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1. Anderson, William Marshall (edited by Dale L. Morgan). The Rocky Mountain Journals of William Marshall Anderson : The West in 1834. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1967. First edition. 430pp. Quarto [26 cm] Orange cloth with title in gilt on the backstrip. Fine/Fine.

The print run for this first edition was 1500 copies. Significant and important work. Almost half of this work is a list of biographical sketches on notable figures of the American fur trade. Saunders 58. $100.00

2. Barry, Louise (foreword by Dale L. Morgan). The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society, 1972. First edition. 1295pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. Saunders 64. $50.00

3. Flake, Chad; Dale L. Morgan (Introduction). Mormon Bibliography, 1830- 1930: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century (three volume set). Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1978, 1989, 1992. First editions. 825, 413, 208 pp. Quartos 28.5 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. All three volumes in near fine or very good condition. The covers of volume 1 are rubbed. Volume Two: Ten Year Supplement. Volume Three Index. Set of the definitive bibliography on Mormonism. Scallawagiana 100. $200.00

4. Fremont, John Charles (Dale L. Morgan). Geographical Memoir upon Upper California in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. 65pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Gray illustrated boards. Near fine. Reprinted from the 1848 edition in a limitation of 450 copies.

Introductions by Allan Nevins and Dale L. Morgan. Facsimile Preuss map is present and in the rear pocket. Saunders 46. $75.00

5. Gardiner, Howard C. (edited by Dale L. Morgan). In Pursuit of the Golden Dream: Reminiscences of San Francisco and the Northern and Southern Mines, 1849-1857. Stroughton, MA: Western Hemispheres, 1970. First edition. 390pp. Quarto [29 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip Fine. Fold-out map present at the rear.

In addition to reprinting Gardiner's work, Morgan compiled a substantial introduction consisting of a bibliographic essay on the northern mines and correspondence concerning the original publication of the reminiscences. Saunders 62. $50.00

6. Judd, Laura Fish (edited by Dale Morgan). Honolulu: Sketches of Life in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1966. 379pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with title in gilt on the backstrip. Fine. This is the Lakeside Classic for Christmas, 1966. Saunders 54. $30.00

7. Kelly, Charles & Dale Morgan. Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1965. Limited Edition, 1/100. 380pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Original green buckram with title gilt on backstrip. Housed in a two part slipcase (inner/outer). Fine.

Signed by both authors in ink on the limitation page. This volume is numbered 72 out of a limitation of 100 copies. Includes a bibliography and an index. Eight illustrated pages internally and fold out map at rear. Map is titled: "California - Oregon Trails, 1846." History of the trapper and trail guide by two of the most prominent western historians of the era. Uncommon. Saunders 69 $500.00

8. Kelly, Charles & Dale Morgan. Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1965. Revised second edition. 380pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Fold out map present at rear. Map is titled: "California - Oregon Trails, 1846."

History of the trapper and trail guide by two of the most prominent western historians of the era. This edition was limited to 750 copies. Uncommon in this condition. Saunders 52. $75.00

9. Korns, J. Roderic; Dale Morgan, Will Bagley & Harold Schindler. West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails across Utah, 1846- 1850. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1994. First edition. 328pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with title gilt stamped on backstrip. Fine/Fine.

Illustrated with black and white photographs. Original Diaries and Journals Edited and with Introductions by J. Roderic Korns and Dale L. Morgan. Revised and Updated by Will Bagley and Harold Schindler. Map present in rear pocket. $50.00

10. Lynch, Jeremiah (edited by Dale Morgan). Three Years in the Klondike. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1967. 375pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with title in gilt on the backstrip. Fine.

This work was written from memory, and as Morgan points out the author's facts sometimes aren't. This is the Lakeside Classic for Christmas, 1967. Saunders 59. $30.00

11. M'Collum, William (edited by Dale Morgan). California As I Saw It: Pencillings by the Way of its Gold and Gold Diggers! and Incidents of Travel by Land and Water. Los Gatos, CA: The Talisman Press, 1960. First edition. 219pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over cream boards. Paper label on backstrip. Title and illustration on the front board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Fine in publisher's salmon colored slipcase.

