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1. ABBOTT, E. C. (“Teddy Blue”) & Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, [1939]. xv [1] 281 pp., 7 photographic plates, title and text illustrations from drawings by Ross Santee, 2 maps. 8vo, original rose cloth with wrap-around label illustrated by Santee. Very fine in near fine d.j. (price-clipped), with illustration by Santee. The d.j. is very scarce. A desirable copy. First edition, with initials “FR” in device on title verso. Adams, Burs I:1. Campbell, pp. 83-84. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 1. Dobie, p. 94: “Franker about the women a rollicky cowboy was likely to meet in town than all the other range books put together.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #1. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Santee 22); Kid 273; Western High Spots, p. 85 (“A Range Man’s Library”).” Guns 1. Herd 1: “One of the best books of recent years depicting cowboy life. The hero was a well-known character of his day.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 10: “Reminiscences of an old-time cowboy of the 70s and 80s chiefly in Montana but typical also of Wyoming at the time of the Texas cattle drives. Easy, informal style.” Reese, Six Score 1: “This is perhaps the most straightforward account of cowboy life. Teddy Blue Abbott was raised in Nebraska; after leaving home, his first job as a cowboy was with the notorious Olive outfit. He had numerous other jobs before coming up the trail to Montana in 1883, where he remained. In 1884 Abbott went to work for Granville Stuart, foreman and part-owner of the D-H-S outfit, at that time the largest in Montana. Eventually he married one of Stuart’s daughters and settled down, but not before some hot times in Miles City and elsewhere.” Smith 1. $350.00

2. ABBOTT, E. C. (“Teddy Blue”) & Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, [1939]. Another copy. A bit of slight fading of cloth along edges, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. with a few splits and lacking slanted strip (approximately 1.5 x 12.1 cm) extending along lower edge of back panel of d.j.—only light loss of printed text. Ink ownership inscription of A. E. Clymonds of Lincoln, Nebraska, dated August 31, 1940, and his note: “Purchased Butte Mont. Snook Art Store.” $300.00

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3. ABBOTT, E. C. (“Teddy Blue”) & Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North.... Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1991. lxx [2] 385 pp., frontispiece portrait of Abbott, map in full color, many illustrations (mostly full-page, some in color, many photographic). 12mo, original black cloth. Very fine. Editor Ron Tyler’s signed presentation copy. Revised edition, with added annotated historical introduction and numerous illustrations (some by Charles Russell, along with photographs by L. A. Huffman, Christian Barthelmess, and others). Tyler’s introduction and footnotes include previously unpublished material, such as excerpts and correspondence from the Abbott Family Papers in the Montana Historical Society. Excellent edition with the added text, illustrations, and Tyler as editor. $35.00

4. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward. J. Frank Dobie. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, [1967]. ii [2] 52 pp. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First edition. Southwest Writers Series 1. Cook 420. Biographical sketch and critical survey of one of the premier writers on the range country. “The best critical survey thus far published” (Tinkle). $15.00

5. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Built in Texas. Waco: E-Heart Press, 1979. ix [3] 276 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs by Abernethy and line drawings by Reese Kennedy. Oblong 4to, original charcoal cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Publication No. 42 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XLII. Scholarly study on folk building in Texas, including chapters of interest for ranch architecture (“Barns and Outbuildings,” “Gates and Fences,” and “Holding Water”). $40.00

6. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Observations and Reflections on Texas Folklore. Austin: Encino Press [for Texas Folklore Society], 1972. viii [2] 151 pp., photographic illustrations (by Abernethy), line drawings by James R. Snyder. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Publication No. 37 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XXXVII. Whaley, Wittliff 92. Collection of essays on Texas folklore with contributions by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatright, Ron Tyler, Joyce Gibson Roach, Elton Miles, J. Mason Brewer, Francis Abernethy, and others. Ranching interest is in “The Folklore of Texas Feuds” by C. L. Sonnichsen and “Horse Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Penning: Southeast Texas, 1913” by Bill Brett (southeast Texas was one of the last free-range areas in Texas). $30.00

7. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany. Austin: Encino Press [for Texas Folklore Society, 1978]. ix [3] 180 pp., illustrations (many photographic), line drawings by Linda Miller Roach. 8vo, original maize cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. with mild stain from old label on back portion. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Publication No. 41 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XLI. Whaley, Wittliff 153. Collection of essays on Texas folklore with contributions by J. Frank Dobie, Francis Abernethy, and others. Of ranching interest is Christine Boot’s essay: “Home and Farm Remedies and Charms in a German Manuscript from a Texas Ranch.” $25.00

8. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore. Dallas: E-Heart Press, 1982. [2] xiii [1] 277 pp., plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Fine. First edition. Publication No. 44 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XLIVn. Includes “Pecos Bill: His Genesis and Creators” by James M. Day; “A Letter from the Long Circle” by Wayne Echols, about his experiences as a ranch hand and in rodeo; and “Night Horse Nightmare” by Paul Patterson, about the A. C. Hoover Horse Ranch. $20.00

9. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Tales from the Big Thicket. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, [1966]. xii, 244 pp., photographic illustrations, folding map. 8vo, original turquoise cloth. Fore-edges lightly foxed, else fine in fine d.j. First edition. Tate, Indians of Texas 1187 (citing article “Tales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians” by Howard Martin). Has a chapter by Solomon Alexander Wright on herding cattle through the Big Thicket in the 1880s. $30.00

10. ABERT, [John W.]. Abert’s New Mexico Report 1846- ’47.... Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, 1962. vii [1] 182 [1] pp., colored frontispiece after a painting by Peter Hurd, illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth over beige mottled boards. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. (illustrated by Hurd). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Facsimile reprint of the 1848 edition (SED 23), with added foreword by William A. Keleher. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Hurd 40). Flake 7n. Graff 5n. Howes A11n. Plains & Rockies IV:143n. Rittenhouse 2n. Saunders 2691n. Streeter 168n. Wheat, Transmississippi West 532n. Many observations on raising sheep and goats on the relatively sparse vegetation in lower-elevation New Mexico. For Abert’s field notebook for this journey, see next entry. $50.00

11. ABERT, J[ohn] W. Western America in 1846-1847: The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J. W. Abert Who Mapped New Mexico for the United States Army with Illustrations in Color from His Sketchbook. Edited by John Galvin. [San Francisco: Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for] John Howell-Books, 1966. [12] 116 [1] pp., color plates after Abert’s watercolors, 2 folding maps, text illustrations (mostly in color). Folio, original ecru decorated cloth. Very fine in original glassine d.j. First edition of Abert’s previously unpublished field notebook of 1846-47 recording his journey from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, his examination of New Mexico, and his return (see previous entry). Abert’s diary, first published in 1848, constitutes one of the earliest U.S. publications relating to New Mexico. $100.00

12. ABERT, J[ohn] W. Through the Country of the Comanche Indians in the Fall of the Year 1845: The Journal of a U.S. Army Expedition Led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers...Whose Paintings of Indians and Their Wild West Illustrate This Book. [San Francisco: Designed and Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for] John Howell-Books, 1970. xi [7] 77 pp., color frontispiece, 23 color plates, 2 foldout maps, text illustrations. Folio, original beige cloth gilt. Very fine in plain white d.j. First edition. Abert’s diary of his expedition to Texas and New Mexico was first published as a government document in 1846. In this handsome edition Abert’s original watercolor sketches are reproduced for the first time. Graff 6n. Howes A10n. Plains & Rockies IV:120n. Raines, p. 1n. Tate, Indians of Texas 2134. Abert turns his discerning gaze to several topics of ranching interest: Shawnee cattle, attacks on cattle by bobcats and wolves, cattle and sheep raising on the Mora River, cattle being driven to supply Doniphan’s command, etc. $85.00

13. ACHESON, Sam. Dallas Yesterday. Edited by Lee Milazzo. Dallas: SMU Press, [1977]. xxii, 403 pp., frontispiece Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) portrait. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. On front free endpaper is Milazzo’s lengthy signed presentation inscription to Carl Hertzog “For Carl Hertzog.... Since I was merely the editor, and since Acheson did not write any columns about Carlos Impresor, I pulled a sneaky on everybody: check the index, p. 395. In short, there was no way that my first (and possibly only) book would fail to include Carl Hertzog! With the best wishes of Lee Milazzo.” Index entry for Carl Hertzog references p. 404; the book ends on p.403. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First book edition (collection of articles first published in the Dallas Morning News). Articles on Frank Reaugh; Belle Starr, the “Bandit Queen”; Tom Marsh, “Noted Teen-Age Hunter” and pioneer stockraiser; etc. $45.00

14. ADAIR, Cornelia. My Diary: August 30th to November 5th, 1874. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, [1965]. xxiv [6] 125 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations by Malcolm Thurgood, photographs. 12mo, original turquoise cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Reprint of the rare first edition (Bath, 1918)—we have had the original edition only once. Herd 7n. Howes A37n. Vandale 2n. Winegarten I, p. 33; II, pp. 2-3: “A New York aristocrat, she and her second husband John Adair (Englishman) went on a buffalo hunt (1874).... Along with Charles and Molly Ann Goodnight, they founded first Texas Panhandle Ranch, JA Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon (1877). As widow she bought out the Goodnights, managing the 1/2 million acre ranch.” $60.00

15. ADAMS, Alexander B. Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1977]. [2] 479 pp., illustrated title, photographic plates. 4to, original white cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. General history of the Great Plains from the arrival of the first Europeans to the early twentieth century, including chapters on “Cowboys and Farmers” and “Indians and Cattletowns.” $30.00

16. ADAMS, Andy. Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1906. [11] 316 [2] pp., brands. 8vo, original olive cloth illustrated with brands. Slight shelf wear, front blank flyleaf absent, one signature carelessly opened, overall very good, the neat binding fresh and tight. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Campbell, p. 241. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 41 (“High Spots of Western Fiction: 1902-1952”). Hudson, Andy Adams, pp. 54-76. Smith 30. Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, pp. 5-6: “[Adams’] anthologies, Cattle Brands...and Why the Chisholm Trail Forks...are particularly good collections of campfire tales.... Adams rebelled against dime novel stereotypes.” In the introduction to Cattle Brands, Adams writes: “A hard day’s work or a reminiscent night may be recalled in its pages, wherein the characters around the fire were the men who redeemed the Lone Star State from crime and lawlessness. The cowboy may be met in his own salon, with his back to the wagon wheel or his head pillowed in a saddle, looking up at the stars. In fact, all the characters met in these brands were men—nothing more, just men.” $100.00

17. ADAMS, Andy. Cattle Brands.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1906. Another copy. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate and new endpapers (the celebrated mesquite endpapers used in Tom Lea’s King Ranch, in a trial maize variant rather than pale green [see item 891 herein for more on these endpapers]). A well-read copy: binding worn, bruised, frayed, dinged, and darkened; text browned and a few leaves with short tears. Ex-library with remains of small label on spine, call letters removed from spine, contemporary inked number on dedication leaf. “‘Mr. Texas,’ J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964), liked to take pot-shots at Zane Grey factories. He expected books about cowboys to smell of cows.... He ranked Andy Adams...supreme.”—WLA, Literary History of the American West, p. 1304. Ergo, it would seem that dear old “Pancho” Dobie would have approved of this copy. $65.00

18. ADAMS, Andy. “The Cattle on a Thousand Hills” in The Colorado Magazine 15:5 (September 1938). Pp. 168-80. 12mo, original grey printed wrappers. Very fine. First printing of a lecture given by Adams in Colorado Springs on April 17, 1906. Hudson, Andy Adams, pp. 159 et seq. & 262: “The lecture...contains four main divisions: the ancient and lasting association of man with cattle, the ox and man, the cow and man, and the effect of pastoral life on the people who live it.” A thoughtful essay on the primal values of the West, from a historical perspective. This issue also contains an overland by a lady who was 19 at the time: “Seventy Years Ago—Recollections of a Trip through the Colorado Mountains with the Colfax Party in Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1868 As Told by Mrs. Frank Hall to LeRoy R. Hafen” (pp. 161-68). $35.00

19. ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1903. [10] 387 [1] pp., 6 plates by E. Boyd Smith (including frontispiece). 8vo, original olive green gilt-pictorial cloth. Shelf worn (frayed at spinal extremities and corners; upper corner bumped), back cover rubbed, lower hinge cracked, generally very good, internally fine. Contemporary ink gift inscription: “Hoyt D. Whipple Christmas Gift from Mother Dec 25th 1903.” First edition, first issue, without the map or mention of it in “List of Illustrations.” The date is printed on the title, and “Published May, 1903” is on copyright page. Agatha, pp. 134-35. Campbell, p.84. Dobie, pp. 94-95: “If all other books on trail driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from The Log of a Cowboy.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #34. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Smith 21); Western High Spots, pp. 20, 27-28 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”), p. 35 (“High Spots of Western Fiction: 1902-1952”), p. 78 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Graff 13. Herd 8. Howes A45. Hudson, Andy Adams, p. 226: “There can be no doubt about the artistic excellence of The Log of a Cowboy, the only acknowledged masterpiece in the literature of the cattle country.” Lee, Classics of Texas Fiction, pp. 2-3. McCracken, 101, p. 19: “One of the definitive tales of trail driving, the book gives a lively picture of the men, animals, and terrain of the cattle trail.” One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 58. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 15. Reese, Six Score 2. Rosenstock 905. Smith 31. WLA, Literary History of the American West, p. 525: “Considered by many to be the best of the cowboy genre.” “A lively, unvarnished portrait of cowboy life” (Slatta, Cowboys of the Americas). $250.00

20. ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1903. [10] 387 [1] pp., 6 plates by E. Boyd Smith (including frontispiece), map. 8vo, original olive green gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding with mild to moderate staining, slightly shelf-slanted, internally fine, clean, and tight. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, second issue, with the added map (Map [1882] Showing the Trail), which is now added to the “List of Illustrations.” The date is printed on the title, and “Published May, 1903” is on copyright page. “Adams made his last drive in May, 1889, when he took some cattle, including some of his own, on to the Cherokee Strip. Although he did make several trail drives, most of his experiences were vicariously accumulated from talking to cowboys and cowmen from Texas and Kansas.... [In Colorado Springs] he saw a performance of Harry O. Hoyt’s play Texas Steer in 1898 and was so displeased with its portrayal of Texas cowboys that he decided to write his own play [Corporal Segundo]. In this way Adams came upon his true profession; he became a writer.... His ability to reproduce cowboy language and for storytelling were evident.”—Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, p. 5. $150.00

21. ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, [1903]. [11] 387 pp., 6 plates by E. Boyd Smith (including frontispiece), map. 8vo, original olive gilt- pictorial cloth. Very light wear to spinal extremities and corners, otherwise exceptionally fine and bright. Scholar Margaret Long’s copy, with her small printed ownership label on front pastedown and her pencil notes on back pastedown. First edition, later issue, with the added map, which is included in the “List of Illustrations.” Title without date, but “Published May, 1903” on copyright page. “A bonafide cowboy chose the trail drive narrative as the vehicle for relating not only the adventures but also the hardships of the puncher’s life.... When Adams settled in Colorado after a decade in Texas, he wrote The Log of a Cowboy (1903), considered by many to be the best of the cowboy genre. Almost plotless, the narrative is structured around a trail drive from the Rio Grande to Montana in 1882. The serious business of the drive, as well as the campfire storytelling, the pranks and the cowtown sprees are narrated by trail crewman Tom Quirk. Sharp detail and first-person narration give events of the drive an immediacy not present before in fiction about the cowboy. Wister created an immortal cowboy hero, but it was Andy Adams who first breathed life into the everyday working cowboy as a protagonist in fiction.”—WLA, Literary History of the American West, p. 524. $125.00

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22. ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, [1903]. Another copy. Light shelf wear (mainly at foot of spine and corners), a few leaves carelessly opened, otherwise fine, binding bright. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription of Mrs. S. N. Wood on front pastedown and title, manuscript shelf number in ink on front free endpaper. $100.00

23. ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, n.d. [11] 387 pp., 6 plates by E. Boyd Smith (including frontispiece), map. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth in pale blue pictorial d.j. (soiled, chipped, and missing lower two-thirds of d.j. spine). Front endsheets browned, otherwise fine, author’s big, bold signature in purple ink across title: “Most Sincerely Andy Adams 2/5/1934.” Contemporary pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Later printing. The book is one of the most popular of the Western genre, and was reprinted repeatedly. “[Adams’] first ‘novel,’ Log of a Cowboy, appeared in 1903, won a certain, although not overwhelming, success, and respect for it has grown with the years. Today it is considered a classic of the cattle frontier, and has sold overall about 50,000 copies.... [Adams] was an honest writer”—(Thrapp I, p. 7). $150.00

24. ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy.... New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d. [8] 387 pp., 6 plates by E. Boyd Smith (including frontispiece). 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth. A few mild stains to binding, otherwise fine. Author’s large signature on title: “Sincerely yours Andy Adams April 19, 1916.” Later printing, front matter excludes the “List of Illustrations” and the map is not included. $125.00

25. ADAMS, Andy. The Outlet. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1905. [1, ad] x [4] 371 [1] [4, ads] pp., tinted plates by E. Boyd Smith. 8vo, original tan gilt-pictorial cloth. Shelf worn, upper hinge cracked, endsheets and title lightly foxed, one leaf carelessly opened. First edition. Dobie, p. 95: “Good reading.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Smith 23). Hudson, Andy Adams, p. 142: “Like the Log, the Outlet involves trailing cattle to the Northwest, but the basic problem is whether the cattle will be accepted rather than whether they can be Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) delivered on time despite all hazards.” Rader 35. Smith 34. This is the first book in the author’s cattle trilogy, set in the heyday of trail driving from Texas to the Northwest. Adams dedicated the book to John Blocker, San Antonio cowman and first president of the Old Time Trail Drivers’ Association. Blocker appears as a character in the book. $50.00

26. ADAMS, Andy. The Ranch on the Beaver: A Sequel to “Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings.” Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1927. [8] 307 pp., 4 plates by Edward Borein (including frontispiece), map. 8vo, orange decorative cloth. Light edge wear, otherwise fine. First edition. Campbell, p. 203: “Two teen-age boys, after hard work and many adventures (chasing mustangs, fighting prairie fires, riding bucking broncs), learn how to handle cattle and set up as ranchers.” Dobie, p. 95. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Borein 32). Hudson, Andy Adams, pp. 186, 262: “In this novel Andy shows more fully than anywhere else the...financial side of the cattle business.” Mohr, The Range Country 617: “Ranching in 1887 along Beaver Creek in Kansas.” Rader 36. $50.00

27. ADAMS, Andy. A Texas Matchmaker. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1904. [11] 355 [1] pp., 6 plates by E. Boyd Smith (including frontispiece). 8vo, olive green gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding moderately worn and with a few small stains, minor stains on a few pages (mostly confined to blank margins), generally very good. First edition. Dobie, p. 95. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Smith 22). Erisman & Etulain, p. 15: “About half of the novel deals with cowboy and ranching materials, about half with courtship and social sorties that would not have embarrassed Sir Walter Scott.” Hudson, Andy Adams, pp. 117, 260: “Contains much that is valuable: an insight into how a pioneer rancher felt about the land, sketches of the work, customs, and amusements of people of the country where American ranching began, and some excellent campfire tales.” Rader 38. Smith 36. Set mostly in southern Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, this is the second novel in the author’s cattle trilogy. One of the characters, Frank Byler, was J. Frank Dobie’s maternal uncle. “[Adams] made lasting friendships with Frank Byler, Jr., J. Frank Dobie’s uncle, and Charles Siringo.”—Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, p. 5. $50.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

28. ADAMS, Andy. “Western Interpreters” in Southwest Review 10:1 (October 1924). Pp. 70-74. 8vo, original rose printed wrappers. Spine faded, fragile wraps chipped and torn, light foxing to fore-edges, paper uniformly age- toned, overall very good. First printing. Hudson, Andy Adams, pp. 203: “Andy was induced by Dobie and Webb to write an article for the Southwest Review.... [It is] his sole critical essay.” Adams declares that “The Cattle industry was a primal factor in winning the West and has proved to be an inviting field for pen and pencil. Yet when reduced to a last analysis,...as transcripts of life, the books about it reveal few values. The primal, high notes have been overlooked, and its mole hills have been magnified into mountains.” $20.00

29. ADAMS, Andy. Why the Chisholm Trail Forks and Other Tales of the Cattle Country. Edited by Wilson M. Hudson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1956. xxxi [1] 296 pp., text illustrations by Malcolm Thurgood. 8vo, original maize cloth. Binding slightly bumped, otherwise fine in fine d.j. with photographic illustration of author. First edition. Hudson, Andy Adams, p. 262: “Fifty-one campfire tales brought together from Andy’s books, a magazine story, and an unpublished MS.” Tate, Indians of Texas 3723 (citing “A Comanche Fight in the Tallow Cache Hills”): “Texas Rangers intercept a Comanche raiding party with its stolen horses. The Rangers...engage the Comanches and find the fresh scalps of settlers.” $50.00

30. ADAMS, Andy. Why the Chisholm Trail Forks.... Austin: University of Texas Press, 1956. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Back cover slightly rubbed, otherwise fine. $40.00

31. [ADAMS, ANDY]. FRANK, Seymour J. “Andy Adams: The Cowboys’ Boswell” in The Westerners Brand Book [Chicago Corral] 6:8 (October 1949). Pp. [57]-64. 4to, original white printed self-wrappers. Creased at center where formerly folded, else fine. First printing. This issue of the newsletter is almost entirely devoted to Seymour’s article. $10.00

32. [ADAMS, ANDY]. HUDSON, Wilson M. Andy Adams: His Life and Writings. Dallas: [Designed by William D. Wittliff for] Southern Methodist University Press, 1964. xv [1] 274 pp., photographic plates, decorated endpapers. 8vo, original Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) half pale yellow linen over brown cloth. Fine in near fine d.j. First edition. Guns 1060. Smith S2694. Whaley, Wittliff 4: “Reviews Adams’ experiences in the later days of the open range and trail, discusses the sources and literary value of his novels and stories, and recounts his friendship with southwestern literary lights.” $35.00

33. ADAMS, C. F. Forty Years a Fool: Facts, Figures and Fun. Sonora: Published by the Author, [1914]. [2] 100 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations by Ruskin Callan. 12mo, original salmon printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wrappers, mild offsetting to frontispiece and title, otherwise fine. First edition. Rader 40. Blurb above cover title: “400 Laughs, 4-Bits, The Best Cure on the American Continent for the Blues.” Adams was born in 1857 on a Comanche reservation at Camp Cooper, Texas, where his father was a Texas Ranger. A humorous account of early life in Coleman, Sonora, and Comanche County, including the author’s ventures in sheep and cattle operations in southwest Texas and the Devil’s River area. Adams also organized a Wild West Show at the St. Louis Fair in 1904. $50.00

34. ADAMS, Emma H. To and Fro in Southern California with Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico. Cincinnati: W.M.B.C. Press, 1887. 288 pp. 12mo, original brown gilt-pictorial cloth. Light discoloration to upper cover and fore-edges, minor stain on lower cover, mild edge wear, otherwise fine and tight. Contemporary ownership inscription. First edition. Munk (Alliot), p. 17. Rocq 2761. Smith 39n. A Victorian lady reporter’s letters to Eastern journals from Southern California, New Mexico, and Arizona in 1884 and 1886. The author visited several ranches in the Los Angeles area and gives historical and economic information about them. $125.00

35. ADAMS, L. I., Jr. Time and Shadows. [Waco: Davis Brothers Publishing Co., 1971]. ix [3] 297 pp., plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original orange cloth. Fine in lightly chipped and dusty d.j. First edition. A history of Jefferson County, Texas, with a section on the Labelle Cattle Trail and early ranching on Cow Bayou where some of the first cross- breeding to improve domestic livestock occurred in Texas. Excellent on early oil ventures in Jefferson County, including documentary photographs. $60.00

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36. ADAMS, Ramon F. Burs under the Saddle: A Second Look at Books and Histories of the West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1964]. x [2] 610 [2] pp. 8vo, original brown buckram. Tape stains to pastedowns and flyleaves, otherwise very fine in d.j. First edition. Basic Texas Books B4. Greene, The Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 46n: “[Points] out the errors, inconsistencies, and deliberate lies to be found in hundreds of western titles.... Ramon Adams was a dedicated man whose life will reward scholars for at least another hundred years, but he could be unforgiving. In reviewing Burs Under the Saddle, which, as noted, is about errors in other books, I pointed out a couple or so mistakes in Ramon’s book. It took nearly ten years for him to speak to me again.... I’m happy to say, he lived long enough to forgive me. Incidentally, Ramon Adams, so identified with cowboys and outlaws, came to Texas originally to play violin in a Dallas theater orchestra. When he injured his hand and stopped playing, he made his living as a candymaker, even after some of his most important books came out.” Guns 7: “A critical analysis of 424 books and pamphlets dealing with western outlaws and an attempt to correct some of the incorrect history which has been written about them for many years.” $125.00

37. ADAMS, Ramon F. Come an’ Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1952]. xi [1] 170 [1] pp., text illustrations in sepia tone by Nick Eggenhofer. 8vo, original half brown cloth over terracotta cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Campbell, pp. 102-103, 133: “Tall tales, true stories and range recipes. More than grand reading, this book perpetuates the memory of a vanished craftsman.” Dobie, p. 95: “Informal exposition of chuck wagon cooks.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 15). Herd 12: “The first and only book devoted to this unique and interesting character.” $75.00

38. ADAMS, Ramon F. Come an’ Get It.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1952]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. $60.00

39. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Cowboy and His Humor. Austin: Encino Press, 1968. [6] 71 [2] pp., illustrations by Remington. 8vo, original tan pictorial boards. Very fine in original glassine d.j. Autographed by author. First edition, limited edition (#734 of 850 signed copies). Designed by William D. Wittliff. Dykes, Fifty Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Great Western Illustrators (Remington 366). Whaley, Wittliff 37: “The second volume of Adams’ trilogy on the American Cowboy.” $75.00

40. ADAMS, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1936. x, 257 pp., illustrations by Eggenhofer, brands. 8vo, original ecru cloth. A few tiny spots to binding, endsheets mildly browned, otherwise fine in d.j. with slight wear. Author’s signed presentation inscription: “To Harry Stewart with all good wishes from one lover of the cowboy to another. Cordially yours Ramon F. Adams.” First edition. Campbell, p. 144: “A beautiful piece of sympathetic interpretation, authentic recording, and lively style. Scholarly, but utterly without pedantry. All this author’s books are fresh and readable. This is not a dictionary but takes up in several chapters several phases of the apt and lusty speech of men on the Western ranges.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 2. Dobie, p. 9. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #15. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 14); Western High Spots, p. 83 (“A Range Man’s Library”); p.103 (“The Texas Ranch Today”). Guns 8. Herd 13: “Scarce.... The first book devoted entirely to the language of the cowman.” Rader 48. Reese, Six Score 3. Saunders 3788. $150.00

41. ADAMS, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1936. Another copy. Endsheets lightly browned, else very fine in d.j. with slight wear. Signed by author. $125.00

42. ADAMS, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1936. Another copy. Faint browning to endsheets, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. $100.00

43. ADAMS, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1936. Another copy. Slight discoloration to covers, small bookdealer’s label on front pastedown, overall fine, without the d.j. $65.00

44. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Cowman and His Code of Ethics. Austin: Encino Press, 1969. [6] 33 [2] pp., illustrated title by R. C. Collins, text illustrations by Remington. 8vo, original maroon pictorial boards with Collins Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustration. Very fine, partly unopened, in publisher’s glassine d.j.. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#456 of 850 copies). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 367). Whaley, Wittliff 46: “The final volume of Adams’ trilogy on the American Cowboy.” From the introduction: “Back in the days when the cowman with his herds made a new frontier, there was no law on the range. Lack of written law made it necessary for him to frame some of his own, thus developing a rule of behavior which became known as the ‘Code of the West.’ These homespun laws, being merely a gentleman’s agreement to certain rules of conduct for survival, were never written into the statutes but were respected everywhere on the range.” $65.00

45. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Cowman and His Philosophy. Austin: Encino Press, 1967. [6] 51 [2] pp., title illustration (portrait) by William D. Wittliff. 8vo, original black cloth over ivory pictorial boards illustrated by Wittliff. Very fine in publisher’s glassine d.j. With Wittliff’s original signed pen and ink drawing of an old-timer on colophon, with his ink inscription: “One of the ‘philosophers’—with much liking for Joe & Lucy Winston from their friend Bill Wittliff 1967.” Signed by Adams. First edition, limited edition (#78 of 750 copies). Whaley, Wittliff 24: “The first volume of Adams’ trilogy on the American Cowboy.” $250.00

46. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Cowman and His Philosophy. Austin: Encino Press, 1967. Another copy. Very fine in original glassine d.j., signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#453 of 750 copies). $75.00

47. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Cowman Says It Salty. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1971]. xv [3] 163 pp., illustrated by Vic Donahue. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. Signed by author. First edition. $35.00

48. ADAMS, Ramon F. “A Cowman’s Philosophy” in The American West 2:4 (Fall 1965). Pp. 47-49, 95. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First printing. $5.00

49. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Horse Wrangler and His Remuda. Austin: Encino Press, 1971. [4] 51 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations, photographic Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) endpapers. 8vo, original brown boards with illustrated label on upper cover. Very fine in publisher’s original glassine d.j. Signed by author. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. First edition, limited edition (#787 of 850 copies). Designed by William D. Wittliff. Whaley, Wittliff 73. From the introduction: “The horse wrangler has never stood very high in a cow camp. Even though he was an important cog in cow work, he has never gotten credit for being more than a chambermaid to the cook. For one reason, he was usually a kid wanting to be a cowboy, and wrangling was the first step in his education.” $75.00

50. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Horse Wrangler and His Remuda. Austin: Encino Press, 1971. Another copy. Very fine, signed by author. Limited edition (#737 of 850 copies). $65.00

51. [ADAMS, Ramon F.]. The Legendary West: An Exhibit by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. [Dallas]: Dallas Public Library, 1965. [8] 47 [7] pp., photographs, illustrations. 8vo, original multicolor decorated wrappers, stapled. Tear at staple on spine, scratch on front wrapper, otherwise fine. First edition. Guns 11. Catalogue by Ramon Adams. The exhibit included items about Belle Starr, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, and Calamity Jane, as well as classic and important books on the cattle trade. $20.00

52. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Old-Time Cowhand. New York: Macmillan Company, 1961. [2] x, 354 pp., illustrated by Eggenhofer. 8vo, original maize pictorial buckram. Very fine in publisher’s slipcase. First edition, limited edition (#326 of 350 copies, signed by Adams and Eggenhofer). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 18). Guns 12: “Has a chapter on cattle rustlers and one on outlaws.” Mohr, The Range Country 619: “The cowboy in fact and fiction; encyclopedic labor of love.” Smith S2519. $250.00

53. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Old-Time Cowhand. New York: Macmillan Company, 1961. x, 354 pp., illustrated by Eggenhofer. 8vo, original sienna cloth. Very fine in d.j. First trade edition. $50.00

54. ADAMS, Ramon F. The Rampaging Herd: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1959]. xix [1] 463 [1] pp., facsimiles. 8vo, original green cloth. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Front hinge cracked, otherwise very fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. Basic Texas Books B2: “Comprehensive checklist of 2,651 works on the cattle industry, with some critical commentary.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Beeler 28); Western High Spots, pp. 77, 86 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Mohr, The Range Country 615: “The only full bibliography on the subject, and indispensable.” Reese, Six Score 4. Wallace, Arizona History 67. $125.00

55. ADAMS, Ramon F. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1954]. xiii [1] 426 [2] pp. 8vo, original green cloth. Spine sunned, else very fine in d.j. with slight wear and foxing. Signed by author. Many pages of Dudley R. Dobie’s related handwritten notes laid in. First edition. Campbell, p. 68. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 7 (“Collecting Modern Western Americana”): “First comprehensive bibliography of western gunmen and outlaws. It would be the cornerstone on which to build a collection.” Greene, The Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 46: “I think Six-Guns is the best [of Ramon Adams’s books] because it more nearly approaches literature through its subject. After all, detailing the lives and crimes of Southwestern outlaws is a literary contribution in itself; Six-Guns can be read for sheer enjoyment of itself.... After you read Six-Guns...you can feel rather secure in your understanding of the frontier gunman.” Paher, Nevada 6. Wallace, Arizona History 58. The first edition contains 1,132 annotated entries. $150.00

56. ADAMS, Ramon F. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1954]. Another copy. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. Signed by author. $150.00

57. ADAMS, Ramon F. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather. [Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969]. xxv [1] 808 [2] pp. 8vo, original brown cloth. Fore-edges foxed, otherwise fine in fine d.j. Author’s signed presentation copy: “To E. R. Wyatt, with all good wishes. May this help you in your collecting.” Second edition, “revised and greatly enlarged.” Basic Texas Books B3: “Contains 2,491 entries; well-annotated.” Paher, Nevada 6. $110.00

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58. ADAMS, Ramon F. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather.... [Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969]. Another copy. Fine in slightly worn d.j. $100.00

59. ADAMS, Ramon F., Homer E. Britzman, & Karl Yost. Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist: A Biography [and vol. 2]: ...A Bibliography. Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1948]. xii [4] 335 [1] + 218 [2] pp., color plates, many text illustrations, photographs, facsimiles, illustrated endpapers. 2 vols., 8vo, original textured black cloth (to simulate the look of levant morocco) over black cloth. Very fine in original glassine d.j.’s (tattered) and publisher’s slipcase. With the suite of 12 extra color plates (usually lacking). First edition, limited edition, “Collector’s edition” (600 sets), cloth issue. Campbell, p. 51: “A virile biography fitting its subject.... A handsome collector’s item.” Dobie, p. 117. Guns 14. Herd 16. Yost & Renner, Russell I:57-58. $300.00

60. ADAMS, Ramon F. & Homer E. Britzman. Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist: A Biography. Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1948]. xii [4] 350 pp., color plates, many text illustrations, photographs, facsimiles, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Signed by Britzman. First edition, trade issue. Smith 47. Yost & Renner, Russell I:57. This trade issue contains a 12-page bibliographical checklist of Russell’s major works that was not printed in the “Collector’s edition” (see preceding entry). $150.00

61. ADAMS, Ramon F. & Homer E. Britzman. Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist: A Biography. Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1948]. Another copy. Fine in d.j. with a few small chips and tears. $100.00

62. ADAMS, Ramon F. & Homer E. Britzman. Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist: A Biography. Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1948]. Another copy. Considerable insect damage to binding, internally fine. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. $60.00

63. ADAMS, Ramon F. (ed.). The Best of the American Cowboy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1957]. xiv, 289 pp., illustrations by Eggenhofer. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. with light wear and a few minor Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) stains (d.j. chafed along lower edge). Bookplate of W. J. Holliday, Jr. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 17); Western High Spots, p. 85 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Guns 13: “Has a chapter on Elfego Baca and some material on Jim Averill and Cattle Kate.” Herd 15: “Anthology of selections from some of the rarer books about cattle.” $55.00

64. ADAMS, Ramon F. (ed.). The Best of the American Cowboy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1957]. Another copy. A few minor stains to binding and fore-edges, else fine, without the d.j. $25.00

65. ADAMS, W. H. Original holograph manuscript autobiography in pencil. 44-1/4 pp., 4to, ruled paper. February 28, 1937. Except for occasional smudges, fine and legible. Adams (b. 1866) was roping and riding by the age of twelve, and at sixteen was already a good cowhand. He describes rounding up wild and outlaw horses for $3 to $5 a head and gives detailed instructions on the method that he used. He tells of trail drives, such as one made when he was nineteen years old, driving 2,000 longhorn steers from New Braunfels, Texas, to Dodge City; rounding up wild hogs to cure and sell in order to buy a fancy saddle, boots, pistol and rifles; etc. We obtained this manuscript from Fred White, Sr., who wrote this excellent note: “Former New Braunfels’ sheriff’s memoirs, written in 1937 when he was in his 70s, detailing his life, not as a lawman but as a trail driver and stockman. He was sheriff 12 years, ending in early 20s. Born on a ranch near NB. The only sheriff tale told was the apprehension of a horse thief. The handwriting is outstanding. It is completely legible with few grammatical errors.... Two of the pages list trailers from the NB-San Marcos area. Unpublished as far as I know.” $600.00

66. ADAMSON, Archibald R. North Platte and Its Associations. North Platte, Nebraska: The Evening Telegraph, n.d. [1910]. [1, dedication] vi, 241 [3] pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (photographic, primarily portraits and architecture). 12mo, original blue cloth. Moderate shelf wear (spine and corners lightly frayed), some discoloration and a few minor stains to binding, overall a very good copy, with ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Graff 19: “Contains local information on the building of the Union Pacific Railroad and on Indian troubles in eastern Nebraska.” Herd 18: “Scarce. Contains some cattle material of that section and gives a short biographical sketch of John Bratt, a well-known early-day cattleman.” History of North Platte, Nebraska, with a few biographical sketches. Short section on cattle raising, along with accounts of Buffalo Bill Cody working as a guide for Duke Alexis on a buffalo hunt, other accounts of buffalo hunting, and rustling of horses by Native Americans. $250.00

67. AGATHA, Sister M. Texas Prose Writings: A Reader’s Digest. Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Company, [1936]. xx [2] 168 pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fine in lightly worn and stained d.j. First edition. Basic Texas Books 6: “An intriguing and perceptive guide to Texas prose, both fiction and non- fiction.” Dobie, p. 25. Includes a chapter on “Cowboy Experiences and Settlers’ Reminiscences.” Agatha writes: “It was after annexation and comparative peace that Texas began to enjoy the ranger and cowboy stories. The easy, friendly, give-and-take style of the man who rode wild horses and punched cattle was a distinct advance, in a literary sense, over the rotund, oratorical expression of many of the ambitious writers of the preceding periods. The fact, too, that the cowboy had no ‘axe to grind’ gave him an advantage. He had nothing to sell and no one to convert.” $45.00

68. AGEE, Fred B. (comp.). Photocopy of: History of Cochetopa National Forest. Salida, Colorado: [The Salida Mail, 1924]. 46 pp. 8vo, photocopy, stapled. Fine. The original edition is rare (3 locations in OCLC: Princeton, Texas A&M, and Denver Public; RLIN reports only the Princeton copy); we trace no copies on the market for the past several decades. Herd 20n: “Chapters on cattle and grazing in the national forest.” Includes a section on grazing cattle in the early 1870s. Wynar 3197n. $10.00

