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Berkeley & San Francisco:: Heyday and California Historical Society,, (2016). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Foreword by Josh Sides. "In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld ". . . candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering the life. While prostitute narratives had been published before, never had they been as frank in their discussion of the underworld, including topics such as abortion, police corruption, and the unwritten laws of the brothel. . . The response to Alice's story was unprecedented: four thousand letters poured into the Bulletin,many of which were written by other prostitutes ready to share their own stories; and it inspired what may have been the first sex worker rights protest in modern history." This book includes the memoirs of Alice Smith and a…
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ALICE: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute.
by Anderson, Ivy and Devon Angus, editors.
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ANNIE OAKLEY: Legends of the West.
by Gilbert, Sara.
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Mankato, MN: : Creative Education, , 2006.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated boards. . First printing. Written for older children, this is a brief biography and look at the legend of Phoebe Ann Moses, born in Ohio in 1860, who became known as Annie Oakley, a tiny woman who became one of the best sharpshooters of all time. Large format, illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. References, index. 48 pp.
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APRON FULL OF GOLD: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1949-1856.
by (Megquier, Mary Jane.) Cleland, Robert Glass, editor.
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San Marino, CA:: The Huntington Library,, 1949.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in a good+ dustjacket (prev owner's name stamp on front endpaper, peeled spot on spine on dj, chip on front.). First printing. According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush, She left her home in Winthrop, Maine to accompany her husband, a physician, to San Francisco. Illustrations. 99 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press.
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BREAKING CLEAN.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2002.. Hardcover -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. Early printing. The author's first book, a powerful memoir of growing up on a ranch in Montana, of learning to work cattle all day and then getting dinner on the table - and finally of breaking away from this world to find her own identity as a writer. Winner of the 1997 PEN/Jarrod Award for a work in progress and of the 2001 Whiting Writer's Award, this has blurbs by such writers as James Crumley (who calls it 'a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages.'), William Kittredge, James Welch and others. Kirkus Reviews states 'to shoehorn this into mere category or classification is to insult its power. Profound and profoundly moving.' 303 pp.
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BREAKING CLEAN.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2002.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first book, a powerful memoir of growing up on a ranch in Montana, of learning to work cattle all day and then getting dinner on the table - and finally of breaking away from this world to find her own identity as a writer. Winner of the 1997 PEN/Jarrod Award for a work in progress and of the 2001 Whiting Writer's Award, this has blurbs by such writers as James Crumley (who calls it 'a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages.'), William Kittredge, James Welch and others. Kirkus Reviews states 'to shoehorn this into mere category or classification is to insult its power. Profound and profoundly moving.' 303 pp.
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CALAMITY JANE: Legends of the West.
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Mankato, MN: : Creative Education, , 2006.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated boards. . First printing. Written for older children, this is a brief biography and look at the legend of Martha Jane Cannary, who became known as Calamity Jane, including her experiences as a scout for General Custer and her years with Bufffalo Bill. Large format, illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. Reference, index. 48 pp.
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CALIFORNIA PIONEERS: Their Stories, Culture and Cuisine, 1800-1920.
by Cox, Elizabeth.
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Indian Well, CA:: McKenna Publishing Group,, (2005). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Short stories, articles and recipes. Illustrated with photographs. Many of the recipes have both the original version and a more modern version (although some -like for barbecued squirrel - only have the original version.) INSCRIBED on the title page. Photographs. Bibliography. 146 pp.
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CONVERTING THE WEST
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Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A biography of Narcissa Whitman, who was, with her husband, a pioneer missionary to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Travelling overland in 1836, she spent the next 11 years in Oregon, at first among the "benighted" Indians, and then among the growing number of white settlers. Dust jacket illustration of "Narcissa Whitman Meets the Horribles" is from a painting by John Clymer. Photographs, sources, index. 235 pp
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DAUGHTERS OF THE WEST.
by Seagraves, Anne.
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Hayden, Idaho:: Wesanne Publications,, 1996.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy). First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. "Free-wheeling ladies on high-stepping horses, daring cowgirls, Wells Fargo women and adventurous schoolmarms capture the feminine side of the West brighten these pages...[this] tells of the colorful ladies who earned the respect of their male counterparts." Among them are silent movies star Nell Shipmann; Charlie Parkhurt, Jo Monaghan and Mountain Charley (3 women who lived their lives as men); road agent Pearl Hart of Arizona, and others both well-known, and almost forgotten. Lots of great photographs, bibliography. 176 pp. SIGNED on the half title page.
