reference book presents information hitherto scattered in many places. It will
serve both the scholar and the general reader as a brief, accurate encyclopedia
of army posts from 1789 to 1895. Maps, etchings, photographs, appendices,
bibliography, 178 pages. OUT OF PRINT.
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Settle, Raymond W., editor, THE MARCH OF THE MOUNTED
RIFLEMEN: First Military Expedition to Travel the Full Length
of the Oregon Trail from Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Vancouver,
May-Oct 1849, as Recorded in the Journals of Major O. Cross
and G. Gibbs and the Official Report of Colonel Loring.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1989). Originally published by
A.H. Clark in 1940. Map, journal of
distances, bibliography, index. 378 pp.
~~~ Here is the only complete record of one of the longest marches ever made-a
five-month, two-thousand-mile trek to establish forts along the Oregon Trail.
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Steffen, Randy,
,
THE HORSE SOLDIER, 1776-1943. Volume III.
The Last of the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War,
The Brink of the Great War, 1881-1916
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VG/VG, hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket in mylar.
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978).
Profusely illustrated throughout.
282 pages.
~~~ This is the third volume of a four-volume work. In Volumes I and II the author described and pictured the uniforms, arms and equipment of the cavalry from Revolutionary days to the outbreak of the Indian Wars. In this volume the author addreses the period of the cavalry's decisive conquest of the Indians and the securing of the western frontier, the Spanish-American War and the glory of "Teddy Roosevelt's boys," and the years when the thunder of the Great War in Europe was echoing ominously across the Atlantic to America.
~~~ "Through extensive use of illustrations~~almost all of which are drawings by the author~~and quotations from official documents, Steffen provides a detailed look at cavalry dress and paraphernalia. His artistry is superb and research impeccable." ~~Western American Literature.
~~~ "Endorsed by the Company of Military Historians as a 'standard reference' in the subject field, Volume III fills a great need. The narrative, published regulations, and many detailed pen and ink illustrations, as well as many in color, make this book essential for the researcher and valuable to the student of American military history." ~~~Journal of Arizona History
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Utley, Robert M.,
FRONTIERSMEN IN BLUE: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
(Lincoln: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1981). Maps, illustrations, page-end notes, bibliography, index,
384 pages.
~~~ Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive
history of the achievements and failures of the United
States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the
Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the
Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848
and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western
tribes. Robert Utley describes many of these skirmishes in
consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life
that was sometimes agonizingly isolated, sometimes caught
in the lightning moments of desperate battle.
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"Along with his analysis of the general situation, Utley
writes an excellent description of the frontier soldier
and the army. . . . His style is unobtrusive, entertaining,
and objective to an extent rarely encountered today. It is
refreshing to find a history of the frontier, the army, and
particularly the Indian without the present-day mawkish
sentimentalism." ~~~Journal of American History
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"One of [the book’s] several impressive features is the
author’s talent for drawing from the indispensable detail
of campaigns those significant trends in frontier military
policy. Certainly Utley has applied creative management
to a great mass of military minutiae and given it a
meaningful, readable format." ~~~ Arrell M. Gibson,
American Historical Review.
~~~
Robert M. Utley is recognized as one of the leading
historians of the American West. He is the author of the
much-acclaimed Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life,
published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1989, and
of the award-winning books Cavalier in Buckskin: George
Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier
(1988) and High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western
Frontier (1987), as well as the authoritative
Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the
Indian, 1866–1891 (also a Bison Book).
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This Bison Book edition originally published at $16.95,
currently in print at $26.95 (earlier price still on book)..
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Utley, Robert M.,
FRONTIER REGULARS: The United States Army and the Indian,
1866-1891.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK.
(Lincoln: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1984).
Maps, illustrations, chapter-end notes, bibliography, index,
462 pages.
~~~ "An excellent piece of scholarship and writing.
Lucid, balanced, comprehensive, interpretative, and thorough
ly documented, it is a scholar’s dream and a layman's
delight." ~~~ Library Journal.
~~~
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines
scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of
the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and
control the American Indians and open the West during the
twenty-five years following the Civil War.
~~~
Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman—from the first
skirmishes with the Sioux over the Bozeman Trail defenses
in 1866 to the final defeat and subjugation of the Northern
Plains Indians in 1890. Utley's brilliant descriptions of
military maneuvers and flaming battles are juxtaposed with
a careful analysis of Sherman's army: its mode of operation,
equipment, and recruitment; its lifestyle and relations
with Congress and civilians.
~~~ Proud of the United States Army and often
sympathetic toward the Indians, Utley presents a balanced
overview of the long struggle. He concludes that the
frontier army was not "the heroic vanguard of civilization"
as sometimes claimed and still less "the barbaric band of
butchers depicted in the humanitarian literature of the
nineteenth century and the atonement literature of the
twentieth." Rather, it was a group of ordinary (and
sometimes extraordinary) men doing the best they could.
