Search Results: Titles starting with S from BICKERSTAFF'S BOOKS, MAPS &C.

This colorful pictorial map captures the lore of the Old West. The map features prominent pioneer trails such as the Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe Trail and the Pony Express route. Among the many notable events highlighted on the map are the battle of the Alamo, Custer's last stand, Pat Garrett's shooting of Billy the Kid and numerous Indian battles.
The map is framed by portraits of 26 prominent personalities Bat Masterson, Anne [sic] Oakley, Sitting Bull, Judge Roy Bean, Martha Canary ('Calamity Jane'), Doc Holliday, Geronimo and Davy Crockett.
Danny Arnold was a Canadian who toured England with a Wild West Show in the 1960s, taking advantage of the British fascination with as the American "Old West" at the time. Presumably the map was sold as a souvenir to those who attended the shows.
References: No examples noted on OCLC. Not in David Rumsey Map Collection.
Condition: Sheet size: about 25 x 34 ¾." Original fold lines, with some showing wear. Occasional soiling and wrinkling; minor edge… Read More

Scarce Chart of Oahu: Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head
This is a wonderfully detailed chart of the Pearl Harbor/Honolulu area. It names Diamond Head, Waikiki, Honolulu (with street grid shown), and Pearl Lochs (later, Pearl Harbor) and locates numerous landmarks: school, windmill, leper asylum, prison and several areas with heavy surf and breakers.
The chart appears to be directly derived from a larger, separately issued chart of the same title that covered a somewhat larger area (Hydrographic Office Chart no. 867). The larger chart was first issued in 1880 and updated at least through 1901. While a very short segment of Oahu R.R. is shown just west of Honolulu on the present chart, the much longer stretch of the railway that looped around the northern portion of Pearl Lochs is not shown here as it is on the 1899 edition of the larger map. Since the main portion of the Oahu Railway was completed in late 1889, it suggests that the present map was completed prior to that date. We have been unable to… Read More