History - American West

[6204] Ambrose, Stephen E.. Nothing Like It in the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 2001. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Fine ISBN: 0743203178. 431pp. Story of the Union Pacific, and Central Pacific Railroads, their competition, the workers, soldiers, Indians. $9.00 [6176] Ambrose, Stephen E.. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. New York NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0684826976. Clean, no markings, 521pp., illus., maps. Lewis and Clark Expedition into the new Louisiana Purchase 1803-1806. $9.00 [5825] Ambrose, Stephen E.. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. New York NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0684826976. Clean once read softcover, 521pp., illus., maps. Lewis and Clark Expedition into the new Louisiana Purchase 1803-1806. $9.00 [2256] Bauer, Helen. California Mission Days. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1951. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. California state textbook, school stamp, very clean no writing, 126pp., illus. $8.00 [2446] Crump, Donald J. (ed.). Into the Wilderness. Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1967. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Closed tears & chips to jacket, 208pp., illus. $3.00 [2447] Crump, Donald J. (ed.). Trails West. Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1967. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Closed tears & chips to jacket, 208pp., illus. $3.00 [6114] Cushman, Dan. The Great North Trail. New York: McGraw Hill, 1966. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0070149836. Dust jacket yellowed spine, price clipped, no tears, 383pp., maps. Fourth printing. $9.00 [4431] Cushman, Dan. The Great North Trail. NY: McGraw Hill, 1966. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Name inside front and rear cover, 383pp. American Trails Series. $7.00 [1109] Dippie, Brian W. (ed.). Paper Talk : Charlie Russell's American West. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0394508343. Dustjacket price clipped, 223pp, illustrations. Russell's western art with his wit and cowboy charm. $15.00 [1189] Dobie, J. Frank. Coronado's Children : Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest. NY: The Literary Guild of America, 1931. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 367pp., end maps, illus. Interesting tales of old west treasure complete with glossary of terms. $8.00 [5143] McCarty, Lea F.. The Gunfighters. ill. McCarty, Lea F.. Berkeley CA: Mike Roberts, 1959. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 44pp., illus.. Foreword by A. M. King, Deputy To Wyatt Earp. Author's full page color illustrations of some of the Old West gunfighters along with biographical sketches of 20 gunmen. Included are Joaqin Murietta, Jesse James, Will Bill Hickok, Bill Longley, John Wesley Hardin, Clay Allison, John Ringo, Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane. $9.00 [3272] McCracken, Harold (ed.). Frederic Remington's Own West. NY: Promontory Press, 1987. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0883940051. 254pp., illus. "Twenty-six tales written and illustrated by Frederic Remington." $14.00 [4364] McFarling, Lloyd (ed.). Exploring the Northern Plains. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1955. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 111754351X. Name stamp inside cover, 441pp., end maps. Thirty-six narratives by explorers of the Northern Plains between 1804 and 1876. $17.00 [3799] Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail. ill. Remington, Frederic. Harrisburg PA: The National Historical Society, 1993. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / No Jacket. 411pp., illus. Reprint of 1892 edition. Sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. $15.00 [4209] Powell, J. W.. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons. NY: Dover, 1961. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Fine Complete reprint of 'Canyons of the Colorado' 1895 edition with supplementary map, 400pp., illus. Epic adventure of exploration of America's west. $10.00 [3053] Salisbury, Albert and Jane. Here Rolled the Covered Wagons, 3rd Edition. NY: Bonanza Books, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Several small closed tears and one small edge nick to dustjacket, 264pp., b/w illus. Pictures and text of nearly 100 important historical spots in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota. $15.00 [4188] Ward, Don (ed.). Bits of Silver: Vignettes of the Old West. NY: Hastings House, 1961. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Dust jacket spine mildly sunned,306pp. $7.00 [6275] Welch, James; Stekler, Paul. Killing Custer. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 039303657X. 320pp., illus., end maps. "The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians." $10.00

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