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New York: Indian Head, 1994. Facsimile Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photos illustrate. CONDITION: UNREAD and undated Facsimile Edition Indian Head trade paperback. Very light edge wear. CONTENT: Marketed as an "authentic" biography of Billy the Kid, this book has some truths in it and some fabrications. It is an interesting read and if you are researching The Kid, it is essential, but beware - check your facts with someone like Nolan before betting the house on the information here. IMHO.

Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 1997 Simon & Schuster large hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Tiny "repaired" tear bottom DJ panel at fold. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Recounts the trial of a radical union leader for the murder of Idaho's former state governor, a case that ultimately involved President Theodore Roosevelt and the tumultuous relationship between capital, labor, and the law in the 1900s. Multiple Pulitzer Prize winner Lukas, who committed suicide at age 64, aspires in his final book to use the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, governor of Idaho, as a platform from which to survey the panorama of the turn-of-the-century's incessant labor strife. The murder, investigation, and trial quickly became a cause for business, labor, and law enforcement, both private and public. Lukas attempts to gather every… Read More

Marlowe & Company, 1998. First Thus Printing Unknown. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. B&W drawings by the Author. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1998 Marlowe large (and heavy) paperback edition. Tiny edge wear bottom edge (due to size of book) and a remainder mark bottom edges at spine. The interior is clean & tight. CONTENT: This definitive illustrated account of the warrior societies and cults of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Crow and other Plains tribes, brings alive through text, meticulously rendered pen and ink drawings and vibrant color prints the intricate, inventive beauty of Indian costume and regalia in a sympathetic evocation of a way of life tragically destroyed. From the years between 1750 and 1850.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1968. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONDITION: AS NEW - both DJ and Book. What makes this "AS NEW?" - the book has a signature on the title page which has nothing to do with either the Author nor Illustrator - but is from a named photography business in Ohio. Previous owner. Dust Jacket (in mylar cover) - has several very very small nics top edge and a small strange scratch on the front DJ panel. Hard to see - but there. So, AS NEW. UNREAD 1974 Northland Press hardcover (cloth boards), first edition, third printing. B&W sketches and drawings plus some color art. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONTENT: Illustrated commentary on the earlier life of Navajo Indians. Includes both black and white sketches, along with full watercolor illustration. The drawings emerged as the product of 35 years of study and experience of the Navajo life. Book originally issued with illustrated dust jacket.… Read More

Clarion, 2008. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color & B&W era art reproductions throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Clarion large hardcover (orange boards with gold foil title) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 3rd printing. Color and B&W paintings/art reproductions throughout. Some paintings are reproduced in full. CONTENT: Catlin is one of America's best-known painters, famous for his iconic portraits of Native Americans. He spent much of his life in the wilderness, sketching and painting as he traveled. A solo trek across 500 miles of uncharted prairie, an expedition to the Andes, harrowing encounters with grizzly bears and panthers, and tours of the royal palaces of Europe were among his many adventures. In an era when territorial expansion resulted in the near annihilation of many indigenous cultures, George Catlin dedicated himself to meeting and writing about the native peoples of the western hemisphere. With his "Indian Gallery" of… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Surprisingly, no illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1992 Simon & Schuster hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Deckle edges. No illustrations. Introduction by Jan Morris. CONTENT: I have always had a problem with the term "lyrical" being applied to non-fiction works. I was wrong. THIS is lyrical - just not on each page. Australian novelist Keneally brings his lively imagination to bear on the American Southwest. This is a sometimes sketchy account of a midwinter swing, by car and cross-country skis, through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Keneally doesn't talk to people much, and his reactions to landscapes can be predictable: ``Maybe religion is so strong in this landscape because this is terrain which puts the human in his place.'' But as in The Playmaker and Schindler's List, history is what moves him. He offers lively capsule biographies of figures who sum up an impulse, an era, a… Read More

Utah: Utah Museum of Natural History, 1995. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Laurel Casjens color photos illustrate. CONDITION: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 1995 University of Utah Press soft cover, assumed first printing. Detailed color photos by Laurel Casjens. CONTENT: From approximately AD 1 to 1300, the people we now refer to as Anasazi inhabited parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Their impressive and enigmatic rock art and architectural ruins are well known, but the arid Four Corners climate has also preserved such artifacts as loomed clothes, intricate baskets, and sandals. This book is the most comprehensive volume on Anasazi sandals and weaving technique. Three hundred twelve examples from the extensive holdings at the Utah Museum of Natural History demonstrate the Anasazi genius as skilled textile artists. These examples incorporate colorful geometric patterns and reveal elaborate manipulations of warp and weft. Within the relatively rigid requirements… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: "AS NEW" due to small remainder mark bottom edges. UNREAD 2017 St Martin's Press hardcover (orange boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Sure doesn't look like "Large Print" to me. No illustrations. CONTENT: 9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance... So… Read More

W W Norton & Company, 2019. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W Bozeman Trail map; Cover art by Leo Nickolls. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Norton hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 2nd printing. B&W map of the Bozeman Trail & the forts, 1866. Cover art by Leo Nickolls. CONTENT: 1866, Dakota Territory. Red Cloud's coalition of tribes is battling the U.S. Army to reclaim hunting grounds in the Powder River Valley. Against this background, Wolves of Eden sets four men on a deadly collision course in a narrative that explores the cruelty of warfare, the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. Lieutenant Martin Molloy and his loyal orderly are sent west to investigate a triple murder at a frontier fort, and Irish immigrant brothers Thomas and Michael O'Driscoll, who survived the brutal frontlines of the Civil War, find themselves as both hunters and the hunted in another bloody campaign. Blending intimate historical detail and… Read More

Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1994. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&Wera art, photos, maps. CONDITION: INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. NEW 1994 State House Press trade paperback, first edition, second printing. Loaded with B&W era photos, city maps, overview of the floor plan of the Alamo, era art reproductions. Oddly enough, the sheet music to El Deguello, the Mexican call to fight to the death played at the Alamo. Glossary. Fascinating book. CONTENT: The riveting story of the Alamo ends in tragedy with no brave defender left alive to tell his tale, but there were others who did survive the final massacre-more than a dozen women and children. The thirteen days of the siege and fall of the Alamo have been studied, examined, probed, and researched by students and historians for over 150 years, but here is the Alamo's story by the ones who were there.

California Historical Society, 1969. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 3 small B&W era photo sections. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1969 California Historical Society hardcover & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. There is, of course, some light edge wear -most of it to dust jacket (3 small nics). CONTENT: Sherman had a natural gift for writing, and his letters are informative, interesting, and enlivened by a mature sense of humor. As senior resident partner of a banking house in San Francisco (1853-1857), Sherman wrote frequent reports to the home office in St. Louis, detailing not only routine business of the bank but also pertinent information about political and financial developments in the city (including the Vigilance Committee of 1856), the gold-mining areas, and the state capital. The letters were written to Henry Smith Turner, a partner and a close personal friend, and are characterized by a greater personal… Read More