Signed by the editor, Dale Morgan, on the half-title. Printed in an edition of 750 copies. The first third of this work is Morgan's biography of McCollum. Morgan wrote the description for an original copy sold by Eberstadt in 1953. Howes M55. Saunders 34. "One of the most authentic contemporary narratives of California in the first year of the gold rush." - Howes. $100.00

12. McDermott, John Francis (ed). Travels on the Western Frontier. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1970. First edition. 351pp. Quarto 26.5 cm] Gray cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Price clipped jacket is lightly rubbed at the extremities.

Includes the Dale Morgan essay 'Western Travels and Travelers in the Bancroft Library.' Saunders 63. $35.00

13. Morgan, Dale. Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence & A New History. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1986. First edition. 414pp. Octavo [24 cm] Maroon cloth with title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Edited by John Phillip Walker. Preface by William Mulder. Saunders 66 $25.00

14. Morgan, Dale. The Humboldt High Road of the West. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. First edition. 374pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth with gilt title on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing to the corners of the jacket. Former owner's note on the verso of the front free endsheet.

More of a collection of short narratives then a straight ahead history, this Morgan work was one of his most successful works and one of the most popular in the 'Rivers' series. Twenty-third volume in 'The Rivers of America series'. Illustrated by Arnold Blanch. Fitzgerald H26. Saunders 16. $100.00

15. [Morgan, Dale]. Utah: A Guide to the State. New York: Hastings House, 1945. Second printing. 595pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth with the title in blue on front board and spine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing at the corners of the jacket.

This was Morgan's first full-scale book. "It had the well deserved reputation of being one of the best volumes in the series. The quality of the work assumes added significance when it is noted that the book was completed and published before Morgan's twenty-seventh birthday without the benefit of academic training in historical methodology." - Saunders 13. $75.00

16. Morgan, Dale (ed.). Overland In 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail (two volume set). Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963. First edition. Two volume set. 457 & 458-825pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over rust colored boards with titles gilt on backstrip. Both volumes are near fine in like jackets.

An edited compilation of primary sources from the first year of significant migration to Oregon and California divided generally by geographic area and trail. These volumes are perhaps the richest gathering of material relating to the beginnings of overland travel. Saunders 44. $300.00

17. Morgan, Dale (ed.). Overland In 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail (two volume set). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Reprint. 825pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with copper stamped titles on the spines. Both volumes very good. The edges of the covers are gently bumped. The fore edge of the text block of volume 1 is very lightly soiled.

Includes the diaries of Virgil Pringle, Patrick Breen, James Mathers, and others. $100.00

18. [Morgan, Dale L.]. Aspects of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the 1965 North American Fur Trade Conference. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967. First edition. 76pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] White pictorial boards. Very good.

Morgan's contribution is titled 'The Fur Trade and Its Historians. Saunders 56. $50.00

19. Morgan, Dale L. The Great Salt Lake. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. First edition. 432pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles and a gilt stamped outline of the lake on the front cover. Very good/Very good

Illustrated. Part of the American Lakes Series edited by Milo M. Quaife. Inscribed by Dale Morgan on the front flyleaf. The inscribed person's name has been rubbed out. Saunders 19. $50.00

20. Morgan, Dale L. Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1953. First edition. 458pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Bookplate on the reverse of the frontispiece.

This is probably Morgan's best known work, and one of the finest works ever written about the American fur trade. Second state binding. Saunders 25. $50.00

21. Morgan, Dale L. Rand McNally's Pioneer Atlas of the American West. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969. 80pp. Quarto 36 cm] Color illustrated boards. Near fine.

Contains facsimile reproductions of maps and indexes from the 1876 first edition of Rand, McNally's & Co.'s Business Atlas of the Great Mississippi Valley and Pacific Slope together with contemporary railroad maps and travel literature. Saunders 60. $50.00

22. (Morgan, Dale L.). Santa Fe and the Far West. Los Angeles: Printed for Glen Dawson, 1949. 26pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip Near fine.