~~~
Other Bison Books by Robert Utley are Billy the Kid: A
Short and Violent Life and Custer and the Great
Controversy:
The Origin and Development of a Legend.
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This Bison Book edition originally published at $17.95,
currently in print at $26.95 (earlier price still on book)..
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Boye, Alan, HOLDING STONE HANDS: ON THE TRAIL OF THE CHEYENNE EXODUS.
NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket.
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Map, photographs, notes, 347 pages. Originally published at $29.95;
currently in print at $35.
~~ From the Publisher: "In 1878 approximately three hundred Northern
Cheyennes under the leadership of Dull Knife and Little Wolf fled shameful
conditions on an Indian Territory reservation in present-day Oklahoma.
Settled there against their will, they were making a peaceful attempt
to return to their homeland in the Tongue River country. Despite earlier
promises that the Cheyennes could choose to leave the reservation,
government officials declared them renegades and sent thousands of
soldiers in pursuit.. "In 1995 Alan Boye set out on foot to follow
Dull Knife's thousand-mile flight through the sparsely populated
wilderness of America's high plains. Along the way he was joined
by descendants of Dull Knife. Holding Stone Hands is the tale of
two journeys. Boye provides a vivid, moving account of the Cheyennes'
struggle to return to Montana. At the same time, he details the trek
he and his Cheyenne companions made through four states and his growing
understanding of why the Cheyennes' longing for their homeland was stronger
than their desire to live."
~~ "Boye and his companions follow the Cheyenne's trail, using a
patchwork of highways, county roads, and open country. As Boye recounts
their journey, he loops back through the history of the exodus, providing
a detailed and moving narrative of the trek. More impressive still is Boye's
humble, even self-effacing approach to his journey. When journalists approach
the traveling party, he tries to slip into the background, knowing the true
story is about the Cheyenne and their attempt to recover this faded trail and,
along with it, a fuller sense of their past and present. . . . Holding
Stone Hands is a Montana story through and through--perhaps one the most
important ones to come along in recent years." -- Montana Magazine.
~~~ "In a gracefully written and compassionate account of his return to a
dark page in this country's past, Boye, who is white, relates one of the
most poignant, if largely forgotten, tragedies of Native American
dispossession. . . . Boye greatly enriches this story by describing his own
hardships retracing the exodus through a starkly beautiful landscape,
accompanied by descendants of the surviving Cheyenne. Never mawkish or
patronizing, Boye recognizes early on that both journeys belong more to his
companions than to himself. By reaching back and touching the suffering of
their ancestors, they begin what Native Americans call 'a healing,' a
reconciliation of the past with the present." — Publishers Weekly
(starred review).
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Grinnell, George Bird, THE FIGHTING CHEYENNES.
Corner House Publishers, 1976, reprinted from the Scribners edition of 1915., F/NF,
new from the distributor, never opened, but dj shows a little color-smudging from
being stored with other books and is slightly rippled along the spine. Index, 431 pp.
"Grinnel lived among the Cheyenne in the latter part of the 19th century. He was a
deeply sympathetic observer of Indian life & culture... In this volume Grinnell
gathered both Cheyenne & White accounts of the many battles between the two.
He carefully explored Cheyenne culture & the way the Cheyenne to the threats on
an alien society..." 431 pp.
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Buffalo Bill has now been given
a section all to himself.
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O'Meara, Doc,
COLT'S SINGLE ACTION ARMY REVOLVER.
NEW copy; oversize PAPERBACK. (Krause). 160 pages.
~~~ Offers a rare look at the
production history of the highly popular handgun, which has been almost
continuously manufactured since 1873. Insightful numbering and production
figures are listed, along with test results from reproductions and rivals. Well
illustrated some in color.
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Collis, Maurice, CORTES AND MONTEZUMA..
Harcourt, Brace & Company., 1955. VG/VG. Some chipping to jacket, which is price-clipped & in a
mylar protector. Top edge of book spine slightly frayed. End-paper maps, illustrations, chronology,
index, 256 pages.
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Horgan, Paul, CONQUISTADORS IN NORTH AMERICA.
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1963. VG/VG. First Edition. Slight chipping to top of jacket spine, with is otherwise bright, clean & in mylar protector. Book itself bright & tight. Endpaper maps, bibliography, index, 303 pages.
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Mirsky, Jeannette, THE GENTLE
CONQUISTADORS. N.Y.: Pantheon Books., 1969. VG.
Pictorial hardcover (library binding, but not ex-lib), probably issued without dust
jacket. "The Ten Year Odyssey Across the American Southwest of Three Spanish
Captains and Esteban, the Black Slave." Juvenile historical fiction based on actual
events. Drawings by Thomas Morley. Author's note, 216 pages.
