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Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River. Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting the Report of the Superintendent of the Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River

[Washington]: 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 35th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 124. 87 pp, with large folding map in rear pocket covering. Modern blue buckram with gilt title on spine. Old archival tape repair to final two leaves at gutter; map has one old... (Item #16534)

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Wagon Road, Fort Smith to the Colorado River. Letter of the Secretary of War, The Report of Mr. Beale Relating to the Construction of a Wagon Road from Fort Smith to the Colorado River

[Washington]: 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 36th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 42. 91 pp, with folding map showing Beale's route from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Albuquerque in 1858-9. A fine copy in modern black buckram stamped in gilt on spine and upper board. In 1857... (Item #16533)

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Baca's Battle

Houston, TX: Stagecoach Press, 1962. Softcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 30 pp, in original pictorial jacket. Tiny stain to upper right corner, else fine. Dust jacket has faint staining to fore edge. "Here are the two scarcest original accounts of the most famous gunfight in the... (Item #1304)

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Pages from the Early History of the West and North-West: Embracing Reminiscences and Incidents of Settlement and Growth, and Sketches of the Material and Religious Progress of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, with Especial Reference to the History of Methodism

Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 325 pp; original brown cloth. Stamp of W.W. Henry, Ashland, IL on front board (only just visible) and front free endpaper, extremities rubbed; a few pages soiled. A circuit riding preacher in Indiana and Illinois in the 1820s and 1830s... (Item #14089)

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New Tracks in North America, A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in a Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-8

London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. First Edition. Two volumes, pp lxv, 236; vii, 322, complete with 20 colored lithograph plates, 3 botanical plates, woodcuts in the text, a colored folding map and a colored plate with three small maps. An attractive set, recased, with new endpapers but original cloth binding... (Item #16422)

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33.

St. Paul, Its Past and Present; Being an Historical, Financial and Commercial Compend, Showing the Growth, Prosperity, and Resources of the Great Commercial Emporium of the Northwest

St Paul, MN: F.C. Bliss, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, index. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Some wear to extremities, three leaves chipped at the margin; pages a bit browned, all else very good. "In the compilation of this little work, the author... (Item #1889)

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The First White Man of the West, or the Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, The First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country

Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1849. Hardcover. Good. First published under this title in 1847, with an earlier edition (Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone) appearing in 1833. 12mo, 252 pp, with frontis portrait of Boone and 8 plates illustrating scenes from his life. Original cloth with paper spine label. Spine cloth split... (Item #14912)

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36.

Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, During the Year 1844 by a Visiter

Louisville, KY: Morton & Griswold, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4.25 x 7.25 inches, pp xii, [9]-101.Original purple cloth with black leather spine, title stamped in gilt on upper board. Some pale staining to boards, interior very clean. All six original plates present, but folding map supplied in facsimile. Variously... (Item #20259)

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37.

Kino and Manje, Explorers of Sonora and Arizona, Their Vision for the Future. A Study of Their Expeditions and Plans, with an Appendix of Thirty Documents [and] A Map of the Area [Pimeria Alta] with a Place Finder by Ronald L. Ives

Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume X. xi, 793 pp, with Ives' map (18" x 19") laid in; index, bibliography. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Slight scuffing... (Item #19321)

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Ducrue's Account of the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Lower California (1767-1769), An Annotated English Translation of Benno Ducrue's Relation Expulsionis

Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket... (Item #18544)

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Ducrue's Account of the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Lower California (1767-1769), An Annotated English Translation of Benno Ducrue's Relation Expulsionis

Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by... (Item #17389)

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41.

Prairie Farming in America

Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition published by D. Appleton and Company. 130 pp, bound in green cloth. Light shelf wear to boards, bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and tight. No dust jacket. The author was a British Member of... (Item #2356)

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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months' Residence in Utah, and a Perilous Trip Across the Great American Desert [WITH THE RARE DEDICATION PAGE]

New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Early reprint (first published 1857). pp. (i-vii), viii-xv, (17)-250, (1)-130 + (4) ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. Spine lettering faded, corners and joints rubbed and frayed, some ink spots on the front board, moderate foxing throughout. This edition does not have a.... (Item #14825)

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43.

History of the Pacific Coast [SIGNED]

Los Angeles: By the Author, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 429 pp, with index and illustrations. Original black cloth, no dust jacket. Light shelfwear to board, sound binding. Bookplate, two owner's signatures, and old bookstore stamp on front endpapers. Signed on the half-title page "To Dolly Billings with best wishes... (Item #14499)

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44.

Francois X. Aubry, Trader, Trailmaker and Voyageur in the Southwest 1846-1854

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 249 pp + illustrations, maps (one folding), with frontispiece, appendices, bibliography, index. Blue buckram. Boards very slightly bowed, else fine. No dust jacket. Western Frontiersman Series XVI. Chaput writes in the Foreword: "Aubry was no obscure petty trader... (Item #873)

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Frontier Fighter, The Autobiography of George W. Coe, Who Fought and Rode with Billy the Kid

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp xiv, 220, in original grayish-beige cloth with lettering and lasso image in green. Light edgewear, rubbing to corners and spine ends. One horizontal closed tear to the spine cloth near the head. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper, two... (Item #19242)

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48.

Fifty Years on the Old Frontier, As Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xix, 291 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, index. Corners and spine ends rubbed, some minor pale staining to front board, contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Cook was a noted frontiersman and Army scout and owner of... (Item #1047)

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The Olden Time; A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and Other Authentic Information in Relation to the Early Explorations, and the Settlement and Improvement of the Country Around the Head of the Ohio

Pittsburgh: Dumars & Co., 1846 and 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes, 8vo. First edition of Volume I (1846; viii, 576 pp, one folding plate) with second edition of Volume II, (1876; 580 pp, one folding map). Volume II in original green cloth, Volume I in modern cloth of the... (Item #11126)

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