Search Results: Western Americana from Lonesome Water Books

New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First Edition. Bantam Books, New York, 1988 First Edition [ Ephemera ] Fine in original shrink wrap Item Type: [ Ephemera ] Quantity Available: 1 Category: Art & Design; Western Americana; United States; Western Art; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 001109.

Cisco, Texas: (Longhorn Press, 1959. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 8vo., wraps, 91 pages, illustrated. -- Authors experiences as a working cowboy, drawing a cowboy's salary before he was 16. Not in Ramon Adam's "Rampaging Herd

Drain, Oregon: The Drain Enterprise, 1961. Original wraps. As new. 8vo, 164 pages Green paper covers - softbound, photo illustrations, one 4 part fold out photograph of an annual picnic. -- Signed by the author. -- Condition. Dr Cole came to Oregon by wagon train from Missouri in 1851. Ezra Blake Baird came by rail from Pennsylvania in the year 1906. -- Partial contents: Life on a hop ranch. The Thrashers are coming. The quilting bee. The Bee Hunter. Turkey raising. Devastation of our forests. The fire devil strikes again. Tim-b-e-r. Hog killing time. -- Recipes: Maple sugar, candy and syrup, Beer Yeast for light bread and rusks, Apple butter, Sour dough biscuits, homemade starch and paste, Hominy, Chicken noodles and dumplings, White Oak Poultice for blood poisoning, Pon-Haus, liver wurst, head cheese, sour kraut, mince meat, pickled pig's feet, crackling bread, homemade soup, venison or elk jerky, Rose hip jam and jelly and punch.

Prineville, Oregon.

No Place: Self published, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Size: Quarto, unpaginated. Tiny amount of handling wear to the extremities. Signed twice by Author.

No Place: No Publisher Noted, 1900. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. No Publisher Noted, No Place, circa 1900. Edition Unstated. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Reference Cloth binding frayed at the corners and has some water stains to the front edges of the covers. Size: octavo (tall). 124 pages. Item Type: Reference. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Western Americana; Native American; United States; 18th century - 19th century ; Americana; Indigenous Cultures. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8518.

Edition Not Stated. Spiral bound wraps. Very good. (Possibly First and only Edition). 4to., 177 pgs. + appendix: Alaska Geography 34 pgs. -- Occasional magic marker underlining throughout the text. Light rubbing to heel of spine. -- No other notable defects. Chapter on World War II and the transition to statehood.

Oklahoma: Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to., green buckram, drawings, color and black and white illustrations; Thomas Moran, George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell and others. Slight bumping to a few pages.

Ames: Iowa State College Press, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Iowa State College Press, Ames, 1948. First Edition. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 667 pages. References cited, index, many photographic illustrations. Top front corners bumped inward. #5# Size: Quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Agriculture; Western Americana; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 007838.

Monticello, Utah: Bennett Management Services, LLC, 2003. Comb bound wraps. Very good. 4to., 106 pages, maps, photographs, tables, Richardson Precinct US Census, 1900. -- Partial Contents: Prehistoric Period, Protohistoric Stage. Historic Period: Explorers and Traders, Pioneer Settlement, Mining. - Agricultural Development: Fighting for Water, Digging for Radium, Looking for Oil, Professor Valley Growth, Cowboys Arrive, Goudelock's Valley Ranch, etc., etc. -- Bump to comb binding at bottom front cover. Top front cover has small diagonal crease. No other notable defects.

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 12mo., 256 pp., original green cloth lettered in gilt, index to advertisers + advertisements i-lvii. -- Moderate wear to the extremities (some fraying to the spine tips & corner edges , corners bumped. Blank paste-down and first free end-paper (paper a little separated, but hinges still strong. Rear hinges strong. Rear paste-down has an advertisement pasted on, and a small stamp at bottom near the gutter of "H. K. Van Siclen, Bibliophile, 133 Nassau St., Ny". --. "This tourist guide for visitors of San Francisco and the Yosemite Valley offers a look at travel and accommodations in the late 19th century".-googlebks.

Original wraps. Very good +. Tall 8vo., brown plush covers, 146 pages, black & white photographs. -- Corners lightly bumped. No other notable defects.