69. AIKEN, Riley. Mexican Folktales from the Borderland. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, [1980]. xv [1] 159 pp., text decorations by Dennis Zamora. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. Presentation card laid in. First edition. Half-title states: “From the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society.” Aiken was born on the Texas-Mexican border and grew up on the Los Alamos Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Cesaria rancho; many of the stories are set against this backdrop. $15.00

70. AIKMAN, Duncan. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1927]. xii, 347 pp., photographic frontispiece of Calamity Jane, plates. 8vo, original black cloth. Binding slightly discolored, foxed adjacent to plates (affecting title). Laid in is a copy of the facsimile of Life and Adventures. Calamity Jane by Herself. First edition. Adams, Burs I:3: “Deals with Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Cattle Kate, Pearl Hart, Poker Alice, and other female characters of the early West. It is better written than some of its predecessors.” Dobie, p. 139. Guns 19. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 116. Smith 64. $30.00

71. AIKMAN, Duncan. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1927]. xii, 347 pp., photographic frontispiece of Calamity Jane, plates. 8vo, original black cloth. Moderate discoloration to binding, front hinge loose, unobtrusive embossed ownership stamp on title, slight foxing adjacent to plates. Carl Hertzog’s copy, signed by him, with his bookplate, and pencil note on title verso: “Duncan Aikman once was a writer on the El Paso Times.” First edition, second printing. $20.00

72. AIKMAN, Duncan. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1927]. Another copy. Front hinge cracked, foxing adjacent to plates (affecting title), otherwise very good. $10.00

73. AIKMAN, Duncan. (ed.). The Taming of the Frontier. New York: Minton, Balch, and Company, 1925. xv [1] 319 pp., photographic frontispiece, 9 plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine. First edition. Flake 35. Guns 20: “One chapter tells the story of El Paso, Texas, in its six-gun days, and another, on Cheyenne, Wyoming, tells something of the Johnson County War.” Herd 21. Smith 66. $20.00

74. AINSWORTH, Ed. Eagles Fly West. New York: Macmillan Company, 1947. [8] 447 pp. 8vo, original grey buckram. Slight foxing to endsheets, text uniformly browned, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. With author’s signed presentation inscription: “For J. Frank Dobie, a fellow Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Texan, for whom I have always had the greatest admiration. Sincerely, Ed Ainsworth.” First edition, third printing. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 5. Not in Garrett, Mexican-American War. Novel about a New York newspaperman who goes to California to fight in the Mexican-American War and stays on as a rancher. The d.j. illustration by Clyde Forsythe was painted at the Magee Ranch near Pala, California. $15.00

75. AKEN, David. Pioneers of the Black Hills; or, Gordon’s Stockade Party of 1874: A Thrilling Narrative of Adventure, Hardships, Laughable Episodes and Startling Experiences, As Graphically told by David Aken, One of the Party [wrapper title]. Milwaukee, n.d. (ca. 1920). 151 pp. (including photographic frontispiece of the party), text-illustrations from line drawings. 12mo, original beige pictorial wrappers, stapled. Corrosion stains from staples, otherwise very fine. First edition. Graff 26: “Although the Federal government had denied civilians access to the gold fields discovered in the Black Hills by Custer’s command in 1874, Charles Collins, editor of the Sioux City Times, organized a party of twenty-eight adventurers to prospect. They established Gordon’s Stockade on French Creek. It was disbanded by Federal troops in 1875.” Howes A93. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 96: “Important to the collector for it describes the efforts of the first group of private citizens to make the Hills their home.” Jones 1737. The author gives a homespun firsthand account of his party’s overland journey and the tenuous settlement of their “ranch” (i.e., stockade), which subsequently became the first town (Custer City) in the Black Hills. The emphasis of the book is the party’s overland journey and mining, but we include this volume because it gives the background on the first town (Custer City) settled in the Black Hills ranching country. $100.00

76. ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Life on a Ranch: Ranch Notes in Kansas, Colorado, the Indian Territory, and Northern Texas. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884. vi [2] 227 [1] [4, ads] pp., engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates. 12mo, original stiff terracotta decorated wrappers. Fragile wraps moderately worn and with a few minor chips and stains, outer blank margin of frontispiece water stained, overall a very good copy of a scarce book “seldom seen in original wrappers” (Herd). First American edition (Adams lists the American edition first, and Merrill cites the British edition; Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) apparently, there is no priority). Athearn, Westward the Briton, p. 187: “In his introduction, the author pointed out that since there were so many young men turning their attention to stock raising in the Far West at that time, he decided to jot down the experiences of one who tried his hand at it. In 1877 he was out of a job, and influenced by the writings of ‘St. Kames’ [Samuel Nugent Townshend] in Field, he decided to try his luck in the American West.” Braislin Sale 26: “Contains the only account we have of the outbreak of 150 Cheyenne Indians in 1878 from their reservation in the Cherokee Strip.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 4. Dobie, p. 95: “Aldridge, an educated Englishman, got into the cattle business before, in the late eighties, it boomed itself flat.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 13. Eberstadt 103:1. Graff 30. Herd 23: “One of the standard books on cattle. The author was a partner of Benjamin S. Miller in the ranching business in the states and territories mentioned.” Howes A110. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 15 (listing the British edition; see next entry). Rader 83. Wynar 6389. $1,250.00

77. ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Ranch Notes in Kansas, Colorado, the Indian Territory and Northern Texas. London: Longman, Green and Co., 1884. [8] 227 [1] [4, ads] 12 (ads) pp., engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates. 12mo, original navy blue gilt-pictorial cloth. Slightly shelf-slanted, binding a bit dark and with a few stains and bumps, frontispiece darkened, front hinge cracked, first few leaves foxed. First British edition. $500.00

78. ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Ranch Notes in Kansas, Colorado, the Indian Territory and Northern Texas. London: Longman, Green and Co., 1884. Another copy. 12mo, rebound in navy blue buckram (frontispiece reversed when rebound). Occasional mild to moderate foxing (primarily confined to first few leaves), old tape repair to frontispiece (not affecting image), generally very good, text cleaner than usually found. Charles Nordhoff’s copy with his ink stamp and signature on title. Nordhoff (1830-1901), Prussian-born journalist and author, wrote books on California that stimulated much settlement (see Hart, Companion to California). $400.00

79. ALFORD, Sara C. Thrills on a Texas Ranch. San Antonio: Naylor, 1938. [6] 263 pp. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Slight stain to upper joint, else fine in d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Novel set on a ranch between Devil’s River and the Rio Grande in 1880. Two young women freshly graduated from Vassar return to the family ranch and dress in male attire for more fun, freedom, and adventure. $65.00

80. ALLARD, William Albert. Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1982]. 144 pp., profusely illustrated with color photographs by Allard. Large oblong 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Foreword by Thomas McGuane. Superb photographs of working cowboys, rodeo, and ranch life, including Canada, the American West, and Mexico. Includes Native Americans and unusual human interest subjects, such as rodeo queens applying Vaseline to their teeth before a beauty contest. $100.00

81. ALLDREDGE, Eugene Perry. Cowboys and Coyotes. [Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1945]. 184 pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Covers discolored, text uniformly age-toned, generally good to very good in the scarce d.j. (slightly worn). With J. Frank Dobie’s signed inscription: “Fair narratives, but they do not illuminate wolf nature or any other form of nature except the dog’s (in last chapter)...Dec. 29/46.” First edition. Guns 22. Herd 27. A minister’s recollections of life in West Texas and New Mexico, including: “The Cowboy’s Prayer,” “Putting Wolves Out of Business,” “Lost on the Trackless Prairie,” “Last of the Longhorns,” “Tiger, the Outlaw Horse,” and “The Soul of a Cattleman.” $65.00

82. ALLDREDGE, Eugene Perry. Cowboys and Coyotes. [Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1945]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. $60.00

83. ALLEN, John Houghton. The Poetry of John Houghton Allen. N.p.: Privately printed, 1944. [8] 78 pp. Small 4to, original terracotta cloth, printed paper label on upper cover. Upper cover slightly warped and with a few minor stains, a few pages creased (original flaw from printing or binding), generally very good, mostly unopened. First edition, limited edition (350 copies, stated as signed, this copy unsigned). Anderson, Southwestern American Literature, p. 173. Allen was born in Austin in 1909 into a family with 60,000 acres of ranch land. After college (including studying art in Paris), he returned to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) the ranch in Texas where he rode in rodeos, became a professional polo player, and built a large house at Randado. This collection includes several poems with western and range themes. $50.00

84. ALLEN, John Houghton. San Juan. [San Antonio: Privately printed, 1945]. [6] 53 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait by the author, 8 illustrations by Bugbee. 8vo, original stiff brown wrappers with printed label on upper wrapper. Old tape repair to spine, mild discoloration to upper cover, internally fine. Bugbee’s signed presentation copy “To Carl Hertzog with best wishes.” Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition, limited edition (420 copies). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 5). Herd 28. A finely printed, powerful amalgam of drama, poetry, and prose narrated from the perspective of an old vaquero from the South Texas country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. “We were vaqueros, herdsmen, señor. Our eyes were bloodshot from the dust.... We were kept in the rain and under the stars year round, paid four bits a day to break our bones and kill good horses, and discarded like an old saddle blanket when our service was done. We worked in the brush, in country that you couldn’t get ‘white’ men into, and our bodies rotted in thickets sometimes where we died” (pp. 3-4). $100.00

85. ALLEN, John Houghton. San Juan. [San Antonio: Privately printed, 1945]. Another copy. Wrappers delaminating along spine (but not splitting), otherwise a very fine copy. $75.00

86. ALLEN, John Houghton. Southwest. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1952]. 220 pp., frontispiece and text illustrations by Paul Laune. 8vo, original maize pictorial cloth. A few minor spots on binding, else fine. First edition, special advance presentation copy (#26, signed by author). Campbell, p. 153. Dobie, p. 95. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #82: “Vivid writing about the vaqueros and their work in the brush.” Greene, The Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 11: “John Houghton Allen...writes more like a nobleman than a rancher. The short stories (or pieces) in Southwest are subtly tinged with that air of privilege, of being birth-appointed to a role in history that may be tragic, but was necessary. That’s not the tone one expects to find in Texas ranch tales. His gentlemen ranchers (and their spoiled sons) are as devoted to horses as to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) wives.... The Mexican ranch hands and their folklore go back to Spanish times, and privilege comes naturally—an inheritance passed along by the Spanish ranchers who settled the kingdom of the Rio Grande in the eighteenth century to the dynastic Anglos who superseded them.... A fascinating, unusual book about Texas that isn’t duplicated by any other writer.” Herd 29. $150.00

87. ALLEN, John Houghton. Southwest. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1952]. 220 pp., frontispiece and illustrations by Paul Laune. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Very fine in very good d.j. First edition, trade issue. $30.00

88. ALLEN, J[ohn] Taylor. Early Pioneer Days in Texas. [Dallas: Privately printed, 1918]. [6] [2, errata] 267 pp., photographic portraits of pioneers. 12mo, original stiff grey printed wrappers. Light ex-library, with ink stamp and ink notes of a private club in Houston on front free endpaper. Fore-edges lightly discolored, otherwise fine. First edition. Campbell, p.170. Herd 30: “A chapter on cowboy life.” Rader 107. In his chapter “Ten Years a Cowboy in the Wild West,” Allen (b. 1840, Honey Grove, Texas) vividly relates his early experiences riding the range, rounding up cattle, and driving herds over the Chisholm Trail. The book includes much excellent material on Texas Indians, social history, and firsthand narratives by pioneer women. At the end is selected poetry of the pioneers, including the author’s “The Dying Cowboy” (“Oh bury me not on the lone prairie....”). $150.00

89. ALLEN, Jules Verne. Cowboy Lore. San Antonio: Naylor, 1933. xiii [3] 165 [1] [8, ads] pp., frontispiece portrait of author, illustrations by Ralph Pereida, brands, printed music. 8vo, original fuchsia gilt-pictorial cloth. Spine and upper edge of binding sunned, light foxing to fore- edges and adjacent to frontispiece, generally very good, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#180 of 200 copies, signed by author). Dykes, Kid 186. Herd 31. Rader 108: “Songs of the range, with music; cowboy dictionary, provincialism of the Southwest.” Saunders 3792. $75.00

90. ALLEN, Jules Verne. Cowboy Lore. San Antonio: Naylor Printing Company, 1933. xiii [3] 165 [1] [8, ads] pp., frontispiece portrait of author, illustrations by Ralph Pereida, brands, printed music. 8vo, original printed Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) pictorial wrappers with border of brands. Light wear and staining to wraps, uniformly browned (due to acidic paper). First edition, third printing. $15.00

91. ALLEN, Ruth. Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas. Austin: University of Texas, Publication No. 4143, November 15, 1941. 258 pp. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Moderate marginal foxing to upper wrap, else fine. First printing. Winegarten I, p. 121: “Pioneer study of labor in the Southwest.” Account of the Cowboy Strike of 1883 (“the first and only cowboy strike”) on pp. 33-42. The author’s The Great Southwest Strike (pub. no. 4214) is in Adams, Guns (24). $60.00

92. ALLEN, William A. Adventures with Indians and Game; or, Twenty Years in the Rocky Mountains. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1903. 302 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (3 by Russell, others mostly photographic). 8vo, original three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Spine detached, fragile leather on binding rubbed, interior fine. First edition. Guns 26: “Scarce.... In relating a story about Calamity Jane and the killing of Wild Bill Hickok, the author quotes Buffalo Bill, who tells a most preposterous tale.” Graff 44: “The author, known to his friends as ‘Montana Allen,’ tells some wild and possible tales of pioneer life in the West.” Howes A165. Yost & Renner, Russell I:16. This sporting book includes material on Custer and a chapter on Native American horse racing and equestrian practices. $150.00

93. ALLEN, Winnie & Corrie Allen (eds.). Pioneering in Texas: True Stories of the Early Days. Dallas: Southern Publishing Company, [1935]. [6] 290 pp., text illustrations. 12mo, original turquoise pictorial cloth. A few notations to “Texas Book Label” endpapers, else fine. First edition. Campbell, pp. 170-71. Rader 114. Texas textbook with chapters “An English Cowboy in Texas” (J. M. Pollock in the Panhandle), “Nesters and Sheepmen” (also Pollock), and “The SMS Kid Grows Up.” $15.00

94. ALLHANDS, J. L. Gringo Builders. N.p.: Privately printed, [1931]. 283 [14] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Herd 39: “Scarce.... Contains a chapter on Texas ranches and other cattle material.” Howes A172. Rader 117. Chronicle of opening the Lower Rio Grande Valley through railroad construction, the reconnaissance of which Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) began at the King Ranch headquarters. With thousands of cattle to ship north every year, the King Estate was vitally interested in the railroad outlet, and Henrietta M. King donated a liberal land grant for the project. Includes a chapter on women pioneers entitled “The Madonna of the Rails.” $125.00

95. ALLISON, Pauline. The History of Eaton, Colorado. [Eaton: Eaton Herald, 1963]. [4] 206 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. Fine, with small inkstamp on front flyleaf “Published by the Eaton Herald, Eaton, Colorado 1942,” and signed by author. Second book edition (first issued serially in the Eaton Herald 1937-42, and first published in book form in 1942). Wilcox, p. 7. Wynar 1440. Eaton was founded north of Denver in Weld County in the early 1880s by early Colorado governor Benjamin J. Eaton, a proponent of irrigated agriculture. This work of mostly municipal history includes biographies of early pioneers, several involved in ranching, an account of how fencing helped push back the “cattle menace,” and sections on the blizzard of 1883 and the Wyatt brothers, a local ranching clan. $20.00

96. ALLRED, B. W. Problems and Opportunities on U.S. Grass Lands. Kansas City, Missouri: American Hereford Journal, 1964. 4 pp., photographs. 4to, leaflet. Fine. First separate issue, offprint from the January 1, 1964, issue. The beef cattle industry advocates Green Revolution techniques for controlling the woody-brush invasion of native grasslands in the Southwest while also maintaining some wildlife and game habitat. Methods implemented at Flat Top Ranch, Walnut Springs, Texas, are cited for their effectiveness. $25.00

97. ALMIRALL, Leon V. Canines and Coyotes. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1941. 150 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original beige buckram. Very fine in lightly chipped d.j. With author’s signed presentation inscription (on paper slip pasted to front free endpaper with scotch tape) to author “William MacLeod Raine (Bill to me), my friend and one of those real Old Timers, who made that Western idiom: ‘A man to ride the river with,’ famous. Sincerely Leon V. Almirall.” First edition. Smith 156. A book-length description of the ranch sport, “running dogs.” From d.j. blurb: “Almost all ranchers owned a large or small pack of these hounds and used every excuse to let them follow their horses as they pursued their ranch duties.” $60.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

98. ALMIRALL, Leon V. Canines and Coyotes. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1941. Another copy. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. Author’s signed inscription “To Walter Wasson, M.D. a friend of long standing. Sincerely yours Leon V. Almirall.” $55.00

99. ALMIRALL, Leon V. From College to Cow Country. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1956. 471 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 77 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “Some pertinent remarks...on ranching at the nine-thousand-foot level.” Herd 40. Wynar 1018, 6390. An account of the author’s life as he left the east coast and his law profession to become a cowboy and then a cattleman in Colorado and New Mexico at the turn of the nineteenth century. $75.00

100. ALTER, J. Cecil. Utah, the Storied Domain: A Documentary History of Utah’s Eventful Career, Comprising the Thrilling Story of Her People from the Indians of Yesterday to the Industrialists of Today. Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1932. xxxv [1] 509 + 589 + 581 pp., frontispiece portraits, plates (mostly photographic, many portraits), text illustrations, maps. 3 vols., large 8vo, original maroon textured cloth, marbled edges. Very fine set. First edition. This good, solid history of Utah by respected scholar Alter contains material on cattle and sheep raising, cattle drives, early ranches, branding, ranges, Native American depredations against stock, and the Church’s admonition to early incoming Mormon pioneers to bring their best stock to Utah. The work is filled with biographies of noteworthy men and women of Utah, many of whom were involved in ranching enterprises. Among the most interesting is Frank W. Jennings, whose far-flung business ventures included stockraising, breeding thoroughbred cattle that he then grazed on public ranges, establishment of the first tannery in Utah, fabrication of saddles and boots, and the purchase of Brigham Young’s Deseret Wooden Mills. $300.00

101. ALTROCCHI, Julia Cooley. The Old California Trail: Traces in Folklore and Furrow. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1945. 327 pp., frontispiece, plates from photographs by the author, endpaper maps. 8vo, original light blue cloth. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Light shelf wear, otherwise fine in two lightly chipped d.j.’s. First edition. Guns 28. Herd 41: “Chapter on cowboys and Nevada ranches.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 11: “Many quotations from the diaries and chronicles of the covered- wagon people, especially Thornton and other members of the Donner Party. Locations of many obscure markers and graves.” Paher, Nevada 14: “Competent as a field and library researcher, the author presents an interesting history of the California Trail which followed the Humboldt River across northern Nevada. It carried more traffic during the early western settlement than the Santa Fe and the Oregon trails combined.” Smith 163. $50.00

102. ALVAREZ DEL VILLAR, José. Men and Horses of Mexico: History and Practice of “Charrería.” [Mexico City]: Ediciones Lara, n.d. (ca. 1980; copyright 1979). 115 pp., numerous plates, text illustrations (many photographic). 16mo, original pictorial wrappers. Small abrasion on upper cover where price tag removed, otherwise fine. First edition in English (first edition Mexico, 1980, entitled Hombres y caballos de México: Historia y práctica de la Charrería). From the prologue: “The following brief narrative, having as its hero the Mexican charro (cowboy, or Western rider), is intended to impart to the reader a deeper knowledge of the many sporting features of the ‘faenas’ (ranch work undertaken on horseback) that the charro performs with broncos and young bulls alike, both in city and ranch.” Filled with interesting history, such as the first saddle maker in Mexico (1530) and the first horse breeders in Mexico (1529). Wonderful illustrations, including some from codices and historical prints. Translated by Margaret Fischer de Nicolin. $35.00

103. AMERICAN ABERDEEN-ANGUS BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION. Two leaflets: Aberdeen-Angus Cattle at the Chicago International Live Stock Exposition of 1900.... [&] The Live Stock Trade of 1900. [Harvey, Illinois: American Aberdeen-Angus Breeder’s Association, 1901]. 4 pp. + 4 pp. 2 leaflets, narrow 16mo. Very fine. First edition. These rare little imprints, which tout the Aberdeen-Angus breed as the leader in “The Battle of the Breeds,” provides a classified list of sales of car- lots of Aberdeen-Angus show cattle that sold at auction on December 6, 1900, along with other statistics. The writers contend that the market demand is for light beeves, like the Aberdeen-Angus. $125.00

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104. AMERICAN ANGUS ASSOCIATION. History of Aberdeen Angus Cattle. St. Joseph, Missouri: American Angus Association, n.d. [1959]. 76 pp., photographic illustrations, mostly of champion Aberdeen-Angus cattle. 8vo, original gold printed wrappers. Light outer wear, otherwise fine. Contemporary signed and dated ownership inscription of Edith Williams Blunk. First printing. Here is a well-illustrated history of this prized breed, filled with statistics, and including a history of the American Angus Association. Among the photos is one of President Dwight D. Eisenhower with his herd of registered Aberdeen-Angus cattle. $40.00

105. AMERICAN CARBON PAPER MFG. CO. & ENNIS CARBON PAPER CO. Two pictorial cardboard boxes of carbon paper: Longhorn Wax Back-Carbon. Ennis, Texas: American Carbon Paper Company, ca. 1967; [&] Longhorn Pasti-Carbon Non-Curl. Paso Robles, Ennis & Chatham, Virginia, n.d. Each box approximately 22.8 x 30.4 cm, containing about 40 or so sheets of carbon paper and protective paper folders, both decorated with longhorns and brands. Boxes a bit worn and foxed, but really quite fine, given their fragility. Unusual ranching ephemera. The two boxes bear the same illustration by “M.H.” of a busy corral scene with three singing cowboys sitting on a fence while a cowgirl listens. The illustration on the first box is in full color; the second is in sepia tones. $40.00

106. AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Feature Films, 1911-1920, Film Entries and Credit and Subject Indexes. Berkeley, Los Angeles, & London: University of California Press, [1988]. xviii [2] 1,081 + vii [1] 476 pp. 2 vols. (second volume is index), 4to, original red decorative cloth. Scratch on upper cover of first volume, otherwise very fine. First edition. Listing of the technical details and plot synopses of feature films. A great resource for anyone interested in early Western films. $150.00

107. [AMERICAN HEREFORD ASSOCIATION]. Cow Country U.S.A. [wrapper title]. [Kansas City, Missouri: Public Relations Department, American Hereford Association, n.d. (ca. 1950)]. 32 pp., color photographic illustrations on every page. 4to, original multicolor pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 60 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #121): “The color photos by Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Charles Belden and others are outstanding.” Pictorial tribute to the Hereford breed set against a backdrop of American scenery. $40.00

108. The American West 1:2. Salt Lake City: Western History Association, Spring 1964. 80 pp., illustrations (many photographs). 4to, original stiff black-and-white photographic wrappers. Fine, in original mailing envelope to J. Frank Dobie. Signed and dated gift inscription from Mary W. Clarke. First printing. Includes “Cowboys, Indians, Outlaws” by John G. Cawelti; “The Lonely Sheepherder” by J. S. Holliday; “The Vaquero” by Arnold R. Rojas; and “Geography and History in the Arid West” by Ronald L. Ives. $10.00

109. AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART. Inaugural Exhibition, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art: Selected Works Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell, Fort Worth, Texas, 1961, January 21. N.p., [1961]. 41 pp., reproductions of the artists’ works, some in color, photographic illustrations. Large 8vo, original stiff pale blue printed wrappers. Very fine in very fine d.j. with Remington illustration. First printing. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 25). Yost & Renner, Russell II:106. This epochal catalogue with introduction by C. R. Smith contains many famous cowboy images. $30.00

110. ANDERSON, A. A. Experiences and Impressions: The Autobiography of Colonel A. A. Anderson. New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. xiv [2] 245 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (3 in color), facsimiles. 8vo, original blue cloth. Light shelf wear and staining to binding, front joint beginning to split, hinges cracked, interior fine. In chipped and soiled d.j. First edition. Herd 98: “Contains chapters about the Wyoming ranch of this noted American artist.” $40.00

111. ANDERSON, Adrian Norris. Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie on the Texas Frontier, 1873-1874. A Thesis in History. N.p., Texas Technological College, 1963. v, 131 leaves. Photostat of typescript. 4to, original half black cloth over stiff blue wrappers, “Riley Flynn Collection” stamped in gilt on cover. Small dent at bottom of upper cover, a few spots to fore-edges, pencil notation to margins, otherwise fine. This unpublished thesis deals with the rustling and depredations that plagued the borderland ranches in the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) region between the Nueces River and Rio Grande following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The raids subsided momentarily during the Civil War, but intensified afterwards, as the number of ranches increased and cattle and horse stealing became more profitable. In response to increasing lawlessness in a wild region difficult to monitor, Colonel Mackenzie was sent to bring order to the region. This thesis, overseen by Ernest Wallace, is a good, scholarly treatment of one of the most vivid chapters of the history of Texas ranching. Tate, Indians of Texas 3169. $250.00

112. ANDERSON, E. T. A Quarter-Inch of Rain. Emporia, Kansas: [McCormick-Armstrong, Co.], 1962. 220 pp., 8 photographic plates. 8vo, original maize cloth. Fore-edges and endsheets foxed, overall very good, with ink gift inscription. Very scarce. First edition. Guns 53. Mohr, The Range Country 624. Ranching in Colorado and Kansas from 1885 to 1962, with much on the author’s days as a wrangler and cattleman; topics include the duties of a wrangler, unsatisfactory cattle drive, fever tick, first cattle loss, purchases and drives 1912 and 1913, Burdick rodeo, cattle on islands in the Mississippi River, etc. “It is said that the only things necessary to make a cattleman happy are a quarter inch of rain and a thirty-day extension of his note at the bank” (p. 4). $100.00

113. ANDERSON, George L. Kansas West. San Marino: Golden West Books, [1963]. 268 [1] pp., frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations, maps, text illustrations. 8vo, original dark red cloth. Book block bound upside down in binding. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. First edition. Information on the railroad in conjunction with the cattle trade in the late nineteenth century. $60.00

114. ANDERSON, Jan H. S. (ed.). Texas in Pictures. [Austin: Texas in Pictures Company, 1940s]. [56] pp. (consisting of black and white photographic illustrations with captions). 4to, original color photographic wrappers. Fine, in original illustrated mailing envelope. First edition. Ephemeral photo-documentary, with several pages at the end on ranching, horses, rodeo, prize cattle, riding the range, etc. $15.00

115. ANDERSON, John Q. (ed.). Texas Folk Medicine: 1,333 Cures, Remedies, Preventives, and Health Practices. Austin: Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Encino Press, 1970. xix [1] 91 [1] pp., woodcuts by Barbara Mathews Whitehead. 8vo, original gold cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Whaley, Wittliff 69. Editor John Anderson grew up in the ranching country of Wheeler County in the Texas Panhandle and knew folkways at firsthand. In rural, agrarian communities, animals provided much of the material for folk cures, and an alarming number of ailments in this book call for some form of application of the ubiquitous cow manure. $35.00

116. ANDERSON, J[ohn] W[esley]. From the Plains to the Pulpit. [Houston: Rein & Sons] For Sale by Miss Myrtle Anderson, Addicks, Texas, [1910]. [2] 296 pp., portrait, plates (mostly photographic). Small 12mo, original blue pictorial cloth (longhorn and ranching images). Book block detached from binding, front fore-edges spotted, internally very fine, with author’s pencil presentation inscription dated 1911 at Addicks, Texas, to the Ladies Aid Society in St. Louis, Missouri. Tipped onto the back pastedown is author’s printed solicitation for donations totaling $30,000 to buy 1,000 acres of land near Houston so that he can establish an Orphans’ and Widows’ home (dated February 11, 1911). Second edition, enlarged, with six added chapters not in the original edition (Houston: State Printing Company, 1907, 214 pp.). The first edition is genuinely scarce, and later editions are often catalogued as the first. Dobie, p. 109 (rating the book very high in the genre of cowboy- preacher literature): “The second edition (reset) has six added chapters.” Herd 102. Rader 149. Anderson was born in Arkansas in 1855, traveled overland with his family by oxcart to Harris County, Texas, in 1861 (“when that large Houston prairie had no houses on it”), and by the age of ten began to join long drives on the range. “I was green in the business, but...was soon up in all branches of the round-up and I let no one beat me running down a wild herd of horses or throwing the lasso.... As I was a small boy to ride on the range, other boys and some men would tease me.” The book is filled with interesting, detailed information on roundups and the cattle business in the Houston and coastal area in the nineteenth century. $100.00

117. ANDERSON, J[ohn] W[esley]. From the Plains to the Pulpit. Goose Creek, Texas: J. W. Anderson & Sons, [1922]. 315 pp., portrait, plates (mostly photographic). Small 12mo, original green pictorial cloth (longhorn and ranching Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) images). A few minor stains and abrasions to binding, generally fine and tight (much better than usually found). Third edition, further enlarged (one more chapter added [a sermon on eternity], copyright 1907, but verso of family portrait at front dated 1914, preface dated 1922). Dobie, p. 109: “The third, and final, edition, Goose Creek, Texas, 1922, again reset, has another added chapter.” $85.00

118. ANDERSON, J[ohn] W[esley]. From the Plains to the Pulpit. Goose Creek, Texas: J. W. Anderson & Sons, [1922]. Another copy. Dudley R. Dobie’s copy, signed by him on front free endpaper and dated 1931. Binding with mild to moderate abrading, internally fine. $90.00

119. [ANGEL, Myron (ed.)]. History of Nevada, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680 pp., 87 lithographic plates (some double-page) of architecture, mining, manufactures, residences and ranches, portraits, and a plan and system of timbering (primarily by the firm of Britton & Rey); 25 steel-engraved portraits; 77 woodcut portraits from photographs; tables, charts, facsimiles. Thick 4to, modern maroon buckram. Intermittent marginal water staining (primarily affecting the lithos, rather than text or engraved plates), though in most cases the staining to the lithos is confined to verso or blank margins of the images; only about three of the images have staining around edges of image proper); small, clean tear to blank margin of title, blank margins of a few text leaves chipped (no loss of text). First edition of one of the best and most important books on Nevada. AII (Nevada) 514. Flake 175. Graff 64. Guns 58. Hart, Companion to California, p. 52: “The firm of [Britton & Rey] in San Francisco (1852-92), the oldest west of the Rocky Mts., also engaged in printing, engraving, and decoration on tin.” Howes A273: “Exhaustive work on this state and its fifteen counties.” Paher, Nevada 27: “Commonly known as ‘Thompson & West,’ this classic work is the most used and quoted history of any ever issued on the state. It is likely to remain forever the all time Nevada book, for nothing issued since compares to its exhaustive coverage.... In 1881 it was acclaimed the finest of any state history yet published.... In general, ‘Thompson & West’ is poorly organized and is written in the style of a newspaperman—briefly, blunt, and often unscholarly. But there is very little worth knowing about Nevada before 1881 that cannot be found in this first statewide Nevada Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) history.” There are copious text references and images relating to ranching and ranchers—over half of the excellent lithos are charming Victorian images of Nevada ranches, often with their owners’ portraits above. Other images include mining, logging and milling, and urban and rural architecture. The portraits and biographies constitute a mug book within the history proper. $375.00

120. ANTONE, Evan Haywood. Tom Lea: His Life and Work. El Paso: Texas Western Press, [1988]. [10] 163 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates, photographs, illustrations. 8vo, original grey cloth over navy cloth. Very fine in d.j. Author’s signed presentation copy to Vivian Hertzog “... She and Carl helped and encouraged me in this project from its beginning. With love and appreciation.... This is copy #3.” With related review clippings laid in and Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Biography of the distinguished Texas artist-author with an emphasis on his literary work, especially his history of the King Ranch, which was printed by Carl Hertzog. $60.00

121. ANZA, Juan Bautista de. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of New Mexico, Diary of His Expedition to the Moquis in 1780. Paper Read before the Historical Society at its Annual Meeting, 1918. With an Introduction and Notes by Ralph E. Twitchell. [Santa Fe]: Historical Society of New Mexico, [1918]. 47 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Very fine. First printing. Publication No. 21 of the Historical Society of New Mexico. Anza was the first European to establish an overland route from Mexico through the Sonoran Desert to the Pacific coast of California, and he provided the foundation stock of cattle and horses for the vast herds which subsequently established the great ranchos of California. Anza, writing as Governor of New Mexico, gives an account of his expedition to the Moqui in 1780. He reports on the Zuni: “The failure [of crops] requires them to continue living at the ranches where they pasture their small stock, of which there is a reasonable abundance.” Regarding the Moqui, he compares their livestock as reported by Escalante in 1775 (“300 sheep and many cattle”) to what he found in 1780 (“no more than five head [of horses] in all the pueblos, no cattle and about 300 sheep”). Anza blames this poor state of affairs on drought and Ute and Navajo warfare. $35.00

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122. APPLEGATE, Frank G. Native Tales of New Mexico. Introduction by Mary Austin, with Illustrations in Color by the Author. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1932]. 263 pp., 5 color plates (including frontispiece) after author-artist’s watercolors. 8vo, original terracotta cloth decorated in silver. Very fine in the scarce d.j. (lightly stained and price-clipped). First edition. Campbell, p. 241: “A New Mexico classic.” Dobie, pp. 38, 180: “Delicious; the real thing.... A delighted and delightful teller of folk tales.” Guns 66. Nicely printed and illustrated collection of stories about Indian and Hispanic folklife from the pueblos and ranchitos of New Mexico. Chapters include “San Cristobal’s Sheep,” “Burros,” and “The Apache Kid” (rancher Jack Fraser’s account of The Apache Kid’s murder of young Texan Charlie Dobie and the subsequent murder of The Kid, both of which took place on Fraser’s ranch). $100.00

123. APPLEGATE, Jesse & Jesse A[pplegate] Applegate. A Day with the Cow Column in 1843...[and] Recollections of My Boyhood.... Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Joseph Schafer.... Chicago: [Designed by William A. Kittredge, Lakeside Press for] The Caxton Club, 1934. xvii [1] 207 [1] pp., pictorial title. 12mo, original grey pictorial cloth. Superb condition. First edition thus, limited edition (300 copies); the first account (by Jesse Applegate), A Day with the Cow Column, first appeared in the Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (Portland, December 1900); the second account (by Jesse Applegate’s nephew, Jesse Applegate Applegate), Recollections of My Boyhood, was first printed at Roseburg, Oregon, in 1914. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 8n. Graff 74. Herd 108: “Scarce.” Howes A294: “Account of the great Oregon migration of 1843. Applegate established the southern route to Oregon.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 72n. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 15. Mintz, The Trail 11: “Jesse Sr. was famous as the originator of the Applegate Trail into Oregon” (see also Mintz, The Trail 10, in regard to Recollections of My Boyhood: “One of the great overland narratives, and the classic account of the Oregon migration of 1843”). One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 67: “The first segment is a printing of an address delivered in 1876 by the ‘prince of pioneers’ to the Oregon Pioneers Association. The second segment relates the experiences of an emigrant train as seen through the eyes of Applegate’s seven year old nephew as he recalled those experiences in his adult years. Scarce.” Smith 263, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

265n. This book gives a firsthand account of one of the great, early trail drives into the Oregon country. During the 1843 “Great Migration,” about a thousand pioneers congregated at Independence, Missouri, for the trek over the Oregon Trail. In addition to their hundreds of oxen for pulling wagons, they also had a large herd of cows and other loose stock. Because the stock impeded progress, the party divided into two parts. The wagons were organized into one train and moved ahead. The remaining pioneers herded the stock into Oregon in what they called “the cow column.” Jesse Applegate served as captain of this ambitious, early trail drive, bringing the animals all the way to the Willamette Valley. $375.00

124. APPLEGATE, Jesse A[pplegate] & Lavinia H. Porter. Westward Journeys: Memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Who Traveled the Overland Trail. Chicago: [The Lakeside Press for] R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1989. lxiii [1] 416 pp., illustrations (including drawings by Bruff), map. 16mo, original black cloth. New, as issued. Modern reprints of Jesse Applegate Applegate’s Recollections of My Boyhood (see preceding entry), offering the unique perspective of a child on the overland, along with Lavinia H. Porter’s By Ox Team to California...in 1860 (first printed at Oakland in 1910 in an edition limited to 50 copies; see Cowan, p. 496, Graff 3325, Howes P488, and Mintz, The Trail 373 “one of the rarest of the modern overland narratives”). Applegate and the editors include a few references to his uncle’s A Day with the Cow Column, but we include the book in this catalogue primarily because of Porter’s account of her 1860 overland trip to California with her husband and child, in which she documents the demand for good cattle in California at the time. On the approach to Sacramento (near Folsom), the Porters stopped at a ranch to obtain hay for their well-kept cattle. The stock of overlanders was usually in pitiful shape by the time California was reached. To the surprise and delight of the Porters, the rancher offered to purchase all of their sleek, healthy stock and their outfit for the astounding sum of $400 plus a week’s board. Lavinia observes: “We could not in reason refuse such a satisfactory offer. It was a much larger sum than we had even hoped to get although we had been told that horned cattle were very high at that time in California.” $35.00

125. APPLEMAN, Roy E. Charlie Siringo, Cowboy Detective. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1968. [4] Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

19 [1, ad] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original goldenrod boards with Russell illustration. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (#126 of 250 copies signed by the author). Great Western Series 3. Guns 67. Brief biography of the noted cowboy and historian, focusing on Siringo’s years as a range detective. Siringo penned the first autobiography of a cowboy. $40.00

126. APPLEMAN, Roy E. Charlie Siringo, Cowboy Detective. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1968. [4] 19 [1, ad] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original goldenrod printed wrappers with Russell illustration. Very fine. First edition, trade issue, in wraps. $20.00

127. [ARIZONA]. Arizona and Its Heritage. Tucson: University of Arizona Bulletin 7:3 General Bulletin No. 3, April, 1936. 291 pp., foldout map, text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Light wear and foxing to upper wrapper, interior fine. First printing. The bulletin includes articles of ranching interest: E. B. Stanley’s “Cattle Industry,” “Range Sheep Industry,” and “Range Goat Industry”; Frank C. Lockwood’s “Spanish-American History” (noting that Father Kino was the greatest figure in Southwestern history and the first to introduce domestic animals to Arizona); M. Murphy’s “Recreation and Dude Ranches”; and H. L. Shantz’s “Indian Agriculture” (includes Native American stockraising practices, especially sheep and horses). $25.00

