Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 3 (3/86)
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Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 3 (3/86) 1. ABERNETHY, F. E. Legendary Ladies of Texas. Dallas: E-Heart, 1981. xii, 224 pp., portraits, illustrations. 8vo, original maroon printed pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. BTB 203:XLIII. This collection of biographies and articles includes Belle Starr, alleged cattle rustler, and Sally Skull, 19th century rancher who wore rawhide bloomers and rode astride. $20.00 2. ACKERMAN, Diane. Twilight of the Tenderfoot. A Western Memoir. New York: Morrow, 1980. 222 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth over light blue boards. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Modern account of a woman who leaves the security of academia in the East to work on the Tequesquite Ranch in New Mexico. She describes branding, shipping, and calving from her own working experience. $25.00 3. ADAIR, Cornelia. My Diary. August 30th to November 5th, 1874... Austin & London: UT [1965]. xxx, 125 pp., photographic illustrations. 12mo, original blue cloth. Very fine in d.j. Reprint of the exceedingly rare 1918 edition. Herd 7n: "Diary of an English lady who spent part of her life on the famous JA Ranch of Texas, which her husband owned with Charles Goodnight." Howes A37. Winegarten, p. 33. $35.00 4. ADAMS, Emma H. To and Fro in Southern California. With Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico... Cincinnati: W.M.B.C., 1887. 288 pp. 12mo, original brown gilt pictorial cloth. Light wear to spinal extremities, else fine. First edition. Alliot, p. 17. Rocq 2761. A Victorian reporter's letters to Eastern journals from Southern California, New Mexico, and Arizona in the years 1884 and 1886. The author visited several ranches in the Los Angeles area and gives historical and economic information about them. $125.00 5. ADAMS, Mildred Babb. From Darkness into Light. Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer [1978]. vi, 130 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original blue printed wrappers. Very fine. Scarce, privately printed. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 3 (3/86) First edition. Family history and autobiography by a woman who has been a sheep and goat rancher in West Texas all her life. $25.00 6. [ADAMS, Ramon F.] The Legendary West. An Exhibit by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. [Dallas: Dallas Public Library, 1965]. [62] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original brightly colored wrappers bound in red cloth. Very fine. First edition. Includes descriptions of items on Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, and Mountain Charley. $25.00 7. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Rampaging Herd. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry. Cleveland: Zubal [1982]. xx, 464 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. New, as issued. Reprint of the 1959 edition. Reese, Six Score 4n: "The only attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of the range cattle industry to date." $40.00 8. ADAMS, Ramon F. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather. [Cleveland: Zubal, 1982]. xxvi, 808 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth. New, as issued. Reprint of the enlarged edition of 1969. The definitive bibliography of law and lawlessness in the American West. $50.00 9. ADLOF, Viola Ebel. Levi's Grandma Writes. [Austin] San Felipe, 1972. 287 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine. First edition. Family history and autobiography. Farming and ranching in Live Oak County, Texas, 1908-1972. $25.00 10. AGUAYO, Marqués de San Miguel de. Señor... [Printed petition to the King of Spain]. N.p., ca. 1718. 3 pp. folio folder. Very fine, original condition. The Marqués de Aguayo, a recent arrival in the New World and the first sucessful colonizer of Texas, in this unrecorded petition asks the king to confirm his title and estates. Through his marriage to Ignacia Xaviera de Echevers, daughter and heiress of the first Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, he became the second Margués de Aguayo, and entitled to her vast holdings of land and stock in Coahuila. Aguayo here asserts that in 1717 he furnished, from his wife's hacienda in Northern Mexico, cattle for the missions of South Texas--when "there were none in that Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 3 (3/86) land." This document reveals the interesting fact that the mission cattle, which would become the basis of the cattle industry in Texas, were acquired from a woman. $1,500.00 11. AIKMAN, D. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Holt, 1927. xii, 347 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Dobie, p. 139. Guns 19. Jennewein 116. Includes Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, and Poker Alice. $30.00 12. ALDERSON, Nannie T. & Helena Huntington Smith. A Bride Goes West. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart [1942]. viii, 273 pp., vignettes. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Dobie, p. 61. Herd 22. Jordan, p. 285. King, p. 13. Biography of a Southern girl, who, upon her marriage in 1883, moved to an isolated ranch in the Wolf Mountains of Montana, where she often never saw another woman for months on end. $40.00 13. ALEXANDER, Eveline M. Cavalry Wife. The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867. College Station & London: Texas A & M [1977]. 175 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Myres, Following the Drum, p. 2. This excellent army wife diary edited by Sandra L. Myres contains good descriptions of the New Mexico cattle country in the 1860's. She stayed overnight at several of the ranches, including the vast Maxwell Ranch. $25.00 14. ALEXANDER, Frances. Choc, the Chachalaca. [Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1969]. [4] 20 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original goldenrod pictorial cloth. Mint. Author's signed presentation copy to Mrs. J. Frank Dobie, with A.L.s. from author to Mrs. Dobie laid in. Scarce, privately printed as a gift for friends of the author and her sister. First edition. Charming account of a chachalaca purchased as an egg by a rancher and his wife, who pursuaded their Rhode Island Red to hatch the egg. This little biography tells the high points of his colorful life. $35.00 15. ALLEN, Catherine Ward. Chariot of the Sun. Denver: Sage Books [1964]. 244 pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 3 (3/86) First edition. Stories from the author's childhood in Kansas and the Indian Territory in the late 1800's. She travelled along the Chisholm Trail with her uncle and his family, often in the company of large herds of cattle. The author relates many stories about cowboys she observed along the way. $45.00 16. ALTGELT, Emma. Emma Altgelt's Sketches of Life in Texas. [Austin] SWHQ LXIII:3, 1960. 22 pp., 2 photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green printed wrappers. Very fine. First separate edition. Winegarten 218 & 277. Descriptions of life in Texas in the mid-1800's, as seen through the eyes of a new emigrant from Germany who settled in Comfort, Texas, as a young bride. She "always regarded looking for cows with their young calves as a pleasure... A revolver, a coffee pot and provisions tied to the saddle were taken along, and the saddle blanket was used for a camp bed." $10.00 17. [AMERICAN WILD WEST SHOW]. Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles 1910. The American Wild West Show. "Plaine des Attractions"... Brussels, 1910. 50 pp., color frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations. 12mo, original printed pictorial wrappers. Light wear and soiling to fragile wraps, overall fine. First printing. Rare European program with much on the cowgirls, including individual portraits and group photographs. $75.00 18. ANDERSON, Fannie J. Mooney. The Texas Shepherd Girl. Dallas: Story Book Press [1942]. 263 pp. 12mo, original brown cloth. Very good. First edition. Novel set in central Texas in the late 1800's in which the heroine becomes a sheepherder at the tender young age of six. $30.00 19. ANDERSON, Mrs. M. B. "Starts a School in Old Fort Davis." Bandera: Frontier Times VI:11, n.d. Pp. 443-6. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Bandera reprint of the Aug. 1929 issue. Mrs. Anderson began the first school at Fort Davis, Texas, on the recommendation of her brother, who had the contract to furnish beef to the troops. Contains many interesting and often humorous anecdotes about teaching rugged ranch children. $15.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 3 (3/86) 20. ANSON, Lady Clodagh. Book. Discreet Memoirs. [London] Blackshaw, 1931. [4] 379 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original blue cloth, t.e.g. Fine, signed by author. First edition. Herd 107: "Rare... Has a chapter on ranching in Texas, cowboys, and roundups." King, p. 13: "A witty account by an Englishwoman about her experiences in the early 1900's on her husband's ranch in Tom Green County, Texas." $300.00 21. ATHERTON, Gertrude. Golden Gate Country. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce [1945]. xii, 256 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Fine. First edition. Rocq 8145. Includes an account of Miss Abigail Smith Tuck, "the only young American lady in California" in 1851. She married a wealthy rancher, John Marsh, "the First of the Cattle Kings." $40.00 22. ATHERTON, L. The Cattle Kings. Bloomington: Indiana U. [1961]. xii, 308 pp., photographs, illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original white cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Guns 92. King, p. 13: "Includes some factual information on the wives of the `Cattle Kings.'" $25.00 23. ATKIN, W. Color print excised from a 1913 calendar: "In the Lead." [Philadelphia] Collins, ca. 1912. Measures 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches.