Austin: The Encino Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 717 of 850 copies signed by Ramon F. Adams. Octavo. Original brown paper-covered boards, with a printed title label on the front panel and... More about THE HORSE WRANGLER & HIS REMUDA
Glendale, California: La Siesta Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 64 p. Profusely illustrated. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by Adler and Wheelock to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.... More about WALKER'S R.R. ROUTES - 1853
San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 238 p. Fourteen illustrations. Octavo. Original gray buckram binding, with black titles. Internally crisp and clean. Just a hint of browning along the spine of... More about DOGS ON THE FRONTIER
College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 97 p. Foreword by W. Turrentine Jackson. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Billington to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B.... More about AMERICA'S FRONTIER CULTURE: Three Essays
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 302 p. Presentation copy, inscribed by Billington to the distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf, with an original photograph... More about AMERICA'S FRONTIER HERITAGE
New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 364 p. Textual illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by Billington to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf, with an invitation... More about LAND OF SAVAGERY, LAND OF PROMISE: The European Image of the American Frontier
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 227 p. Frontispiece portrait. Presentation copy, inscribed by Billington to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original black cloth binding... More about PEOPLE OF THE PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS: Essays in the History of the West Dedicated to Everett Dick
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 46 of 150 copies signed by the editor, Edmund Hayes, and the illustrator, Hewitt R. Jackson, on the half-title. "John Boit first visited the... More about LOG OF THE UNION: John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and Around the World,...
Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited and translated by Edward J. Kowrach. Frontispiece portrait, with textual illustrations. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1979. First edition. A valuable account of the life... More about MISSION OF THE COLUMBIA
College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Another collection of folklore in the tradition of Frank Dobie and Fred Gipson by the author of The Stolen Steers (1977). Illustrations by Harvey... More about THERE AIN'T NO SUCH ANIMAL AND OTHER EAST TEXAS TALES
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Detailed history and investigation of the 1857 massacre of 120 California-bound emigrants by a Mormon militia and their Indian allies. 20 years later, in an effort... More about THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
Pierre, South Dakota: Department of History, State of South Dakota, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Edited with Historical Introduction and Notes by Annie Heloise Abel, Ph.D. Frontispiece, with a facsimile and a portrait. Pierre, South Dakota... More about CHARDON'S JOURNAL AT FORT CLARK, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur...
Denver: Sage Books, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. The appearance of this biography and the subsequent controversy regarding Clairmonte's sources led to a significant shift toward careful research and critical analysis. Textual photographs. Octavo. Original gray... More about CALAMITY WAS THE NAME FOR JANE
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 448 p. 16 pp. illustrations, with a two-page map. The only full-length biography of one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army... More about STEPHEN WATTS KEARNY: Soldier of the West
Tucson, Arizona: Dale Stuart King, Publisher, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Harold A. Wolfinbarger, Jr., with numerous textual photographs and a folding map. Tucson, Arizona: Dale Stuart King, Publisher, 1968. First edition. Inscribed by... More about VERDE TO SAN CARLOS: Recollections of a famous Army Surgeon and His Observant family on the...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 311 p. 16 pp. illustrations and photographs. The first comprehensive account of the various versions of the journals and the persons responsible for them. Octavo. Original... More about A HISTORY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK JOURNALS
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Hardcover. 207 p. Eleven illustrations and seventeen maps. Second edition, first printing thus. A reissue of the 1930 classic with a new preface by the author. Octavo. Original tan... More about THE RANGE CATTLE INDUSTRY: Ranching on the Great Plains from 1865 to 1925
Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 2012. First Edition. Trade paperback. This is No. 28 of 100 copies signed by the editor and contributors, with the original invoice and purchase receipt laid in. A richly annotated... More about ARIZONA 100: A Centennial Gathering of Essential Books on the Grand Canyon State
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 16 pp. photographs and illustrations, with textual maps. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Dolnick to William Frank, Curator of... More about DOWN THE GREAT UNKNOWN; John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the...
Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1982. Hardcover. 263 p. Added material by Dr. Edgar Stewart and Lt. Edward Maguire. Frontispiece, with textual illustrations. First edition. Octavo. Original brown leatherette binding, with gilt stamping. The spine... More about CUSTER LIVES!
Tucson, Arizona: The Arizona Historical Society, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 102 p. Profusely illustrated. Arizona Historical Society Historical Monograph No. 3. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's... More about TEMPLES IN THE WILDERNESS: The Spanish Churches of Northern Sonora - Their Architecture, Their...
New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 205 p. Illustrated with drawings by Douglas Gorsline, and with photographs by William Henry Jackson. Narrative biography of the renowned 19th century landscape photographer whose life... More about WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON: Pioneer Photographer of the West
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 173 p. 16 illustrations, maps, and portraits. First edition, limited to 772 copies. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. "Fowler had previously... More about THREE CARAVANS TO YUMA: The Untold Story of Bactrian Camels in Western America
New York: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece portrait, with 23 textual illustrations. New York: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc., 1934. First edition. Attentive biography of Horace Austin Warner... More about THE TABORS: A Footnote of Western History
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 305 p. Color frontispiece, with numerous textual photographs and illustrations, and a map. Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with green and white titles. Internally crisp and... More about THE SANTA FE AND TAOS COLONIES: Age of the Muses, 1900-1942