Search Results: Western Americana from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Harrisburg, PA; (1954): Stackpole Co. First Edition. Octavo. Convened at Chicago, Illinios, 13 January 1879. xxx, 303 p. illus., port., maps (part fold.) Vital and revealing testimony of participants in the Battle of the ittle Big Horn. Battlefield map endpapers. Bound in gray cloth lettered in blue, spine lettering blue, in clipped dust jacket with some cipping to head and edge wear.

Np: Np, 1962. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 100 copies of this anniversary edition. 56 pages. Illustrated. One of the fascinating accounts of overland travel. The loud noises made by felling trees, and moving large numbes of wagons interfered with the Indians who found them disorienting. Their travels to the Pacific Northwest were quite different from those who pursued a path to California. Very detailed account. A fine copy bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine plain. Very nice.

Albany, NY: Weed-Parsons, 1894. 12mo. 200p. An unusually bright, clean copy of a scarce book with a bright picture of the large building of the building of the Society of California Pioneers. HIs first-hand accounts present a colorful picture of early San Francisco and its characters. Along the waterfront, his purchase of property in North Beach which he said sold since it had no future, the insane gambling where fortunes in bags of gold were lost in minutes, and the characters who wandered the streets (perhaps unchanged today). Illustrations throughout. Cowan 330; Kurutz 381.

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co, 1931. First Edition. Large Octavo. This is the first volume of the eventual 12 volume series which presents the history of the Southwest territories; the California gold rush, the cattle trade, the war with Mexico, the Indian tribes, Santa Fe Trail, and the history found through the journals of those men who live and fought in the South West.301pp., folding map, (10)pp. describing each volume of the series. Bound in maroon cloth, spine and top edge gilt, uncut, only minute spots of rubbing to spine ends otherwise a fine bright copy of this important work.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. 218pp. index. B&W photographs. Fine/Fine.

San Marcos, TX: Privately Printed, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Signed By Author. 29pp. 7 pages of b&w photographs. A wonderful trip in the Big Bend Country back when it was largely wilderness. This copy is signed by Dudley on the title page. Bound in stiff papr wraps printed in black. Some toning to edges. A very nice copy.

San Marcos, TX: Privately Printed, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 29pp. 7 pages of b&w photographs. A wonderful trip in the Big Bend Country back when it was largely wilderness. This copy is signed by Dudley on the title page. Bound in stiff papr wraps printed in black. Some toning to edges. A very nice copy.

San Francisco(1896): William Doxey. First Edition. Octavo. 278pp. A young girl grows to womanhood in Spanish California in the 19th century. Bound in maroon and white cloth lettered in gilt, some finger soiling to covers, previous owner's name in pencil. A very good copy.

Norman, OK; (1964): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 462p. index. bibliography. Signed by the author. It was rugged frontiersmen like Al Sieber that were essential to winning the Army's battles in the West. As Thrapp repeatedly shows when Sieber was not present Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles were in losing battles. Of course, it was Crook that recognized how valuable Sieber was. A fine copy in a near fine clipped blue pictorial dust jacket lettered in white.

Bandera, Texas; (1951): Rose & Hunter. First Edition. Quarto. xi, 236 pages. Illustrated by Warren Hunter.This album contains photographs and short biographies of many gun-fighters connected in one way or another with the growth of the legend of Billy the Kid, John Selman, Pat Garrett, and many others. This copy has the scarce errata slip tipped in to the half title page. Bound in black pictorial cloth depicting a gunfighter in red, blue, yellow and white, lettering red, spine lettering red, endpapers are decorated with desert plants, snakes and corners only lightly bumped, evidence of bookplate removal to front free endpaper. A very good copy.

New York; (1930): John Day Plenty Coups Indians. First Edition. Octavo. 313 pages. Inscribed "To /E. Howard Atchley/, Like this old 'Injun' if/ you can, /Frank B. Linderman /1930. Illustrated by H.M. Stoops. While the vast majority of Americans had regarded Indians as savages, Frank Linderman of Montana promoted positive views of Indians. This began when Plenty Coups, the last traditional chief of the Crow Indians, recounted his life to Frank Bird Linderman in 1928. Though Plenty Coups was now aged 80, he recounted the vision that had set his course in life. When he was about twenty, he said, he had visited a traditional Crow site in the Crazy Mountains and seen himself as an old man. Stamped on page 44: Green Fields, Double A Ranch, Tucson. This book is inscribed to the City Engineer of Tucson, G. Howard Atchley. The plan in the early 20's was to take the old pueblo which had become an unplanned city and create some zoning standards to both protect its history and create modern standards for the… Read More