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Bauer, Helen, CALIFORNIA RANCHO DAYS.
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. VG--. Quarter-inch strip missing from top of spine,
and both sides of spine cracked about 3/4" down from top. In all other respects, however,
a tight clean copy: neither spine nor hinges are loose. Lacks dust jacket. Photographs, chart
showing adobes & landmarks of ranchero days, glossary & pronunciation
table. 128 pages.
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Dobie, J. Frank,
THE LONGHORNS.
NF/VG+. Slight rubbing to jacket folds; slight cornerwear: a very nice unfaded jacket, protected by mylar.
Book itself is nearly pristine. All-in-all, an exceptional copy, though not a 1st. (Boston: Little Brown & Co: 1941). Nineteenth printing. Colored frontispiece painting and numerous black & white drawings by
Tom Lea. Photographs, extensive notes, index, 388 pages.
~~~
The Texas Longhorn made more history than another other breed of cattle the world has ever known. The Longhorns were more than a breed -- they were a race. Gaunt, wiry, intractable, they were themselves pioneers in a hard, strange land.
~~~ This is their story, told by a born teller of tales, who knows
that legend and folklore are proper parts of history. It is the story,
too, of the men the Longhorn brought into being -- the Texas cowboys
who rode over the rim with all the energy, insolence and
pride of the booming west.
~~~ Mr. Dobie tells of the Spanish conquistadores, who brought their cattle with them; of ranching in turbulent colonial times; of 'Mavericks and Maverickers' and the abrupt justice of the rope. He catches the terrible excitement of the stampede, the poetry of the play of lightning on a sea of seething horns. He writes absorbingly of titanic bull fights on the range, 'ghost' steers, fabulous treks and Indian torture.
~~~
A relentless prospector of the history and legends of the southwest, Mr. Dobie has spent most of his life preparing to write this book. He was born in that part of the Texas brush contury where the Longhorns made their last stand.
He has back-trailed them into Mexico, whence they came. From old-time Texans and Mexican vaqueros, he has learned much vivid lore. No historian or naturalist has ever so related an animal to the land, to men and to history.
~~~ The twilight of the Longhorn has fallen. The noble breed is nearer extinction than the buffalo ever was. Yet in this rousing chronicle the great days of the Longhorn live again, a brave and surging part of our national heritage.
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Jaques, Mary J., TEXAN RANCH LIFE.
NF/VG+. Both internal flaps of jacket creased; otherwise jacket & book in as-new condition. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989).
Facsimile reprint of original 1894 edition. Illustrations, photographs, 363 pages.
~~~ 'The lowing of Texan cows is not very musical...' English traveler Mary Jaques wrote in 1894 in a charming, vividly detailed account of her two-year-stay in Texas, with side trips to Canada and Mexico. J. Frank Dobie once claimed that 'the English write our best Western books,' and Jaques' account bears him out. Out of print for some ninety years, this collector's classic will delight and inform, entertain and amuse.
~~~ So taken with Texas that she bought a 25-acre spread with 'a dear little one-roomed
cottage,' Mary Jaques entered into the frontier life around Junction City with gusto,
describing it with a lively intelligence and humor that recreate for modern readers the
land and its inhabitants as an earlier generation knew them. Outings to gather algerita
berries, coon hunts, camp meetings, weddings, funerals, cave explorations -- all find their place in Jaques' chronicle. She gives vivid portrayals of the countryside, the crops, and the wildlife, from snapping turtles to coyotes, deer, wild turkeys, and even tarantulas ('in Texas they prefer whisky to music as an antidote').
~~~ Local hospitality proferred a dance to honor her and her companion, Didymusa -- a real 'Texan dance,' with a 'stand-up supper of black coffee without sugar, hot biscuits, and all kinds of cakes.' Her sportsmanship even earned her an impromptu stint as a stagecoach driver on one trip. At last, the 'sentiment' growing in her to see her homeland again, she voyaged back to England, to write this tale of her adventures, a tale which gives an important perspective on the land she had visited.
~~~ This facsimile reprint of the 1894 edition published in England makes available a valuable resource on early Texas life, long sought by collectors and historians alike.
~~~ Hardcover OUT OF PRINT. Paperback currently in print at $19.95.
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Moynihan, Ruth B., Susan Armitage and Fischer Dichamp
(editors), SO MUCH TO BE DONE:
WOMEN SETTLERS ON THE MINING AND RANCHING
FRONTIER. NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
(University of Nebraska Press, 1990). 2nd printing. Photographs,
bibliography.
~~~ "...brings to life the diversity of women's lives on the mining and
ranching frontiers of the American West. It shows the degree to which women
involved themselves in every detail of the work a t hand~ men's work or women's
work~ it hardly mattered which." 326 pp.