This small item is a reprint of a letter in the 'Niles National Register'. This work contains a note by Morgan. This edition was limited to 200 copies. Scarce. Saunders 23. $100.00

23. Morgan, Dale L. Utah. Salt Lake City, UT: Red Butte Press, University of Utah., 1987. 1/75. Folio [39 cm] Sewn handmade case paper, containing sagebrush from Utah. The hue of the wrappers is that of fresh sagebrush. Fine. Prospectus laid in. This edition was limited to seventy-five copies, this is copy number sixty-eight.

Woodcuts by Royden Card. A beautiful production from Red Butte Press. Contains five charming woodcuts from Royden Card, one of Utah's most prominent printmakers. "The state is immense and varied, almost beyond belief... Utah is many things at once: Utah is green-carpeted vales lying peacefully under the shadow of the Wasatch; Utah is a wide solitude of rolling dry valleys, with hills marching beyond hills to blue horizons; Utah is unearthly white desert; Utah is tall snow-covered mountains; Utah is blue lakes; Utah is canyon and plateau wonderfully fragrant with pines." - Dale L. Morgan. $3500.00

24. Morgan, Dale L. The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, with explorations beyond the Continental Divide, recorded in the diaries and letters of William H. Ashley and his contemporaries 1822-1838. Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock / The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. 341pp. Folio [35 cm] Gray cloth with title gilt stamped on the backstrip and an illustration of Ashley in red on the front board. Near Fine. Bookplate on front pastedown.

Morgan considered this volume, the fruit of two decades of research, his most important single historical work. It is primarily an edited compilation of primary sources relating to Ashley's Missouri Fur Company. Saunders 49 $200.00

25. Morgan, Dale L. & George P. Hammond. Captain Charles M. Weber: Pioneer of the San Joaquin and Founder of Stockton, California. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1966. First edition. 118pp. Folio [36 cm] Full green cloth with title gilt stamped on the backstrip and Weber & Gulnac's cattle brand gilt stamped on the front board. Near fine.

Includes a description of Weber's papers, maps, books, pictures and memorabilia in the Bancroft Library. Edition was limited to 700 copies. Saunders 56. $65.00

26. Morgan, Dale L. & George P. Hammond. A Guide to the Collections of the Bancroft Library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. First edition. 379pp. Quarto [27 cm] Blue cloth with gilt title on the backstrip. Near fine/Fine. Minor sunning to the jacket's spine.

A descriptive catalog of the manuscript holdings of the Bancroft dealing with the American west (with the exception of California). Saunders 41. $35.00

27. Morgan, Dale L.; Richard L. Saunders. Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trails Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs 1849-1869. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007. First Edition. 424pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with a red ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine/Near fine.

Includes a biographical and historical introduction by Richard L. Saunders and an ethnohistorical Essay by Gregory C. Smoak. $35.00

28. Perkins, William (introduction by Dale L. Morgan). Three Years in California: William Perkins' Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849-1852. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. First edition. 424pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth with gilt title on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine.

This work is more reminiscence than diary of Perkins time in the southwest. Originally published in Buenos Aries (1937) under the title 'El campo de los Sonoraenses: Tres anos de residencia en California, 1849-1851' Hardcover. Includes an introduction by Dale L. Morgan & James R. Scobie. Saunders 47 $50.00

29. Platt, P.L. & N. Slater (introduction by Dale L. Morgan). Travelers' Guide Across the Plains Upon the Overland Route to California. San Francisco: Published by John Howell Books, 1963. 59pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 orange cloth over black illustrated boards. Black paper label on the backstrip. Near fine. Facsimile map attached at rear pastedown. Publisher's prospectus laid in.

This edition was limited to 475 copies. Signed by Dale L. Mogan on the title page. Saunders 42. $350.00

30. Pritchard, James A. (edited by Dale L. Morgan). The Overland Diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849- With a biography of Captain James A. Pritchard. Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock / The Old West Publishing Company, 1959. First edition. 221pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine.

The Biography of Captain James A. Pritchard is by Hugh Pritchard Williamson. With map in the rear pocket. With an introduction, bibliography, and a chart of travel by all known diarists west across South Pass in 1849 and illustrated with a portrait, and two unpublished maps of 1849 drawn by J. Goldsborough Bruff.