Denver, CO: Andy Lowe Gold, 1925. Fine. Two nice pieces of gold mining stock with both from the Idaho Springs Mining Exchange and the actual stock of the Andy Lowe Gold Mining Company. One is the letter confirming the purchase with a note that condiitons at the mine are "most favorable" and the other the is the actual stock certificate for 1000 shares. When the New York Attorney General found out that is was a scam with no papers filed with the state, here an actual resident of Denver fell for the scheme. As in my late aunt's investment in Uranium mines in the late 1940's, it was a scam. Typically in these cases the prospective buyer was offered a chance to get in "on the ground floor". For $50 they would get $100,000 in stock value. Then the purchser died nearly 13 years later, the stocks were turned over to the administrator of the estate but had no value.

Norman, (1968): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. This book relates how Commandant General Jacobo Ugarte faced the problem of the marauding Apaches that terrorized colonists using a new Indian policy adopted by Spain in 1786. An important account of Spanish-Indian relations in the American Southwest. 309pp., bound in yellow cloth, spine lettering white over brown. A fine bright copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with one small closed edge tear along top edge and edges lightly rubbed.

A pristine stereographic card taken by Daniel Francis Mitchell who photographed Arizona views for sale from 1877. Mitchell also was in partnership with Baer and remained active in the territory until at least 1883. Accompanied with an envelope from the War Department Headquarers of Arizona addressed to Major A.J. McGonnigle, Chief Quartermaster, [Fort] Whipple, postmarked March 16, 1885. This was a turbulent time since on July 13 he had to report to the Quartermaster General of the U.S. about Samuel Drachman's failure at Fort Huachuca where what the latter did amounted to taking kickbacks of more than $40 on each 100 pounds of hay. Eventually, Drachman was only sued for $475 but it was a blot on his record. Of course, it should be noted that the parade of quartermasters at Fort Whipple were accused of the same thing such as declaring weapons obsolete and then selling them to the local Prescott merchants. This charge was never proved and since the Fort was considered essential in suppressing… Read More

Phoenix, AZ (1994): Pine Rim Publishing. First Edition. Quarto. First printing, limited to 300 copies signed by the author. The present copy is #31. 141 pages. Illustrated with photographic images. While Daniel Herman's Hell on the Range remains the single most important book on the conflictt known as "the Pleasant Valley War", Hatchett, like Dedera and Forrest, is a frequent source of this important work. The publishers write: "Pleasant Valley, Arizona in the 1880's was no place for the faint of heat. In less than one hundred days, thirteen men lose their lives. These were not Hollywood style, face to face shootouts. The attacks were almost always surprise or from ambush." The maps are very important, and the book's layout allows the reader to see the overall picture better than any of its predecessors. A fine copy bound in brown leather like cloth, spine lettering gilt, in a fine pictorial dust jacket.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1909. First Edition. Octavo. 387pp., illustrated. The interesting and true story of a military wife living at Fort Lyon, Colorado with her husband and of course, the army troops including two regiments of black soldiers whom she named the "Buffalo Soldiers". The fort was built in the middle of the harsh Indian territory therefore it became essential that her husband teach her to shoot and ride. A very interesting look of living with the Army in the unwelcoming lands of Indian territory. Bound in blue cloth, centrally stamped in white, lettering gilt, top edge gilt. A very nice copy. [Howes R40].

Flagstaff, Arizona; (1975): Northland Press. First Edition. Quarto. 1 of 150 copies of the superb limited edition. Foreword by Lloyd Kiva New. 197pp. This is the publisher's copy (Paul Weaver). Mr. Weaver founded the Northland Press in 1959 and made it the finest press on Indian life in the Southwest. In 1979 the New York Times wrote an article on it entitled: Publishing: When a Small Press Becomes Popular. It notes that he published small print runs as low as 100 copies to no more than 3,000. This copy is signed by 15 of the artists including Fritz Scholder, R.C. Gorman, Allen Houser plus the two editors with the top of the autograph page in calligraphy "Publisher's Copy Paul Weaver." Fine copy in a fine slipcase.

Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Co, 2002. First Edition. Octavo. Limited edition of 100 copies signed, and numbered, specially bound in red leather, lettering gilt, photographic images. A history and bibliography of the Arthur H. Clark publishing company listing in alphabetical order all those books published in the field of Americana.

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1993. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 244pp. index. Number 411 of 500 copies.

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 361 pp. 16 photos & illustrations. Describes the Confederacy's plan to conquer the Southwestern territories of New Mexico and Arizona, to build a Southern empire.