~~~ Currently in print at $40.
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Cowie, Isaac, THE COMPANY OF ADVENTURERS: A NARRATIVE OF
SEVEN YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY DURING 1867-1874 ON
THE GREAT BUFFALO PLAINS, WITH HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & COMMENTS.
University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Originally published in 1913 by William Briggs, Toronto.
NEW copy, still in shrinkwrap. Facsimile reprint. Green boards without dust jacket, as issued by publisher.
5.5"x 8.25". Illustrations, page-end notes, appendices, glossary, index, 515 pp.
~~~ The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries
when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed
from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory, where
he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers describes the early,
lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured
goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare
information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period
before their confinement to reservations. Alive to the historical and
ethnographic value of his writing, Cowie tells about his tenure as a clerk
(later manager) at Fort Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan, the colorful
personalities who served with him, the wide-ranging fur brigades, remote
outposts, and the Company's relations with Indian tribes. He was the first
white man known to have set foot within the Swift Current District when in
1868 he hunted buffalo there. His dealings with the Mitis during the Red River
Rebellion placed him where history was being made. In an introduction to this
Bison Book edition, David Reed Miller discusses how Cowie fitted into a great
commercial enterprise and how he became a victim of unpleasant circumstances
that forced his retirement in 1891
~~~ (Hardcover formerly in print at $50, now OUT OF PRINT).
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Marshall, Joseph M.,
THE JOURNEY OF CRAZY HORSE.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (Viking Books).
310 pages.
~~ In the great oral tradition of the Lakota people, Marshall shares the compelling
history of a man, a tribe, and a legacy of courage and endurance.
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[Custer], WITH CUSTER ON THE LITTLE BIG HORN.
A Newly-Discovered First-Person Account by William O. Taylor. NEW copy, Viking Press, 1996.
Photographs, appendices, suggested readings, map on endpages, 207 pages.
From Library Journal: "In 1876, William Taylor was a corporal in the Seventh Cavalry,
assigned to A Troop, which was part of the battalion at the Little Bighorn. From this vantage
point he takes the reader along on a vivid re-creation of his part of the battle and its
aftermath. This carefully constructed account is based on his observations and on information
gathered from survivors on both sides that withstood his careful scrutiny. His criteria do not
allow for any discussion of how Custer's battalion met its end but do permit sympathetic
discussion of why the Indians fought. Only Taylor's death in 1923 prevented publication
of the completed manuscript, which was subsequently lost for 70 years. The information
he collected but did not use in his narrative has been placed in an appendix so that it
is available to readers. This valuable documentary source is essential for specialized
collections and recommended for others."
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Dawson, Joseph G, III (editor), THE
TEXAS MILITARY EXPERIENCE: FROM THE TEXAS REVOLUTION THROUGH WWII.
Texas A&M., NEW. Hardcover in dust jacket. 10 b&w photos, 264 pp. "In the only collection of its kind, prominent scholars address such issues as myth vs. reality in the military history of Texas. A fine starting point for students seeking guideposts for furth er study of Texas' martial heritage." $30.00
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Siebert, Diane,
ILLUSTRATED SKETCHES OF DEATH VALLEY: (American Land Classics).
NEW copy, Trade PAPERBACK. (John Hopkins University Press).
Woodcuts by David Frampton. 244 pages.
~~ In 1891, New York Sun reporter and travel writer J. R.
Spears accepted an invitation to visit Death Valley to
write about the region and explore its borax mines. Spears,
the first professional journalist to visit, photograph, and
report on the region, provided the American reading public
with an engaging and informed account of Death Valley and
its surrounding desert country. Through nineteen chapters,
Spears examines the 20-mule teams used in borax mining,
freighting in the rugged desert landscape, and various
desert characters, including "Desert Tramps" and a
California bear hunter. Long considered an important
literary and regional history of Death Valley and a
primary source of information, Illustrated Sketches of
Death Valley and Other
Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast will appeal to
enthusiasts of the region and
of the American West.
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Dwyer, Richard A. and Richard E. Lingenfelter. LYING ON THE EASTERN SLOPE: JAMES TOWNSEND'S COMIC JOURNALISM ON THE MINING FRONTIER,
University Presses of Florida, 1984., NEW, hardcover with dust jacket. A pristine copy. OUT OF PRINT.
Map of Sierra Nevada country on endpages, frontispiece photograph, drawings, glossary, sources, notes,
index, 167 pp. A collection of Townsend's best, though almost forgotten, tall tal es, anecdotes,
descriptive and dramatic writing from the archives of numerous frontier papers. "One of the most
neglected of the western American humorists of the last century. And, if not forgotten, he is more
often remembered for stories about him than by him. He has become more lied about than lying."
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