Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 310 pp. Includes an index and several black and white photographs. Adams, Six Guns 9. Small sticker on rear pastedown; jacket is price clipped with few hints of edge wear, some spots with minor soiling. More about A Fitting Death for Billy the Kid
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 486 pp. Price of $12.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Very Good+ book with some light wear to the edges of boards, small spot of faint discoloration to top textblock, and a tiny nick to the bottom edge of the backstrip... More about Crazy Horse and Custer
London: MacDonald and Jane's, 1976. First UK edition. Hardcover. 486 pp. Price of £5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first UK edition. Jackets shows edge wear with a chip to the bottom right corner of the front panel, light sunning and some small stains to... More about Crazy Horse and Custer
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. (1980) 363 pp. Price of $17.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Jacket shows some light age toning and has a few very faint scratches to the rear panel. More about The Invasion of Canada; Volume One: 1812 - 1813
New York: Farrar & Rinehart [1938], 1938. Ross Santee. First printing. Hardcover. 389 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Includes an index, a bibliography, the essay "Rivers and American Folk" by Constance Lindsay Skinner, and several black and white illustrations by Ross Santee. Part of "The... More about Powder River; Let 'er Buck
New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 300 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. A study of the Mexican War from both sides, including an investigation of what drove the conflict and the myths about the war. Includes maps on pastedowns and endpapers. Index, along... More about North America Divided; The Mexican War, 1846-1848
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1949], 1949. First printing. Hardcover. 313 pp. Bound in black cloth with lettering in yellow on the front board and the spine. Price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Adams, Six Guns and Saddle Leather, 523. A nice copy of Croy's exploration... More about Jesse James Was My Neighbor
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 383 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Jacket has some slight toning to the spine panel and a tiny chip to top right corner of the rear panel, but is otherwise Fine. More about The Great North Trail; America's Route of the Ages
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (1998), 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 515 pp. A historical study of Illinois focused particularly on the first 50 years of the nineteenth century. More about Frontier Illinois
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 436 pp. Bound in blue cloth, with gilt decoration and lettering on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine, color frontispiece with tissue guard, and numerous additional illustrations by John Wolcott Adams. Lacks the dust jacket. Albion... More about Steamboat Days
Lincoln, NE: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. 456 pp. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with some very slight sunning to the spine panel. More about Conquering the Great American Desert
New York: Macmillan, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 434 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Tiny blue stain to top of front panel, few traces of edge wear and toning; tiny dent with tiny blue stain to... More about The New El Dorado; The Fabulous Story of Colorado's Gold & Silver Rushes
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973. First printing. (1973) 274 pp. Adams, More Burs, 57. Brief gift inscription on recto of free front endpaper; jacket is price-clipped with some light edge wear and age toning. More about Road Agents and Train Robbers; Half A Century of Western Banditry
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 313 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Edited by A.B. Guthrie Jr. Small sticker from previous owner on front pastedown; few hints of edge wear. More about The El Dorado Trail; The Story of the Gold Rush Routes Across Mexico
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. 314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering. Decorations by Nancy Beatty Eskew. The book includes several black and white photographs, and a frontispiece which captures... More about The Pageant of the Packets; A Book of American Steamboating
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 428 pp.; 444 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and the spine panels, and red and gold decorations on the front boards and the spines. With nearly one-hundred illustrations made from... More about Three Years of Arctic Service; An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 320 pp. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Review copy with promotional slip laid in. More about Bankers and Cattlemen
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 244 pp. Bound in red cloth lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine, black and white portrait of the author inlaid on the front board. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton with tissue guard, seven additional plates... More about My Sixty Years on the Plains; Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 450 pp. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes black and white illustrations, photographs, an index, maps, and a bibliography. Fading to topstain; few hints of edge wear, tiny tear to front panel. More about America's Western Frontiers
Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. 293 pp. Bound in orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. A collection of articles from Montana The Magazine of Western History. More about The Great Sioux War 1876-77
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979. First printing. Hardcover. 337 pp. Horgan's biography on Josiah Gregg, a man who was integral to United States expansion into the Western Territories. Near Fine in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket. More about Josiah Gregg and His Vision of the Early West
Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. 361 pp. Price of $13.95 on front flap of jacket. An account of the forty-niners experiences at Sutter Mill during the gold rush. Few spots of discoloration to bottom edge of boards, offsetting to endpapers; traces of foxing to reverse of jacket, a.... More about Gold Dust
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 295, [8] (publisher's advertisements) pp. The advertisements in the rear include notices of Ben-Hur and Elizabeth Custer's Boots and Saddles. Navy cloth with lettering in gilt on the spine, title in gilt on the front board with a decorative gilt... More about Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life
Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press (1960), 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 348 pp. Bound in light brown cloth with Native American motif stamped in gold on the front board and the spine, gold lettering blocked in brown on the top of the spine, red-brown topstain. Price of $5.95 on... More about Following the Indian Wars; The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners
Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 280 pp. Tan and grey patterned paper-covered boards with cavalryman stamped in blue on the spine and blue and gold lettering. Price of $12.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. The author's own copy... More about Life and Manners in the Frontier Army