"This work is perhaps the finest example of Morgan's powerful capacity for editing. His attention to detail is manifest throughout the copious notes, but is best shown by the table at the conclusion comparing the travel schedules of every known diarist on the South Pass route in 1849." - Saunders 31 $100.00

31. Roehm, Marjorie Catlin (Dale L. Morgan). The Letters of George Catlin and His Family: A Chronicle of the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. First edition. 463pp. Octavo [24 cm] Orange cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. Foreword by Dale L. Morgan. Saunders 55. $35.00

32. Saunders, Richard L. Eloquence from a Silent World: a Descriptive Bibliography of the Published Writings of Dale L. Morgan. Salt Lake City: The Caramon Press, 1990. Limited Edition. 74pp. Octavo [24 cm] White linen with title gilt to the backstrip. Fine/Fine.

Limited edition of only 274 copies of which this is copy 23. Foreword by Robert Greenwood. $75.00

33. Toole, K. Ross; John Alexander Carroll, Robert M. Utley & A. R Mortensen (Dale L. Morgan). Probing the American West: Papers from the Santa Fe Conference. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1962. First edition. 216pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped.

Morgan's contribution to this monograph is a work titled 'The Significance and Value of the Overland Journal.ʼ Saunders 36. $25.00

34. Utah Writers' Project [Morgan, Dale]. Origins of Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Dep't Publication of Instruction, March, 1940. Third edition. 47pp. Quarto [28 cm] Rebound in contemporary red cloth with title gilt stamped on front board and in black marker on the backstrip. Mimeographed work that only has content on rectos of sheets. Very good. Extremities rubbed (more so at bumped corners) 'Utah We Love Thee' by Evan Stephens, bound in at rear.

This is a WPA compilation but released under different auspices than most of its publications. The first issue of the third edition was quickly distributed and another printing was done in November of 1941. Morgan is acknowledged in the introduction as the editor of the Historical Records Survey and presumably he did much in editing this compilation. His contribution, if any, to the two previous editions is unknown. Saunders 4. $100.00

35. Baughman, Robert [Dale L. Morgan]. Kansas in Maps. Topeka, KS: The Kansas State Historical Society, 1961. First edition. 104pp. Folio [36.5 cm] Tan cloth with title on the front board. Near fine/Near fine.

Though the book is listed under the authorship of Baughman it is certain that Morgan was responsible for most or all of this work or substantial editing. A typewritten draft of the manuscript in his style and with his editing resides in the Morgan papers at the Bancroft Library. It is unquestionably of his creation. He does at least appear at the head of the list of acknowledgments. Saunders 35. $50.00

36. Mortensen, A. R. [Dale L. Morgan]. Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1 - January 1955. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1955. 97pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green and tan printed wrappers. Near fine.

Includes 'The Reminiscences of James Holt; A Narrative of the Emmett Company, Part I' that is edited by Dale L. Morgan. Saunders 120 $15.00

37. Mortensen, A. R. [Dale L. Morgan]. Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 23, Number 2 - April 1955. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1955. 100-193pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green and tan printed wrappers. Near fine

Includes 'The Reminiscences of James Holt; A Narrative of the Emmett Company, Part II' that is edited by Dale L. Morgan. Saunders 120. $15.00

38. Jensen, Dana O. [Dale L. Morgan]. Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society Volume XI, Number 1 - October 1954. Saint Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society, 1954. 114pp Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near fine.

Includes 'The Diary of William H. Ashley' that is edited by Dale L. Morgan. Saunders 119. $15.00

39. Morgan, Dale L. Bibliography of the Church of Jesus Christ. [28pp] Octavo [25 cm] Blue publishers buckram with gilt stamped title on the front board. Tipped in frontispiece of a facsimile of the title page of 'The Ensign' by William Bickerton. Fine. Ex-libris Albert L. Zobell Jr. with his signature on the front pastedown.

A volume in Morgan's series of bibliographies of the lesser Mormon churches. This volume covers the literature of the Church of Christ commonly called the Bickertonite. Usually referred to as Morgan I. Reprinted from the Western Humanities Review. Important and scarce bibliography. Include an introduction by the author. Saunder 150 $200.00