128. [ARIZONA]. Arizona and the West. Tucson, 1959-65. 21 issues + index for vols. 1-4: 1:2 (2 copies); 2:1-4 (2 copies of issue 2); 3:1-4; 4:1-4; 5:1-4; 6:1 & 3; 7:2 & 3. 22 vols., 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Light outer wear, otherwise fine. First printings. Articles of interest for ranching in this group include Owen Ulph’s “Cowboy’s Lament; or, The Dilemma of a Twentieth Century Buckaroo,” Don D. Walker’s “Reading on the Range,” James M. Jensen’s “Cattle Drives from the Ranchos to the Gold Fields of California,” and Don E. Worcester’s “Wild Horses West: Fact and Fancy.” $30.00

129. [ARIZONA]. Arizona Good Roads Association Illustrated Road Maps and Tour Book...Containing Photos of Roads, Landmarks, Resorts, Towns, Points of Interest and Detailed Information on Every Part of The Wonderland... [cover title]. N.p.: [Arizona Department of Transportation, 1976]. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

200 pp., numerous vintage photographic illustrations. Narrow 8vo, original grey cloth over stiff boards with tipped-on color illustration of the Grand Canyon. Very fine. Reprint of 1913 original edition, “directly from original book for Nostalgic Arizonans.” According to the foreword, this was the first book of road maps and touring information ever published in Arizona and it “represents an outlay of nearly $9,000. To obtain absolutely authentic data for maps published herein (5,000 miles in the aggregate) it was necessary to travel more than 10,000 miles by automobile.” The maps locate ranches, and there is even a symbol for “corral near road.” In discussions of the various towns, ranching and stockraising are frequently discussed, and some of the wonderful old photographs are of ranching, ranch life, and rodeo. The numerous neat ads include several related to ranching. $40.00

130. [ARIZONA]. Arizona Highways 47:10 (October 1971). 46 [1] pp., photographic and other illustrations (by Beeler, Wieghorst, Remington, Dixon, et al.). 4to, original pictorial wrappers. Fine. First printing. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Beeler 105). Two articles are of ranching interest in this issue, Jose Izuela’s article “Arthur A. Dailey: A Very Special Kind of Photographer,” about Dailey and his ranching photographs, and Paul Weaver’s “Northland Press and the Fine Art of Bookmaking,” in which he tells about getting Ben Green and Joe Beeler together on The Last Trail Drive through Downtown Dallas. $5.00

131. [ARIZONA]. Arizona Highways 48:3 (March 1972). 48 pp., photographic and other illustrations. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. Fine. First printing. This issue includes Ron Butler et al., “The Buffalo Soldier”; “The Big Boom in Western Art”; “Horse-ology in Six Easy Lessons” p. 12-13; and “Horses of the West.” $5.00

132. [ARIZONA]. Arizona Land of Fair Color. Phoenix: Arizona Highway Department, n.d. (1950s). 86 pp., color photographic illustrations on every page (many full-page). 4to, original stiff red printed wrappers, spiral bound. Very fine. First printing. Collection of photographs and explanatory text from Arizona Highways magazine, including some related to ranching (“Hereford Cattle on Range in White Mountain Country,” “Bill Spence Ranch near Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Springerville,” “On Winter Pasture Southern Arizona,” “Ewes and Lambs on Winter Feed”). Some text is by Barry Goldwater, and there is a section on water resources. $15.00

133. ARMOUR, J. Ogden. The Packers, the Private Car Lines, and the People. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, [1906]. 380 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original light orange pictorial cloth decorated and lettered in white. Light outer wear and a few minor stains, upper hinge cracked, but generally a very good copy. First edition. Herd 167. Reese, Six Score 6: “An important item in the literature of meat packing. In 1905 Charles E. Russell, a prominent muckraker, had published...an attack on the packers entitled ‘The Greatest Trust in the World.’ This...dealt primarily with the Beef Trust’s control of the shipping lines and its use of illegal rebates. J. Ogden Armour, who was generally accepted as spokesman for the Beef Trust, replied in a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, which form this book, a defense of the packing interests against ‘hostile and mistaken agitators.’” $100.00

134. ARMOUR AND COMPANY. Seeing Armour: Glimpses of a World-Wide Organization.... N.p., n.d. (ca.1930s). 40 pp., photographic illustrations. Oblong 16mo, original blue, black, and yellow pictorial wrappers. Last few leaves lightly stained, otherwise fine. First edition. Illustrated guide to the pioneer meat- packing business established at Chicago in 1867. $45.00

135. ARMSTRONG, J. B. The Raw Edge. Missoula: Montana State University Press, 1964. xi [1] 90 [1] pp., photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original red and white pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Guns 77: “This little book gives a good picture of the early-day Texas Panhandle and life in Oklahoma Territory.” Smith S2529. “Authentic, honest...compare it with the classics [of] Andy Adams and We Pointed Them North. It belongs in the same prime pasture” (from Michael Kennedy’s foreword). The author provides background on his family’s ranching roots (his grandfather had one of the earliest ranches in the Judith Basin area of Texas, and his parents ranched in Wise County, the Staked Plains, Tascosa, and Indian Territory). The author grew up a “cowboy kid” and in 1904 when his family relocated to South Dakota, 16-year-old Armstrong Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) went on his first trail drive as cook for the Burbank Brothers’ BA Ranch. In 1905 he signed on as a cowboy for the Jess Kerr Ranch at Camp Crook and later for Joe German of the JH Ranch in Montana. $25.00

136. ARMSTRONG, Moses K. The Early Empire Builders of the Great West...Compiled and Enlarged from the Author’s Early History of Dakota Territory in 1866. St. Paul: E. W. Porter, 1901. [x] 456 pp., frontispiece portrait, 22 plates. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Covers lightly abraded (mainly confined to lower cover), interior fine. Second edition, revised and enlarged (adding author’s travels in Florida and the South). The first edition was published at Yankton in 1866 (the Siebert copy of the 1866 original edition brought $5,500). Graff 89. Howes A322n (rating the original edition as “dd”, listing the Pierre 1928 edition, but not the present edition): “First history of Dakota.” The author tells of cattle rustling by Indians in 1863 (“Several cattle with Indian lariats on have recently come down the valley of the James into the white settlements”) and impediments to developing farms and ranches for want of government protection. Armstrong was an early representative to Washington from the Dakotas. Included in this edition are his “Speeches in Congress on Behalf of the West,” dealing with the needs for railroads, land grants, military protection from Native Americans, Indian Wars, development of mining, planting trees, irrigation, river navigation, and the progress of the Dakota pioneers despite federal neglect. $65.00

137. ARMSTRONG, Moses K. History and Resources of Dakota, Montana, and Idaho. Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1967. [5] 62 pp., portrait. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Very fine. Limited edition (#35 of 550 copies). The original edition (Yankton, 1866) is very rare (see preceding entry). The present edition is a reprint of the second edition (Pierre, 1928). Graff 90n: “The first history of the Dakotas.” Howes A322n. Smith 291n. The section on resources emphasizes mining, but includes a glowing assessment of the potential for livestock in the Missouri Valley of the Dakota (“On the abundant pasturage of the plains, and the green rushes of the valleys, cattle and horses subsist through the whole winter without care or attention, by sheltering themselves in the timbered ravines and river woodlands”). The author settled at Yankton in 1859 and was an active participant in affairs of the infant territory. $30.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

138. ARNOLD, Oren. The Story of Cattle Ranching. Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Harvey House, [1968]. 127 pp., color plates, text illustrations (some photographic, some after the artwork of John J. Floherty, Jr.). Large 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Arnold, who was “born to the saddle,” worries that young people’s ideas of the cowboy and rancher are based on stereotypes presented by television, and here gives a good, well-illustrated account of the history of ranching for the younger reader. He gives tribute to those he considers as being founders and influential, such as Coronado, Father Kino, Spanish and Mexican precursors, Pancho Villa, Will Rogers, Brigham Young, LBJ, and others. $30.00

139. ARNOLD, Oren. Sun in Your Eyes: A New Light in the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1947]. [8] 253 pp., illustrations by Lloyd Lozes Goff. 8vo, original terracotta pictorial cloth. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. First edition. Campbell, p. 141: “A rousing welcome to the sun country.” Herd 169. Several chapters on ranching. $35.00

140. ARNOLD, Oren. Thunder in the Southwest: Echoes from the Wild Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1952]. ix [1] 237 pp., text illustrations by Eggenhofer. 8vo, original slate green cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Adams, Burs I:10. Campbell, p. 153: “Sixteen exciting episodes of the days when six-shooters and ropes were the law in the Southwest.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 25). Guns 78. Herd 170. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 103. Wallace, Arizona History X:50. $45.00

141. ARNOLD, Oren. Wonders of the West: A Book for Young People, and All Others Who Would Know Western America. Dallas: Banks, Upshaw, and Company, [1936]. xiii [3] 229 pp., frontispiece, plates (some in color, some photographic), text illustrations. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges, otherwise fine in lightly chipped d.j. First edition. Herd 171. Smith 295. Has a chapter titled “The Cowboys–YIP-EEE!” $25.00

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142. ARNOLD, Oren & John P. Hale. Hot Irons: Heraldry of the Range. New York: Macmillan Company, 1940. viii [4] 242 pp., text illustrations (brands), endpapers decorated with brands. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. A few light stains to covers, otherwise fine in lightly worn and price- clipped d.j. Authors’ signed presentation note on half- title: “Kindest regards to another who loves the Southwest, D. E. Buchanan. Oren Arnold – John P. Hale.” Lower fore- edge branded with Arnold’s and Hale’s brands. Buchanan’s bookplate on front free endpaper. First edition. Campbell, p. 133: “The story of American cattle brands and branding. The meaning of these symbols, their origin and traditions, the stories behind them, and the men who lived the stories are all here. How to brand and earmark, and how to read brands.” Dobie, p. 95. Guns 79. Herd 173. Howes A332. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 11: “An authoritative explanation of many phases of ranching.” Saunders 3837. Wallace, Arizona History VII:23. $300.00

143. ARNOLD, Oren & John P. Hale. Hot Irons.... New York: Macmillan Company, 1940. Another copy. Very fine in lightly worn, price-clipped d.j. $85.00

144. ARNOLD, Oren & John P. Hale. Hot Irons.... New York: Macmillan Company, 1940. viii [4] 242 pp., text illustrations (brands), endpapers decorated with brands. 8vo, original beige pictorial buckram. A few leaves browned from newsclippings laid in, otherwise fine in chipped and price-clipped d.j. Inscribed and signed by authors to Edan D. Kalmus. Early reprint (“Reprinted April, 1940” on title verso). $65.00

145. ARNOLD, Oren (ed.). Roundup: A Collection of Western Stories, Poems, and Articles for Young People. Dallas: Banks, Upshaw, and Company, [1937]. xvii [1] 301 pp., frontispiece, illustrations by Creston F. Baumgartner. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Very fine in slightly chipped, price-clipped d.j. (lacking one small piece of jacket at lower corner). First edition. Herd 172. McVicker B26. Contributors include J. Frank Dobie, Sharlot M. Hall, Bret Harte, Oliver La Farge, Ross Santee, and Steward Edward White. $20.00

146. ARRINGTON, Fred. A History of Dickens County: Ranches and Rolling Plains. [Quanah, Texas]: Nortex Offset Publications, 1971. [16] 355 pp., photographic Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustrations, text illustrations, brands. 4to, original brown pictorial cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges, endpapers lightly browned, otherwise fine. First edition. Contains a very long chapter on ranching, as well as over 200 pages of family histories, many of ranch families. Includes Spur Ranch, Espuela Cattle Company, Pitchfork Ranch, and Matador Ranch. $60.00

147. ARRINGTON, Leonard J. Charles C. Rich, Mormon General and Western Frontiersman. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, [1974]. xvii [1] 386 pp., frontispiece, photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original black cloth gilt. Very fine in d.j. First edition. “Volume one of the series Studies in Mormon History James B. Allen, editor.” Information on various Mormon ranching endeavors. $125.00

148. ARROTT, James W. Arrott’s Brief History of Fort Union. Edited from a Tape Recording of an Address.... Las Vegas, New Mexico: [Carl Hertzog for] Rodgers Library, Highland University, 1962. 20 pp., text illustrations, map. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Small flaw affecting one letter on title, else very fine. Carl Hertzog’s bookplate. First edition, limited edition (300 copies). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 16). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 142A: “Three hundred copies printed on Curtis Utopian Natural Weave.... The cover drawing and the map are by Cisneros.” Peripheral mention of the Lincoln County War and cattle rustling. $35.00

149. ARTES DE MEXICO. Los Charros pintados por Ernesto Icaza, G. Morales y otros artistas. Mexico City: Artes de Mexico Numero 26, Volumen V, Año VII 1959. [6] 16 [56] pp., plates, illustrations, ads. Tall 4to, original red pictorial wrappers. Light outer wear, otherwise fine. First printing. Contains many illustrations of charros riding, roping, and otherwise engaged in ranch life, by Icaza, the noted artist of Mexican ranch life. $30.00

150. ARTES DE MEXICO. Haciendas de Mexico. Mexico City: Artes de Mexico Numero 79/80 Año XIII, 1966. 208 pp., color plates, illustrations, foldout map. Tall 4to, original color photographic wrappers. Light outer wear, otherwise fine. First printing. This issue of the excellent Mexican periodical on Mexican arts contains many illustrations of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) ranch architecture in Mexico. The cover illustration is a fancy charro saddle and equipage. $45.00

151. ARTRIP, Louise & Fullen Artrip. Memoirs of Daniel Fore (Jim) Chisholm and the Chisholm Trail. [Boonville, Arkansas: Artrip Publications, 1949]. 89 [3] pp., photographic illustrations. 12mo, original blue printed wrappers. Light browning to edges of wrappers, otherwise very fine, signed by both authors. First edition. Adams, Burs I:11. Guns 86. Herd 175. Reese, Special List: Cattle 26: “Includes additional material on the Sutton-Taylor Feud which Adams suggests is more reliable than their history of the Trail.” “Chisholm Trail—1866, Riding the Chisholm Trail—1949, The Sutton- Taylor Feud, Up the Trail—1884, To Arizona Territory—1885, Grand Canyon Country—1890-91, Alaska Gold Rush—1898, etc., etc.” (from upper cover). $45.00

152. ARTRIP, Louise & Fullen Artrip. Memoirs of Daniel Fore (Jim) Chisholm.... [Boonville, Arkansas: Artrip Publications, 1949]. Another copy. Very fine. $35.00

153. ASBURY, H. Sucker’s Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1938. x, 493 pp., plates. 8vo, original grey cloth. Slight shelf wear and endpapers browned, otherwise very good in price-clipped pictorial d.j. with light wear. First edition, later issue (in the grey cloth rather than pictorial boards). Guns 88: “Makes mention of many gunmen, such as John Wesley Hardin, Bat Masterson, King Fisher, the killing of Hickok, Soapy Smith, and the Clantons.” Includes a useful bibliography on gambling. Occasional cattle industry interest, such as a discussion of the unsavory character of cow towns like Abilene, Hays, and Dodge City in the 1870s. An intriguing gambling story relating to ranching: Tombstone gambler John Dougherty made the biggest raise ever risked on a poker hand in 1889; After rich Colorado City, Texas, cattleman Ike Jackson upped the ante with his ranch and 10,000 head of cattle, Dougherty raised the pot further by forcing New Mexico Governor L. Bradford Prince to sign a paper pledging the entire Territory of New Mexico; Jackson lost his ranch and cattle. $35.00

154. ASH, George. Captain George Ash: His Adventures and Life Story As Cowboy, Ranger, and Soldier. London: Drane’s, [1923?]. 234 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) plates. 12mo, original pink cloth. Edges bumped, spine sunned and stained, endpapers browned. Uncommon. Second edition (the first edition, published at Eastleigh, England the same year is very rare). Guns 89n: “This scarce little book tells about cattle rustling and outlawry in the Mexican border country.” Herd 176n. Howes A348n. In his preface, the Canadian-British soldier of fortune states: “After serving on the great ranches of the West as a cowboy I became an officer in the Texas Rangers. Foolishly crossing over into Mexico I fell into the hands of outlaws, was thrown into prison, to be released by that daring revolutionist, Pancho Villa, under whom I was forced to serve for nearly two years.” Ash describes how he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming, Colorado, and Texas (Bar L Ranch) and served in the Texas Rangers. The crude photographs capture the author in a variety of cowboy poses. $250.00

155. ASHLEY, Carlos. That Spotted Sow and Other Hill Country Ballads. Austin: Steck, [1949]. 63 pp., illustrations by Bugbee (terracotta on grey backgrounds). 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Minor cover wear, else fine. First edition. Campbell, p. 223. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 11). Range verse. Ashley grew up in the San Saba country of Texas and practiced law as a vocation and ranching by avocation. $15.00

156. ATEN, Ira. Six and One-Half Years in the Ranger Service: The Memoirs of Ira Aten; Sergeant Company D, Texas Rangers [wrapper title]. Bandera: Frontier Times, 1945. [2] 64 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations. 4to, original slate blue wrappers with photographic illustration. Text browned due to acidic paper, otherwise very fine. A fragile pamphlet, seldom found in as good condition as this copy. First book edition (first published as a series in the Frontier Times). Campbell, p. 77. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 118 (“Ranger Reading”): “Highly readable.” Guns 91: “Aten tells of his efforts to suppress wire cutting and other lawlessness in Texas.” Herd 179: “Scarce.” Foreword by J. Marvin Hunter. See Thrapp IV, p. 19. $125.00

157. ATHEARN, Robert G. High Country Empire: The High Plains and Rockies. New York, Toronto, & London: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1960. viii [2] 358 pp., 16 photographic plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original olive cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Includes Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and North and South Dakota. In the chapter on “The Cow Kingdom” the author declares: “From time to time in man’s experience, economic opportunities fall into place like tumblers in a combination lock. This happened to western cattle-raisers about 1865. Cattle could be picked up in quantity in Texas for four or five dollars a head; they would sell in a place like Minnesota for forty. The animals could be driven long distances. North of Texas, in present Kansas and Nebraska, were open plains rich in grass, a place to fatten the herds. Reaching out to this giant pasture were two principal rail branches, the Union Pacific and what would later be called the Kansas Pacific. It did not take enterprising Americans long to visualize the possibilities and to act. Shortly the Indians watched clouds of dust rise over bands of what they termed the ‘pinto buffalo,’ as the cowboys hazed their stock toward the rail heads. Now, the braves told each other, the invasion was from the south, as well as the east.” $30.00

158. ATHEARN, Robert G. Westward the Briton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. xiv [2] 208 pp. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Herd 180: “Many English men and women came to America’s West and wrote books about their experiences. Mr. Athearn deals largely with their reactions.” Several chapters are devoted to cowboys, cattle, and ranching. Contains a useful annotated bibliography. $50.00

159. ATHEARN, Robert G. Westward the Briton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. $45.00

160. ATHEARN, Robert G. & Carl Ubbelohde. Centennial Colorado: Its Exciting Story. Denver: E. L. Chambers Publishing, 1959. 93 [3] pp., color photographic illustrations, map. 8vo, original multicolor wrappers. Tape stains to inside back cover, otherwise very fine. Signed by authors, and with related newsclipping laid in and contemporary ownership signature of Edith Williams Blunk. First edition. Wynar 4. Contains a chapter on ranching and references to the topic throughout, including documentary photos. $15.00

161. ATHEARN, Robert G. & Carl Ubbelohde. Centennial Colorado.... Denver: E. L. Chambers Publishing, 1959. Another copy. Very fine. $10.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

162. ATHERTON, Faxon D. The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton, 1836-1839. San Francisco & Los Angeles: [Ward Ritchie Press for] California Historical Society, 1964. xxxii, 246 [1] pp., frontispiece, 15 plates (one foldout), folding map. 8vo, original blue buckram. Mint, in publisher’s mylar d.j. and slipcase. Deluxe limited edition (#241 of 325 copies, signed by editor Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.). Atherton (1815-77), “Massachusetts-born merchant, after a very successful career as a trader in Valparaiso (1833-60), where he had married into an aristocratic Chilean family...moved to California (1860), although he had already visited it (1836-38) on a voyage about which he wrote a diary (published 1964) [present work].... He lived as a country squire on a great estate in the part of Menlo Park renamed Atherton for him. His son married Gertrude Atherton” (Hart, Companion to California). Atherton has left us an excellent account of the last years of Mexican California, with observations on the hide and tallow trade and descriptions of many of the vast old ranchos. Editor Nunis’s detailed notes add to the value of this book. $100.00

163. ATHERTON, Gertrude. California, an Intimate History. New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. [2] ix [3] 329 [1] pp., frontispiece, 39 photographic plates. 8vo, original red decorative cloth, t.e.g. Very fine and bright, partly unopened. First edition. Cowan, p. 22. Atherton includes many references to ranching and cattle in the early chapters, with good descriptions of the social life of pastoral California. Atherton also touches on the abandonment of the great California ranchos at the onset of the Gold Rush. She explores the fascinating history of Concepción Argüello, daughter of a Spanish governor of Alta California, who at age 15 became engaged to Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, founder of the Russian-American Company. Doña Concepción’s long wait for Rezanov and her later life as a Dominican nun served as a source of literary inspiration to Atherton and Bret Harte. $35.00

164. ATHERTON, Gertrude. Golden Gate Country. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1945]. xi [1] 256 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan buckram. Bookplate, contemporary pencil gift inscription, text lightly age-toned. First edition. Rocq 8145. Edited by Erskine Caldwell. Includes an account of Miss Abigail Smith Tuck, who married a wealthy rancher, John Marsh, “the First of the Cattle Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Kings.” Also has a chapter on Henry Miller and his start in ranching the San Joaquin valley. $25.00

165. ATHERTON, Lewis. The Cattle Kings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1961]. xii, 308 pp., frontispiece, portraits, photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original white cloth decorated with brand. Very fine in d.j. with minor chipping. First edition. Guns 92: “Has some information on the Johnson County War.” King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 13: “Includes some factual information on the wives of the ‘Cattle Kings.’” Mohr, The Range Country 627: “Excellent account of Goodnight, Littlefield, Kohrs, King, and many others.” $35.00

166. ATHERTON, Lewis. The Cattle Kings. Bloomington & London: University of Indiana Press, [1971]. xii, 308 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth decorated with brand. Very fine, without the d.j. First edition, fourth printing. $10.00

167. ATONDO [Y ANTILLON, Isidro de]. First from the Gulf to the Pacific: The Diary of the Kino-Atondo Penisular Expedition. December 14, 1684–January 13, 1685, Transcribed, Translated, and Edited by W. Michael Mathes. Los Angeles: [Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at Castle Press, Pasadena, California for] Dawson’s Book Shop, 1969. 60 [2] pp., folding map, decorated title, text illustrations (photographic). 12mo, original green cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Baja California Travels Series 16. Mathes translates and ably edits this diary recording the inland expedition to cross the Baja California peninsula in search for fertile terrain and possible settlement on the Pacific Coast of California. Atondo acted in his capacity of secular authority, and Kino (father of the cattle industry in the Southwest) served as ecclesiastical authority. After two weeks of hard travel beginning December 14, 1685, the party achieved the first European crossing of the Baja California peninsula. Their plan was to travel from San Bruno to Magdalena Bay, but the party went too far north. A second expedition was undertaken in January, but the party was not able to cross the rugged Sierra de Giganta and returned to San Bruno with a report that the land was not well suited for settlement. Although Kino petitioned to continue the development of California, authorities ordered abandonment of California (12 years later Salvatierra would finally open California to permanent settlement). We include this important diary Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) because of Kino’s importance to the cattle industry and because the diary shows Kino’s methods of assessment of the land traversed for development of stockraising (documenting water resources and pasturage), agriculture, and mining. $50.00

168. ATWOOD, A. The Conquerors: Historical Sketches of the American Settlement of the Oregon Country, Embracing Facts in the Life and Work of Rev. Jason Lee. N.p.: Jennings & Graham, n.d. [copyright 1907]. 316 pp., frontispiece portrait, 8 plates, 12 portraits, 2 maps, facsimile. 8vo, original blue cloth, t.e.g. Bookseller’s label on pastedown, endpapers lightly browned, otherwise very fine. First edition. Smith 353. Chapter 2 discusses Jason Lee’s formation of a cattle company in Oregon in 1837. The cattle company purchased 800 head of longhorn Mexican cattle and 16 horses at $3-$5 a head; and about a hundred of the cattle were lost on the rough drive from California to Oregon. This difficult and exasperating experience was the first major cattle drive to Oregon, and is well known through the celebrated diary of Philip Leget Edwards. Many other references to cattle and ranching are present in this book, especially in the final chapter, where statistics are provided. $30.00

169. ATWOOD, E. Bagby. The Regional Vocabulary of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1962]. xiii [1] 273 pp., maps, tables. 8vo, original red cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine in fine d.j. First edition. Basic Texas Books 3: “This is the most important work on Texas linguistics.... Scholarly, yet utterly fascinating.” CBC 4930. Much on ranching vocabulary, along with “Southwestern Words” and “Lexicographical Pilón: Authorities for ‘Border’ Spanish.” $75.00

170. ATWOOD, Wallace W. The Rocky Mountains. New York: Vanguard Press, [1945]. 324 pp., plates (mostly photographic), portraits, maps (1 foldout), text illustrations. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Very fine in lightly soiled d.j. First edition. Herd 183. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 12: “An appreciation of the splendor of the Rockies and a scientific geological treatise.... Illustrated with striking photographs and drawings. Use of the mountains for mining, ranching, tourist enjoyment.” $35.00

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171. AUGUST, Ray. “Cowboys vs. Rancheros: The Origins of Western American Livestock Law” in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly 96:4 (April 1993). [Austin]: Texas State Historical Association, 1993. Pp. 457-88. 8vo, original multicolor pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First printing. Has good information on cattle law, with sections on fencing, the history of branding (with pictures of Egyptian and Mexican brands), rustling, recording, and strays. The colorful cover illustration is Ila McAfee’s painting, “Longhorns Watering on a Cattle Drive” (in the Gilcrease Collection). $10.00

172. AUSTIN, Mary. The Flock. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, [1906]. [10] 266 [2] pp., frontispiece and text illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. 8vo, original tan cloth. Covers stained and lightly abraded, interior clean and bright. First edition, second state. Campbell, p. 129. Dobie, pp. 93, 95. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Smith 30). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 14: “Narrative of the sheep in California.... Mary Austin writes charmingly.... The flock, the herder, the dogs, the predators, the land itself—all are depicted in absorbing detail.... An imperishable classic of the desert.” $30.00

173. AUSTIN, Mary. Isidro. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1905. vii [3] 425 [3, ads] pp., 4 color plates by Eric Pape. 8vo, original olive gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding rubbed and a few small abrasions, interior fine. First edition of author’s first novel. Fifty Western Writers, p. 299. Lyday, p. 13. The hero of this novel set in Southern California must choose between managing his father’s sheep ranch and entering the priesthood. Central to the plot is a shepherd named El Zarzo, a young woman disguised as a boy. $60.00

174. AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1903. xi [5] 280 [2] pp., pictorial title page, frontispiece, 3 full-page plates, numerous marginal decorations by E. Boyd Smith. Square 8vo, original dark olive green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g. Light shelf wear (especially at foot of spine and lower front corner), a few small stains, interior quite fine. First edition of author’s first book. Cowan, p. 24. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Smith 29); Dykes, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Western High Spots, pp. 50, 70 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #32). Edwards, Desert Harvest 1: “Mary Austin’s delightful classic of the desert stands conspicuously alone in its unique literary style and in its vivid portrayal of life on the desert;” Enduring Desert, p. 14: “Ranks among the all-time great books on California.” Graff 114. Howell, California 50:273: “The illustrations and marginal decoration by E. Boyd Smith vividly capture the atmosphere of the desert life described in this literary classic.” Howes A400. Notable American Women I, pp. 67-69: “Mary Austin determined upon a writing career. While moving with her husband from one parched desert town to another she worked at the craft and made studies of the Indians she encountered. A dozen years of ‘picking and prying’ into the mysteries of the wastelands at last crystallized in fourteen sketches which she wrote at white heat. They were published in 1903 as The Land of Little Rain, her first book, which brought her sudden renown and survives yet as a Western classic.... Mary Austin’s chief accomplishment as an author remains her treatment of the arid regions of the West and their manifold life, including that of the Indian. Her nature writings, which include permanent classics, are justly equated with those of John Muir, John Burroughs, Thoreau, and the two Bartrams.” Powell, California Classics, pp. 44-52. Zamorano 80 #2. “There was a fence in that country shutting in a cattle range, and along its fifteen miles of posts one could be sure of finding a bird or two in every strip of shadow.... None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections.... Men who have lived there, miners and cattle-men, will tell you this, not so fluently, but emphatically, cursing the land and going back to it” (p. 15-16). $375.00

175. AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1903. Another copy. Carl Hertzog’s copy with his bookplate. Fair copy only: Extremities and corners frayed, upper hinge broken (but repaired with masking tape), occasional foxing and staining to interior, front free endpaper with contemporary manuscript ownership inscription and small stamp, printed slip about author, and old pencil notes noting prices in 1945, 1955, and 1981. $200.00

176. AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company & Riverside Press, 1950. xviii [2] 133 [2] pp., 48 photoplates by Ansel Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Adams, endpaper maps. 4to, original yellow and orange cloth. Very fine in d.j. with light chipping and a few clean marginal tears. First printing of this handsome edition of Austin’s 1903 classic, enhanced by the addition of Ansel Adams’s superb photographs. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. $250.00

177. AUSTIN, Mary. One Hundred Miles on Horseback. Los Angeles: [Saul and Lillian Marks, The Plantin Press for] Dawson’s Book Shop, 1963. xiv [4] 19 [1] pp., portraits. 16mo, original tan cloth over marbled boards, paper spine label. Very small chip to lower blank margin of paper spine label, otherwise very fine. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. Limited edition (300 copies). Austin’s first published essay, reprinted from her college’s magazine, The Blackburnian (1889). Introduction by Donald P. Ringler. Account of the author’s journey in 1888 from Pasadena to the Tejon Ranch in the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley. $75.00

178. [AUSTRALIA]. [POSTCARDS]. Lot of 5 pictorial postcards illustrating scenes from ranch life in Australia. Sydney: Kerry & Company, n.d. (early twentieth century). Fine. The illustrations include: “Breaking Camp” (two cowboys urging a herd of cattle across a river): “Midday Halt” (cowboys at rest with campfire, herd in background); “Riding the Rebel” (aboriginal cowboy busting a bronco); “A Station Race” (two cowboys jumping their horses over a wooden fence); “A Kangaroo Hunt” (two cowboys giving chase to four kangaroos). These all look like they could be in the American West except for the English saddles and the kangaroo hunt. Very attractive and unusual ranching ephemera. $75.00

179. AUTRY, Gene (comp.). Western Stories. New York: Dell Publishing Company [1947]. 191 [1, ads] pp. 16mo, original multicolor pictorial wrappers. Laminated wrappers peeling, text age-toned, otherwise fine. First edition. McVicker B64 (contains “The Rider of Loma Escondida” by J. Frank Dobie). “When the publishers of this book asked me to act as editor for a collection of Western stories, I didn’t hesitate a minute. I’m no literary critic, but I’ve read lots of Western yarns and I know what I like” (from Gene Autry’s introduction entitled Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

“I Like Westerns”). Authors include Eugene Cunningham, Ross Santee, Clarence E. Mulford, et al. $10.00

180. AUTRY, George. “Much Obliged!” A Limited and Loose Collection of Gratitude and Bias, Tales and Sensations. [Fort Worth: King & Mary, 1977]. [12] 153 pp., frontispiece, illustrations by H. D. Bugbee, Ben Carlton Mead, and Sahula-Dycke. 8vo, original tan pictorial linen. Very fine in very fine d.j. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. First edition. Stories and recollections with a cowboy twist. The author was a cowboy in his youth, and his stories focus on Southwest Texas. $20.00

181. AVINI, Teresa Jones (artist). Original watercolor and charcoal drawing on grey paper illustrating a cowgirl and her horse. Austin, ca. 1986. 23.0 x 18.7 cm. Fine. This was the illustration on which Barbara Holman based the embossed cover of the limited cloth-bound edition of Sloan Catalogue 3, Women in the Cattle Country. $125.00

182. AXFORD, Joseph. Around Western Campfires. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1969]. [6] 266 pp. 12mo, original red cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Second edition (first edition New York, 1964). Adams, Burs II:4n. Guns 96n: “The life of an Arizona cowhand: ranching on the San Pedro River, his time as sheriff’s deputy and jailer in Tombstone, and his experiences as an employee of mining magnate W. C. Green.” Powell, Arizona Gathering II 116: “This edition omits some material in the original.” $10.00

183. AYDELOTTE, Frank. “The Literature of the Range Cattle Industry: A Critical Survey” in The Trail Guide 15:4 (December 1970). 19 pp. 8vo, original self-wrappers. Fine. First printing. We obtained this copy from Fred White, Sr. who wrote this note: “Presented at Kansas City Posse. At the time, Aydelotte was director of Special Collections, Spenser Library, University of Kansas. Few knew more about cow books than Frank.” $25.00

184. AYRES, Mary C. The Founding of Durango, Colorado in 1880. N.p., [1930]. 10 pp., text illustrations (some photographic). 8vo, original brown textured wrappers. Remains of paper label on inside of lower cover, otherwise fine. Signed by author. First edition. Wynar 1134. Brief mention of the cattle industry around the town in the late 1800s, noting that the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) cattle were brought from Texas, that the heyday of the roundups was from 1877 to 1887, and that afterwards the country began to be taken up by ranches. The author comments: “The cowboys added a picturesque though rough element to Durango’s early population, enacting all the wild life which we now know only in fiction and the movies.” $25.00

185. AYRES, Mary C. The Founding of Durango, Colorado in 1880. N.p., [1930]. Another copy. Very fine. $20.00

186. BABB, Jewel. Border Healing Woman. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, [1981]. xvii [1] 134 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. The story of an Anglo woman who lived most of 80 years in the isolated desert region near El Paso. She married into a wealthy ranching family that later lost its fortune; after the death of her husband, her sons were arrested for cattle smuggling. She subsequently became a widely sought healer. $20.00

187. BACA, Carlos C. de. Vicente Silva, New Mexico’s Vice King of the Nineties. N.p., [1938]. 39 pp. 16mo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Light browning along spine, otherwise very fine, with Carl Hertzog’s bookplate and book dealer’s printed catalogue description calling the book rare. First edition. Guns 103: “Rare.... The author admits he used Manuel Cabeza de Baca’s book [see below] as the basis for his own...but he does add a little new material.” $100.00

188. BACA, Carlos C. de. Vicente Silva, New Mexico’s Vice King of the Nineties. N.p., [1938]. Another copy. Text with light uniform browning, as usual (due to the poor paper on which it was printed), otherwise fine, with former owner’s pencil note on upper wrapper: “Scarce.” $90.00

189. BACA, Manuel C. de. Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits.... Translation Lane Kauffmann.... Washington, D.C.: Edward McLean, 1947. vi, 77 [1] pp., illustrations by Fanita Lanier. Small folio, original red cloth over black boards with title printed in red on upper cover. Stitching broken with split in center of book block, one stain on a text leaf and some light offsetting from illustrated chapter headings. Black d.j. somewhat worn and chipped. Presentation copy to Carl Hertzog, signed by illustrator Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) and translator and with publisher’s signed inscription: “For Carl Hertzog with all good wishes...September sixth ’57” (publisher McLean was a Colorado-based bookbinder with whom Hertzog was contemplating collaboration in the 1940s). Hertzog’s bookplate on front pastedown. First edition in English (the first edition, which was in Spanish, appeared in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in the 1890s), limited edition (500 copies printed, this copy apparently a variant presentation binding not listed on the colophon page). Guns 108: “Miss Lanier’s drawings are adapted from the illustrations of the edition in Spanish”; 106n: “The author was a police reporter for a Spanish- language newspaper in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and wrote the first account of that gang of killers.” Howes B10. Saunders 3276n. This handsomely designed book delves into the lawless ranching country of New Mexico in the late nineteenth century, vividly describing the exploits of one of its most flamboyant characters, Vicente Silva. He secretly purchased the Ojo de Monte Largo ranch, where he and his gang hid large herds of rustled cattle and horses and other plundered booty. $275.00

190. BACA, Manuel C. de. Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits.... Washington, D.C.: Edward McLean, 1947. Another copy, variant binding. Small folio, original grey cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Very fine, mostly unopened. Limited edition (500 copies printed, this being one of 300 copies bound in cloth and signed by translator and illustrator). $200.00

191. BACA, Manuel C. de. Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits.... Washington, D.C.: Edward McLean, 1947. Another copy. Other than mild foxing to blank leaf at end, very fine, unopened. Limited edition (500 copies printed, this being one of 300 copies bound in cloth and signed by translator). $175.00

192. BACA, Manuel C. de. Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits.... Washington, D.C.: Edward McLean, 1947. Another copy. A few foxmarks to fore-edges, otherwise very fine, unopened. Limited edition (500 copies). $150.00

193. BACA, Manuel C. de. Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits.... Washington, D.C.: Edward McLean, 1947. Small folio, original black French wrappers. Fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Limited edition (500 copies, this being one of 175 copies bound in wrappers). $150.00

194. BACKHOUSE, Hugo. Among the Gauchos. London: Jarrolds, [1950]. 208 pp., color frontispiece, plates, text illustrations by author. 8vo, original dark red gilt- pictorial cloth. Edges slightly foxed, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. Inscribed by Deering Davis to J. Frank Dobie: “To Frank Dobie and thanks for all the information about Spanish ponies he has given me.” Uncommon. First edition. Autobiography by an Englishman who fled to Argentina as a youth and worked his way from peon to wealthy rancher during the early 1900s. The author’s dynamic illustrations document gaucho life, and some depict unusual subjects, such as riding wild camels, pursuing ostriches with the bola, fighting wild fires on the pampas, and gaucho sports. This lively, popular book was followed by a French edition in 1953 and a Spanish edition in 1955. $150.00