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DOWN THE TRAIL WITH THE BUFFALO HERDS: Western Miscellanea.
by Witherup, Mary E. and others.
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Philadelphia:: Dorrance & Co., (1972.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Poems by the author (who was born in Wyoming, the daughter of parents who came West by wagon train, and lived in Montana when this was published) and by others in her family - most on Western themes - 228 pp.
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EILLEY ORRUM: Queen of the Comstock.
by Paine, Swift.
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New York:: A. L. Burt,, 1929.. Very Good- in orange cloth covers (prev owner's name.). Reprint. Biography of the woman, born in England, who came to the US as a Mormon immigrant, but eventually wound up wealthy from the great Comstock silver lode - only to face tragedy again at the end of her life.
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FEELS LIKE FAR: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains.
by Hasselstrom, Linda.
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New York:: The Lyons Press,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of sixteen interlinked essays about growing up a woman on the grasslands of North Dakota. 233 pp
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FOR CALIFORNIA'S GOLD.
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Boulder, CO:: University Press of Colorado,, (2000.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Historically accurate novel which tells the story of the Gold Rush through the eyes of a reluctant 49er - a woman who accompanied her husband, but whose focus was on the survival of her children and her family, first on the overland journey, then in Sacramento and Nevada CIty. The author won the 1999 Women Writing the West Willa Literary Award. INSCRIBED on the title page Preface by the author. x, 268 pp.
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FOR CALIFORNIA'S GOLD.
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Boulder, CO:: University Press of Colorado,, (2000.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Historically accurate novel which tells the story of the Gold Rush through the eyes of a reluctant 49er - a woman who accompanied her husband, but whose focus was on the survival of her children and her family, first on the overland journey, then in Sacramento and Nevada CIty. The author won the 1999 Women Writing the West Willa Literary Award. SIGNED on the title page Preface by the author. x, 268 pp.
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GENDER AND GENRE: An Introduction to Women Writers of Formula Westerns, 1900-1950.
by Yates, Norris.
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Albuquerque:: University of New Mexico Press,, (1995.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A study of an often overlooked subgenre of the Western novel - of how some of the popular women writers of the time - including B.M. Bower, Caroline Lockhart, Vingie E. Roe, Honore Willsie Morrow and Katharine Newlin Burt - both appealed to the prejudices of the mass market on a superficial level, but also managed to subvert the traditional images by downplaying violence, portraying active rather than passive heroines, etc. Notes, bibliography, index. 181 pp.
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GIRL OF THE DESERT, The Life and Writings of One of the Most Extraordinary Women in America Today.
by Cranford, Florence.
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New York:: Greenwich Book Publishers,, (1961). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (a few spots of foxing to the endpapers, some rubbing to the dj, sunning to the spine.). First edition. An account of her years in the West - born in South Dakota, she moved to Nevada where she spent 5 years hunting and trapping and ranching. She became a prominent livestock rancher, but went bankrupt during the Depression of 1935, so she moved to California and then to Alaska where she spent 10 years on the frontier. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author. Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp.
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GRASS SONGS: Poems of Women's Journey West
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New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, 1993.. Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new.). Trade paperback. A collection of 17 poems which describe the trip West as seen by the women pioneers. Illustrated with drawings by Barry Moser.
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HIGH-SPIRITED WOMEN OF THE WEST.
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Hayden, Idaho:: Wesanne Publications,, 1992.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. The stories of ten courageous women who lived life on their own terms in the nineteenth century West, including Jessie Benton Fremont, Sarah Winnemucca, desperado Belle Starr, Mormon women Fanny Stenhouse and Eliza Young, artist Grace Carpenter Hudson and more. Illustrated with many photographs. Glossary, bibliography. 174 pp.
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IRON WILL, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JANE STANFORD
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Stanford, CA:: Stanford Alumni Association,, 1985.. Hardcover -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing, edgewear to dj.). Revised edition. Stanford's life and work in founding the University named after her only son, as revealed through her letters. This revised edition contains many more photographs, interspersed throughout the text, than the original edition - oblong format, 224 pgs.
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IRON WILL, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JANE STANFORD
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Stanford, CA:: Stanford Alumni Association,, 1985.. Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Revised edition. Stanford's life and work in founding the University named after her only son, as revealed through her letters. This revised edition contains many more photographs, interspersed throughout the text, than the original edition - oblong format, 224 pgs.
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