Pediment Publishing, 2004. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong 8vo., glossy boards, 144 pages, profusely illustrated with historical photographs. .

Rapid City: South Dakota School of Mines, 1917. Edition Not Stated. Original wraps. Very good +. Tall 8vo., 316pp., plus 7pp. index to names of authors and collectors. Nice fold out map of the Black Hills Region. -- Minimal light wear to the extremities. -- At Least:.

Sheridan: Mills Company, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8vo., 82pp., light tan illustrated wraps. Illustrated with historical photographs. -- Bottom front corner lightly bumped. otherwise a clean, sound copy. "Big Bat Pourier was a Frenchman who married Josephine Richards, a Lakota woman. Big Bat's ability to speak French, English, Lakota and his empathy for the plight of the American Indian, helped him to negotiate the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. He tried to get the best deal possible for the Indian People."-ameritribes.

No Place: Self published, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Near fine. 4to., 143pp. Illustrated with lots of historical photographs. -- Very minor wear to the extremities. A clean, sound copy. A logger, cowboy, carpenter and even snow plane pilot, Nelson has lived a life that most of us now can only dream about. His stories of early day camping, taking a horse-drawn sleigh to school, snow piled higher than the house and riding into Armstead after a long cattle drive, give us an insight of a vastly different time that really wasn't all that long ago. - Montana Standard.

Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very good +/very good. 8vo., 242pp., dust jacket price $3.00 (unclipped). Light wear to the extremities; no big chips. First Printing stated on the copyright page. Early short story by Elmore Leonard; The Hard Way. -- Other authors: S. Omar Baker; Tom Blackburn, Will Brown, Peter Dawson, Allan Elston, Hal Evarts, Bennett Foster, Kenneth Fowler, Bill Gulick, Rutherford Montgomery, William Mowery, Stephen Payne.

Bellingham, Washington: Joel Douglas, Publisher/Editior, 2002. Second Edition. Near fine. 4to., 67pp., illustrations, technical drawings, historical newspaper articles. -- Condition. "Deception Pass is a dramatic seascape where the tidal flow and whirlpools beneath the twin bridges connecting Fidalgo Island to Whidbey Island move quickly. During ebb and flood tide current speed reaches about 8 knots (9.2 mph), flowing in opposite directions between ebb and flood.[7] This swift current can lead to standing waves, large whirlpools, and roiling eddies. This swift current phenomenon can be viewed from the twin bridges' pedestrian walkways or from the trail leading below the larger south bridge from the parking lot on the Whidbey Island side. Boats can be seen waiting on either side of the pass for the current to stop or change direction before going through. Thrill-seeking kayakers go there during large tide changes to surf the standing waves and brave the class 2 and 3 rapid conditions.".-wikipedia.

Santa Fe New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 8vo., 124 pages. Pages 28-29 have browning offset from newspaper article that was laid in near the top of the pages. Light wear to head and heel of the spine. No other notable defects. "Squire Omar Barker, named after his father, was born on a small mountain ranch at Beulah, New Mexico, in 1894, youngest of the eleven children of Squire Leander and Priscilla Jane Barker. He grew up on the family homestead, attended high school and college in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was in his youth a teacher of Spanish, a high school principal, a forest ranger, a sergeant of the 502nd Engineers in France in World War I, a trombone player in Doc Patterson's Cowboy Band, a state legislator and a newspaper correspondent. He began writing and selling stories, articles, and poems as early as 1914 and became a full-time writer at the end of his legislative term in 1925. He published many books, including Vientos de las… Read More

San Antonio, Texas: Naylor Company, 1971. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 8vo., brown decorated boards. Signed by the author on the half-title page. -- Light smudge front cover of the dust jacket near top of spine. Non authorial gift inscriptions on the front paste-down and the first free endpaper. -- Overall Condition. Contents: Pioneer Wife - First Wedding - Buckskin and Smoke - Yellow Teapot - Four Days - How a Sagebrush Became a Christmas Tree - Agnes -- Wah-Tis-Kee, Little Flame - Legend of the Twin Falls in Snake River - A Valiant Pioneer - Big Ada - Mail-Order Bride - The Last Laugh - A Sheep Crusade - The Sequel for Ellen Chester.