195. [BACLE, Adrienne Macaire (after)]. Unsigned watercolor on rice paper depicting a gaucho on horseback tossing a lasso while coursing across the pampas in pursuit of a steer. Approximately 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Undated, but ca. 1830-1850. Other than one tiny chip at upper right blank corner and two neat archival repairs on verso (no loss of image), exceptionally fine and fresh, with excellent detail. A wonderful exhibit item offering the possibility of expanding the concept of the American cowboy beyond the Marlboro Man. This attractive, lively image of a gaucho in full native costume was made by an anonymous nineteenth-century artist based on an original painting created by Adrienne Macaire Bacle for Trages y costumbres de la Provincia de Buenos-Aires, the first lithographic book printed in Buenos Aires. Bacle and her husband, Cesár Hipólito Bacle, published their album between 1833 and 1834. The present watercolor represents a genre of travel and costume art made for travelers to Buenos Aires in the nineteenth century. Artists copied the images of Bacle, Vidal, and other artists, as found in nineteenth-century lithographed and engraved costume books. These images capturing the exotic flavor of the country and its people were sold to foreign travelers as souvenirs (the New York Public Library has an extensive collection of these paintings). Naturally, the quality of such copies varied, depending on the skill of the particular artist. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

This painting is an exceptionally fine example of this genre of travel art, exquisitely rendering extensive costume detail as well as interesting facial nuances. Already, the process of romanticizing the gaucho is in full force. The handsome, young gaucho with innocent face and wide eyes is perched comfortably on his wild-eyed black steed, who is flying through the pampas with long tail rippling in the breeze and red tongue extended. The skillful gaucho sits on his recado—a flat saddle with sheepskin that could be used as a bed at night. The gaucho’s right arm is raised high, twirling his braided lasso, which is flying in a wide circle above. He wears the striking garb of his trade: chiripá (baggy white trousers), tirador (tooled leather road belt), vincha (headband holding a red silk handkerchief fashioned into a turban over his hair and with feathers at back), short blue jacket with brass buttons, white open-throated shirt with decoration at bottom, red poncho draped over left arm, and ponderous silver spurs with his bare toes exposed next to the stirrup. The medium of watercolor on rice paper imparts a especially beautiful luminosity to this vivid image. Adrienne Pauline Macaire Bacle was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1796 and emigrated to Argentina in 1828 with her husband. They established the first lithographic shop in Buenos Aires. In 1833 the Bacles began a series of lithographed costumes of Buenos Aires, eventually publishing six parts with six lithographs in each one (though seven parts were planned). Adrienne Bacle returned to Europe after her husband's death in 1838, where she continued painting as a miniaturist (see Thieme Becker, Künstler-Lexikon, and Benezit, Diccionaire). Rodolfo Trostine notes that very little of Adrienne Bacle’s work has survived and that he had seen only one original work by her (“Bacle,” Buenos Aires: Asociación de Anticúarios, 1953, p. 65). Garaño comments in his introduction to the reprint edition of Trages y costumbres: “This repertory deserves to be classified—without detriment—in the same class as the drawings by Vidal.” The Bacles’s lithograph album, Trages y costumbres de la Provincia de Buenos-Aires, is exceptionally rare (no copies of the original listed in RLIN and only one copy and another incomplete copy in OCLC, no copy in British Museum). The lithographed album is so scarce that even the Museo Histórico Nacional in Buenos Aires had only 8 of the 43 lithographs when Alejo B. Gonzalez Garaño wrote the exhibition catalogue, Exposición de las obras de Bacle (Buenos Aires: Amigos del Arte, 1933). For more on the printed work see: Guide to the Art of Latin America, p. 270 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

(“album of engravings [sic] of Argentine life, now very rare”); Hiler, Bibliography of Costume, pp. 36, 58. $1,500.00

196. BACLE, Cesár Hipólito (lithographer). Colección general de las marcas del ganado de la provincia de Buenos- Aires. Buenos Aires: Editorial Monserrat, 1975. [28] 134 [10] [15 folding leaves of brands] pp., first leaf with illustration of a round-up and branding on the pampas. Tall folio, original unbound signatures in leather folder in slipcase. Fine. Limited edition (500 copies) of the original 1830 edition of this celebrated brand book, a cornerstone book for the cattle industry in Latin America, and an important, early milestone in the history of Argentine printing and lithography. Palau 56523n (citing the first edition). The original edition was lithographed by Bacle, who with Italian Carlos Risso introduced lithography to Argentina. The book illustrates and lists brands, names of ranches, locations, owners, dates of recording, etc. Accompanying the facsimile is a scholarly essay by Isodoro J. Ruiz Moreno. “Edición facsimilar de esta importantisima obra de Bacle tanto por su valiosa información como desde el punto de vista iconografico. Contiene, ademas de la reproducción de cada marca de ganado, el nombre de los hacendados, de las estancias y de los propietarios del terreno” (Alfredo Breitfeld). $650.00

197. BADER, Roy & Avis Bader. Kit Carson County and Its Cattlemen. N.p., [1963]. vii [1] 131 pp., brands, maps, tables. 8vo, original green illustrated wrappers. Very fine. Rare. First edition. Wynar 6416. This substantial work is divided into three sections: “The Cattlemen in Kit Carson County, Colorado,” “The Development of the County,” and “Stories of the People Who Helped Develop the County.” The third section contains firsthand accounts of pioneers, rich in social history and women’s history. Included is Anna Homm’s narrative, “A Pioneer Cattlewoman,” recounting that her husband died soon after they arrived in Kit Carson County and how she managed her ranch while raising a large family. Her six daughters were in charge of caring for the cattle. $100.00

198. BAEGERT, Johann Jakob. Observation in Lower California. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952. xx [4] 218 pp., plates, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustrations, maps. 8vo, original terracotta buckram with printed paper spine label. Very fine in d.j. First edition in English in book form (first edition Mannheim, 1772). Cowan, p. 27n. Hill, p. 13n. Graff 137n. Howes B29. LC, California 25n. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 157n. Includes chapters on livestock and agriculture after the arrival of the first Spaniards. Baegert says that despite unfavorable conditions for animal husbandry, it was essential for survival of the California missions. Includes interesting details of how the mission ranches operated, such as herding methods employed by Native American herders. $50.00

199. BAILEY, Harry H. When New Mexico Was Young by Harry H. Bailey: His Autobiography. [Las Cruces: Las Cruces Citizen, 1946]. 203 pp., photographic text illustrations. 8vo, original yellow wrappers with Bailey’s portrait. Fine. J. Frank Dobie’s copy with his pencil note: “Not truthful, a good deal of El Paso.” First edition. Guns 113. Herd 193: “This is a separate reprint from a series which ran in the Las Cruces Citizen from 1946 to 1948, which accounts for the fact that the copyright antedates the book by two years.” Mohr, Range Country 29. Bailey (b. 1868 in Kansas), spent his early years in Los Angeles, but later lived and worked in Southern New Mexico and El Paso. $85.00

200. BAILEY, L[ynn] R. The Long Walk: A History of the Navajo Wars, 1846-68. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1964. xiii [3] 252 [1] pp., maps, illustrations. 8vo, original embossed navy cloth. Fine in price-clipped d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 124. Wallace, Arizona History VI:85. The author states that the Navajo measured their status in terms of ownership of sheep and horses, and recounts how the tribe attempted to satisfy the harsh demands of the Bonneville Treaty by sending livestock to repay the New Mexicans for losses amounting to almost 6,000 animals valued at more than $14,000. $40.00

201. BAILEY, Mary Ellen Jackson. The Diary of Mary Ellen Jackson Bailey. Edited by Agnes Wright Spring [wrapper title]. N.p.: [Denver Posse of the Westerners, 1962]. Pp. 109-134, portraits, map, illustrations. 8vo, original black-and-white pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Editor’s signed presentation copy: “Best wishes to Dr. Philip W. Whiteley, who knows well the west that Ellen Bailey knew.” Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First separate printing, extract from The 1962 Brand Book of the Denver Posse of the Westerners. In 1869, as a 22-year-old bride, Bailey began keeping a diary at her Colorado ranch home at Latham on the South Platte River, which served as a gathering place for local events such as county commissioner meetings and court hearings. Herders often forded the South Platte at the Latham crossing, and Bailey mentions “Goodnight and herder stayed all night.” Good coverage of Native American uprisings. $40.00

202. BAILEY, Mary Ellen Jackson. The Diary of Mary Ellen Jackson Bailey... [wrapper title]. N.p.: [Denver Posse of the Westerners, 1962]. Another copy. Very fine, signed by editor. $35.00

203. BAILEY, Paul. Jacob Hamblin, Buckskin Apostle. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1948. xi [1] 408 pp., frontispiece, illustrations, maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Farquhar, The Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 34. Paher, Nevada 54: “A Mormon missionary and trail blazer, Jacob Hamblin was a remarkable Western frontier figure.... He worked for peace with Indians and also guided and protected emigrant caravans along the Salt Lake–Los Angeles trail.... Extracted from Hamblin’s unpublished journal and his reminiscences published in 1881 and narrated by James Little.” Wallace, Arizona History IV:58. Hamblin established a ranch in House Rock Valley, Arizona in 1873. $45.00

204. BAILEY, Paul. Walkara, Hawk of the Mountains. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, [1954]. xi [1] 185 [8] pp., portraits, illustrations. 8vo, original embossed maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Very fine in d.j. First edition, limited edition. Great and West and Indian Series 2. Wynar 1752. In the mid-19th century, Ute chief warrior Walkara struck a bold path from the Colorado River to the Pacific, from the Shoshone lands to Southern California. He was the scourge of the peaceful California ranchos, where he was known as the greatest horse thief in history. $40.00

205. BAILEY, Philip A. Golden Mirages: The Story of the Lost Pegleg Mine, the Legendary Three Gold Buttes, and Yarns of and by Those Who Know the Desert. New York: Macmillan, 1940. xvii [11] 353 [5] pp., frontispiece, 24 plates, 9 maps. 8vo, original gilt-lettered navy blue Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) cloth. Fine in price-clipped d.j. Signed “W. J. Dermody, Ogden, Utah.” First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 17: “Rivets one’s attention all the way from the artistic dust wrapper to the conclusion of the last chapter.... A classic in the realm of lost-treasure tales.” Paher, Nevada 55: “Much archival research and informal interviews with prospectors led to the writing of this well-documented book on lost and found treasures, chiefly in southern California. It is considered a classic study.... Good reading. Scarce in first edition.” Contains a good deal on Warner’s Ranch. $45.00

206. BAILLIE-GROHMAN, W. A. Camps in the Rockies: Being a Narrative of Life on the Frontier and Sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an Account of the Cattle Ranches of the West. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. viii, 438 [4, ads] 32 (ads) pp., frontispiece, plates, folding map of Idaho and Wyoming. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Somewhat worn, upper hinge cracked, map with one tear, but generally very good. Pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First English edition (Scribner’s published the American edition the same year). Athearn, Westward the Briton, p. 188: “The author made repeated hunting trips in the West and Northwest and his writings are among the best of the British who came here. His Camps is by far the most useful of his books and is based primarily upon his experiences among the Rockies, particularly in Wyoming, during the winter of 1880-1881. He had been there before—in 1879.” Dobie, p. 150: “A true sportsman, Baillie-Grohman was more interested in living animals than in just killing.” Herd 194. Phillips, American Sporting Books, p. 30. Reese 67:39: “The author has not been given enough credit for his role as a booster of investments in cattle to English investors.... ‘Camps in Cowboyland’ promotes vigorously. Rumor has it that the author was slow to pay his bills, and was not a ‘gentleman.’” Smith 434. $200.00

207. BAIRD, Joseph Armstrong. California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1967. 171 [2] pp., 59 plates (4 folding), 1 folding facsimile in rear pocket. Folio, original red morocco over red-and-white decorated boards. Very fine in plain white d.j. First edition, limited edition (475 copies). Grabhorn- Hoyem 6. Howell 50, California 1289: “The standard work on the first two decades of California’s pictorial letter Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) sheets, listing 343 items, of which 60 are reproduced in full and tinted to resemble the original paper on which they were printed. The letter sheets are an extremely important visual source for California’s early history.” Includes illustrations of a few scenes related to life on California ranchos. $250.00

208. BAIRD, Josie. Tom Bond: Bronc-Buster, Cow-Poke, and Trail Driver. Sweetwater, Texas: Watson-Focht Company, [1960]. x, 135 pp., portraits, text illustrations. 8vo, original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Light shelf wear, some discoloration to edges of upper cover, endpapers foxed, otherwise very good in foxed and price-clipped d.j. First edition. Guns 116. J. T. (“Tom”) Bond (1866- 1947) was born in Central Texas and worked as a cowboy in the 1880s, going on the last long trail drive to Miles City with the Matadors. $40.00

209. BAKARICH, Sarah Grace. Gun-Smoke. N.p., 1947. 153 pp. 16mo, original red pictorial wrappers, stapled. Book block detached from lower wrapper (as usual), otherwise fine, signed by author. First edition. Guns 118: “This little book deals with the gunmen and outlaws of Tombstone, Arizona.” Wallace, Arizona History X:38. The violent side of cowboy and ranch life, with material on cattleman Phil Clanton, cowboys Billy Claibourne and Billy King, and a host of desperados and their victims. $45.00

210. BAKARICH, Sarah Grace. Gun-Smoke. N.p., 1947. Another copy. Small stain on upper wrapper. $37.50

211. BAKARICH, Sarah Grace. Gunsmoke: The True Story of Old Tombstone. Tombstone: Tombstone Press, 1954. 197 pp. 16mo, original red pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Second edition. $25.00

212. BAKER, Inez. Yesterday in Hall County, Texas. Memphis, Texas: Privately printed, 1940. [10] 219 pp., portraits. 8vo, original blue cloth decorated and lettered in silver. Very fine in d.j. First edition. CBC 2154. Herd 196: “Much on cattle, cowboys, and ranch life.” King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 13: “Interviews with men and women about the early days in Hall County, Texas.” Excellent Panhandle history. $125.00

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213. BAKER, James H. & LeRoy R. Hafen (eds.). History of Colorado.... Denver: Linderman Company, 1927. 5 vols., complete, plates, portraits, maps, illustrations. 8vo, original green morocco over green cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Very fine, bright set. First edition. Herd 197. Wilcox, p. 30: “Vol. 1-3 paged continuously; vol. 4-5 contain biographical material written and edited by the publishers.” Wynar 22. Comprehensive history of Colorado prepared under the supervision of the State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado. Includes a chapter on the history of livestock in Colorado by Alvin T. Steinel (pp. 645-94). $225.00

214. BAKER, James H. & LeRoy R. Hafen (eds.). History of Colorado.... Denver: Linderman Company, 1927. Another set in variant binding of red leather over brown cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Light shelf wear (especially at corners), otherwise fine. $200.00

215. BAKER, Marvel L. & Guy N. Baker. The Use of Various Pastures in Producing Finished Yearling Steers. N.p.: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nebraska, Bulletin 414, October 1952 [1953]. 12 pp., photographic illustration. 8vo, original photographic wrappers printed in green, stapled. Very fine. First issue, second printing. $15.00

216. BAKER, M[arvel] L., Leslie E. Johnson, & Russell L. Davis. Beef Cattle Breeding Research at Fort Robinson. N.p.: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nebraska, Misc. Pub. 1, April, 1952. 7 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original wrappers with photographic illustration, stapled. Very fine. First issue. Includes information on Fort Robinson, the Red Cloud Indian reservation converted to a military reservation and then to a cattle research station. $20.00

217. BAKER, T. Lindsay. Blades in the Sky: Windmilling through the Eyes of B. H. “Tex” Burdick. [Lubbock]: Texas Tech University Press, [1992]. [8] xvi, 107 [4] pp., numerous photographic illustrations. Small 4to, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Uses the story of “Tex” Burdick as an example of the importance of windmills for early ranchers. $15.00

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218. BAKER, T. Lindsay. A Field Guide to American Windmills. Norman & London: University of Oklahoma Press, [1991]. xii, 516 pp., copiously illustrated (mostly documentary photographs). Oblong 4to, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. Author’s signed presentation copy: “There is no more placid view of the world than that afforded from the top a windmill tower....” First edition, third printing (first printing, 1985). The hands-down authoritative encyclopedia of the windmill and its history, with much collateral material on ranching, including documentary photographs of the XIT and other ranches. $100.00

219. BAKKER, Elna & Richard G. Lillard. The Great Southwest: The Story of a Land and Its People. Palo Alto: American West, [1972]. 283 [4] pp., maps, illustrations (many in color). 4to, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j. From the library of Carl Hertzog, with his bookplate. First edition. Contains a chapter on “Metal Fever and Money on the Hoof.” $20.00

220. BALDRIDGE, M. A Reminiscence of the Parker H. French Expedition through Texas and Mexico to California in the Spring of 1850. Los Angeles: Privately printed, 1959. [14] 52 pp., folding map. Small 8vo, original pale blue boards, spine gilt-lettered. Very fine. First book edition (originally published as a series of articles for the San Jose Pioneer, August-December, 1895), limited edition (#244 of 300 copies. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 30. Mintz, The Trail 516: “Best account of this famous story of overland travel across the southern part of the country. The problems, misery, and frustrations are here revealed much more emotionally than in the better known book by William Miles.” Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “Parker French concocted an elaborate hoax in which he led a group of emigrants from New York to California, by way of Texas and Mexico.” A colorful episode in southern overland history with references to the band of cattle bought to be driven with the train (and subsequent sale of the stock to French and American traders when the party split); ranching and stockraising along the route (including a ranch with a reputed 55,000 head of cattle in northern Mexico); saddlery; Native Americans hunting wild cattle near El Paso; and difficulties of crossing the Pecos with stock and how a government train just ahead of them had lost 30 head of stock. $65.00

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221. BALDWIN, Sara Mullin & Robert Morton Baldwin (eds.). Nebraskana: Biographical Sketches of Nebraska Men and Women of Achievement.... Hebron, Nebraska: The Baldwin Company, 1932. [6] 1,374 [2] pp., portraits. Thick 4to, original embossed green cloth. Very fine. Uncommon. First edition. Biographical entries of the life members in the Nebraskana Society with copious portraits of individual members. Includes biographies of many ranchers and stockraisers. Rich in Midwestern social history, with portraits and biographies of many women. $150.00

222. BALL, Eve. Ma’am Jones of the Pecos. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1969]. xiv, 238 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Guns 122. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 13: “An excellent biography of Barbara (‘Ma’am’) Jones, who moved to New Mexico in 1866; she befriended all of her neighbors—the Apaches, the Mexicans, the Outlaws, including William Bonney (Billy the Kid).” Jones raised 10 children on a ranch during the Lincoln County War. $85.00

223. BALL, John. John Ball, Member of the Wyeth Expedition to the Pacific Northwest, 1832 and Pioneer in the Old Northwest: Autobiography Compiled by His Daughters Kate Ball Powers, Flora Ball Hopkins, and Lucy Ball. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. xi [1] 231 pp., portraits. 8vo, original gilt-lettered dark green cloth. Very fine in d.j. (with portrait of author; front inner flap excised). Second printing, with Clark cancel title. See Clark & Brunet, p. 222. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 17. Graff 152. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 15n. Smith 475. Plains & Rockies IV:53n. Ball accompanied Captain Nathaniel Wyeth during the 1832 expedition to Oregon. He gives a good description of lassoing a wild bullock, discusses immense herds of buffalo and wild horses in the West, and mentions the hide trade. He also visited Sutter’s fort. $125.00

224. BANCROFT, Caroline. Trail Ridge Country: The Romantic History of Estes Park and Grand Lake. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Co., [1968]. 70 pp., portraits, illustrations. 8vo, original red wrappers with photographic illustration. Very fine. Scarce. First edition. Wynar 1019, 1162. Colorado local history commencing with an account of Estes Park and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) pioneer Joel Estes who established a ranch on Fish Creek in 1866 that was later acquired by Lord Dunraven; Isabella Bird visited in 1873 and illustrates the ranch in her classic book. Also discusses the MacGregor ranch in Black Canyon, and Griff Evans’s ranch, which became the first dude ranch in Colorado. $35.00

225. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848, Including Inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and List of Pioneers. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1964. 392 pp. 8vo, original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Very fine in d.j. First separate edition (extract from The History of California). Many biographies of individuals involved in ranching in California from the Spanish era to the late nineteenth century. $65.00

226. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. History of the Life of William Gilpin: A Character Study. San Francisco: The History Co., 1889. [4] 62 pp., steel-engraved frontispiece portrait, double-page color map. 8vo, original gilt-lettered navy blue cloth without gilt rule on upper cover. Minor cover wear, light offsetting to title from inserted clippings, otherwise internally fine. William Gilpin’s signed presentation copy to Emma M. Herr, with several related news clippings inserted (clippings browned). First edition. Wynar 7206. Gilpin first crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843 with the Frémont expedition and remained involved with the Rocky Mountain West, becoming one of its most passionate boosters. He was an early advocate of the Pacific Railway, and later became governor of Colorado Territory. This biography addresses Gilpin’s interest in the potential of the cattle industry as part of his grand vision of the future of the United States. Documented is Gilpin’s speculative acquisition of Mexican land grants. In 1862 he took steps to acquire Baca Grant Float No. 4, consisting of 100,000 acres in the San Luis Valley in the border region between Colorado and New Mexico. In 1864, Gilpin embarked upon an even more ambitious acquisition, the 1,038,195.55-acre Sangre de Cristo grant on the Cimarron River in the southern part of the San Luis Valley. Gilpin purchased the Sangre de Cristo Rancho from the heirs of Charles Beaubien, who had partnered with Kit Carson, Lucien Maxwell, and others. Ranching and rodeo continue to play a major role in the area today. $300.00

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227. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. History of the Life of William Gilpin.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1889. Another copy in variant gilt-lettered navy blue cloth with one double gilt rule. Light outer wear, hinges cracked, interior fine. Inscribed by Gilpin: “Compliments & regards of William Gilpin Denver May 31st 1890.” $250.00

228. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. History of the Life of William Gilpin.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1889. Another copy in variant gilt-lettered navy blue cloth with two double gilt rules. Light cover wear, otherwise fine. $225.00

229. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co. and The History Company, 1882-90. 39 vols., complete, maps, illustrations. 8vo, original three-quarter sheep over marbled boards, spines extra gilt with red and green morocco labels, spines with gilt-stamped ownership of Clyde C. Dawson, marbled edges. An excellent, handsome set, fine and bright, with only minor shelf wear. This set is difficult to find complete, in fine condition, in a desirable binding, and in first edition. First edition. Basic Texas Books 6 (citing the vols. on Texas and Northern Mexico): “A century after it was written, this remains one of the best single histories of Texas.” Cowan, p. 33: “As time passes and prejudice drifts into obscurity, these works become more strongly entrenched each year. For scholars and investigators they will always remain the greatest source of authority.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 19-20: “Whether it be desert, mountain, lake or river, Bancroft describes it. No important character or event escapes his scrutiny. Any listing of desert material dares not omit the inclusion of Bancroft without impairing its effectiveness as a medium of reference.” Flake 282-84, 285, 289, 290, 292. Graff 155. Herd 201-203. Howes B91: “Colossal co-operative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in the country.” McCracken, 101, p. 20. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. Paher, Nevada 68. Palau 32185. Smith 530. Tate, Indians of Texas 146, 1294. Tweney, Washington 89 #4. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 10. Wynar 8. Zamorano 80 #3 (citing vols. 18-24, on California). Adams (Herd) gives individual entries for Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth, History of Arizona and New Mexico, and History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. However, copious references to ranching are found in many of the volumes, especially California and Texas. $3,500.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

230. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works.... New York, etc.: McGraw-Hill, et al., [1967]. 39 vols., complete. 8vo, original black cloth. Upper hinge of vol. 1 cracked, otherwise fine. Reprint. $750.00

231. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Alaska.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1886. xxxviii, 775 pp., maps (one folding). 8vo, original tree sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled edges. Lower 5 cm of upper joint split, some binding wear and a few stains, interior very fine. First edition. Arctic Bibliography 1023. Smith 509. Wickersham 4048. The section on Ft. Ross discusses the stockraising industry and difficulties caused by Native Americans and wild beasts. The Alaska volume of Bancroft’s Works is one of the more difficult to procure. Includes a bibliography of Alaska with 534 entries. $125.00

232. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Arizona and New Mexico.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1889. xxxviii, 829 pp., maps (one foldout). San Francisco: The History Co., 1889. 8vo, original brown blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Very fine and bright. First edition. Campbell, p. 166. Flake 282. Guns 126. Herd 202. Laird, Hopi 114: “Basic reading for anyone interested in the Hopi.” Powell, Arizona Gathering II 131: “Forewords by Senators Clinton P. Anderson and Barry Goldwater.” Paher, Nevada 69. Rittenhouse 19. Saunders 3857. Wallace, Arizona History 8. Essential source on the Spanish Southwest. $150.00

233. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Arizona and New Mexico.... Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, 1962. 19 [1] xxxviii, 829 [1] pp., maps. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. Facsimile of the first edition (San Francisco, 1889). $65.00

234. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of British Columbia.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1887. xxxi [1] 792 pp., maps (one foldout). 8vo, original tree sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled edges. Moderate shelf wear at spinal extremities, edges, and corners, interior very fine. First edition. Smith 511. Includes a section on stockraising, noting that the southern portion of the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) mainland interior east of the Fraser River is considered the most favorable. $75.00

235. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1890. xxxii, 828 pp., text maps. 8vo, original tree sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled edges. Binding chafed and peeling at edges, lower joint starting, interior fine. First edition. Flake 284. Guns 127. Herd 203. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. Paher, Nevada 70: “Reliable history of the early explorers to the first Nevada settlements in the early 1850’s through the beginning of statehood up to the date of publication.... Large chapters discuss the passage of the emigrants, the Comstock, state government, Indian wars, early development of transportation, agriculture and social institutions.... The footnotes contain much useful and unusual information.... A cornerstone of any Nevada book collection.” Wynar 8. Even in his introduction, Bancroft discusses the excellence of the region, especially Wyoming, for stockraising and grazing. $125.00

236. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Oregon.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1888. xxxix [1] 789 + xv [1] 808 pp., maps (one foldout). 2 vols., 8vo, original tree sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled edges. Bindings stained and scuffed, text fine. Publisher’s ad for the book laid in. First edition. Smith 515. Good coverage of stockraising beginning with establishment of the Willamette Cattle Company, 1836-37. $100.00

237. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Pastoral California.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1888. vi, 808 pp.. 8vo, original tree sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled edges. Upper joint split, binding abraded and worn as often happens with this cheap sheep, a bit of minor water staining to the first few leaves, otherwise internally fine. First edition. Not in Herd. Four of the chapters are replete with information on ranching: “Pastures and Fields”; “Food Dress, Dwellings, and Domestic Routine”; “Amusements”; and “Occupations and Industries.” Introduction of cattle into California; ranchos on the missions; statistics on cattle raising starting in 1834; the lasso; stock regulations; horses for men and women; irrigation; typical California rancho; equipage and attire; fandangos; bull and bear fights; horsemanship; leather Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) works; hide trade; crimes of Joaquín Murieta and other rustlers. $75.00

238. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Utah.... San Francisco: The History Co., 1889. xlvii [1] 808 pp., maps. 8vo, original tree sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled edges. Binding stained, interior fine. First edition. Flake 286. Paher, Nevada 71: “Since most of present Nevada belonged to Utah territory during 1850-1861, there is Nevada material interspersed in this volume.” Cattle and sheep raising are covered in the chapter on “Agriculture, Stock-Raising, Manufactures, and Mining.” $100.00

239. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Utah.... San Francisco: The History Company, 1890. xlvii [1] 808 pp., 24 plates (7 in color, 5 steel-engraved, 12 photoengraved), maps and text illustrations, photo- engravings, and 22 text maps. Thick 8vo, original red gilt- pictorial cloth. Binding worn and stained, hinges cracked, but the interior is fine and clean other than a bit of light water staining to frontispiece. Early reprint, with numerous plates that did not appear in previous printings. Flake 287. $100.00

240. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Utah.... San Francisco: The History Company, 1890. xlvii [1] 808 pp., maps. 8vo, original purple cloth. A worn and shaken copy, paper brittle and chipped. Early reprint. $35.00

241. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works...History of Utah.... Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, [1964]. xlvii [1] 808 pp., maps, text illustrations. 8vo, original black buckram. Very fine in price-clipped d.j. Bookcraft reprint edition. $40.00

242. BANDELIER, Adolphe F. & Edgar L. Hewett. Indians of the Rio Grande Valley. [Albuquerque]: University of New Mexico Press, [1937]. [2] 274 pp., frontispiece, plates (some black-and-white photographic, others color illustrations). 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Other than light shelf wear, a fine copy. First edition. Campbell, p. 112. Saunders 1443. The authors delve quite deeply into various Native American grazing enterprises (cattle, sheep, and goats) and also Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) provide information on the role that buffalo played in day- to-day life. $100.00

243. BANDINI, Arturo & Gwladys Louise Williams. Navidad: A Christmas Day with the Early Californians [and] Pastorela: A Shepherd’s Play.... San Francisco: California Historical Society, [1958]. [4] 50 pp., 2 illustrations after Posada’s woodcuts, text decorations by Clement Hurd. 8vo, original burgundy pictorial cloth. Light ex-library, with ink stamp of Brigham Young University Library on title verso, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Upper cover lightly discolored, but generally a fine and bright unopened copy. First edition in book form (originally published in the Californian Illustrated Magazine in December 1892). Short Christmas entertainment written by Arturo Bandini of the famous ranchero family of Bandinis. The introduction has good details on the horses and elaborate equipage used by ranchers and vaqueros in pastoral California. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. $10.00

244. BANDINI, José. A Description of California in 1828. Translated by Doris Marion Wright. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1951. [2] viii, 52 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait of author, one other portrait. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (400 copies) of a previously unpublished manuscript in the Bancroft. This account in Spanish and English is replete with details on stockraising in the California missions along with material on the hide trade. The author (1771-1859) was a Spanish- born sea captain who became a California ranchero and social-political leader in the San Diego and Los Angeles region. He gives an account of California and its prospects and resources in 1828. $75.00

245. BANG, Roy T. Heroes without Medals: A Pioneer History of Kearney County, Nebraska. Minden, Nebraska: Warp Publishing, 1952. [10] 286 pp., numerous photographic illustrations. Large 4to, original brown textured cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (#11 of 200 copies). Local history with excellent social history, biographies, and some information on stockraising (photographs of sod houses, including the George Nickel Ranch seven miles south of Kearney; discussion and photographs of Walker’s Ranch, which served as the community center for Oneida Township in the early days; photographs of champion Herefords raised by the Madsens in the 1950s, etc.). $65.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

246. BANKS, Homer. The Story of San Clemente, the Spanish Village. [San Clemente], n.d. (ca. 1930). [8] 80 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 4to, original red cloth. Binding a bit dull and lightly shelf worn, endsheets with mild foxing, small section torn away from lower pastedown. First edition. Rocq 6138. Well-illustrated local history, with details on rodeo, hide trade, ranching origins, early ranchers, horsemanship, etc. $25.00

247. BANNON, John Francis. The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1974]. x [2] 308 pp., maps, illustrations. 8vo, original maize pictorial wrappers. Fine. Second edition (first edition 1963). Tate, Indians of Texas 1679n. Wynar 155n. Good general history of the borderlands, with some information on ranching in the missions, hide and tallow trade in California, etc. $15.00

248. BANTA, Albert Franklin. Albert Franklin Banta: Arizona Pioneer. Albuquerque: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1953. [2] 143 pp. 8vo, original yellow wrappers. Fine. First edition. Publications in History, vol. 14; edited by Frank D. Reeve. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 140: “Memoirs of a pioneer newspaperman, guide, prospector, and man of all trades who came to Arizona in 1863 and died at Prescott in 1924.” Wallace, Arizona History IX:23. In the winter of 1864 Banta herded stock for $7.50 a month for R. E. Farrington in the perilous Apache lands of Arizona Territory. $45.00

249. BANTA, William & J. W. Caldwell, Jr. Twenty-Seven Years on the Texas Frontier.... Council Hill, Oklahoma: Privately printed, [1933]. [8] 224 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original embossed red cloth lettered in white. Fine, with one manuscript correction. Rare in cloth. Second edition, revised by L. G. Park (first edition Austin, 1893). Dobie, p. 59. Howes B109. Tate, Indians of Texas 2353: “A frontiersman’s personal account of fights with Comanches during the 1850s and 1860s.... A stereotypical chapter on Comanche culture is filled with the popular biases of the day.” Vandale 9n. Banta (b. 1827) moved with his family to Clarksville, Texas, in 1829, and later lived in Austin, Lamar County, Hunt County, Gillespie County, Kerr County, and Burnet County; in the latter he organized the Burnet County minutemen who fought regional Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Native Americans between 1850 and 1859 to protect the interests of ranchers. Banta established the second ranch in the Burnet area. Most of the encounters between the settlers and Native Americans occurred during roundups, and at least one incident is described in which Native Americans attacked a cattle drive. $200.00

250. BANTA, William & J. W. Caldwell, Jr. Twenty-Seven Years on the Texas Frontier.... Council Hill, Oklahoma: Privately printed, [1933]. Another copy, wrappers issue. 12mo, original goldenrod printed wrappers. A very fine, fresh copy. $60.00

251. [BARBED WIRE]. Photocopies of 3 articles on the history of barbed wire: (1) PELLETT, Kent. “When Iowans Battled for Barbed Wire” in Des Moines Sunday Register (January 21, 1940); (2) VANDENBURG, C. M. Typescript from Wire Magazine (February 1936); (3) WARREN, Arthur G. “Barbed Wire—Who Invented It?” in Iron Age (June 24, 1926). Fine. With the articles is a TLs to Dudley R. Dobie from Sheffield Steel in Kansas City regarding samples of barbed wire. $30.00

252. BARBOT, W. A. (comp.). Souvenir Album of 1891, City of Denver Colo. [wrapper title]. Denver: Collier & Cleaveland Litho. Co., [1890]. [1] 30 leaves, toned lithographs (city views, architecture, manufactures, mining, Berkeley Lake). Oblong 8vo, original pictorial wrapper, stitched (lower wrap absent). Fragile wrapper worn, mild to moderate staining (primarily affecting upper blank margin of first 10 or so leaves). Rare. First edition. Wynar 2302. Ephemeral, well-illustrated Denver and Colorado promotional. Stockraising in Colorado is discussed at p. 28, and statistics are provided (e.g., the estimated number of cattle in Colorado in 1889 was 769,823 valued at $7,053,370.70). $200.00

253. BARD, Floyd C. Dude Wrangler, Hunter, Line Rider.... As Told to Agnes Wright Spring. Denver: Sage Books, n.d. (ca. 1962). 100 pp., photographic plates, facsimile. 8vo, original blue cloth. Light discoloration to binding, otherwise fine in d.j. First edition. A continuation of the author’s autobiography, Horse Wrangler (see item 255 herein), this volume includes Bard’s activities in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. $35.00

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254. BARD, Floyd C. Dude Wrangler, Hunter, Line Rider.... Denver: Sage Books, n.d. (ca. 1962). Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original multicolor pictorial wrappers. Fine. Ownership inscription on half-title. $25.00

255. BARD, Floyd C. Horse Wrangler: Sixty Years in the Saddle in Wyoming and Montana...As Told to Agnes Wright Spring. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1960]. xi [1] 296 pp., illustrated title by Eggenhofer, photographic plates, map. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. illustrated by Joe Beeler. Presentation copy, inscribed, dated, and signed by Spring: “To Lucretia and Steve Payne who know and love the Old West.” First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Beeler 33), (Eggenhofer 26). Guns 136: “Material on the Johnson County War, Nate Champion, Nick Ray, Jim Averill, and Cattle Kate Watson.” Mohr, The Range Country 628. Smith S2535. $65.00

256. BARD, Floyd C. Horse Wrangler.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1960]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. Signed by Bard and Spring. $65.00

257. BARD, Floyd C. Horse Wrangler.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1960]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. $50.00

258. BARKER, Elliott S. When the Dogs Bark “Treed”: A Year on the Trails of the Longtails. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1946. xviii, 209 pp., photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Campbell, p. 141. Dobie, p. 168: “Mainly on mountain lions, but firsthand observations on other predatory animals also.” Herd 205. The rancher-author grew up on a ranch in the mountains of New Mexico and worked in the Forest Service and later as State Game Warden. During his tenure as director of Game and Fish, Bard reintroduced elk into New Mexico and created the concept of Smokey the Bear. In the late 1940s a forest fire killed a mother bear and severely injured her cub. The young bear was found and taken to Santa Fe. Barker agreed with his colleagues that the cub was living proof of the need to prevent forest fires and sent the cub on to Washington, D.C. He sometimes referred to himself as the “Stepdaddy of Smokey the Bear.” $50.00

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259. BARKER, Eugene C. (ed.). Texas History for High Schools and Colleges. Dallas: The Southwest Press, [1929]. x, 653 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth. Endpapers browned, otherwise fine in the scarce d.j. (chipped). First edition. Two chapters cover ranching exclusively: “Life on a Typical Texas Ranch” by Harley True Burton and “Managing a Trail Herd” by Charles Goodnight. Includes pieces by Walter Prescott Webb (“The Texas Rangers”), W. C. Holden (“The Development of Agriculture in West Texas”), Charles Ramsdell, E. W. Winkler, Carlos E. Castañeda, James K. Greer, Herbert E. Bolton, Noah Smithwick, Stephen F. Austin, et al. $40.00

260. BARKER, Ruth Laughlin. Caballeros: The Romance of Santa Fe and the Southwest. New York & London: Appleton, 1931. [10] 379 [3] pp., frontispiece, illustrations by Norma van Sweringen. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very light shelf wear, spine slightly faded, otherwise fine. First edition. Campbell, p. 120: “Descriptive of the Spanish influence in New Mexico. A classic.” Dobie, p. 42. Saunders 3280n: “Spanish elements in the culture of Santa Fe.” Mentions horses, equipage, cattle, cowboys, sheep raising, rustling, Lincoln County War, etc. $30.00

261. BARKER, S. Omar. Songs of the Saddlemen. Denver: Sage Books, [1954]. 112 pp., illustrations by Bugbee. 8vo, original pale green cloth. Other than occasional mild foxing to endpapers and covers, overall very good in fine d.j. First edition. Campbell, p. 224: “Barker is a great lover of New Mexico and his native mountains. Though the author of prose books and innumerable pieces of magazine fiction and articles, he began as a poet. His stories deal with the range life he knows so well and are notable for sympathetic treatment of his Spanish-American neighbors. His ballads are indigenous, as genuine and genial as their author himself.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #83: “These poems are fun to read yet ranch-raised Omar wrote them true to the life on the range and trail.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 14); Western High Spots, p. 6 (“Collecting Modern Western Americana”): “Will be appreciated by all who love horses, cattle, grass and blue skies”; p. 83 (“A Range Man’s Library”). $40.00

262. BARKLEY, Mary Starr. History of Travis County and Austin, 1839-1899. [Waco: Texian Press, 1963]. vii [1] 388 pp., photographic plates, maps. 8vo, original blue cloth. Fine in d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. CBC 4361. Guns 139. Pp. 259-63 contain a section on “Cattle—Cattle Brands,” with discussion of cattle drives through Austin, early cattlemen and ranches, and a list of cattle brands. One story describes a drive of 600 cattle over the Congress Avenue bridge in which a stampede occurred, causing the bridge to collapse, drowning 185 cattle. $75.00

263. BARLER, Miles. “Early Days in Llano” [wrapper title]. [Llano?], n.d. (ca. 1915). 76 pp. 16mo, original brown wrappers. Very fine. Third edition (the first edition, consisting of 68 pp., was published in Llano in 1898 and is known only by one copy); OCLC locates 4 copies of the second edition (76 pp.), ca. 1905 (Vandale 10). CBC 3031. Guns 140. Herd 206. Howes B141. Vandale 10n. Collection of articles originally published in the Llano Times containing reminiscences of an Ohioan who came to Texas in 1850 with the Oatmans and worked as a cowboy in Bastrop County with Grandpa Oatman and then Col. Bunton. After accumulating a hundred head of cattle, he settled in Llano County in 1857. Cowboy life, Indian fights, outlaws, rustlers, bear hunts, Civil War, etc. $60.00

264. BARLOW, Bill. Sagebrush Philosophy. Douglas, Wyoming: Budget Printshop, 1905-1910. 23 issues (unpaginated, but each with approximately 30 pp.). 16mo, original pictorial wrappers in various colors. Fine to very fine, mostly unopened. First printings. The Douglas, Wyoming author rambles through diverse subjects with occasional mention of ranching, trail drives, and Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show. However, the emphasis is on the author’s unique brand of humor. The back wrapper of each issue prints his philosophy: “Some Scintillating Solecisms, done into a bibliomag of Wyoming Song for esoteric absorption, the which as a remedy for bile, basaltic bigotry and bated breath might help just a little. The whole printed on prickly pear papyrus, in ye commonwealth of Wyoming, bailiwick of Douglas.” Issues are 1905 (August, September); 1906 (June); 1907 (June); 1908 (July, October, December); 1909 (January, March, June, July, August, September, October); 1910 (January, February, March, May, June, July, September, October, November). $75.00

265. BARNARD, Evan G. A Rider of the Cherokee Strip. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1936. xviii [2] 233 pp., Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) frontispiece portrait, photographic plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Adams, Burs I:19: “An interesting book about the author’s own experiences on the frontiers of Texas and Oklahoma as a cowboy.” Campbell, p. 84: “Though not so dramatic as some, it gives perhaps a truer picture than most—with much detail, lively humor, and a few memorable characters. Early cattle drives, the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 5. Dobie, p. 96: “Savory with little incidents and cowboy humor.” Guns 141. Herd 207. Howes B147. Rader 270. Autobiography by Barnard, who describes his life as a cowpuncher from 1882 in Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Strip. Edited by Edward Everett Dale. $90.00

266. BARNARD, Evan G. A Rider of the Cherokee Strip. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1936. Another copy. Fine, d.j. not present. $65.00

267. BARNARD, Upton. Jake Bell: Range Rider. San Antonio: Naylor, [1954]. vii [1] 172 pp. 8vo, original tan buckram. Fine in price-clipped d.j. First edition. Novel about a “lone cowhand who followed the Mesquite Trail,” set in the early 1870s in Central Texas, based on the Stephenville author’s experiences as a cowboy and rancher. Dudley Dobie felt that the book was so true to life that Adams should have included it in Herd. $25.00

268. BARNARD, Upton. Livery Stable Days. San Antonio: Naylor, [1959]. x, 186 pp., frontispiece photograph of author standing in front of his livery stable. 8vo, original ivory pictorial cloth. Upper fore-edge lightly foxed, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. First edition. Historical vignettes based on the cowboy author’s experiences while operating a livery stable at Teague, Texas. An appendix listing livery persons of Texas and their post-livery careers indicates that a goodly number subsequently were involved in the cattle trade. Includes Belle Starr, the alleged cattle rustler. $10.00

269. BARNES, Charles M. Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes Sung in Song and Told in Story. San Antonio: Guessaz & Ferlet, 1910. 268 pp., color frontispiece of Onderdonk’s Alamo painting, photographic illustrations. Large 8vo, original pale blue cloth. Binding with moderate wear and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) light staining, occasional foxing to text, overall very good, much better than usually found. First edition. CBC 279. Howes B152. In addition to the Anglocentric rendering of the Texas Revolution and much out-of-the-way local history of San Antonio, the book contains a photograph of Uncle Jim Dobie and “Old Champion,” his famous longhorn steer (p. 126), Capt. Will H. Edgar’s firsthand narrative of rounding up wild mustangs in 1858 during a trip from Corpus Christi to Brownsville, and accounts of the early Texas cattle barons and the cattle trade. $100.00

270. BARNES, Grace & Beth Gault. So This Is Langtry. Boerne: Toepperwein, [1946]. 32 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by both authors. First edition. CBC 4543. Includes the story of a cowpuncher accused of riding a stolen horse; he eluded Judge Bean’s rope necktie by claiming that he had seen Lily Langtry at the Orpheum in Chicago when he went up the trail. The latter part relates the purchase of the Bean property by rancher W. I. Babb and his family. $25.00

271. BARNES, Robert J. Conrad Richter. Austin: Steck- Vaughn Company, [1968]. iv, 44 pp. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Southwest Writers Series 14. Biography, literary criticism, and brief bibliography. Richter wrote one of the classics of ranching fiction, The Sea of Grass. $15.00

272. BARNES, Will C. Apaches and Longhorns: The Reminiscences of Will C. Barnes. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank C. Lockwood. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1941. xxiii [1] 210 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 8vo, original ecru pictorial cloth. Very fine in the scarce d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 6. Dobie, p. 96. Graff 189: “A grand book of Arizona experiences.” Guns 142. Herd 208. Reese, Six Score 7n: “Interesting autobiography.” Saunders 3012. Barnes (1858-1936) was an Indian fighter turned cowman who took part in the struggles between cowmen and sheepmen in the 1880s. Later he served in the Arizona legislature and became Chief of Grazing in the Forest Service under Gifford Pinchot. See Thrapp (I, pp. 64-65). Barnes also co-authored (with William McLeod Raine) Cattle (1930). $125.00

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273. BARNES, Will C. Arizona Place Names. Tucson: University of Arizona General Bulletin No. 2, 6:1, January 1, 1935. 503 pp. 8vo, original beige wrappers. Wrapper barely creased and rubbed, internally very fine. First edition. Clark, Arizona, p. 46. Wallace, Arizona History 40. The cowman-author includes details on ranches, such as number of cattle, geographic features, history, etc. “Barnes was able and prolific writer, but is best known perhaps for his compendium, Arizona Place Names, one of the earliest such dictionaries, and still possibly the most thorough and readable. His initial edition was much more useful and entertaining than revisions of his work have been” (Thrapp, I, p. 64). $65.00

274. BARNES, Will C. “On the Trail of the Vanishing Longhorn” in Saturday Evening Post 200:16 (October 15, 1927). Pp. 9, 121-22, 127. 4to, original pictorial wrappers with color illustration. Wrappers detached, marginal chipping. J. Frank Dobie’s copy, with his ink inscription at top margin noting Barnes’s essay. First printing. Illustrated article giving a history of Spain’s introduction of cattle to America, the rise and decline of the longhorn in Texas, and the successful campaign by the U.S. Forest Service to save the breed from extinction. Includes illustration of brands. $25.00

275. BARNES, Will C. The Story of the Range: An Account of the Occupation of the Public Domain Ranges by the Pioneer Stockmen, the Effect on the Forage and the Land of Unrestricted Grazing, and the Attempts That Have Been Made to Regulate Grazing Practice and Perpetuate the Great Natural Forage Resources of the Open Ranges. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1926. iv, 60 pp., photographic plates, text maps. 8vo, original pale green printed wrappers. Marginal browning to wraps, otherwise fine. First edition. Herd 210: “Scarce.” Saunders 3868. Wallace, Arizona History VII:10. Barnes was Chief of Grazing for the U.S. Forest Service, and this treatise is one of his most important writings. $100.00

276. BARNES, Will C. Tales from the X-Bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan Horse “Outlaw” and Other Stories. Chicago: Breeder’s Gazette, 1920. [12] 217 pp., photographic plates, text illustrations, printed music. 8vo, original half green cloth over tan boards, gilt-pictorial spine. Fragile boards lightly rubbed and stained, a bit of minor water staining to a few preliminary and terminal leaves, mild foxing Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) adjacent to plates, generally a very good copy of a book difficult to find in collector’s condition. First collected edition (first published in various magazines). Dobie, p. 96. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 41 (“High Spots of Western Fiction: 1902-1952”). Herd 211: “A scarce collection of true stories...dealing with the rough life of the cowman and peace officers of northern Arizona.” Howes B156. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 15. Reese, Six Score 7n. Wallace, Arizona History XV:28. Includes a chapter on camel hunting in Arizona. $200.00

277. BARNES, Will C. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-Stock Industry As Conducted on the Open Ranges of the Arid West, with Particular Reference to the Use Now Being Made of the Ranges in the National Forests. Chicago: The Breeder’s Gazette, 1913. 390 pp., 6 lithographed color plates (botanical), numerous photographic illustrations, text illustrations, brands. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. A few tiny abrasions to binding, fore-edges foxed and a few foxmarks in text, otherwise fine in a bright binding. Errata laid in. First edition. Dobie, p. 96. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 14; Western High Spots, p. 77 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “About the intermountain ranges.... [Hard] to find but worth the search.” Graff 190. Herd 212: “Scarce.” Howes B157. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 15. Reese, Six Score 7: “One of the first systematic studies of the range industry as a whole. Barnes covers the history of the industry, types of fodder, range management, and many other lesser known facets of ranching and livestock care. A fascinating work, and a good picture of the industry at the turn of the century.” Smith 566. Wallace, Arizona History VII:7. $250.00

278. BARNETT, Joel. A Long Trip in a Prairie Schooner.... Whittier: [Western Stationery Co., 1928]. 134 pp., 2 portraits. 12mo, original textured maroon cloth. Foot of spine repaired where torn, endsheets mildly foxed, stains in gutter. First edition, limited edition (350 copies). Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 22. Graff 191: “Keokuk County, Iowa, to Oregon in 1859.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1655: “Along Platte noted several large herds of cattle and horses being driven to California markets.” Mintz, Trail 22: “Barnett wrote this account based on the diary left by John Millican, a member of the party, and one of a number of that group who died almost immediately after reaching Oregon. Parts of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) this little book do a good job of communicating the very feelings of those on the trail.” Smith 579. This substantial overland by a Quaker has good details on the small herd of cattle that the party took with them to Oregon, where he established a ranch that became known as “The Quaker Ranch.” The party began the journey with about 250 cattle (three cattle to pull each of the thirty-five wagons and a loose herd). Barnett refers to the herders on the journey as “cowboys” and vividly describes rigors of the trail (especially river crossings) for cattle. He tells how Native Americans preferred to steal horses and mules rather than slow-moving cattle. $100.00

279. BARNETT, Joel. A Long Trip in a Prairie Schooner.... Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, [1928]. 134 pp., 2 portraits. 12mo, original maroon textured cloth. Very fine. First edition, the Clark remainder, with their printed cancel slip over imprint. Clark & Brunet do not mention this title as one of the Clark remainders in their non- inclusive list (pp. 221-25). $150.00

280. BARNEY, Robert Owen. The Romantic Story of Dallas from Buckskins to Top Hat. [Dallas: William Noll Sewell, 1948]. 82 pp., profusely illustrated with cartoons by Bill McClanahan depicting people and events in Dallas history. 8vo, original wrappers with photographic illustration of downtown, stapled. Slight split at lower spine and light cover wear, internally fine. Scarce in commerce. First edition. CBC 1215. A humorous look at Dallas history, with lively illustrations by the cartoonist for the Dallas Morning News. Extermination of the buffalo, Belle Starr and her ranch at Younger’s Bend, horsemanship, county fairs, brands, saddle manufacturing industry, etc., primarily in the early years. $50.00

281. BARNS, Cass G. The Sod House: Reminiscent Historical and Biographical Sketches Featuring Nebraska Pioneers, 1867-1897. Madison, Nebraska: Cass G. Barns, 1930. 287 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original brown cloth with tipped-on photograph. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Mohr, The Range Country 629. Chapter 11 covers livestock and grain dealers, and there are many other references to stockraising (trail drives in the earliest days, sandhill cattle range, meat-packing industry, large herds of sheep in the western part of the state, etc.). $125.00

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282. BARNS, Chancy R. (ed.). The Commonwealth of Missouri: A Centennial Record. St. Louis: Bryan, Brand & Company, 1877. xxiv, 936 [6] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly steel-engraved portraits), text illustrations. Large 4to, original embossed maroon leather, a.e.g. Binding worn, upper cover detached, lower cover secured with library tape, interior fine. Contemporary gift inscription. First edition. Flake 315. Not in Howes and other standard references. Massive, well-illustrated history of Missouri with a wealth of local and social history. The chapter on “Material Wealth” includes some information and statistics on livestock, and the many biographies include individuals involved in the cattle trade. The local history section discusses the Kansas City stockyards and has an illustration of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange. The author was a publisher in St. Louis. $150.00

283. BARR, Elizabeth N. A Souvenir History of Lincoln County, Kansas. [Salina, Kansas, 1961]. [4] 123 [11] pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations. 8vo, original beige wrappers. Very fine. Facsimile edition of the rare original edition published in Topeka, 1908, with 10 pages of additional material added at the end. Not in Howes and other standard bibliographies. Contains a section on “The Stock Business” and ads related to stockraising. $45.00

284. BARREIRO, Antonio. Antonio Barreiro’s “Ojeada sobre Nuevo Mexico.” Santa Fe: El Palacio Press, 1928. 60 pp., frontispiece photograph. 8vo, original brown wrappers, stapled. Fragile wrappers with some splits, small inkstain to fore-edges (affecting blank margin of a few leaves in the middle of the text). Second edition in English (first published in Spanish in Puebla, 1832; in 1849 the account was republished in Mexico City with two other New Mexico reports; the first appearance in English appeared in two issues of New Mexico Historical Review the same year). Publications in History, vol. 5; edited by Lansing B. Bloom. Graff 194n. Howes B169n. Plains & Rockies IV:45an (new entry): “Barreiro was a delegate from New Mexico to the Mexican Congress. Streeter notes that his survey of the state was apparently undertaken at the request of the Mexican minister Espinosa.” Rittenhouse 21n. Saunders 2465. In the section on natural resources, the author includes material on buffalo, wild horses, sheep, and goats. He also discusses Apache incursions against livestock. The emphasis is on sheep raising rather than cattle. $25.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

285. BARROWS, John R. A Wisconsin Youth in Montana [wrapper title]. Missoula: State University of Montana, 1932. 15 pp. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers. Very fine. First separate issue, offprint from Frontier 8:1 (November 1927). Sources of Northwest History, no. 1. Herd 216. The author describes his experiences working as a cowboy for the DHS outfit in western Montana in the early 1880s. While working for another outfit, he herded cattle on the Yellowstone River. $45.00

286. BARRY, [James] Buck[ner]. A Texas Ranger and Frontiersman: The Days of Buck Barry in Texas, 1845-1906. Edited by James K. Greer. Dallas: The Southwest Press, 1932. xi [1] 254 pp., frontispiece, plates, maps, text illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Light wear and discoloration to binding, intermittent mild foxing, overall very good, in the rare d.j. (near fine condition). Signed by Greer on title page and with J. Frank Dobie’s signed presentation inscription on front free endpaper: “To Dudley Dobie with appreciation of his help & friendship.” First edition. First edition. Basic Texas Books 11: “Best memoir of a Texan Ranger during the mid-nineteenth century, covering his early life in North Carolina as hunter and schoolteacher, trip at the age of 23 through Texas in the last year of the Republic, service in the Mexican War under Jack Hays, and life as a pioneer on what was then the farthest frontier of Texas.” Dobie, p. 60. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 118 (“Ranger Reading”). Greene, The Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 17: “Modern readers may not find Buck Barry’s attitudes and views entirely lovable, especially concerning Indians. But while he didn’t sympathize with them, he treated them as honorable foes, never sneering at them or projecting them as mere savages to be exterminated. James K. Greer assured me twenty years later, that his editing of Barry’s journals included a great deal more than just deciphering his handwriting, that old Buck had some things to say that just couldn’t be loosed on the world.” Herd 927: “Scarce.... Chapter on stock farming.” Howes G398. Rader 1682. Tate, Indians of Texas 2512: “Barry provides...descriptions of numerous confrontations between Texas Rangers and Indians (especially Comanches), and expresses the general anti- biases of the period.... His discussion of the 1858-1859 Reservation War, near Ft. Belknap, is especially valuable.” Not in North America Divided and Tutorow. Chapters on Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

“Daily Life of a Texas Settler in the ’Fifties,” stockraising, and horse thieves. $250.00

287. BARRY, [James] Buck[ner]. A Texas Ranger and Frontiersman.... Edited by James K. Greer. Dallas: The Southwest Press, 1932. Another copy. Binding somewhat mottled, discolored, and shelf worn, one signature starting, some mild to moderate foxing. Generic bookplate on title. $175.00

288. BARRY, Louise. The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, [1972]. viii, 1,295 [1] pp., plates, maps, endpaper maps. Thick 8vo, original green buckram. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. First book edition (originally published as 24 articles in the Kansas Historical Quarterly 1961-67). Rittenhouse 22: “In many ways this is perhaps the single most useful reference source on the SFT since the works of Josiah Gregg and James J. Webb. D. W. Wilder published, until 1886, his Annals of Kansas. They were historically deficient for the years prior to 1854.... Barry...assembled this collection of excerpts, notes, and comments on Kansas history from early and recent sources. While it relates to Kansas as a whole, it includes most major events and personalities on the SFT.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2208: “Detailed (almost day-by-day) account of the Santa Fe Trail history and constant Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne problems for the traders.” This work complements D. W. Wilder’s The Annals of Kansas City (originally published in Topeka in 1886; see Herd 2517). Barry’s massive compendium of original sources documents early trail drives in Kansas, including statistics, such as the estimate that in 1853 over a hundred thousand cattle had crossed the plains. Brief notes on the cattle trade and Texas fever. $75.00

289. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. Black Jack Ketchum, Last of the Hold-Up Kings. Houston: Frontier Press, 1955. 116 pp., plates, portraits. 12mo, original turquoise cloth. Very fine. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 7 (“Collecting Modern Western Americana”). Guns 148. Ketchum (1863-1901) was born in western San Saba County, Texas. Two chapters cover Ketchum’s youthful experiences working on ranches in Texas and Pecos Valley, New Mexico. During his criminal career, Ketchum specialized in holding up stage coaches and trains and his activities were invariably set against the backdrop of the cattle country, ranging from Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Wyoming to the Rio Grande. Frequent and excellent peripheral details on ranching and cowboy life, such as descriptions of specific ranches, cowboys, lawmen, and rustlers, and even unusual details like how cowboys spent the idle months of winter. For more on Ketchum, see Thrapp II, p. 776. $75.00

290. BARTHOLEMEW, Ed. Buffalo Bill’s Life: An Adventurous Career That Led from the Savagery of Western Life to a Seat beside Kings and Princes. Houston: Frontier Press of Texas, 1958. 30 pp. (printed on pale yellow paper), photographic illustrations. 12mo, original red printed wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First edition. According to the title verso, this crudely printed little biography of the Wild West showman was taken “from a newspaper letter sent from London in May 1888.” Cody describes his ranch in North Platte, Nebraska as “one of the finest ranch-houses in the country.” Included are some early and rare photographs, such as four- year-old Cody with elaborate hairdo, fancy ruffled jacket and pants, and Mary Jane shoes. $40.00

291. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. Kill or Be Killed: A Record of Violence in the Early Southwest.... Houston: Frontier Press, 1953. [4] 148 pp., plates, portraits. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Guns 152. The focus is on gunmen in the Southwest, especially Texas, after the Civil War. Some of the gunmen covered were rustlers, and many of the bloody events took place in the cattle country. The author asserts that many of these outlaws were young Southern men disillusioned by the rigors of Reconstruction. He states that as such they were “manufactured gunfighters” who were drawn to crime through the “magnet of gold, cattle, loot, [and] the reckless life.” He discusses the fallout of these young hot-heads starting to go up the cattle trail: “The top year was 1871, when well over a half million were driven north by Texas cowboys. From 1866 to 1875, nearly six million head were trailed north from Texas. Soon, up there in Kansas, in the cattle towns, rail heads, the word ‘cowboy’ came to be known as nothing, the word was changed to ‘Texan.’ In the end the expression, ‘Texan,’ came to be known as any wild and wooly individual.... Later it got so bad over in Arizona that folks around there came to refer to any outlaw or badman as a ‘cowboy’.” $65.00

292. BARTLETT, Ichabod S. History of Wyoming. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing, 1918. 69 pp., frontispiece portrait, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) numerous photographic plates. 4to, original green wrappers. Very fine. First edition. This is the prospectus for the three- volume history published in 1918 (see Flake 324, Guns 159, Herd 217, and Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1). The prospectus contains six photographs of the Cheyenne Frontier Days and text on stockraising. $50.00

293. [BASS, SAM]. Life and Adventures of Sam Bass, the Notorious Union Pacific and Texas Train Robber Together with a Graphic Account of His Capture and Death—Sketch of the Members of His Band, with Thrilling Pen Pictures of Their Many Bold and Desperate Deeds.... Dallas: Dallas Steam Commercial Print, 1878 [actually Austin: John A. Norris, ca. 1905]. 89 pp. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Wraps lightly worn and with some browning along left side of upper wrap, internally very fine. Second edition. The rare first edition was published in Dallas in 1878 with 110 pages (Adams knew of only two copies of the 1878 edition; see Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books, p. 14). Adams, One-Fifty 5n. Guns 162n: “Exceedingly rare.... Said to have been written by a Dallas newspaper reporter named Morrison.” Howes D227. Bass (1851-78) began his slide down the slippery slope of outlawry in 1876 when he and Joel Collins gathered up a herd of cattle of questionable title which they drove to northern Kansas. The author discusses how Bass, in habits and attire, typified cowboys of the period. $75.00

294. [BASS, SAM]. Life and Adventures of Sam Bass.... Dallas: Dallas Steam Commercial Print, 1878 [actually Austin: N. H. Gammel, early twentieth century?]. 89 pp. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Very fine. Third edition. Austin publisher Gammel issued this reprint of the Norris edition (Gammel began publishing in 1892 and continued well into the twentieth century). $60.00

295. [BASS, SAM]. True Story of Sam Bass the Outlaw Written and Published for the Sam Bass Café in Round Rock, Texas. Price 10c [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 12 pp., photographic illustration. 12mo, original printed self- wrappers, stapled. One light stain on first leaf, otherwise fine. Unidentified issue (measures 14.5 cm; Adams calls for 16 cm). Guns 164: “A pamphlet published by the Sam Bass Café of Round Rock, Texas, where Bass was killed. First issues of this pamphlet are scarce, but its publisher kept Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) it in print for advertising purposes until he went out of business. This condensed history of Bass was based on the files of the adjutant general of Texas and written by the son of a Texas Ranger. The author merely hits the high spots of Bass’s career.” $30.00

296. BASSETT WILLIS, Ann. “‘Queen Ann’ of Brown’s Park” in The Colorado Magazine 29:2-4 & 30:1 (1952-53). Pp. 81-98 + 218-35 + 284-98 + 58-76, a few photographic text illustrations. 4 vols., 12mo, original beige printed wrappers. Occasional slight foxing, otherwise fine. First printing. Autobiography of Ann Bassett, born in 1878 in Brown’s Park, Routt County, Colorado, who “began life as a cow hand at the mature age of six...and early on adopted buckskin breeches for my personal use.... Imagine my mother’s disturbance of mind!” (pp. 94-95). “I rode those old round-ups for months at a time, for many, many years. And I became the wife of Hi Bernard (one of the West’s most noted managers of two of the biggest outfits in Wyoming and Colorado).... From my own experiences and observation...I learned that the grasping cattle barons of those early days were the biggest cattle thieves of all time” (p. 69). She gives an excellent history of the earliest ranching in the region: introduction of domestic cattle by the Edwards brothers in 1869; arrival of vast herds from Texas; conflicts with homesteaders; how most smaller outfits were absorbed the big operations; formation of the Brown’s Park Cattle Association; fencing; Butch Cassidy; Tom Horn; etc. $75.00

297. BATEMAN, Ed., Sr. Horse Breaker. Seattle: Carl K. Wilson [colophon: Knox City, Texas: Moss Publishing], 1947. [3] 110 [1] pp., photographic illustrations by Tommy Thompson. Small 4to, original brown buckram. Fine in price- clipped d.j. with photograph of horses. First edition. Herd 220. Excellent photo-essay on techniques for breaking horses Texas or Western style. Bateman commenced ranching in 1927 in Texas. He explains that a horse breaker is a working man and a bronc rider is an exhibitionist—that a horse breaker wants to train a horse so that it is a reliable, working mount, whereas the bronc rider wants an undisciplined horse whose spirit he can conquer. $50.00

298. BATEMAN, Ed., Sr. Horse Breaker. Seattle: Carl K. Wilson [colophon: Knox City, Texas: Moss Publishing], 1947. Another copy in variant d.j. Fine in rose d.j. with line drawing of a bucking horse and rider in green ink. Nickel- Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) sized hole in d.j. (at spine and upper panel, but not affecting illustration). $65.00

299. BATEMAN, Ed., Sr. Pecos Bill Junior. San Angelo: San Angelo Press, [1952]. 102 [1] pp., cartoon illustrations by Ace Reid. Large 8vo, original green cloth. Insect damage to binding, internally very fine. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 84n (“A Range Man’s Library”), mentioning Reid’s illustrations. This work consists of letters from “Pecos Bill, Jr.” to Jim Smith written in cowboy vernacular. $15.00

300. BATEMAN, Ed., Sr. Rawhide Bound. Seattle: Carl K. Wilson [actually Moss Publishing Company, 1950]. 100 pp., 5 full-page silhouettes and other text decorations by Ace Reid, Jr. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in price- clipped d.j. First edition. Herd 221. Humor written in cowboy vernacular. $40.00

301. BATES, Ed[mund] F[rank]. History and Reminiscences of Denton County. Denton: McNitzky Printing Company, [1918]. xi [5] 412 pp., frontispiece portrait, 2 photographic panoramas on one folding plate, numerous photographic illustrations (mostly portraits). 8vo, original gilt- lettered black cloth. Publisher’s original prospectus laid in. Occasional mild foxing and back hinge cracked (but strong), otherwise a fine copy of a rare book. First edition of the first reliable history of Denton County, Texas. Adams, One-Fifty 6. CBC 1328. Dobie, p. 50: “A sample of much folk life found in county histories.” Guns 168: “Contains a chapter on Sam Bass, telling of his life in Denton, Texas, his start in crime, his career, and his death.” Herd 222. Howes B234. Rader 296. In addition to being an excellent and very scarce county history, this book contains a good account of early ranching and cattle drives in Denton County. “In the early days Denton County had but little to sell, except horses and cattle, which were driven overland to market in the North and East from three to eight hundred miles away.... To be a cowboy, in deed and truth, meant something more than a fairy tale” (pp. 167-68). $650.00

302. BATES, Ed[mund] F[rank]. History and Reminiscences of Denton County. Denton: McNitzky Printing Company, [1918]. Another copy. Light shelf wear and corners bumped and frayed, upper hinge cracked (but strong), otherwise fine. $600.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

303. BATTE, Lelia M. History of Milam County, Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, [1956]. xi [1] 257 pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth. Fine in d.j. First edition. CBC 3309. The original Milam County grant included what are now 53 counties in central and west-central Texas. Material on ranching includes discussion of the first three ranchers (1860), Texas fever (1919), and conversion of lignite plant properties into large cattle ranches (1950s). $45.00

304. BAUER, Grace (ed.). Bee County Centennial, 1858-1958. [Beeville]: Bee County Centennial, Inc., 1958. 115 pp., photographic illustrations, map, ads. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. CBC 197. This work contains sections on wool and sheep, “Old Time Ranchers and Ranching,” “Earliest Organization of Cattlemen,” “South Texas Hereford Association,” etc. Photographs include a group shot of “One of the Last Bee County Round-Ups.” $30.00

305. [BAUERSFELD, Margery O’Neill]. Tales of the Early Days As Told to Mirandy. Hollywood: Oxford, [1938]. 251 pp. 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth. Some shelf wear and staining, interior fine. Signed by author and dated 1944. First edition. Anecdotal history of the U.S. in the nineteenth century, including a two-page account of early cattle ranching by June Russell Beeler. Memories of the days of the open range in western Kansas, when “round-ups were hard on man and beast and terrifying to the rancher’s wife.” $45.00

306. BAUGH, Virgil E. A Pair of Texas Rangers: Bill McDonald and John Hughes. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1970. vi, 26 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (#191 of 200 signed copies). Great Western Series 9. Both McDonald and Hughes joined the Texas Rangers after their ranches were hit by rustlers. $40.00

307. BAUGHMAN, Robert W. Kansas in Maps. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1961. 104 [1] pp., maps, illustrations. Folio, original cream cloth over red calico cloth. Mint in publisher’s slipcase. First edition, limited edition (#50 of 200 copies). Contains a chapter on “Cattle Trails and Cowtowns” and a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) reproduction of The Best and Shortest Cattle Trail from Texas (see Herd 1255-57 and Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country). $200.00

308. BAUGHMAN, Robert W. Kansas in Maps. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1961. 104 pp., maps, illustrations. Folio, original beige cloth. Mint in d.j. First trade edition. $100.00

309. BAUGHMAN, Theodore. The Oklahoma Scout. Chicago: Homewood, n.d. (ca. 1902). [3]-6, 9-216 [4, ads] pp., wood- engraved plates. 12mo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth. Light outer wear and staining, upper hinge cracked, generally very good. Pencil gift inscription dated 1902. Third edition (first edition Chicago, 1886). Dobie, p. 121. Graff 210n: “Among Baughman’s reminiscences of the cattle trade there is interesting and valuable information about Kansas and Oklahoma in the early days. Andy Adams, in Cattle Brands, refers to Baughman or “Baugh” as foreman in charge of a drive from Texas to Dodge City. Adams was a hand in the drive, and tells several stories about Baughman.” Herd 224. Howes B244. Rader 302. $45.00

310. BAUGHMAN, Theodore. The Oklahoma Scout. Chicago: Homewood, n.d. (ca. 1902). Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original red, blue, and black pictorial cloth. Poor condition, binding worn and paper friable. $20.00

311. BAUMANN, John. Old Man Crow’s Boy: Adventures in Early Idaho. New York: William Morrow, 1948. [6] 278 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Fine in slightly worn and price-clipped d.j. First edition. Herd 225. Smith 648. Historical fiction closely based on actual events on the frontier of Central Idaho, 1880-1909, in three parts: “The Basin,” “The Year of the Thoroughbreds,” and “The Range.” The author worked as a professional guide in the region. $35.00

312. BAUMHOFF, Richard G. The Dammed Missouri Valley: One Sixth of Our Nation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. xi [1] 291 [1] v [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in price-clipped d.j. First edition. Cattle raising is discussed in chapter 9 (“From White-faced Cattle to Uranium”). $20.00

313. BEADLE, J. H. Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism. Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, [1870]. 540 pp., plates, folding map, text Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustrations (including Deseret alphabet). 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Some shelf wear (especially at spine tips), interior fine. First edition. Flake 345. The tone in regard to Mormons in general is negative, but one subject upon which the author waxes eloquently albeit briefly is the potential for stockraising: “The true wealth of the Territory is in grazing and mining. The range is practically unlimited and the mountain bunch-grass is the best in the world for cattle.” Also discussed is Native American ownership of cattle. $100.00

314. BEADLE, J. H. Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them. An Authentic Narrative Embracing an Account of Seven Years Travel and Adventure in the Far West.... Cincinnati, Chicago, & Philadelphia: Jones Brothers & Company, 1880. 624 pp., double-page color map (Aboriginal America, Showing the Distribution and Territorial Limits of the Indian Nations of the New World), numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. 8vo, original three-quarter sheep over brown textured cloth, spine gilt, marbled edges. Binding worn and chafed, interior fine. Early edition (first edition Cincinnati, 1878). Cowan, p. 40n. Farquhar, The Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 38. Flake 360n. Paher, Nevada 93: “The imprint date is misleading, as the contents include events to the year 1882.” Raines, p. 23. Saunders 2725. Smith 670n. The author discusses the West in a lively, engaging style, but as usual, Utah and Mormons are emphasized. Stockraising and its potential are covered for each area. Beadle describes Indian Territory as “a region half as large as Ohio [with] 60,000 inhabitants: a people rich in flocks and herds, enjoying themselves in a simple, pastoral way, content with their mode of life, and indifferent to the rush and struggle of more artificial societies.” In the Texas section, Beadle states that the sheep grazing potential in Llano, Mason, and Burnet Counties is the best in the country. $75.00

315. BEAL, Merrill D. The Story of Man in Yellowstone.... Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1949. 320 pp., color frontispiece, plates, text illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original maize cloth. A bit of mild staining to binding, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. First edition. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 13: “A history of Yellowstone National Park taken largely from papers in the Park library at Mammoth.” Smith S54. In his chapter entitled “The Last Roundup,” the author explains how Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) ranching fits into the history of Yellowstone: “Before Yellowstone could become accessible as a national playground a certain evolution of security had to take place. Indian tribes and buffalo herds were hindrances to both colonization and travel. A double-action roundup was needed to clear the way for an ephemeral phase, known as cattle days on the open range, and ultimate colonization within the approaches of the Park.... The removal of Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull opened the way for new cattle commonwealths. By 1880 the federal census reported 428,279 head in Montana and 521,213, in Wyoming. Soon the stockmen evolved a considerable network of mountain trails.” A later chapter discusses efforts to establish a buffalo ranch in Lamar Valley in 1902. $25.00

316. BEARCROFT, Norma. Wild Horses of Canada. London: J. A. Allen, [1966]. 89 pp., frontispiece photograph of author, color plate, text illustrations by Maisie Robertson. Square 8vo, original red cloth. Mild foxing to edges of frontispiece and title page opposite, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. Subscriber’s list at end removed. First edition. General history of wild horses followed by an account of their presence in western Canada, including their role in the rise of ranching in the Cariboo region in the 1870s. $35.00

317. BEARDSLEE, Etta. Lebanon’s Golden Jubilee: Fifty Years of Living in a Little Kansas Town. N.p., [1937]. [20] pp. 8vo, original brown wrappers. Paper browned. Scarce in commerce. First edition. Local history, including biographies of pioneer stockraisers and traders. H. R. Stone is said to have shipped the first load of stock from Lebanon in 1887. $35.00

318. BEARDSLEY, Isaac Haight. Echoes from Peak and Plain; or, Tales of Life, War, Travel, and Colorado Methodism. Cincinnati: Curtis & Jennings; New York: Eaton & Mains, 1898. 605 pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (mostly portraits). 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering at foot of spine: Jennings & Pye. Other than minor shelf wear, very fine. Contemporary gift inscription. First edition. Wilcox, p. 12: “Primarily of Colorado Methodism and church history.” Wynar 9061. In this excellent social history, the author only briefly strays from Methodism and his experiences in the Civil War to mention stockraising. For example, describing an encounter Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) with a rancher, Beardsley writes: “‘You are a stockman, I should judge, from your surroundings?’ ‘Y-e-s.’ ‘How many head of horses and of cattle have you?’ ‘We have about four hundred horses; but I do not know how many cattle—there are hundreds.’ Cattle men never know how much stock they own.” Also contains some material on racing horses and horsemanship. $300.00

319. BEARDSLEY, Isaac Haight. Echoes from Peak and Plain.... Cincinnati: Curtis & Jennings; New York: Eaton & Mains, 1898. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original half black leather over maroon cloth, gilt lettering at foot of spine: Curtis & Jennings. Moderate wear to the fragile leather spine, otherwise fine. $250.00

320. BEATIE, Russel H. Saddles. London [& Norman]: J. A. Allen & Company, Ltd. [& University of Oklahoma Press, 1981]. xiv [2] 391 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. 4to, original brown gilt- pictorial leatherette. Very fine in d.j. First edition. An exhaustive survey of the history and aesthetics of saddles, with much practical information and a foreword by Dean Krakel. Includes a listing of American saddlemakers, a glossary of saddle terms, and a bibliography. Includes Bohlin saddles. $200.00

321. BEATTIE, George William. California’s Unbuilt Missions: Spanish Plans for an Inland Chain. N.p., [1930]. 47 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic), folding map (Spanish Missions in Southern California). 8vo, original dark blue cloth. Very fine and fresh. Rare. First separate edition. Cowan, p. 40. Weber, The California Missions, p. 6: “Treatise on Spanish plans for a projected chain of inland missionary foundations.... An address delivered to the Fortnightly Club of Redlands which the author first published in the Historical Society of Southern California Annual (1929).” Discusses the perennial problems between stock-holding missions and Native Americans. $150.00

322. BEATTIE, George William & Helen Pruitt Beattie. Heritage of the Valley: San Bernadino’s First Century. With a Foreword by Henry R. Wagner. Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1939. xxv [1] 459 pp., plates, portraits, maps (one folding), facsimile. Large 8vo, original dark blue cloth. Very fine. First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 23: “Every once-in-so-often a great book makes its appearance.... One Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) of our truly great books on California.... Among the more important chapters are those concerning the Mormon venture in San Bernardino and early travel through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Pass routes.” This excellent work presents the background for ranching in pastoral California. Specific ranching material includes establishment of mission and secular livestock operations; numerous references to rustling by Native Americans and others (including the great 1840 Chaguanoso raid on Southern California stock in which 3,000 animals were stolen); measures and grants enacted to protect stockraisers; ranching architecture (including some illustrations); An Act re Judges of the Plains (1851) and Act to Regulate Rodeos (1851); brands; Warner’s Ranch; etc. Guns 175. Rocq 7049. $150.00

323. BEATTIE, George William & Helen Pruitt Beattie. Heritage of the Valley: San Bernardino’s First Century. Oakland: Biobooks, 1951. xxix [1] 459 [2] pp., plates, maps, endpaper map. Thick 8vo, original blue and orange cloth. Very fine. Second edition. Guns 176. Rocq 7050. $115.00

324. BECHDOLT, Frederick R. Giants of the Old West. New York & London: Century, [1930]. [12] 245 pp., frontispiece portrait of Stephen F. Austin, plates, maps. 12mo, original bright green cloth with all lettering in gilt and blindstamped silhouette of prairie schooner on upper cover. Very fine and bright in the rare d.j. (price-clipped and chipped at spinal extremities). First edition. Flake 366. Rader 317. Saunders 2728. Smith 689. Primary ranching interest in this book is the chapter on Charles Goodnight. Other chapters are on Stephen F. Austin, the Alamo, John Colter, William Ashley, William Becknell, James Pattie, Brigham Young, John Sutter, and Alexander Majors. $45.00

325. BECHDOLT, Frederick R. Giants of the Old West. New York & London: Century, [1930]. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original slate green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blindstamped lettering on upper cover, without pictorial blindstamping. Corner slightly bumped, otherwise very fine in the rare d.j. $45.00

326. BECHDOLT, Frederick R. Tales of the Old-Timers. New York & London: Century, [1924]. [10] 367 pp., frontispiece by Remington. 12mo, original tan pictorial cloth. Fine in the rare d.j. (a few old tape repairs, some tears and splits, and two voids on d.j. spine). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Adams, Burs I:25. Campbell, p. 245. Dobie, pp. 55, 96: “Vivid, economical stories of ‘The Warriors of the Pecos’ (Billy the Kid and the troubles on John Chisum’s ranch-empire), of Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch in their Wyoming hide-outs, of the way frontier Texans fought Mexicans and Comanches over the open ranges.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #30. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 395); Kid 94. Guns 179. Herd 230. Chapters include “Adobe Walls,” “The First Cowboy,” and “The Last of the Open Ranges.” Saunders 2729. $125.00

327. BECHDOLT, Fredrick R. Tales of the Old-Timers. New York & London: Century, [1924]. Another copy. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Slightly worn, d.j. not present. $45.00

328. BECHDOLT, Frederick R. When the West Was Young. New York: Century, 1922. [10] 309 pp., frontispiece by Remington showing John Slaughter gathering a great herd. 12mo, original red cloth decorated and lettered in black. Endsheets moderately browned and fore-edges foxed, interior fine. In the rare illustrated d.j., which is lightly chipped, torn, and with a few voids. First edition. Adams, Burs I:26. Cowan, p. 41. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 394); Kid 866. Guns 180. Herd 231. Smith 691. Wallace, Arizona History X:5. Includes chapters on Joaquín Murieta and John Slaughter. $150.00

329. BECHDOLT, Frederick R. When the West Was Young. New York: Century, 1922. Another copy. Some light discoloration to binding, d.j. not present. Bookplate of William MacLeod Raine, the noted English writer on Western subjects (see Thrapp III, pp. 1188-89). $60.00

330. BECHDOLT, Fredrick R. When the West Was Young. New York: Century, 1922. Another copy. Very fine, bright, and tight. $55.00

331. BECHDOLT, Frederick R. When the West Was Young. New York: Century, [1922]. [10] 309 pp., frontispiece by Remington. 12mo, original red cloth decorated and lettered in black. Fine. Bookplate of Lewis H. and Helen McKinnie and ownership signature. Reprint, without date on title. $25.00

332. BECK, Warren A. & Ynez D. Haase. Historical Atlas of New Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1969]. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

[140] pp., maps. Large 4to, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. This work consists almost entirely of maps with explanatory text on facing pages, including no. 39, “Cattle Trails, 1866-1880” and no. 11, “Agriculture.” $35.00

333. BECKER, Robert H. Designs on the Land: Diseños of California Ranchos and Their Makers. San Francisco: [Grabhorn-Hoyem for] The Book Club of California, 1969. [143] pp., 65 sepia-tone and full-color maps of ranchos. Oblong folio, original half tan suede over brown cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Grabhorn- Hoyem (1966-1973) 29. Reese, Six Score 9: “This book depicts contemporary maps of ranchos in California from the Mexican period. A beautiful book, designed by the Grabhorns and printed in an edition of 500.” $400.00

334. BECKER, Robert H. Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of Thirty-Seven Land Grants (1822-1846) from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco. San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press for] The Book Club of California, 1964. xxii [100] pp., 37 maps of ranchos (24 folding, 27 in color). Folio, original patterned boards, tan linen backstrip, lettered in orange on spine. Very fine in original plain white d.j. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Heller & Magee, Grabhorn 648. Howell 50, California 1293: “A fascinating and beautiful volume on the ranchos of Mexican California, with facsimile reproductions of 37 of the diseños (sketch-maps) prepared for use in determining grants of land. A remarkable and historically important study of a unique aspect of California’s pastoral heritage— before the momentous changes brought by the American occupation, the Gold Rush, and the railroad.” Reese, Six Score 9n. $550.00

335. BECKETT, V. B. Baca’s Battle...Elfego Baca’s Epic Gunfight at ’Frisco Plaza, N.M., 1884, As Reported at the Time. Together with Baca’s Own Final Account of the Battle. Houston: Stagecoach Press, [1962]. 30 [2] pp., illustrated title by José Cisneros. 16mo, original illustrated wrappers. Very fine. Presentation copy to Carl Hertzog, signed by designer and publisher Jack Rittenhouse. First edition thus. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 18). Guns 182: “One part of this pamphlet is a reprint by the author from The Black Range, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) published in...1884; the other part is a reprint from Baca’s own pamphlet...[see Guns 104].” Baca holed up in a shack in the New Mexico mountains in 1884 and held off 80 cowboys for 36 hours, escaping injury from the estimated 4,000 shots fired at him. The present work is Beckett’s contemporary account, accompanied by Baca’s own version. $60.00

336. BECKETT, V. B. Baca’s Battle.... Houston: Stagecoach Press, [1962]. Another copy. Very fine. $45.00

337. BEDELL, G. H. Judging Sheep [wrapper title]. [Washington]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin 1199, [1933]. 18 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Light wear and creasing, overall very good, with a few light pencil notes. “Revised edition” (first issued in 1921). A how-to manual, with suggested score-card, geared toward better breeding. $10.00

338. BEDFORD-JONES, Henry. The Mission and the Man: The Story of San Juan Capistrano. Pasadena, California: San Pasqual Press, 1939. [10] 40 pp., frontispiece portrait, decorated initials by June Simonds. 8vo, original red cloth over blue pictorial cloth. Fine in d.j. Ownership inscription of W. J. Dermody, Ogden, Utah. First edition. Rocq 6225. Weber, The California Missions, p. 6: “Prose-poem of tribute to Father St. John O’Sullivan and to the revitalization of Mission San Juan Capistrano through his efforts.” References to mission ranching and its fundamental role in mission economics. $75.00

339. BEDICHEK, Roy. Adventures with a Texas Naturalist. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1947. xx [2] 293 pp., frontispiece and text illustrations by Ward Lockwood. 12mo, original grey cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Basic Texas Books 13. Campbell, pp. 43, 112: “Few writers in the Southwest are so observant, so independent, and so much in love with the region.” Dobie, pp. 22, 150, 170-71: “Gives meanings to the hackberry tree, limestone, mockingbird, Inca dove, Mexican primrose, golden eagle, the Davis Mountains, cedar cutters, and many another natural phenomenon.... The wisest book in the realm of natural history produced in America since Thoreau.” Green, The Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 37: “Texas cannot really be known without reading Adventures of a Texas Naturalist.” Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Includes two chapters on fences and two on the Davis Mountains. $75.00

340. BEDICHEK, Roy. Adventures with a Texas Naturalist. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1947. xx [2] 293 pp., frontispiece and text illustrations by Ward Lockwood. 12mo, original grey cloth. Other than occasional mild foxing, fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First edition, early reprint. $30.00

341. BEDICHEK, Roy. Adventures with a Texas Naturalist. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1961]. xxviii [2] 330 pp., frontispiece, illustrations by Ward Lockwood. 8vo, original beige cloth. Very fine in d.j. Revised edition. Foreword by H. Mewhinney. $20.00

342. BEDICHEK, Roy. Karánkaway Country. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. xxiii [3] 290 pp., frontispiece, double-page map of Texas, endpaper maps. 8vo, original beige cloth. Gift inscription, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Campbell, p. 112: “Bedichek has a wise, genial, and original mind, prolific of fresh points of view and filled with first-hand observations.” Dobie, pp. 150- 51: “The foremost naturalist of the Southwest, Bedichek constantly relates nature to civilization and human values.” Tate, Indians of Texas 554. Insightful survey of the natural history of the Texas Gulf coast between Galveston and Padre Island, with some references to ranching, such as nutrition in range cattle, different breeds of cattle, etc. Of the Hereford, Bedichek remarks: “The Prize Hereford...looks like a mechanical structure built up with geometrical blocks of steaks and roasts mortared together mission style with sheer fat.” $75.00

343. BEECHER, George Allen. A Bishop of the Great Plains. Philadelphia: Church Historical Society, 1950. [8] 218 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original grey cloth. Slight stain (printer’s smudge) on half-title, otherwise very fine in d.j. First edition. The author served as an Episcopal bishop in the ranching country of Western Nebraska and gives good detail on social history. He describes a cowboy choir, training horses, big game hunting, his visits with Buffalo Bill Cody and Tom Horn, Frontier Days in Cheyenne, etc, and mentions specific ranchers and ranches. $30.00

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344. BEELER, Joe. Cowboys and Indians: Characters in Oil and Bronze. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1967]. xiii [3] pp., 80 leaves (descriptive text opposite illustration), xv-xvii pp., illustrations in black and white and in color. Large 8vo, original black cloth over terracotta cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Beeler 34); Western High Spots, p. 64 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #172). The descriptive text accompanying each plate was written by the artist. $50.00

345. BELDEN, George P. Belden, the White Chief; or, Twelve Years among the Wild Indians of the Plains.... Edited by Gen. James S. Brisbin, U.S.A. Cincinnati, New York, etc.: C. F. Vent, etc., 1871. 513 pp., frontispiece portrait, wood-engraved illustrations (mostly by the author). 8vo, early twentieth-century three-quarter red sheep over marbled boards, t.e.g. Upper joint split (upper cover almost detached), lower joint cracked, paper friable. Engraved armorial bookplate of Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas (Bishop of Wyoming), with 1913 ink notes by E. A. Logan indicating he purchased this book from Bishop Thomas and two further notes, including mention of Belden’s murder by “a jealous Indian,” etc. Early reprint (first edition Cincinnati, 1870). Campbell, p. 86. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 30n. Graff 235n. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1490: “Belden was born in Ohio, ran away from home and lived for some time with the Indians in the West, acquiring two squaws and doing many extraordinary deeds. He later joined the U.S. Army, but in 1870 found he could no longer stand army life and returned to the trapping and hunting grounds. He left his diaries and manuscripts with General James S. Brisbin. According to the latter, Belden’s career was ‘more varied and remarkable than that of any paleface west of the Missouri.’” Howes B781n. Rader 326n. The book was edited by General James S. Brisbin, author of The Beef Bonanza: or, How to Get Rich on the Plains (see Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16). Chapter 65 (Powder River and the Big Horns) and chapter 66 (Montana) extol the excellence of the grazing in those regions. Much on Native Americans, horsemanship, and buffalo. $50.00

346. BELDEN, George P. Belden, the White Chief.... Cincinnati, New York, etc.: C. F. Vent, etc., 1872. 513 pp., frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations. 8vo, original plum cloth, pictorial blindstamping on covers, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) spine gilt. Plum cloth faded to brown, binding worn and frayed at extremities, a bit loose. Another early reprint. $35.00

347. BELDEN, Josiah. Josiah Belden, 1841 California Overland Pioneer: His Memoir and Early Letters. Edited and with an Introduction by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1962. 150 [1] pp., sepia- tone portrait, endpaper maps. 8vo, original grey cloth with pink paper spine label. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 51. Mintz, The Trail 29. Paher, Nevada 111: “Belden was a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson Party, the first planned overland immigration to California in 1841. This epic trek would become the opening wedge for the great migration to California.... Belden’s account adds dimension to Bidwell’s better known narrative of the event.” The author mentions ranches that they passed, or where they stayed or obtained provisions. He notes that early immigrants thought that California was a country more suited to ranching than agriculture. Considerable information is given on the hide and tallow trade, wild cattle, cow horses (the Andalusian breed considered best), wild horses, etc. $45.00

348. BELL, Horace. On the Old West Coast: Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger. Edited by Lanier Bartlett. New York: William Morrow, 1930. xiv [2] 336 pp., frontispiece (photographic portrait of author), plates, text illustrations (including brands). 8vo, original charcoal cloth, red marbled paper labels on spine and upper cover. Fine in d.j. with light marginal chipping. First edition. Dobie, pp. 38, 50, 84. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 25. Flake 387: “Includes a section on Mormonism and its importance to California history.” Guns 188: “Scarce.” Rocq 2791. Smith 729. The material in this book consists of unpublished material left by Horace Bell upon his death in 1918 (for Bell’s original 1881 Reminiscences of a Ranger, see below). Bell includes much good material on ranching, including a chapter “Ruin of the Rancheros,” Joaquín Murieta, individual ranches, brands, etc. Also a chapter on Texas (“The Law West of the Pecos”). One of the plates is a photograph of General Andrés Pico’s saddle and bridle valued at $5,000 at the time of publication. $75.00

349. BELL, Horace. On the Old West Coast.... New York: William Morrow, 1930. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original green buckram over green cloth, red marbled paper Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) labels on spine and upper cover. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. $75.00

350. BELL, Horace. On the Old West Coast.... New York: William Morrow, 1930. Another copy. Lower hinge cracked, d.j. not present. $45.00

351. BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger; or, Early Times in Southern California. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile, & Mathes, 1881. 457 pp. 8vo, original blue gilt- pictorial cloth. Binding shelf worn and frayed at extremities, endsheets slightly browned, interior fine. Gift inscription on blank preliminary leaf. First edition. Adams, One-Fifty 9: “Very scarce.” Barrett, Baja California 246. Cowan, p. 44: “Bell has written more minutely upon the ‘seamy side’ of society than any other California author, and there is a fascination about his book.” Dobie, p. 84. Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books, p. 29; Western High Spots, p.120 (“Ranger Reading”). Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 25-26. Flake 388. Graff 240: “Bell was a member of Walker’s filibustering expedition.” Guns 189. Howes B325: “Most readable historical narrative of early southern California.” Libros Californianos, pp. 68-69. Powell, California Classics, pp. 279-91. Rocq 2788: “Politics, bandits, ranchero life.” Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 15. Zamorano 80 #5: “The first cloth- bound book to be printed, bound, and published in the city of Los Angeles.... The activities of the Los Angeles Rangers, of which organization Bell was a member, fill many of the pages with adventures that vie with the wildest deeds of a modern ‘western.’ The fact, however, that the tales are true and are told in a most interesting style makes the book one that will always fill a place in the historical narratives of California.” Chapter 25 is on ranchero life in California. Contains some Texas material. $400.00

352. BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger.... Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile, & Mathes, 1881. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original green gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding worn and frayed at extremities (cloth split at lower joint), endsheets browned, interior fine, overall a very good copy, much better and brighter than usually found. Contemporary ownership inscription dated at Los Angeles December 17, 1881. $350.00

353. BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger.... Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile, & Mathes, 1881. Another copy, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) variant binding. 8vo, original purple gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding water-stained and flecked, first few leaves with light stain at lower margin, otherwise text clean. Binding tight. $150.00

354. BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger.... Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. [16] 499 [1] pp., frontispiece and illustrations by James S. Bodrero, endpapers with illustrations from California pictorial lettersheets. 8vo, original green gilt-pictorial cloth. Very fine in the scarce d.j. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Guns 189: “The later edition contains an index identifying many of the characters mentioned in the original edition.” Foreword by Arthur M. Ellis. $125.00

355. BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger.... Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Another copy. Very fine, d.j. not present. $75.00

356. BELL, James G. A Log of the Texas-California Cattle Trail, 1854.... Edited by J. Evetts Haley. [Austin], 1932. 78 pp. 8vo, original stiff blue printed wrappers. Light wear and some staining to wraps, occasional light foxing to text, generally a very good copy, with presentation inscription: “To Dudley Dobie With the esteem of J. Evetts Haley.” One of the most elusive imprints on the cattle industry. First separate edition, limited edition (100 copies). The narrative first appeared in three parts in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (35-36, January-July 1932). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 26: “It is not generally known that for a period approximating 20 years, and beginning—perhaps—in 1853, Texas cattlemen drove large herds of cattle over the desert to the California markets.... Of all phases...of our Colorado Desert history...this segment having to do with the trail herd era has received least attention.... The young Bell...was employed by a Mr. John James, owner of one of the many vast overland herds that reached their peak of prominence in the year 1854. Their trail followed the route of Kearny and Cooke (1846-47), and they entered California—over the Yuma Ferry.... A fairly good description is given in this article of Warner’s Ranch, Santa Isabella, the Indians at Warner’s and so on.” Graff 242. Herd 235. Howes B326. Rader 328. Robinson (1967) 119: “At a time when the Longhorn furnished his own transportation to market, a tenderfoot joined a cattle drive of 1,500 dangerous and uncertain Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) miles, setting down fresh and precise details in his diary.” Robinson (1978) 5. Wallace, Arizona History VII:15. Handbook of Texas Online: James G. Bell: “James G. Bell...was born in Tennessee in 1832. The family moved to Indianola, Texas, in 1852.... In 1854 Bell decided to join in driving a herd of cattle to California.... Rather than write letters back to his family, Bell kept a diary of his experiences and observations, a chronicle of a little-known trail to the West. He joined his brother, Edward C. Bell, in California and died there in 1867.” $750.00

357. BELL, John C. The Pilgrim and the Pioneer: The Social and Material Developments in the Rocky Mountains. Lincoln: International Publishing Ass’n., [1906]. 531 pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in white. Lettering on upper cover flecked, small chip to lower blank corner of one preliminary leaf, otherwise fine and tight. Bookplate. First edition. Eberstadt 115:306: “The author served as a District Judge and was later Representative in Congress from Western Colorado. His narrative deals with the trip across the plains; mining life; adventures on the desert; trapping; across the Coeur d’Alenes, etc.” Flake 392: “Claims that polygamy really stopped when the girls saw how the gentiles had only one wife and was queen of the show, and sold it to the boys.” Guns 190. Herd 236: “Scarce.” Wilcox, p. 12. Wynar 314. Chapter 12 is on “A Night in a Cow-Camp.” $45.00

358. BELL, William A. New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean, 1867- 8. London: Chapman & Hall, 1869. lxiv, 236 + vii [3] 322 pp., 24 plates (mostly tinted lithographs from photographs), maps (one folding), text illustrations, woodcuts on titles and in text. 2 vols., 8vo, original blindstamped terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered spines. A poor copy of a scarce and important book, notoriously difficult to find in collector’s condition. This copy is shelf worn, water-stained, hinges cracked, paper friable. First edition. Cowan, p. 45. Farquhar, Books of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 25: “Bell accompanied Palmer’s expedition in a rather independent capacity which included the posts of photographer and physician.... It contains one of the important documents in the White case, a lurid account of the raft journey.” Flake 393. Graff 246: “Contains firsthand accounts of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico.” Howes B330. Paher, Nevada 114n. Rader 330. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Saunders 2733. Wynar 2024 (citing the 1870 edition). The excellent lithographs by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (see Peters, America on Stone, pp. 112-13) were based on the author’s field photographs. An appendix at the conclusion of vol. 2 contains formulae and technical advice for the frontier photographer. The excellent plates include Native Americans, botany, and scenes along the way (mostly New Mexico, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon). Occasional mention of ranching, especially in the section on Sonora, where the party stayed at ranches along their route (“the great advantages which Sonora possesses as a stock-raising country cannot well be exaggerated...I doubt if any country could feed more stock, acre for acre, than Sonora”); also, Lucien Maxwell’s huge ranch, Native Americans with cattle, and buffalo grass as forage for cattle. $350.00

359. BELL, William A. New Tracks in North America. Albuquerque: Horn and Wallace, 1965. [4] lxix [3] 564 [1] pp., plates, maps, text illustrations. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, original black buckram. Very fine in d.j. Reprint. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 272 (lists only the reprint). $75.00

360. BENAVIDES, Alonso de. Fray Alonso de Benavides’ Revised Memorial of 1634 with Numerous Supplementary Documents Elaborately Annotated. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1945. xvi, 368 pp., plates. Large 8vo, original maroon cloth. Some staining to lower fore-edge and blank margins of first few signatures, otherwise fine in rubbed and price-clipped d.j. First edition of the previously unpublished revised Memorial, along with 25 unpublished contemporary documents on early mission affairs in the Southwest and scholarly commentary of Frederick Webb Hodge, George P. Hammond, and Agapito Rey. Coronado Cuarto Centennial Series 6. Campbell, p. 166. Basic source on Arizona and New Mexico in the early 1600s by one of the first missionaries in the Southwest. Benavides describes the Spanish cattle and sheep and how they multiplied rapidly in the New World, and also discusses sheepraising among the different tribes. The author emphasizes the importance respecting land rights of Native Americans and not allowing mission cattle to encroach on their property. $100.00

361. BENAVIDES, Alonso de. The Memorial of...1630.... Translated by Mrs. Edward E. Ayer, Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis. Albuquerque: Horn and Wallace, Publisher, [1965]. [4] 309 [2] pp., Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) photographic plates, facsimiles, endpaper maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fore-edges foxed and spotted, otherwise fine in soiled d.j. Reprint of the 1916 edition. Graff 250n. Rader 332n. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 33n. Another of Benavides’s important memorials, encouraging further missions and discussing introduction of cattle. $35.00

362. BENEDICT, Carl P. A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water. Austin & Dallas: [Carl Hertzog for] Texas Folklore Society & University Press, 1943. xviii, 115 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in original glassine d.j. First edition, limited edition (550 copies). Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 7. Cook 94. Dobie, p. 111: “Worth having.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 14. Herd 238. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 21. McVicker B48. One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 24. Reese, Six Score 10: “A vividly written story of range life in west Texas in the 1890s. Benedict recounted incidents of cowpunching as they occurred and editor Dobie changed as little as possible. The result is one of the best books ever written on the Texas range.” Includes a photo of Mrs. Benedict in Victorian attire riding side-saddle. $375.00

363. BENEDICT, H. Y. & John A. Lomax. The Book of Texas. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1916. xxiii [1] 448 pp., photographic plates, maps, brands. Large 8vo, original dark green cloth. A few light spots to binding, otherwise very fine. First edition. Campbell, p. 103. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Leigh 81). Herd 239. Rader 334. Chapter 5 in part 4 (“Texas Cattle in Free-Grass Days”) contains a good history of ranching with photographs. $45.00

364. BENJAMIN, Marcus. John Bidwell, Pioneer: A Sketch of His Career. Washington, D.C.: Privately printed, 1907. [4] 52 pp., frontispiece photogravure portrait, 4 full-page plates and 15 tipped-in illustrations (mostly photographic). Large 8vo, original stiff ivory printed wrappers bound in contemporary (or original) three-quarter brown sheep over beige boards. Some shelf wear to extremities and edges, spine faded, a few stains to binding, internally fine. First edition. Cowan, p. 47. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 32. Graff 253: Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

“Contains a good account of Bidwell’s overland trip, his life with Sutter, and his later successes.” Howell 50, California 300: “A beautifully printed memorial to Bidwell...especially valuable for the plates which show views of Rancho Chico, Bidwell’s home.” Howes B353. Paher, Nevada 116. Plains & Rockies IV:88n. Pioneer Bidwell (1819- 1900) organized the first overland party to California in 1841, drafted the resolution of independence from Mexico, discovered gold on the Feather River, and remained actively involved in political and economic affairs in California throughout his life. Hart, Companion to California, p. 39. Bidwell, like many of the early Western pioneers, realized his dream of owning a ranch. Bidwell’s Rancho Chico had at least 20 subdivisions, including River Ranch (with stock, hay, and pasture), Sheep Ranch, Dairy Ranch, and meat market. Though Bidwell’s primary interest was fruit and other crops, he had about 500 cattle, 500 to 1000 horses, and 6,000 sheep. Bidwell is known as the Father of Chico. $200.00

365. BENNETT, Bob. Kerr County, Texas, 1856-1956. San Antonio: Naylor, [1956]. xi [1] 332 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. CBC 2803. County history from early settlement, with much on the sheep industry. Kerrville, the county seat, is known as “The Mohair Center of the World.” Most of the information on ranching is related to the Schreiner family and their YO Ranch. $65.00

366. BENNETT, Estelline. Old Deadwood Days. New York: J. H. Sears & Company, [1928]. xi [1] 300 pp., frontispiece portrait of Calamity Jane, photographic plates. 8vo, original orange pictorial cloth. Scholar William E. Connelley’s copy with his signature on front endpaper. Very fine in d.j. with unobtrusive water staining (mainly visible on verso of jacket). First edition. Graff 359. Guns 199. Howes B356. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 128 (one of his five standards for the post-Gold Rush period): “[The author] was the daughter of Judge Granville Bennett, first federal judge in the Hills. She writes gracefully of the scenes and characters of her childhood.” Although Deadwood was surrounded by the open range and ranching enterprises, the author’s attention almost invariably turns to mining, gambling, and saloons. She does, however, mention a blizzard devastating to cattlemen and “one of the most Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) bizarre” costumes at a masked ball—the “cattle-brand dress.... Not a cowboy who rode riotously into Deadwood...nor a cattleman looking for a little diversion...but could find the brand of his own cows on that gown.” Also includes a chapter on Calamity Jane, information on Seth Bullock and the Rough Riders, and account and photograph of Madame Canutson, “the only ‘bull- whackeress’ who ever drove her own bull train into Deadwood.” $150.00

367. BENNETT, Estelline. Old Deadwood Days. New York: J. H. Sears & Company, [1928]. Another copy. Very fine in near fine d.j. (price-clipped). $125.00

368. BENNETT, Kay. Kaibah: Recollection of a Navajo Girlhood. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1964. 253 pp., text illustrations by author. 8vo, original turquoise cloth. Very good in moderately worn d.j. Printed bookseller’s label on front pastedown. First edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 171. True story of typical Navajo family life in the late 1920s and early 1930s in New Mexico. As a young child, the author tended her family’s flock of sheep and goats. $35.00

369. BENNETT, Russell H. The Compleat Rancher. New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, [1946]. ix [1] 246 pp., illustrated by Ross Santee. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Endpapers stained, overall very good in slightly worn d.j. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Santee 26). Herd 243: “A treatise on how to run a ranch.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 13: “A discussion of a way of life as it is now; the fundamentals that may guide a person to choosing ranching as an occupation. Very readable.” $25.00

370. BENSCHOTER, Geo[rge] E. Books of Facts Concerning the Early Settlement of Sherman County, Descriptive of Its Present Business and Agricultural Developments and Natural Advantages. Loup City, Nebraska: Loup City Northwestern Printing, [1897]. [4] 76 pp. 16mo, original orange printed wrappers with typographical border, sewn. Exceptionally fine. First edition. Graff 264: “Interesting stories of pioneer life including the perilous adventures of Judge Wall with the notorious Olive gang of cowboy thugs.” Guns 201. Herd 244: “Rare.” Howes B359a. $700.00

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371. BENSCHOTER, Geo[rge] E. Books of Facts Concerning the Early Settlement of Sherman County.... Loup City, Nebraska: Loup City Northwestern Printing, [1897]. Another copy, variant wrappers. 16mo, original pink printed wrappers with typographical border, sewn. Very slight wear and minor staining to fragile wraps, otherwise very fine. $550.00

372. BENSCHOTER, Geo[rge] E. Books of Facts Concerning the Early Settlement of Sherman County.... Loup City, Nebraska: Loup City Northwestern Printing, [1897]. Another copy, variant wrappers. 16mo, original yellow printed wrappers with typographical border, sewn. Tiny blank corner of upper wrapper and first few leaves missing, a few stains. $500.00

373. BENTLEY, H. L. Experiments in Range Improvement in Central Texas. Washington, D.C.: GPO (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 13), 1902. 72 pp., photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Light ex-library, with two faint ink stamps of Arizona University on upper wrapper. Slight wear to fragile wraps, otherwise fine. First edition. Herd 247. The experiments were conducted at the grass and forage plant station in Abilene, Texas, between 1898 and 1901. $50.00

374. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack: Being an Extremely Humorous and Sarcastic Story on the Trials and Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East. Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. 207 [1] [3, ads] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 12mo, original green cloth with illustration of author. Very fine. Author’s signed inscription: “To Philip McCall, With Author’s compliments. Frank Benton.” First edition. Herd 249: “Scarce.... A humorous dig at the railroad companies for the way that they handled stock shipments.” Rader 334. In his introduction, Benton states that he worked as a cowboy for 32 years, the earlier years in Wyoming. Fun Western humor. $100.00

375. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack.... Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. Another copy. A few minor stains to binding, generally fine. Author’s signed inscription: “To Mary Louise Lowrie[?]. Kindest regards of author. Frank Benton.” Bookplate. $90.00

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376. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack.... Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. Another copy. Binding with a few spots and narrow stain along two edges of upper cover. $60.00

377. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack.... Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original red cloth with illustration of author. Other than a minor spots to binding, very fine and tight. Author’s signed inscription: “To Mrs. Sarah E. Reeves[?], Compliments of author Frank Benton.” $95.00

378. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack.... Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. Another copy. Binding with mild to moderate staining, some shelf wear. Author’s signed inscription: “To Estelle Sincerely yours From Frank Benton.” $75.00

379. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack.... Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. Another copy. Binding flecked and a bit shelf worn. Funny inscription by former owner: “J. R. Gregory duped deceived and Be D——-D by buying this book.” $50.00

380. BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack.... Denver: Western Stories Syndicate, [1903]. Another copy. Other than inconsequential rubbing along back joint, very fine, tight, and bright. $65.00

381. BENTON, Jesse James. Cow by the Tail. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1943. xii [2] 225 pp., pictorial title, text illustrations. 12mo, original blue cloth. A bit of minor flecking to upper cover, faint offsetting from title illustration, but generally fine in scarce d.j. (price-clipped, lightly worn, back panel rubbed). First edition. Adams, Burs I:32. Campbell, p. 96. Dykes, Kid 334. Guns 202: “Here is another old-timer who claims he knew Billy the Kid well.... Also some material about the James boys.” Herd 251. Benton came to Texas and settled in Denton with his family in 1872. He joined a cattle outfit at age 13, and claims to have hunted and lived with the Comanche. His adventures ranged from Texas to Arizona and New Mexico. $100.00

382. BENTON, Jesse James. Cow by the Tail. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, [1943]. xii [2] 225 pp., pictorial title, text Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustrations. 12mo, original blue cloth. Cloth slightly faded, d.j. not present. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his signature and bookplate. First edition, later printing. $25.00

383. BENTON, Minnie King. Boomtown: A Portrait of Burkburnett. [Quanah: Nortex, 1972]. [12] 65 pp., plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. History of Burkburnett in northeast Wichita County on the Red River, a farming and ranching community until the discovery of oil 1918-19. Contains information on the town’s namesake, cattle baron Burke Burnett, one of the first in Texas to buy and feed steers for market. $20.00

384. BENTON ABERDEEN-ANGUS FARM. The Angus Capitol of Texas: Sale November 17, 1955, 56 Lots, 5 Bulls, 51 Females...[wrapper title]. [Nocona, Texas: Benton Aberdeen- Angus Farm, 1955]. [43] pp., photographs of the ranch owners and their prize cattle. 12mo, original white pictorial wrappers printed in green. Other than light foxing to lower wrapper, very fine, with original mailing envelope. Uncommon. First printing. Catalogue for an auction at Mr. and Mrs. Joe Benton’s breeding farm. The Bentons assisted many ranchers in starting to breed Angus cattle. $75.00

385. BERNHARDT, C. Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas, 1864 and 1869.... Lincoln: Lincoln Sentinel Print, 1910. 62 pp., frontispiece, plates, folding map, text illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth. Binding soiled (heavier on lower cover), front hinge cracked. Scarce in cloth. First edition. The first settlers in Lincoln County intended to raise stock, but were massacred by Native Americans. In a letter home, one victim reports: “This is an excellent grazing country.... We were doing very well and would do as well now if it were not for the Indians.” Includes a description and several references to the Schermerhorn Ranch, which employed several of the early settlers and where several victims of one raid unsuccessfully sought refuge. $95.00

386. BERNHARDT, C. Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas, 1864 and 1869.... Lincoln: Lincoln Sentinel Print, 1910. Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, ivory printed wrappers. Printed list of Lincoln Memorial Monument Fund subscribers Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) laid in (usually this little pamphlet is lacking). Fragile wraps a bit worn, generally fine. $75.00

387. BERNHARDT, C. Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas, 1864 and 1869.... Lincoln: Lincoln Sentinel Print, 1910. Another copy, wrappers issue. Fund subscribers list not present.. Fragile wraps a bit worn, generally fine. $60.00

388. BERRYMAN, Opal Leigh. Pioneer Preacher. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1948]. vi [2] 248 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Some staining to fore-edges, endsheets browned, otherwise very good in d.j. First edition. Herd 253: “Life among the cowboys of West Texas.” Biographical narrative about a Baptist missionary minister in La Mesa, Dawson County, West Texas. $20.00

389. BICKHAM, William D. From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains: Editorial Correspondence of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal. Dayton: Journal Book and Job Print, 1879. 178 pp. Square 16mo, original green blindstamped cloth. Binding flecked and shelf worn (spinal extremities frayed), hinges cracked, interior clean and fine. First edition. Wilcox, p. 14: “Mostly of adventures in Colorado, and en route, in June, 1879, as a member of the Ohio Editorial Association Excursion.” Journalist Bickham discusses the great opportunities for stockraising in Colorado, notes how ranches serve as way stations along the rail route, compares buffalo grass to bunch grass as forage for stock, tells of the throngs of cattle drovers in Denver streets, etc. Traveling toward Pike’s Peak, Bickham vividly describes a roundup: “The windows and platforms were crowded with spectators eager to see cattle on a thousand hills.... The glossy cattle browsing on the crests, and the rude but graceful horsemen carelessly galloping over the billows, in contrast with the absolutely still life of the Plains, formed a spirited picture. Now we entered a station that seemed to be a general rendezvous for cow-boys.... A corral larger than usual occupied a slope. On a crest some distance onward, masses of cattle were concentrated in uneasy motion. A score or more of vigilant horsemen were stationed at intervals around them like commanders ordering a column massing for a change in battle. Now and then one of them made a reckless dash into the apparently impenetrable herds, and not long afterwards an interval appeared between the mass and a small ‘bunch’ of cattle. Presently two or three other cow-boys dashed in and completed the separation of the ‘bunch’ from the herd. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Occasionally a single fractious steer stampeded, and then a wild race ensued to drive him back to position. The scene was animated and exciting.... When there is sharp dispute there is a funeral.... The Mexican bucharos—cow boys—who formerly monopolized this business have retired before the Western American and are rarely seen among the herds on the Plains. But you will find them on Texas ranches.” $125.00

390. BIDDLE, Ellen McGowan. Reminiscences of a Soldier’s Wife. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907. 256 [1] [2, list of subscribers] pp., frontispiece (photographic portrait of author), 18 photographic plates. 12mo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, t.e.g. Spine faded and some light shelf wear, hinges loose. Presentation copy, signed by author: “To Chase W. and Elizabeth Kennedy U.S.A.” Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Graff 288: “A very good account of Army life at western posts after the Civil War.” Howes B426. Myres, Following the Drum, p. 3. Wallace, Arizona History VI:11. A Mississippi belle recounts cavalry life in Arizona, Colorado, California, Nebraska, and elsewhere. In this classic of army wife narratives of the West, Biddle gives occasional observations of the ranching country; Dodge City in the early years; socializing with ranching families; concern that seemingly friendly Utes actually wanted to steal stock; buying a cow in Arizona from a Texan driving a herd to market; Apache depredations against ranchers; large herds of cattle observed in Texas during her brief sojourn there; and how the presence of the military at Western army posts made it more practical for settlers to farm and ranch. $200.00

391. BIDWELL, John. Echoes of the Past about California: An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont and the Conquest of California, the Discovery of Gold, and Early Reminiscences [wrapper title]. Chico: Chico Advertiser, [1914]. [4] 91 pp., photographic illustrations. 16mo, original green printed wrappers, sewn. One miniscule tear at foot of spine, otherwise exceptionally fine. Difficult to find in this condition. First separate edition. Consists of three articles first published in Century Magazine (November & December 1890, February 1891), with an additional chapter of reminiscences. Cowan, p. 52. Dobie, p, 84: “Bidwell got to California several years before gold was discovered. He became foremost citizen and entertained scientists, writers, scholars, and artists at his ranch home.... Graphic, charming, telling.” Eberstadt, Modern Narratives Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) of the Plains and the Rockies 35. Graff 292. Howes B432. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 55: “The photographs depict the Bidwell mansion and ranch.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 52n. Mintz, The Trail 36. Paher, Nevada 127: “Narrates his journey from Ohio in 1839 to California, which he completed in 1841. Obviously impressed with the Humboldt River and its sink, the author devotes more detail than usual on his exploration of the river four years prior to Frémont’s arrival there. Well written.” Rocq 1371. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 16. Bidwell’s first employment in California was at Sutter’s Fort. He gives an account of Sutter’s method of threshing wheat. A huge mound of wheat was placed in a corral. Then 300 or 400 wild horses were turned into the corral where Native Americans chased them to make them run faster. Also includes observations on the hide and tallow trade, rounding up wild cattle, etc. $175.00

392. BIDWELL, John & John Steele. Echoes of the Past about California [and] In Camp and Cabin. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1928. xxii, 377 pp., frontispiece, large folding map (facsimile of mining district map by W. A. Jackson). 12mo, original burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Very fine. Second edition of both accounts (the first edition of Steele was published at Lodi in 1901). See above for cites to Bidwell. Cowan, p. 612. Graff 3964. Guns 2130 (noting rarity and presence of material on Joaquín Murieta). Howes S924. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 598: “This detailed and important account of mining life is a sequel to Across the Plains...based on Steele’s daily journal.... He provided important information on mining techniques and laws while laboring in the Coloma District and on the Yuba and Feather Rivers.” Rocq 16078. Steele includes information ranching and the hide and tallow trade. $45.00

393. BIDWELL, John. In California before the Gold Rush. With a Foreword by Lindley Bynum. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1948. vii [3] 111 [2] pp., portrait on title, additional portraits. 8vo, original half mauve cloth over beige pictorial boards. Fine, unopened. Limited edition. Ward Ritchie fine press edition of Bidwell’s Echoes of the Past (See item 391 above). Rocq 1373. $40.00

394. BIDWELL, John. A Journey to California, with Observations about the Country, Climate and the Route to This Country.... With an Introduction by Herbert Ingram Priestly.... San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. ix [1] Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

48 pp., illustrated chapter headings. 4to, original tan cloth over orange boards, printed paper spine label. Superb copy in very fine d.j. Third edition of Bidwell’s journal (first published St. Louis?, ca. 1842-1844). The original edition is known only by the Bancroft copy; Mintz comments: “Since the first printing is virtually unobtainable, the beautifully printed 1937 edition by John Henry Nash is a worthy substitute.” The second appearance of Bidwell’s journal was in 1907 as part of Addresses, Reminiscences, etc. of General John Bidwell, compiled by C. C Royce. Cowan, p. 51. Howes B433. Mintz, The Trail 35: “A classic of its kind, depicting with grim realism the hazards and frustrations experienced by the emigrants of the first wagon train to California.” Paher, Nevada 126n: “The story of the first emigrant party to California by wagon train. While traversing northern Nevada along the Humboldt (St. Mary’s) River, mules and men carry the baggage, for they had abandoned their wagons in western Utah.... Much description about the route.” Plains & Rockies IV:88n: “They broke their own trail west, crossing from Salt Lake to the Carson River, and then over the Sierra Nevada and down the Stanislaus River.” In Bidwell’s observations about the California country, he states: “Of all the places in the world, it appears to me, that none can be better adapted to the raising of cattle than California. The cattle here are very large, and a person who has not a thousand is scarcely noticed as regards stock.” Included is information on prices for cattle, forage, decline of mission herds, etc. $150.00

395. BIDWELL, John. A Journey to California in 1841.... Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. [6] 55 [3] 32 pp., folding map. 4to, original brown and turquoise plaid cloth. Very fine, unopened. Fourth edition, with introduction and bibliography by Farquhar and facsimile of the first edition of Bidwell’s journal, with transcription and notes. Keepsake Edition, number 12. Paher, Nevada 126. $75.00

396. BIDWELL, John. Life in California before the Gold Discovery. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1966. 76 [2] pp., text illustrations (primarily portraits and old prints), endpaper maps. Large 8vo, original sage green buckram. Very fine in brown paper protective folder. Limited edition, reprint of two articles first published in Century Magazine, (December 1890 and February Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1891), which subsequently appeared in book form in Echoes of the Past about California. Rocq S205. $40.00

397. BIEBER, Ralph P. (ed.). Southern Trails to California in 1849. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1937. 386 [1] pp., frontispiece, plates, foldout map. 8vo, original maroon cloth, t.e.g. Very fine, mostly unopened. First book edition (first published as newspaper articles). Southwest Historical Series 5. Campbell, p. 191. Clark & Brunet 19:V. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 27-28. Howes S791. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 56: “Carl Wheat calls this the definitive discussion of the southern trails.... An indispensable reference book for the study of the Gold Rush. After a thorough introduction, Bieber reprints key government documents, advertisements, letters, and journals published in contemporary newspapers. Subjects covered by Bieber include news of the discovery and advertisements concerning the southern trails through Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, and New Mexico. The letters and journal of New Orleans Daily Picayune correspondent John E. Durivage (pages 159-255) make one of the finest records of travel from Texas through Mexico and the Colorado Desert. Other journals published by Bieber are: ‘Sketches from the Journal of a Traveler: Overland to California’ from the La Grange (Texas) Monument (pages 260-280), the Alden M. Woodruff Journal from the Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat, and the letters and journal of Dr. Augustus M. Heslep concerning the Santa Fe Trail, which first appeared in the Daily Missouri Republican.” Rader 357. Rittenhouse 52. Wallace, Arizona History VIII:40. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 17. Includes good observations on ranches in Mexico and California and the hide trade. $200.00

398. BIERSCHWALE, Margaret. Fort McKavett Texas, Post on the San Saba. Salado: Anson Jones Press, 1966. 134 pp., illustrations, facsimiles, map, plan, endpaper maps. 4to, original pictorial cloth. Moderate shelf wear and soiling, otherwise fine. Author’s signed presentation copy to Vivian and Carl Hertzog, with Carl Hertzog’s bookplate. First edition, “Author’s Limited Edition.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2906. Among the duties of this army post on the West Texas frontier was protecting area ranchers and livestock from theft by Native Americans, rustlers, and even locals. $75.00

399. BIGELOW, John. On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo with the Original Illustrations of Hooper, McDougall, Chapin, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Hatfield, and Frederic Remington. Foreword, Introduction, and Notes by Arthur Woodward. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1958. xxv [1] 237 pp., illustrated title, text illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original embossed pictorial maroon cloth. Other than a few spots on upper cover, very fine in price-clipped d.j. Signed by the editor. First book edition, limited edition (750 copies); first published in Outing magazine, April-July, 1896. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 406). Powell, Arizona Gathering II 183. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “An army officer’s journal-account of the Apache Campaign of 1886.... This is the first published book version with the original illustrations by artists such as Frederic Remington, and others. Carefully annotated and with an informative foreword and introduction by the editor.” The soldiers got provisions or stayed at area ranches in Arizona—Page’s Ranch, Palo Parado Ranch, Peck’s Ranch, and Shanahan’s Ranch, and many others. $65.00

400. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts.... [Austin: W. Thomas Taylor for] The Book Club of Texas in Association with Texas Tech University Press, [1991]. xix [1] 241 [3] pp., frontispiece map, photographic plates + portfolio with 16 duotones after photographs by George Robertson and Erwin E. Smith (printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press). 2 vols., oblong 8vo, original brown cowhide over tan decorated boards + original gray wrappers with pocket (containing duotones). New, as issued, in publisher’s slipcase. Limited edition (260 copies, signed by A. C. Greene and W. Thomas Taylor, in a special binding, and with the extra suite of photographs). Howes B440n. A combined reissue of Pictures of the Past (Colorado City, 1902) and History That Will Never Be Repeated (Ennis, 1901), two of the rarest pieces of printed Texana dealing with the evolution from buffalo range to cattle industry in the Panhandle and West Texas. Introduction by A. C. Greene and biography of Biggers by Seymour V. Connor. “Biggers catches the flavor and the intent of those he interviewed out on the vast ranches. He always acknowledged the redemption of times past, the heroism of those who tamed the edges of Texas so that civilization could find a foothold and grow. He may glorify their exploits a shade too enthusiastically, but he never worships them, and he tells their stories warts and all.”—A. C. Green (from d.j. blurb of trade edition). $250.00

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401. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire.... [Austin: W. Thomas Taylor for] Texas Tech University Press, [1991]. xix [1] 241 [3] pp., frontispiece map, photographic plates after photographs by George Robertson and Erwin E. Smith. Oblong 8vo, original brown cloth over tan decorated boards. New, as issued, in d.j. Trade edition of preceding. $45.00

402. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. From Cattle Range to Cotton Patch: A Series of Historical Sketches Dealing with Industrial, Social, and Commercial Evolutions That Have Taken Place in Western Texas from the Beginning of the Buffalo Slaughter to Date of First Publication in 1904 [wrapper title]. Bandera: Frontier Times, 1944. 80 pp., printed in double column. Large 8vo, original green printed wrappers. Lightly browned, otherwise very fine. Second edition (the first edition, printed at Abilene ca. 1908, is very rare). Campbell, p. 96. CBC 4248n. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 22n (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”): “Prime source material on the West Texas frontier, cattle, buffalo hunting, Indian fighting.” Graff 297n. Herd 258n. Howes 439. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, pp. 15-16n. Vandale 15n. $200.00

403. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. German Pioneers in Texas: A Brief History of Their Hardships, Struggles and Achievements. [Fredericksburg]: Press of the Fredericksburg Publishing Company, 1925. [6] 230 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original aqua cloth. Light shelf wear, generally fine. First edition. CBC 1886. Guns 2007. Herd 259. History of German pioneers in Gillespie County, with a section on “Some Noted Old Ranches,” as well as information on the Adelsverein, biographies (quite a few ranchers), and a rich fund of anecdotes. $150.00

404. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. Shackelford County Sketches. Typescript. 59 leaves (versos blank), with 4 photostats laid in (1908 title page, illustrations). Undated, but early twentieth century. 4to, old tan folder with beige cloth backstrip containing unbound sheets. Fine. Original typescript? This typescript has uncorrected errors and variances from the exceedingly rare original edition published at the Albany News Office in 1908 (needs research). CBC 4044n. Guns 208n: “Contains material on the Millet Ranch outlaws.” Herd 260n. Howes B441n. Vandale 16n. Biggers’s history is the earliest of Shackelford County and the basis for most later accounts. Only about 250 copies of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) the 1908 edition were printed, and about two dozen copies survive. $500.00

405. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. Shackelford County Sketches. Albany & Fort Griffin: [Designed by William Wittliff at Encino Press for] Clear Fork Press, 1974. [2] vi [2] 114 pp., frontispiece, photographic endpapers. Large 8vo, original half tan suede over terracotta cloth. Very fine in publisher’s slipcase. Limited edition (100 copies, signed by editor and collaborators). Second edition (the original edition of 1908 is very rare). Whaley, Wittliff 118: “Tales of early years in Shackelford County, which was established in 1864. ‘Done into a book in the Albany News Office’ by Biggers in October, 1908. Less than two dozen copies of the original remain. This reproduction, to which annotation has been added and an index provided, commemorates Shackelford County’s 100th anniversary.” Edited and annotated by Joan Farmer; introduction by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell. $250.00

406. BIGGERS, Don H[ampton]. Shackelford County Sketches. Albany & Fort Griffin: [Designed by William Wittliff at Encino Press for] Clear Fork Press, 1974. vi [2] 114 pp., frontispiece. Large 8vo, original half terracotta cloth over tan pictorial boards. Very fine in original mylar d.j. Trade issue of preceding. $65.00

407. BIGGERS, Don Hampton & Seymour V. Connor. A Biggers Chronicle: Consisting of a Reprint of the Extremely Rare “History That Will Never Be Repeated” by Lan Franks (pseud) and a Biography of Its Author Don Hampton Biggers. Lubbock: Texas Technological College, 1961. vii [5] 147 [2] pp., plates, text illustrations, facsimile. 8vo, original black cloth over red cloth. Neat pencil notations throughout (possibly editorial?), otherwise fine in printed acetate d.j. First edition, photofacsimile of Biggers’s first book, the extremely rare History That Will Never Be Repeated (first edition Ennis, Texas, 1902), with additions, limited edition (500 copies). Howes B440n. Mohr, The Range Country 634: “Reproduced from the only known copy. Excellent source material on West Texas and its expanding cattle industry.” $75.00

408. BIGNEY, T. O. A Month with the Muses: Colorado Tales and Legends of the Earlier Days, in Verse.... Pueblo: T. O. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Bigney, 1875. 130 pp. 8vo, original purple cloth. Spine lightly faded, but overall fine and bright. First edition. LC, Colorado 141: “Major Bigney was proud to describe his work as ‘written, printed and published in Colorado.’ This volume probably was the first book of verse of which that could be said.” McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 229. Wilcox, p. 14. Poems based on historical events, including “A Tale of the Indian Massacre at Pueblo, in 1854. (A Ranchman’s Story).” $100.00

409. BIGNEY, T. O. A Month with the Muses.... Pueblo: T. O. Bigney, 1875. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original terracotta pebbled cloth. Binding moderately rubbed and discolored, smudges on a few pages, otherwise very good. $85.00

410. BIGNEY, T. O. A Month with the Muses.... Pueblo: T. O. Bigney, 1875. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original plum pebbled cloth. Binding worn, especially at corners, a few smudges and stains to text, otherwise very good. $75.00

411. BILLDT, Ruth. Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas. N.p., 1965. 163 [13] pp., plates, photographic illustrations. 4to, original green cloth. Fine, with printed errata slip. First edition. Local history with excellent social and women’s history. Includes occasional references to ranching, such as how the citizens hated Texas cowboys more than Native Americans because they destroyed growing crops; cattle eating loco weed (“once they get a taste of it, [they] cannot leave it alone”); biographies of stockmen, etc. $45.00

412. BILLINGTON, Ray A[llen]. America’s Frontier Culture: Three Essays. College Station & London: Texas A&M University Press, [1977]. 97 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Includes the essay “Cowboys, Indians, and the Land of Promise.” $25.00

413. BILLINGTON, Ray Allen. The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. xix [3] 324 [1] pp., plates, maps. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 19 (“Western Movement—Its Literature”). The author focuses on Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) overland trails, Texan Revolution, Mexican-American War, Mormons, miners, and Manifest Destiny, with brief discussions of early ranching in Texas, California, and Oregon. $45.00

414. BIRD, George Robert. Tenderfoot Days in Territorial Utah. Boston: Gorham Press, 1918. 221 pp., frontispiece photograph, photographic plates. 12mo, original red cloth. Some discoloration and staining to covers, hinges cracked, text age-toned, otherwise very good. First edition. Flake 526: “Includes a great deal of Mormon history.” Occasional mention of ranching, including the passing of open range days, conflicts between cattlemen and sheep raisers, description of women riding astride, and a chapter, “A Tenderfoot’s Romance,” about a romance between the daughter of rancher Howard Glynn and a sometime “broncho” buster. $75.00

415. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1879-80. xii, 296 [4, ads] pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original olive gilt-pictorial cloth. Moderate outer wear, especially to spinal extremities, small stains to spine and upper cover, a few signatures loose, ownership inkstamp on blank flyleaf, occasional foxing (usually on and adjacent to plates). First American edition. Campbell, p. 92. Cowan, p. 54. Flake 536n. Hanna, Yale Exhibit. Herd 263: “An Englishwoman’s impressions of ranch life in Montana as told to friends in England through letters.” King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 13. LC, Colorado 144n. Middleton, Victorian Lady Travellers, pp. 19-54. Smith 853n. Wilcox, p. 14. One of the best and most popular accounts of the American West written in the nineteenth century, by the indefatigable Bird, who spent the autumn and early winter of 1873 at the Griff Evans Ranch in Colorado. “Isabella went on a cattle drive, where she drove cattle all day and forded the Big Thompson River about twenty times. She earned high praise from Evans” (Allen, Travelling Ladies, p. 237). He was, in fact, so pleased that he often called through the door of her cabin before daylight requesting her help when he was short-handed. He offered to hire her for $6.00 a week, but “she did not fancy playing ‘hired girl’” and left soon thereafter. She met and stayed with many other ranchers during her travels through Colorado. $150.00

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416. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. London: John Murray, 1885. xii, 296 [32, ads] pp., frontispiece, plates, illustrated title with author’s portrait. 8vo, original brown cloth. Light shelf wear and back hinge cracked, text fine and fresh, related newspaper article laid in. “Fifth edition.” $60.00

417. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons & Knickerbocker Press, 1886. xii, 296 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original terracotta gilt-pictorial cloth. Moderate shelf wear, especially to spinal extremities, front hinge cracked, small bookdealer’s label on rear pastedown, a few small stains in text, otherwise very good. Later printing. $45.00

418. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. London: John Murray, 1894. xii, 296 pp., frontispiece, plates, illustrated title. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Hinges loose, small inkstamp on title and small bookdealer’s label on rear pastedown, overall very good. “Sixth edition.” $45.00

419. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons & Knickerbocker Press, 1894. [1, ad] xii, 296 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original tan gilt-pictorial cloth. Ex-library: East Hampton Public Library copy with call letters partially removed from spine, their bookplate on front pastedown (stamped “Withdrawal”), embossed stamp on title, and remains of removed library materials on back flyleaf and pastedown. Shelf-slanted, moderate shelf wear, mild to moderate foxing adjacent to plates, otherwise very good. The Dorothy Josey copy, with her bookplate. Later printing. $30.00

420. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, n.d. [1, ad] xii, 296 [2, ads] pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original green gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding discolored and moderately worn, front hinge cracked, occasional foxing (especially to first and last few leaves and adjacent to plates), one plate detached (but present), otherwise very good. Initialed hand-written note about this copy by J. Frank Dobie laid in. “Seventh edition.” $30.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

421. [BIRD, ISABELLA L.]. BARR, Pat. A Curious Life for a Lady.... Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970. 347 pp., plates, maps. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. First American edition. In addition to a lengthy section on Isabella’s visit to Colorado, this book contains some of her previously unpublished letters. $15.00

422. [BIRD, ISABELLA L.]. BARR, Pat. A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird, a Remarkable Victorian Traveller. London: Secker & Warburg, n.d. 347 pp., plates, maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Light shelf wear, overall fine in d.j. English reprint edition of the Murray & Macmillan first edition (1970). $15.00

423. [BIRD, ISABELLA L.]. MIDDLETON, Dorothy. “‘A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains’” in The Cornhill Magazine 994 (Winter 1952/1953). Pp. 274-300, plates, illustration. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Two pages browned (from old newspaper clipping?), otherwise fine. First printing. Brief biography and account of Isabella’s visit to Colorado. $10.00

424. BIRD, J. S. Prairies and Pioneers. Hays, Kansas: McWhirter-Ammons Press, [1931 or after]. 56 pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original stiff colored pictorial wrappers. Fine. Second edition (the author says in the introduction that he first published the work at Christmas as a gift for his friends, and that the work was so well received, that he is now re-releasing the book; the copyright date is 1931). Includes “A Cowboy Dance” (describing social activities following a round up); “Bob Wilson” (about a cowboy who drowned while crossing the Smoky near Wallace); “Who Started This Fire?” (how homesteaders sometimes set prairie fires to drive out the cattlemen); etc. $35.00

425. BIRGE, Julius C. The Awakening of the Desert. Boston: Richard G. Badger & Gorham Press, [1912]. [4] 429 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, endpaper map. Thick 8vo, original red buckram. Upper cover slightly discolored, otherwise fine. Second edition, with two preliminary leaves added, foreword and afterword (first edition, Boston, 1912). Flake 528n. Graff 299n: “Although a latecomer, Birge’s account of his trip overland in 1866 from Whitewater, Wisconsin, to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Salt Lake City, is a fine first hand narrative.” Howes B463. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 2047: “Of exceptional worth for the light it throws on freighting, army posts, Indians, and a travel season fraught with danger. Descriptions of Nebraska City, Fort Kearny, Morrison’s Ranch, Julesburg.” This 1866 overland includes an account of a brush with the Sioux at Baker’s Ranch. Several chapters on Mormon history, social life, and customs, including a chapter on the Mormon Trail. Chapter 23 is “Some Episodes in Stock Hunting.” $75.00

426. BIRNEY, Hoffman. Vigilantes: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Plummer Gang of Outlaws in and about Virginia City Montana in the Early ’60’s. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, [1929]. [1] 346 pp., plates, map, text illustrations. 8vo, original dark brown cloth. Moderate outer wear, ink ownership inscription on front flyleaf, otherwise fine in slightly worn and soiled d.j. The d.j. is scarce. First edition, limited edition (#201 of 250 signed copies). Adams, One-Fifty 11. Guns 214: “About a third of this book appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in short articles before publication in book form.” Graff 1086. Howes D345. Smith 850. Set in the backdrop of the ranching country, some of the executions of outlaws took place on ranches. Includes information on “Tex” Crowell, the notorious horse and cattle thief. $250.00

427. BIRNEY, Hoffman. Vigilantes.... Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, [1929]. 346 pp., plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in moderately worn, browned, and price-clipped d.j. First trade edition. $85.00

428. BIRNEY, Hoffman. Vigilantes.... Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, [1929]. Another copy. Remains of pale green paper formerly pasted to front pastedown, small bookplate on front flyleaf, otherwise fine, d.j. not present. $50.00

429. BIRNEY, Hoffman. Zealots of Zion. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, [1931]. 317 pp., frontispiece, plates, double-page map, text illustrations. 8vo, original tan cloth. Fine in d.j. First edition. Farquhar, The Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 37: “Of particular importance because of the chapters on the migration to the San Juan and the amazing episode of ‘The-Hole-in-the-Rock.’” Paher, Nevada 136: “Four chapters are devoted to the Mountain Meadows Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Massacre. The chapter ‘Outposts of Zion’ discusses Mormon settlements in the Great Basin, such as Mormon Station and vicinity and Los Vegas.” Cowboys in the early Mormon era in Utah apparently had pitiful lives: “Those...barefoot boys herded the cattle, winter and summer. They were paid two cents daily for each head in their charge, and a premium was placed on vigilance by the custom of docking the young herders four cents for each cow that was not returned at evening to the home corral” (p. 43). $65.00

430. BIRNEY, Hoffman. Zealots of Zion. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, [1931]. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original red cloth. Fine in price-clipped d.j. $65.00

431. BISHOP, Curtis. Lots of Land: From Material Compiled under the Direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas, Bascom Giles. Austin: Steck Company, [1949]. x, 307 pp., illustrations by Warren Hunter. 8vo, original brown cloth. Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise fine in lightly worn and price-clipped d.j. First edition. Herd 265: “Chapter 5 deals with the cowboy and the Texas cattle industry.” $35.00

432. BISHOP, Nathaniel H. The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America.... Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. [2] 310 pp. 8vo, original plum cloth. A poor copy, binding worn, frayed, and chipped, front hinge cracked, a few nicks and stains to text. First edition. Jones, South America Rediscovered, p. 242. Nichols, Gaucho 223: “The description of the gaucho is most uncomplimentary.” Palau 29977. Sabin 5613. Chapter “A Visit to the Pampa Country” has information on cattle, customs of gauchos, ostriches, riding a wild colt, etc.; two chapters on “Life on the Pampas” include gaucho etiquette and visit to a rancho; other sections have information on estancia house and cattle farm, and much interesting information on agriculture, weather, natural history, mining, and local customs. The author achieved his peripatetic feat at the age of 17 on a total budget of $50. $50.00

433. BISHOP, Nathaniel H. The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America. Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard, Publishers & Charles T. Dillingham, 1883. [2] 310 [2, ads] pp., 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece (“Throwing the Lasso”). 8vo, original drab green pebbled cloth. Moderate shelf wear, especially to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) spinal extremities, shaken, small bookdealer’s inkstamp on blank flyleaf, generally good to very good. Dudley R. Dobie’s copy, with his ink ownership inscription and pencil notes in regard to the book (on blank endsheet and on 2 laid-in slips of paper). “Eleventh edition.” The illustrations did not appear in the first edition. $50.00

434. Bits and Pieces: All That’s Left of the Old West and Your Own Western History Magazine (editor, Mabel E. Brown, sole owner). Incomplete run containing 82 issues: (1:1, 4- 12); 2:1-9; 3:1-12; 4:1-12; 5:1-3 (2 copies of issue 3), 6- 12; 6:1-6; 7:1-6; 8:1-6; 9:1-6; 10:1-4). Each issue has approximately 20 pp. and is illustrated. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First printings. Note inside front cover: “BITS AND PIECES is a magazine of Western History with special interest in Northeastern Wyoming and the Black Hills area. It is published monthly in the hope that fragments of history contained in its pages will fill some of the many ‘gaps’ which exist in the jigsaw puzzle of the past.” Much on ranching, and rich in women’s and social history. $300.00

435. BIXBY-SMITH, Sarah. Adobe Days...Events in the Life of a California Girl on a Sheep Ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles While It Was Yet a Small and Humble Town; Together with an Account of How Three Young Men from Maine in Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Three Drove Sheep and Cattle across the Plains, Mountains, and Deserts from Illinois to the Pacific Coast.... Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1925. 208 pp. 12mo, original half beige buckram over boards, printed paper spine label. Very fine in defective d.j. (half of upper d.j. torn away and absent). First edition. Cowan, p. 55. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 37a. Flake 538a. Hanna, Yale Exhibit. Herd 266. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 13: “Recollections of growing up on a sheep ranch near present-day Long Beach, California.” Mintz, The Trail 38. Rocq. 4401. Includes an account of herding sheep across the plains from Illinois to California. $65.00

436. BIXBY-SMITH, Sarah. Adobe Days.... Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1925. Another copy. Contemporary ink gift inscription on blank flyleaf, otherwise very fine, d.j. not present. $50.00

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437. BIXBY-SMITH, Sarah. Adobe Days.... Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1931. [7] vi [2] 148 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates (mostly portraits and photographs of ranches). 8vo, original green cloth with printed paper spine label. Moderate shelf wear and discoloration, front hinge cracked, bookplate and small dealer’s label on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Third edition of preceding, revised and enlarged, illustrations added. Rocq 4403. $25.00

438. BLACK, A. P. (Ott). The End of the Long Horn Trail [wrapper title]. Selfridge, North Dakota: Selfridge Journal, n.d. (ca. 1936). [1] 59 pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (mostly photographs). 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First edition. Adams, Burs I:35. Dobie, p. 126: “Printed as the author talked.... Black was blind and sixty-nine years old when he dictated his memoirs to a college student who had sense enough to retain the flavor.... Reading him is like listening.” Dykes, Kid 232. Guns 217: “Tells of knowing Bill Powers when he was wagon boss of the Hashknife outfit.... The author also declares that Calamity Jane was Hickok’s wife and that she owned a ranch near New England, North Dakota.” Herd 267. $60.00

439. BLACK, Reading W. The Life and Diary of Reading W. Black: A History of Early Uvalde. Arranged by Ike Moore. Uvalde, Texas: Privately printed for the El Progreso Club, 1934. vi [2] 93 pp., frontispiece portrait, plate of portraits, double-page map, woodcut text illustration. 8vo, original green wrappers, stapled. Light wear and fading to wraps, otherwise fine. First edition. CBC 4523. In 1853 Black (Handbook of Texas Online: Reading Wood Black) settled at the present site of Uvalde, engaging in stockraising and trading. Black built the first house in Uvalde, laid out the first streets, and organized Uvalde County. Moore’s essay on Black and the early history of the upper Nueces country (pp. 1-34) is followed by Black’s diary entries from December 30, 1853, to February 19, 1856. Good source on Native Americans in the area at the beginning of Anglo settlement. $85.00

440. BLACK, Robert C. Island in the Rockies: The History of Grand County, Colorado, to 1930. Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company for the Grand County Pioneer Society, [1969]. 435 [1] pp., frontispiece, photographic Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustrations, maps. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in publisher’s slipcase. First edition, limited edition (#47 of 250 signed copies in slipcase). Wynar 1020. Mostly of mining and railroads and other infrastructure, but area ranches, Stock Growers Association, rodeo, etc. are mentioned. $125.00

441. BLACK, Robert C. Island in the Rockies: The History of Grand County, Colorado, to 1930. Boulder: Pruett Publishing for the Grand County Pioneer Society, [1969]. 435 pp., frontispiece, photographic illustrations, maps. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine, with printed errata page laid in. First trade edition. $40.00

442. BLACK, William L. A New Industry: or, Raising the Angora Goat, and Mohair, for Profit...Also a Number of Letters from Farmers, and Ranchmen, in Iowa, Oregon, California, and Other States, Concerning the Utility of the Angora Goat in Clearing Brushy Land.... [Fort Worth: Keystone, 1900]. 486, xxxvii pp., frontispiece, illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original dark slate blue cloth. Spine faded, light shelf wear, internally very fine, with author’s presentation inscription on fly- leaf and signature on frontispiece portrait. First edition. Howes B487. $100.00

443. BLAKE, Herbert Cody. Blake’s Western Stories: The Truth about Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), Wild Bill (J. B. Hickok), Dr. Carver, California Joe, Yellow Hand, Tall Bull, the Pony Express.... History and Busted Romances of the Old Frontier [wrapper title]. Brooklyn: Herbert Cody Blake, 1929. 32 pp., photographic portraits. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Slight wear to wraps, otherwise fine. First edition. Guns 220: “Scarce.” The cowpuncher- author attempts to debunk Cody’s claims of being an Indian Fighter. $150.00

444. BLAKE, Vernon. Goliad. [Goliad: Goliad Printing Company], n.d. (1935?). [2] 48 pp. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. CBC 1939. In the late 1800s, cattle ranching was the primary regional activity. Good statistics, such as 42,096 cattle in Goliad in 1930. Includes a photograph of “Herding Turkeys in Goliad County.” $25.00

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445. BLANCHARD, Leola Howard. Conquest of Southwest Kansas.... [Wichita: Wichita Eagle Press, 1931]. [1] 355 pp., text illustrations (mostly photographs). 8vo, original black pictorial cloth. One corner slightly bumped, otherwise very fine, fresh, and tight. Signed by author. First edition. Campbell, p. 165: “Dodge City, among other matters.” Guns 221. Herd 275. Rittenhouse 58. Good coverage of social history and pioneer women in Southwest Kansas. $75.00

446. BLANCHARD, Leola Howard. Conquest of Southwest Kansas.... [Wichita: Wichita Eagle Press, 1931]. Another copy. Very fine and bright. $60.00

447. BLANKENSHIP, Mary A. The West Is for Us: The Reminiscences of...Edited by Seymour V. Connor. Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1958. [2] 125 pp., text illustrations (photographic and line drawings). 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine, signed by editor Seymour V. Connor and illustrator Mrs. Doyle Thornhill. Scarce in cloth. First edition. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 13. Winegarten I, p. 34. The author, who traveled by wagon from Erath to twenty miles south of Lubbock in 1901 and settled in a dugout, was the first woman pioneer in that area. Her account is an excellent source for social and domestic history of pioneer ranch life in the South Plains of Texas at the turn of the century. $50.00

448. BLANKENSHIP, Mary A. The West Is for Us.... Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1958. Another copy. Very fine. $40.00

449. BLASINGAME, Ike. Dakota Cowboy: My Life in the Old Days. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1958]. 317 pp., text illustrations by John Mariani, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in price-clipped d.j. with minor wear. First edition. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #45: “About the best range country book published since...1941.... Authentic, entertaining, informative and slyly humorous.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 79 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “Ike was a Matador cowboy and bronc peeler and this is a tremendously entertaining book that is also down to earth on all cow country happenings.” Reese, Six Score 11: “Blasingame came to the Dakotas from Texas in 1904 with an outfit of the Matador Land and Cattle Company. The book Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) covers ranch life in the Dakotas for the next eight years.... Well-written. Blasingame recalled his range days vividly and frankly.” $150.00

450. BLOODGOOD, Lida Fleitmann & Piero Santini (comp.). The Horseman’s Dictionary. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1964]. 214 pp. 8vo, original red cloth. Ex-library: call letters on spine and upper cover, label on front pastedown, blindstamp on title page, stamp on back pastedown. First edition. Over 3,500 entries, including ranch terminology. $7.50

451. BLOOM, Lansing B. Early Weaving in New Mexico. N.p.: New Mexico Historical Review, 1927. 11 pp. 8vo, original brown wrappers, stapled. Slight wear to fragile wraps. First separate issue (first published in the New Mexico Historical Review 2:3, July 1927). Saunders 3882n. Covers Coronado’s introduction of domestic sheep, introducing a new medium for weaving. $20.00

452. BOATRIGHT, Mody C. “Fabulous Birds and Beasts: Some More Tall Tales for Tenderfeet As Told in the Cow Camps” in The Texas Monthly 4:4 (November 1929). Pp. 450-57. 8vo, original orange printed wrappers. Lightly worn, otherwise fine. First printing. $20.00

453. BOATRIGHT, Mody C. Mody Boatright, Folklorist: A Collection of Essays. Austin & London: University of Texas Press for Texas Folklore Society, [1973]. xxvi, 198 pp., frontispiece portrait of Boatright, text illustrations. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Ernest B. Steck; “Biographical Essay” by Harry Ransom; and foreword by Wayland D. Hand. A series of essays by Boatright, many exploring the folklore of the West and its impact on the U.S. Essays include “Frontier Humor,” “The American Myth Rides the Range: Owen Wister’s Man on Horseback,” “Theodore Roosevelt, Social Darwinism, and the Cowboy,” “How Will Boatright Made Bits and Spurs,” etc. $25.00

454. BOATRIGHT, Mody C. “Wind and Weather: Lanky’s Third Night in the Cow Camp Brings More Tall Tales for Tenderfeet” in The Texas Monthly 5:4 (May 1930). Pp. 412- 19. 8vo, original orange printed wrappers. Slight fading to spine and light wrapper wear. J. Frank Dobie’s occasional penciled commentary, such as “Bunk!” Dobie also attached a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) related newspaper clipping to p. 412 that has offset onto the two adjacent pages. First printing. Besides the article cited, there are references relating to ranching in other articles, such as the biography of Frank P. Holland, who was publisher and editor of Farm and Ranch. $20.00

455. BOATRIGHT, Mody C. (ed.). Mexican Border Ballads and Other Lore. Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1946. vii [1] 140 pp. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in red. Binding with moderate shelf wear and a few small abrasions, endsheets lightly browned, generally very good. First edition. Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society XXI. Basic Texas Books 203:XXI. Dobie, p. 43. This classic work includes Boatright’s discussion of how King Ranch vaquero corridos tend to vary from the genre’s customary orientation of protest. Includes the long ballad “Corrido de Kansas,” being the memories of José Gómez (former King Ranch cowboy), who describes a cattle drive from South Texas to Kansas City. $35.00

456. BODE, Elroy. Sketchbook II: Portraits in Nostalgia. El Paso: Texas Western Press, [1972]. x [2] 165 [2] pp., illustrations by Frank O’Leary. 8vo, original light brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. The sketches are set against the backdrop of the cattle country and include a humorous piece entitled “Ranch Woman on the Phone.” Typographic arrangement by Hertzog. $40.00

457. BODE, Elroy. Texas Sketchbook: A Sheaf of Prose Poems. El Paso: Texas Western Press, [1967]. x [2] 182 [2] pp., illustrations by José Cisneros. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in d.j. with one short tear (no losses). Signed by Bode, Cisneros, and Hertzog. Original prospectus and contemporary review laid in (offsetting to first blank page from review). Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 21). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 212 (quoting Lon Tinkle): “For the format of Bode’s book, Hertzog has surpassed himself. You will probably not find a more perfect title-page (point of view of design) all year.” Ranching is a theme woven into the short, thoughtful essays, and section 4 (pp. 87-109) is “At the Ranch.” $75.00

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458. BODE, Elroy. Texas Sketchbook.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, [1967]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. Signed by Bode, Cisneros, and Hertzog. $60.00

459. BODE, Elroy. Texas Sketchbook.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, [1967]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. Signed by Hertzog. $50.00

460. BODE, Winston. A Portrait of Pancho: The Life of a Great Texan, J. Frank Dobie. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965. xiii [1] 164 pp., portrait of Dobie on title (by Tom Lea), numerous photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Cook 413. One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 43: “Harry Ransom wrote the introduction to this biography. Mrs. Dobie provided many of the photographs used in this book from her husband’s personal collection.” Biography, critique, and numerous photos documenting the life and work of J. Frank Dobie, the legendary Texas man of letters who grew up on a ranch and wrote groundbreaking material on ranching. $45.00

461. BODE, Winston. A Portrait of Pancho.... Austin: Pemberton, 1965. xiii [1] 164 pp., portrait of Dobie on title (by Tom Lea), numerous photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate. Third printing. $10.00

462. BOETHEL, Paul C. Echoes on the Lavaca. [Austin: Privately printed by Paul C. Boethel, 1974]. vii [1] 122 pp., illustration. 8vo, original olive cloth. Very fine in d.j. Author’s lengthy signed inscription to Dudley R. Dobie on front free endpaper, and invoice with signed note from author laid in. First edition. Humorously written autobiography by attorney Boethel, with local history and occasional references to ranching. Boethel describes one legal case: “At one time, a local bank made a loan on a herd assembled by a man for inspection and appraisal, only to learn two days later, it was the man’s neighbor’s cattle that he had penned.... In the floods of 1936 and 1940, I learned that a cow burdened with a mortgage could never make it out of high water; her sisters not covered by a mortgage always made it to high ground.” $50.00

463. BOETHEL, Paul C. Echoes on the Lavaca. [Austin: Privately printed by Paul C. Boethel, 1974]. Another copy. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Fore-edges lightly foxed, otherwise very fine in d.j. $35.00

464. BOETHEL, Paul C. The Free State of Lavaca. [Austin: Weddle, 1977]. vii [1] 184 pp. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Light discoloration to binding, otherwise fine in d.j. Author’s presentation copy: “To James & Mary Hopkins, Garwood, Texas. I know you cherish the tales of early life in Texas. This, in the main, will add another dimension. Paul C. Boethel. Feb 11, 1978.” First edition. Lavaca County took its name from the Spanish word for “cow,” and it became true cow country following the Civil War. Chapter 2, “When the Rustler Was Told to Leave,” details the rise of ranching in the county, the transition from open range to fenced ranching, expulsion of rustlers, etc. $65.00

465. BOETHEL, Paul C. The History of Lavaca County. San Antonio: Naylor, 1936. [10] 151 pp. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Endpapers browned, otherwise fine in d.j. with a few stains. Rare. First edition. CBC 2940. Guns 232. Herd 283. A fine history of one of the early, important centers for ranching in Texas. Wild cattle were rounded up during the Republic era, and by 1851 over 13,000 cattle were shown on the tax rolls. Information on stockraising, cattle drives, problems of fencing the open range, breeds of cattle, and Shanghai Pierce’s 1871 trail drive. $350.00

466. BOETHEL, Paul C. The History of Lavaca County. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, [1959]. [8] 172 pp. 8vo, original pale slate green pictorial cloth. Tape stains on endpapers, otherwise fine in d.j. Signed by author. Prospectus and order form for Sand in Your Craw laid in. Second edition, revised. $60.00

467. BOETHEL, Paul C. On the Headwaters of the Lavaca and the Navidad. [Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones], 1967. v [1] 192 pp., portraits, endpaper maps. 8vo, original green cloth. Fore-edges moderately foxed, a few light pencil notations, overall fine in d.j. with slight wear and one short tear. First edition. Much background information on ranching, along with a section on “The Cattlemen on the Headwaters.” $45.00

468. BOETHEL, Paul C. Sand in Your Craw. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, [1959]. [10] 134 pp. 8vo, original turquoise pictorial cloth. Fore-edges lightly foxed, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) otherwise fine in d.j. with two tape stains. Signed by author. First edition. CBC 2941. Guns 233: “Has information on murders, feuds, cattle rustling, and other lawlessness in Lavaca County, Texas.” $75.00

469. BOLTON, Herbert E. The Mission As a Frontier Institution in the Spanish-American Colonies, with an Introduction by John Alexander Carroll. El Paso: Texas Western College Press for Academic Reprints, 1962. iv, 24 pp. 8vo, original rose pictorial wrappers with illustration by Cisneros. Very fine. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. Later edition with added material (first edition 1917; first Academic Reprints edition published 1960). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 119n. Wallace, Arizona History III:14. Weber, California Missions, p. 10: “Best treatise on the missions in the plan of Hispanic colonial enterprise” (quoting from Maynard Geiger in Franciscan History of North America 18, p. 362). Bolton explains how the Native Americans were to become self-supporting, in many cases doing so by acquiring wealth through stockraising. $20.00

470. BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Outpost of Empire: The Story of the Founding of San Francisco. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. xxiv, 334 [2] xvii [1] pp., numerous plates, maps (several folding). 8vo, original dark teal cloth. Some light shelf wear, internally fine. First separate edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 30-31: “This is Vol. 1 of the 5-volume set of Anza’s California Expeditions [and] is essentially an introduction by Dr. Bolton to his translation of the several diaries in the other 4 volumes of the Anza set. The introduction relates to but one phase of de Anza’s colorful career—his activities in California. Pp. 78-109 and 200-221 bear directly upon his California desert crossing.” Farquhar, The Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 7a. Rocq 8359. Wallace, Arizona History III:39. Weber, The California Missions, p. 9n. Anza’s diaries relate to the first land route expedition to California, and details are given on the cattle his expedition drove there, including rustling by Apaches. In discussion of earlier treks, Bolton mentions that Oñate’s party drove 7,000 head of stock. $90.00

471. BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Apostle to the Pimas. San Francisco: Sonora Press, 1932. 90 [1] pp., frontispiece, illustrations, endpaper maps by William Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Wilke. 12mo, original grey cloth over marbled boards, printed leather label on spine. Fore-edges foxed, otherwise fine, mostly unopened, in very good d.j. (price-clipped) First edition. Dobie, p. 65: “Life of the Jesuit missionary Kino.” Wallace, Arizona History III:22. Father Kino, who is known as the Father of the Southwest, was very interested in cattle and ranching. He is credited with being a pioneer cattleman and for helping introduce stock and good stockraising methods. As this work attests, Kino was also one of the greatest equestrians ever. $75.00

472. BOLTON, Herbert E., Carl Oscar Borg, John R. McCarthy, & Millard Sheets. Cross, Sword, and Gold Pan: A Group of Notable Full-Cover [sic] Paintings. Los Angeles: Primavera Press, [1936]. [31] pp., 12 full-color illustrations of historical paintings by Borg. Folio, original brown cloth over tan boards. Corners slightly bumped and some mild staining to boards, interior fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First book edition (the paintings, historical essays, and ballad were first published in 1931 by Touring Topics, later renamed Westways, the official publication of the Automobile Club of Southern California). The present book is the trade edition (an edition limited to 100 copies and bound in vellum was also published). Rocq 16692. “The Coming of the Cattle” is devoted to Father Kino, “easily the cattle king of his day.” The section on “The Era of the Boston Ships” discusses the California hide and tallow trade. The book is by Carl Oscar Borg and Millard Sheets with interpretive historical essays by Bolton and John R. McCarthy. $75.00

473. [BONNER, MARY]. GEORGE, Mary Carolyn Hollers. Mary Bonner: Impressions of a Printmaker. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, [1982]. ix [1] 125 pp., 28 full-page illustrations of Bonner’s prints (several in color, a few foldout), many other illustrations (mostly photographic or after Bonner’s works). Small 4to, original terracotta cloth. Fine in lightly worn d.j. with one short tear. First edition. Mary Bonner (b. 1887) moved to Texas in 1897, where she spent summers on the family’s large ranch near Sabinal in Uvalde County. Her interest in art heightened during a summer at an art colony in Woodstock in 1922; later in the 1920s she lived in Paris, where her works inspired by the ranch themes and imagery of her childhood brought her much attention. $45.00

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474. BONNEY, Cecil. Looking over My Shoulder: Seventy-Five Years in the Pecos Valley. Roswell: Hall-Poorbaugh Press, 1971. [2] xiv, 235 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations, text illustrations and endpaper maps by Cisneros. 8vo, original beige cloth. Very fine in lightly rubbed d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Adams, One-Fifty 12. Contains good material on ranching, including the Lincoln County War. The Bonney family home was the T Ranch in Lincoln County, southeast of Picacho. $65.00

475. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. DANIEL, Price, Jr. Texas and the West. Catalogue No. 24 Featuring the Writings of J. Frank Dobie: A Contribution Towards a Bibliography. Waco: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for Price Daniel, Jr., 1963]. [36] pp., illustration by Tom Lea. 8vo, original terracotta pictorial cloth. Very fine. Limited edition (#52 of 210 numbered copies). Basic Texas Books B62: “One of the earliest attempts at a Dobie checklist.” Dykes, “Not in Cook” 203. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 159A. Includes tributes by Jeff Dykes and Lawrence Clark Powell. $20.00

476. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. DOBIE, Dudley R. Spirited Southwest: Roundup No. 1, A Corral Full of Books Relating to Exploration, Travel, Personal Adventures, Indians, Fighting, Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, Bad Men, Women Pioneers, Circuit Riders, Rangers, Mountain Men, Lawyers, Politicians, Nature and Naturalists. Rounded Up, Roped, Branded. San Marcos, Texas: Dudley R. Dobie, n.d. 36 pp. 8vo, original white printed wrappers with photographic illustration. Lightly worn, corner of back wrapper missing, overall fine. First printing. Catalogue of western books for sale, with descriptions and prices. $25.00

477. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. DYKES, Jeff. Catalog 43. A Range Man’s Library. Part 7. Winter 1981. College Park, 1981. 30 pp. 8vo, original self-wrappers with illustration. Fine. First edition. 320 annotated entries. $15.00

478. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. DYKES, Jeff. Catalog 46. A Range Man’s Library. Winter 1982. College Park, 1982. 30 pp. 8vo, original self-wrappers with illustration. Remains of paper where bookplate was removed on verso of first leaf, otherwise fine. First edition. 328 annotated entries. $15.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

479. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. GIBBS, Michael. Texas and the West. Catalogue 1. February 1979...Including a Special List of Works by J. Evetts Haley. Lubbock, 1979. vi [1] 34 pp. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers bound in ecru pictorial cloth. Very fine, signed by Haley. Hertzog’s copy with numerous annotations. First edition, limited edition (#45 of 50 copies). 365 entries. $30.00

480. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS. The Range Country: Literature of the American Cattle Trade. Catalogue Number 112. Beverly Hills: International Bookfinders, [November 1962]. [72] pp. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Fine. J. Frank Dobie’s harsh marginal annotations by several entries, i.e.: “The damn fool lists Dayton (says scarce) for only $35.00. He evidently didn’t even have the book in stock. Sorry SOB....” First printing. McVicker D83. A catalogue of books on ranching, with J. Frank Dobie’s essay “Range Life, Cowboys, Cattle and Sheep.” $45.00

481. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS. The Range Country Literature of the American Cattle Trade: Catalogue Number 112. Beverly Hills: International Bookfinders, [November 1962]. Another copy. Small abrasion to upper cover, small snag to back wrapper, otherwise fine. $35.00

482. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. PRICE, Clyde I. A Catalogue of Books, Dime Novels and Pamphlets Relating to Texas and the Southwest. Including a Distinguished List of Western Illustrators. Catalogue No. IX, April 1947. Clarendon: Clyde I. Price, Bookseller, 1947. 38 [2] pp., text illustrations by Bugbee. Fine. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 162). $15.00

483. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. PRICE, Clyde I. A Catalog of Dime Novels and Books Relating to Texas and the Southwest Catalog No. VIII, April 1946. Clarendon: Clyde I. Price, Bookseller, 1946. 20 pp., text illustrations by Bugbee. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. Mild foxing, generally very good, in original mailing envelope. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 161). $15.00

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484. [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE]. WHITE, Fred, Jr. Catalogue 22: Western Americana. Bryan, Texas: Fred White, Jr., Bookseller, [n.d.]. 160 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Slightly soiled, lower corners folded in on first three leaves, pencil marks in margins of some pages, paperclips on some entries. overall very good. First edition. 954 annotated entries. Good notes. $35.00

485. BORTHWICK, J. D. Three Years in California. Oakland: Biobooks, 1948. [102] 318 pp., foldout map, 8 plates after Borthwick’s superb lithos. Tall 8vo, original black cloth over gold boards. Fine. Limited edition (1,000 copies), with added index and foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan (first edition Edinburgh & London, 1857). California Centennial Editions Series 17. Cowan, p. 64n. Graff 358n. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 65c: “Universally...proclaimed as one of the most important accounts of the Gold Rush.” Howes B622. Rocq 15708. Van Nostrand, The First Hundred Years of Painting in California, pp. 28, 33-34, 88. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 21: “Outstanding account of mining life, with the best illustrations the period produced.” Borthwick writes of the native Californians in San Jose: “San Jose was the headquarters of the native Californians, many of whom were wealthy men, at least in so far as they owned immense estates and thousands of wild cattle.... [With the advent of the Gold Rush] their property became a thousandfold more valuable, and they had every chance to benefit by the new order of things; but men who had passed their lives in that sparsely populated and secluded part of the world, directing a few half-savage Indians in herding wild cattle, were not exactly calculated to foresee, or to speculate upon, the effects of an overwhelming influx of men so different in all respects from themselves.” Chapter 21 includes a spirited firsthand account of the method of California lassoing. Chapter 23 describes the wild spectacle of a bullfight in Sonora. $65.00

486. BOSVILE, Godfrey. Horses, Horsemen, and Stable- Management. London & New York: George Routledge and Sons & E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908. xi [1] 276 pp., frontispiece, 8 photographic plates, numerous text illustrations. 8vo, original navy blue roan over blue cloth, spine gilt- lettered. Some outer wear (especially to spine), moderate to occasionally heavy foxing, overall very good. Bookdealer’s label on back pastedown. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Although mainly of equitation, stables, and equipage, there is a fantastic description of the Australian method of rounding up “mobs of cattle with half- wild bush horses.” Includes a chapter on “English Sportswomen.” $45.00

487. BOSWORTH, Allan R. Hang and Rattle. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1947. 218 pp. 12mo, original brown cloth. Endpapers and fore-edges browned, otherwise very good in d.j. with illustration of a rustler riding furiously with a herd of cattle as a posse tails him. First book edition (originally published in serial form in Argosy magazine). Ranch fiction set in Hell’s Half Acre by a third-generation Texan born in Tom Green County who grew up punching cattle, herding sheep, and working in the spring roundups. $30.00

488. BOSWORTH, Allan R. New Country. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1962]. xiii [3] 334 [1] pp., photographic plates (including a dusty trail herd passing through a West Texas town, chuck wagon, Crockett County Ranch scene, etc.), photographic endpapers. 8vo, original khaki cloth. Binding discolored, otherwise fine in d.j. with small tear at lower cover. First edition. Bosworth writes his family history from the time they traveled by wagon over the plains to their final settling in Ozona. Two of the chapters (“A Cowboy for to Be” and “The Time I Robbed the Santa Fe”) first appeared in the Farm Journal. Walter Prescott Webb consulted with the author on the creation of this book. $30.00

489. BOSWORTH, Allan R. Ozona Country. New York, Evanston, & London: Harper & Row, [1964]. xiv [2] 238 pp., photographic plates (including marks and brands and many documenting ranches and rodeo). 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. CBC 1168. The story of Ozona, the “Biggest Little Town in the World” and how oil money transformed this frontier ranching community. $25.00

490. BOSWORTH, Allan R. Sancho of the Long, Long Horns. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1947. [12] 206 pp., text illustrations and endpapers by Robert Frankenberg. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth. Slight insect damage to binding, fore-edges foxed, otherwise very good in d.j. with illustration of Sancho the longhorn. First edition. Hell-for-leather cowboy fiction centered around the rivalry of two ranchers making a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) furious trail drive from Texas to Kansas, each racing to bring the first herd to market. $15.00

491. BOSWORTH, Allan R. Wherever the Grass Grows. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. [6] 272 pp. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Fore-edges foxed, endpapers browned, otherwise very good in fine d.j. illustrating a roundup. The d.j. is rare. First edition. The d.j. declares that this work of range fiction is “an epic story of Texas, and of a young rancher’s fight for grassland.” The action climaxes in a fight with Mexican rustlers on the border. $25.00

492. BOTKIN, B. A. (ed.). Folk-Say: A Regional Miscellany, 1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930. 473 [1] pp., frontispiece by Keith Mackaye and linoleum cuts by Ina Annett. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial beige cloth. Very fine in tattered original glassine d.j. First edition of the second annual publication of the Oklahoma Folklore Society. Campbell, p. 154: “These annuals (containing not only folklore, but much just about the folk) marked the beginning of increased interest in folklore in the Southwest.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 106 (“Billy the Kid Was My Friend”). Guns 240. McVicker B10. Wallace, Arizona History XV:42. Includes “Provincialism” by J. Frank Dobie and “The Southwest in Literature: Back Trailing along the Texas Border” by Ernest Staples Osgood (a review of Dobie’s A Vaquero of the Brush Country). $65.00

493. BOURKE, John G. An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre...in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1958]. 128 pp. 12mo, original half grey cloth over patterned boards. Very fine in price- clipped d.j. Second book edition (first published in Outing in 1885 and by Scribner’s in 1886). Campbell, p. 167. Graff 365n. Howes B652. Munk (Alliot), p. 35n. McVicker B108 (introduction by Dobie). Powell, Arizona Gathering II 212. Rader 424n. Wallace, Arizona History VI:6. Bourke served with Crook in the 1883 campaign against the Apaches in the Sierra Madre; livestock depredations were a major factor contributing to the conflict. $30.00

494. BOURKE, John G. On the Border with Crook.... New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891. xiii [3] 491 [1] [4, ads] pp., frontispiece portrait, 6 photographic plates. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Large 8vo, original burgundy cloth decorated in silver. Shelf wear (especially to spine tips and edges), hinges broken, upper cover and spine detached from book block, first few leaves detached but present, a few pages discolored. First edition. Campbell, p. 65. Dobie, p. 32, 85: “I rank his book as the meatiest and richest of all books dealing with campaigns against Indians.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 30 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”). Graff 367. Howes B654. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 61: “Standard account of Crook’s western military career from Arizona to Montana. Bourke was a captain in the Third Cavalry and aide-de-camp to Crook. He had been with Dodge in the Hills in 1875.” Luther, High Spots of Custer 31. Munk (Alliot), p. 36. Saunders 2759. Rader 426. Wallace, Arizona History 8. Lamar, Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West, p. 117: “One of the last in the tradition of humanist-scientific military officers who recorded the American West, Bourke’s historical work is vivid, observant, and humorous, and his ethnological studies remain invaluable to modern scholars.” Saunders 2759n (1892 edition): “Narrative of the campaigns against Geronimo.” Smith 970. Wallace, Arizona History VI:8. Removal of various tribes was essential to the rise of the open range, and there is some mention of depredation of livestock, particularly in relation to Pete Kitchen’s ranch in New Mexico. Calamity Jane was one of the drovers for the troops while stationed in the Black Hills, and the author also discusses the excellence of the Laramie region as grazing country. $275.00

495. BOURKE, John G. On the Border with Crook. Columbus: Long’s College Book Company, 1950. [2] xiii [3] 491 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations. Large 8vo, original maroon and silver decorative cloth. Very fine in d.j. Facsimile reprint of the first edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 213. $75.00

496. BOURKE, John G. On the Border with Crook. [Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1962]. xiii [3] 491 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations. Large 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the first edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 214. $40.00

497. BOURKE, John G. On the Border with Crook. Chicago: Rio Grande Press, [1969]. xiii [3] 508 [1] [2 ads] pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations. Large 8vo, original Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) white cloth lettered in red. Binding a little soiled and bumped, otherwise fine. Reprint of preceding, with added index (first indexed edition). $40.00

498. BOURNE, Eulalia. Blue Colt. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1979. [6] 103 pp., frontispiece, illustrations by Pam Fullerton. 8vo, original blue cloth + blue paper portfolio containing 10 original signed and numbered two- color serigraphs. Binding faded, small stains on back of portfolio, otherwise fine. First edition, limited edition (#6 of 50 copies, signed by author). A novel of family life on a small ranch in southern Arizona. $75.00

499. BOURNE, Eulalia. Ranch Schoolteacher. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1974]. vi [2] 312 pp., photographic illustrations. 12mo, original beige pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition, wrappers issue. $35.00

500. BOURNE, Eulalia. Woman in Levi’s. [Tucson]: University of Arizona Press, [1968]. xiv [2] 208 pp., frontispiece and illustrations by Vic Donahue. 12mo, original light green cloth. Fine in price-clipped d.j. Third printing. Jordan, Cowgirls, p. 286: “She talks candidly about the community’s reactions to her, the difficulties a woman faces when she employs men, problems she had in business dealings.” King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 14. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 218: “Ranching in the San Pedro Valley and the Galiuro Mountains.” Narrative of an Arizona rancher and school- teacher who managed her ranch single-handedly. $25.00

501. BOWDEN, J. J. The Ponce de Leon Land Grant. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1969. 56 pp., maps. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers. Very fine. With Carl Hertzog’s bookplate and a few minor corrections by him in red ink. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph 24. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 238. The grant, which Ponce de León purchased for 80 pesos in 1827, includes what is now the original town site and present downtown of El Paso. Ponce’s home became the center of an industrious settlement known as Ponce’s Rancho. After the Mexican-American War, Benjamin F. Coon acquired the grant, and the property became known as Coon’s Ranch. $30.00

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502. BOWDEN, J. J. The Ponce de Leon Land Grant. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1969. Another copy. Very fine. $20.00

503. BOWE, Richard J. (ed.). An Official Souvenir: Historical Album of Colorado. Rush to the Rockies Centennial [wrapper title]. Denver: Richard J. Bowe, 1959. [46] pp., numerous photographic illustrations, some in color. Oblong 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Wynar 13. Photo-essay with some images related to ranching, such as Allen’s Ranch which became Estes Park. $15.00

504. BOWE, Richard J. (ed.). Birth of a Territory [cover title]. Kansas City, Missouri: Richard J. Bowe, n.d. (ca. 1961). [119] pp., maps, portraits, illustrations (many in color). Oblong 8vo, original white cloth. Very fine. First collected edition. Wynar 7209: “Two previously pub. works bound together; the editor’s Historical Album of Kansas, 1961; and Historical Album of Colorado, 1959.” The Colorado section is identical to the preceding entry. The Kansas section includes ranching-related photos, such as “Cutting out a calf in Harvey County during the 1890s,” “Texas longhorns on the trail to Kansas,” “Spinning yarns around the chuck wagon near Burlington, seat of Coffey County, on a cattle drive during the 1870s,” and “Kansas City Stockyard in 1872.” $35.00

505. BOWER, B. M. (Bertha M. Sinclair). Chip, of the Flying U. Illustrations by Charles M. Russell. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, [1906]. 264 pp., 3 color plates (including frontispiece). 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Slightly shelf-slanted, spine faded, light soiling to covers. Contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf. Early edition (first edition published in 1904). Dobie, p. 97. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16: “Illustrated by Charlie Russell and singularly Chip was Charlie Russell. Russell’s painting, ‘The Last Stand,’ reproduced in the book was the beginning of public recognition of his more serious work as was portrayed in the text.... The first edition of ‘Chip’...is excessively rare.” Mohr, The Range Country 636. Yost & Renner, Russell I:21. This immensely popular novel is set on a Montana ranch. $40.00

506. BOWLES, Samuel. The Switzerland of America: A Summer Vacation in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado. Springfield, Massachusetts: S. Bowles & Co.; New York: The American News Company; Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. 166 [6, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) ads] pp. 12mo, original green cloth gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink on title, otherwise fine. First edition. Wilcox, p. 17: “Included also (in revised form) as chapters 4-9 of the author’s Our New West.” Wynar 2028. Bowles’s suggests stockraising for Native Americans as a means to greater economic independence. There is also general discussion of prospects for stockraising in Colorado. $60.00

507. BOWLES, Samuel. The Switzerland of America.... Springfield, Massachusetts: S. Bowles & Co.; New York: The American News Company; Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original brown cloth gilt. Light cover wear, otherwise fine, with contemporary ink ownership inscription on title. $60.00

508. BOWLES, Samuel. The Switzerland of America.... Springfield, Massachusetts: S. Bowles & Co.; New York: The American News Company; Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original maroon cloth gilt. Binding lightly worn and discolored, interior fine. $50.00

509. BOWLES, Samuel. The Switzerland of America.... Springfield, Massachusetts: S. Bowles & Co.; New York: The American News Company; Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original blue cloth gilt. Light shelf wear, binding slightly discolored, otherwise fine. $50.00

510. BOWLES, Samuel. The Switzerland of America.... Springfield, Massachusetts: S. Bowles & Co.; New York: The American News Company; Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original black cloth gilt. Binding slightly discolored, otherwise fine, with contemporary ink gift inscription. $50.00

511. BOYCE, Annie M. Tall Tales from a Ranch. [San Antonio]: Naylor, [1957]. xiii [1] 97 pp., text illustrations by Walter A. McKinney. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. Herd 295. Humor and folklore. $30.00

512. BOYD, David. A History: Greeley and the Union Colony. Greeley: Greeley Tribune Press, 1890. 448 pp., frontispiece portrait, engraved plates (scenery, architecture, portraits). 8vo, original tan cloth. Other than a trace of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) shelf wear and a few minor spots on binding, very fine and bright. Author’s signed presentation copy. First edition. Herd 296: “Scarce.... Chapter on cattle and fence troubles.” Wilcox, p. 17. Wynar 1461. Greeley, in Weld County, Colorado, was founded in 1870 by Nathan C. Meeker (1817-79), and supported by Horace Greeley, a strong advocate of the land reform movement in the West. The founding inhabitants comprised 442 members of the Union Colony, a nonsectarian communal organization. $200.00

513. BOYD, David. A History: Greeley and the Union Colony. Greeley: Greeley Tribune Press, 1890. Another copy. 8vo, original tan cloth. Light outer wear, else very fine. $150.00

514. BOYD, David. A History: Greeley and the Union Colony. Greeley, Colorado: Greeley Tribune Press, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original blue cloth. Corners bumped, otherwise very fine. $150.00

515. BOYD, David. A History: Greeley and the Union Colony. Greeley: Greeley Tribune Press, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. A few small spots on binding, otherwise fine, with author’s signed presentation inscription to Myrna L. Woodruff. $200.00

516. BOYD, David. A History: Greeley and the Union Colony. Greeley: Greeley Tribune Press, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original brown cloth. Binding scuffed and frayed at spinal extremities, hinges weak, interior fine. Modern bookplate. $125.00

517. BOYER, Mary G. Arizona in Literature: A Collection of the Best Writings of Arizona Authors from Early Spanish Days to the Present Time. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1934. 574 pp., color frontispiece (facsimile letter), illustrations, printed music. Thick 8vo, original light blue cloth. Light outer wear and soiling, 2.5-cm split at top of upper joint, front hinge cracked, text lightly browned as usual, overall very good. Author’s signed inscription dated 7-13-34: “A choice bit of real Arizona.” First edition. Clark & Brunet 25: “There was apparently only one printing, but copies were issued with two different dates on the title page. Most of the blue cloth copies are dated 1934, and cinnamon cloth copies are dated 1935. There are, however, exceptions to this rule.... There were also a few dust jackets produced.... These are Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) very scarce.” Dobie, p. 25. Wallace, Arizona History 38. Guide containing sections on fiction, non-fiction, materials from the Spanish era, legends, literary criticism, etc., with brief biographies and selections from notable range country authors such as William Breakenridge, Robert Carr, cowboy poet Badger Clark, Walt Coburn, Zane Grey, and Ross Santee. Biographical materials include an interesting excerpt from the 1896 diary of cowman Evans Coleman. $100.00

518. BOYER, Mary G. Arizona in Literature.... Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1935. Variant of preceding, with 1935 on title page and in variant “cinnamon” cloth. Fine. $75.00

519. BOYER, Mary Joan. The Old Gravois Coal Diggings. Imperial, Missouri: Privately printed, n.d. (ca. 1954). [6] 107 pp., illustrations (mostly photos), including 6 from the art of C. M. Russell. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine. Laid in are author’s carbon copy typed errata slip (at p. 24) and 2 copies of prospectus for Land of the Oldest Hills by Daisy Pat Stockwell “Daughter of Mary Joan Boyer.” Signed and dated (1955) by author, with “First Edition Copy” written in. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 8 (“Collecting Modern Western Americana”). Mohr, The Range Country 637: “Much on Russell’s boyhood.” Yost & Renner, Russell I:63: “There is no date on the title page. The Introduction is dated 1952, but the book appeared two years later.” $85.00

520. BOYLE, William Henry. William Henry Boyle’s Personal Observations on the Conduct of the Modoc War. Edited by Richard H. Dillon from the Original Manuscript in the Bancroft Library. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Bookshop, [1959]. 80 pp., map, portrait, illustrations. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (300 copies). Rocq 14534. The emphasis is on Native Americans and military matters, but the action took place in the ranching country of northeastern California and the bordering area of Oregon. The military was protecting the interests of local cattlemen, and their ranches were often used as the Army’s headquarters. The author states that Jesse Applegate, Oregon pioneer and author of A Day with the Cow Column (see item 123 herein), considered the military operation a blunder and resigned, refusing to accept his pay of $10 a day. $50.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

521. BOYLES, Kate & Virgil D. Boyles. Langford of the Three Bars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1907. 278 [8] pp., color frontispiece and plates by N. C. Wyeth. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Spine dark, moderate fading and a few light stains to covers, fore-edges foxed, text lightly age-toned, generally very good. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Wyeth 101). Novel, based on fact, about ranch life on the South Dakota plains near the Missouri River in the late 1800s. $40.00

522. BOYNTON, Charles B. & T. B. Mason. A Journey through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources...in 1854. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 216 pp., foldout map (Map of Kansas with Portions of Nebraska, etc.... 16.4 x 17.8 cm). 12mo, late nineteenth-century(?) three-quarter brown sheep over marbled boards, spine with raised bands. Moderate outer wear and scuffing, endpapers abraded, intermittent mild to moderate foxing to text, overall very good, the map in excellent condition. First edition. Dary, Kanzana 6. Dolbee, Kansas Historical Quarterly 4:2: “The second book on Kansas.” Eberstadt 137:44: “The work includes a voyage up the Missouri; Indian fighting; hunting on the plains and Rockies; and winter adventures on the prairies.” Graff 376. Howes B677. Plains & Rockies IV:250. Streeter Sale 1990: “The Rev. Boynton was an eager promoter of New England immigration to Kansas and the South, speaking in terms of a ‘peaceful Army of occupation of northern freemen settling in colonies.’” Wheat, Transmississippi West 827: “Shows the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas City to Santa Fe.” We include this work because Boynton frequently discusses the potential of the region for stockraising, especially the grasses, specifically mentioning buffalo grass. For example, on p. 74, Boynton comments: “For stock, the prairie produces abundance, both of hay and pasturage, and all the cattle which we observed on these prairies were in very fine condition; showing that the prairie grass is more nutritious than we had before supposed.” The map includes Colorado and shows Pike’s Peak, Long’s Peak, Pueblo, Boiling Springs, etc. $650.00

523. BRACE, Charles Loring. The New West: or, California in 1867-1868. New York: G. P. Putman & Son, 1869. 373 pp. 8vo, original purple cloth (faded). Outer wear, especially Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) to spinal extremities, hinges cracked, shaken with a signatures loose, text clean. First edition. Cowan, p. 68. Guns 252: “Scarce.” Rocq 16697. Chapter 18, “Large Farming” covers Merino Sheep; chapter 21, “Los Angeles” has sections on immense ranches, vaqueros, and catching bulls with the lasso. $75.00

524. BRADDY, Haldeen. Cock of the Walk: The Legend of Pancho Villa. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1955. ix [3] 174 pp., 4 photographic plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Rear endsheets browned from laid-in related newspaper clippings, otherwise very fine in d.j. with a few small tears. From the library of Carl Hertzog. Laid in is a copy of Braddy’s monograph “The Faces of Pancho Villa” (reprinted from Western Folklore 11:2, April 1952), inscribed by Braddy: “for Carl Hertzog—H.B.” First edition. Biography of the colorful Mexican revolutionary, born to peones on a ranch in the Sierra Madre. As a boy he sold kindling and saved to buy a caballo, early on exhibiting the ease in the saddle for which he would later be dubbed El Centauro del Norte. As a young man, Villa aspired to be a rancher, but ran afoul of the law in Durango during his first job as a ranch hand. Pershing cited Villa’s pillaging of American ranches and settlements as cause for taking strong military action against Villa. $85.00

525. BRADDY, Haldeen. Cock of the Walk: The Legend of Pancho Villa. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1955. Another copy. Front endsheets with minor browning from laid-in related newspaper clipping, otherwise very fine in price-clipped d.j. $50.00

526. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pancho Villa at Columbus: The Raid of 1916. El Paso: Texas Western College Press, 1965. 43 pp., photographic illustrations, map by Cisneros. 8vo, original olive and brown pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph 9. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 26). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 189. $25.00

527. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pancho Villa at Columbus.... El Paso: Texas Western College Press, [1978]. 43 [1] pp. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Very fine, signed by author. Carl Hertzog bookplate. Fourth printing with added postscript by Braddy. $15.00

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528. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pancho Villa Rides Again. El Paso: Paisano Press, [1967]. 36 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wrappers soiled, creased, and split at fold, text fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. Reprints materials that appeared in Western Folklore and Texas Parade. $15.00

529. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pershing’s Mission to Mexico. Introduction by Richard O’Connor. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1966. xvii [1] 82 [1] pp., photographs, endpaper maps by Cisneros. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Very fine in lightly discolored d.j., prospectus laid in. Signed by Braddy and Hertzog. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 27). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 199. Prospectus: “Typography and dust jacket designed by Carl Hertzog.” Part of the U.S. military’s decision to conduct the Punitive Expedition against Villa was his history of raiding ranches and settlements in the borderlands. $100.00

530. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pershing’s Mission to Mexico.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1966. Another copy, without prospectus. Very fine in d.j. Signed by Braddy and Hertzog. $100.00

531. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pershing’s Mission to Mexico.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1966. Another copy. Very fine in lightly worn and discolored d.j. Signed by Braddy. $75.00

532. BRADDY, Haldeen. Pershing’s Mission to Mexico.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1966. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. $50.00

533. BRADFORD, T. Virginia. Sallie Scull on the Texas Frontier, Phantoms on Rio Turbio. San Antonio: Naylor, [1952]. vii [3] 182 pp. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Biography of Sarah Jane Newman Scull (b. 1817) who “arrived in Texas with the first settlers in Stephen F. Austin’s colony.... She was noted for her husbands, her horse trading, her aim with the two pistols she wore, her forceful language, and for hauling cotton and critical supplies for the Confederacy”(Handbook of Texas Online). She was a cattle dealer and wild horse drover in the brush country of the Rio Grande borderlands in the mid- 1800s. $85.00

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534. BRADLEY, Glenn Danford. The Story of the Santa Fe. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, [1920]. [1, ad] 288 pp., frontispiece portrait, 15 plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original blue cloth. Upper cover stained, some edge wear, text age-toned. Ownership signature of C. B. Schmidt, a railroad immigration agent covered in the book. First edition. Campbell, 185: “Competent history of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, which has played such a great part in the history of the region.” Guns 254: “Chapter on Dodge City, Kansas, in its wild days.” Howes B705: “A 16-page supplement of notes, issued separately by the author, is inserted in some copies.” Saunders 2762. The line followed the old Santa Fe Trail and has played a major role in cattle shipping since the 1870s. $50.00

535. BRADSHAW, Helen (ed.). Under Dixie Sun: A History of Washington County by Those Who Loved Their Forebears. [Paguitch, Utah]: Washington County Chapter D[aughters] [of the] U[tah] P[ioneers], [1950]. [7]-438 [2] pp., numerous plates (2 in color), endpaper maps. Large 4to, original brown pictorial cloth gilt. Very fine. First edition. Chapter 8, “Cattle and Sheep Industry” discusses various aspects of early ranching in Mormon settlements: fortifications against Native Americans; paying tithes in livestock; establishment of cooperative ventures such as the Canaan Livestock Company; etc. Ranching was for a time the most lucrative enterprise in the St. George area and came to the fore in the 1870s with the introduction of longhorns by settlers from Washington, Texas. Some believed that wild cattle in the region might have been the offspring of the cattle left by the immigrants massacred at Mountain Meadows. $75.00

536. BRADSHAW, Helen (ed.). Under Dixie Sun.... [Paguitch, Utah]: Washington County Chapter D[aughters] [of the] U[tah] P[ioneers], [1950]. Another copy, variant binding. Large 4to, original tan pictorial cloth gilt. Very fine. $75.00

537. BRADY, Cyrus Townsend. Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1900. [11] [1, ad] 200 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original navy blue cloth gilt, t.e.g. Fine. First edition. Flake 793: “Includes his reasons why the Mormons failed in Utah.” Guns 256. Wynar 9011. The horse trade, rigors of travel via half-broken broncos, stampeding longhorns, and a Christmas spent trapped on a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) snowbound train with a salesman, a cowboy, a wealthy cattleman, and a widow and her children. $40.00

538. BRAKE, Hezekiah. On Two Continents: A Long Life’s Experience. Topeka: Hezekiah Brake, 1896. 240 pp., frontispiece, portrait. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Light insect damage to spine, fore-edges dusty, overall very good. First edition. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 48. Graff 389: “In the 1850s and 1860s, Brake drifted from Minnesota to New Mexico and back to Kansas.” Herd 304: “Scarce.... Chapter on ranching in New Mexico.” Howes B718. Rader 462. Rittenhouse 80. The author lived on a ranch near Fort Union, New Mexico, March 1859 through March 1861. $125.00

539. BRANCH, [E.] Douglas. The Cowboy and His Interpreters. New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. ix [3] 277 [3] pp., frontispiece by Will James, endpaper illustrations by Joe de Yong, text illustrations by Charles M. Russell, Will James, and Joe de Yong. 8vo, original terracotta cloth with lettering and saddle vignette in black. Lower corner of upper cover bumped, fore-edges foxed, endpapers browned (from d.j.), frontispiece detached (but present), overall very good in d.j. (the d.j. is scarce). Signed and dated by Dudley R. Dobie. First edition. Adams, Burs I:43. Basic Texas Books B30: “Early critical study of range literature; perceptive but outdated.” Campbell, p. 103: “Evolution of the real American cowboy, his dress and his mount, and his life on cattle trail, ranch, and range. Chapters on cowboy celebrities and songs, and on cowboys in literature and on the screen.” Dobie, p. 97. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #16. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 14; Fifty Great Western Illustrators (De Yong 6), (Dufault [James] 44); Kid 113; Western High Spots, p. 32 (“High Spots of Western Fiction: 1902-1952”). Guns 259. Herd 306. Howes B721. Rader 464. Reese, Six Score 12: “Branch was an easterner and not a rancher, but his work is considered an accurate and useful study. The best section of his book is a literary critique of western writers dealing with the range in fiction.” Saunders 2764. $60.00

540. BRANCH, [E.] Douglas. The Cowboy and His Interpreters. New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Another copy. Slightly loose, otherwise fine in d.j. (a few tears and chips, lightly soiled). $85.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

541. BRANCH, [E.] Douglas. The Cowboy and His Interpreters. New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original brown cloth lettered and with saddle vignette in gilt. Endsheets foxed, first signature loose, short tear (no losses) to dedication leaf, overall very good and bright in d.j. (some tears and soiling). $60.00

542. BRANCH, E. Douglas. The Hunting of the Buffalo. New York & London: D. Appleton & Company, 1929. vi [6] 239 [2] [1, ad] pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original black cloth, printed paper labels on spine and upper cover. Very fine in slightly soiled d.j. First edition. Campbell, p. 185. Dobie, p. 159: “Interpretative as well as factual.” Harvard Guide to American History, p. 414. Saunders 2765. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “Fine work on the epic hunt and wholesale slaughter that ended the vast free-roaming herds and doomed the Indians to government dependence on reservations.” Tate, Indians of Texas 3115. Pages 150-51 discuss the incursion of cattle and cowboys from South Texas into buffalo country around 1868; cattle were swept away in buffalo stampedes and separating them out again was quite exciting. The final chapter, “Survival,” mentions attempts to interbreed buffalo with domestic cattle and early buffalo ranches (owners included Charles Goodnight and “Scotty” Philip). $100.00

543. BRANCH, E. Douglas. The Hunting of the Buffalo. New York & London: D. Appleton & Company, 1929. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original orange cloth with printed beige paper labels on spine and upper cover. Spine label secured with tape and spine a little dark, otherwise fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. $45.00

544. BRANCH, E. Douglas. Westward: The Romance of the American Frontier. New York & London: D. Appleton and Co., 1930. ix [3] 626 [1] pp., 14 maps (some double-page), woodcut headpieces by Lucina Smith Wakefield, endpaper maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine in slightly browned d.j. First edition. Flake 797. Guns 260: “Contains some material on the Lincoln County and Johnson County wars, with a slight mention of Billy the Kid and other outlaws.” Herd 307: “Chapter 31, on the open range, deals with the cattle industry.” Rader 466. Saunders 2766. Smith 1024. $40.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

545. BRANCH, E. Douglas. Westward: The Romance of the American Frontier. New York & London: D. Appleton and Co., 1930. Another copy. Very light outer wear, otherwise very fine, d.j. not present. $25.00

546. BRANCH, Hettye Wallace. The Story of “80 John”: A Biography of One of the Most Respected Negro Ranchmen in the Old West. New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, [1960]. 59 pp. 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. Author’s signed inscription. First edition. Biography of Daniel Webster Wallace (“80 John”) by his daughter. Wallace was born into slavery in 1860 in Victoria County, Texas, just prior to the Civil War. He began drawing wages as a cowboy at age 15, worked in every aspect and phase of the open range, and witnessed the passing of the buffalo. By the time of his death in 1939 he had amassed 12-1/2 sections of land and 600 head of cattle. $85.00

547. BRANDES, Ray. Frontier Military Posts of Arizona. Globe, Arizona: Dale Stuart King, Six Shooter Canyon, n.d. (1960?). xviii, 94 pp., map, text illustrations, plans. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Very fine. First edition. Clark, Arizona, p. 49: “Each fort is discussed and a bibliography is appended. Non-military forts are also listed.” Powell, Arizona Gathering II 227: “Valuable information, wretchedly printed and designed. Extensive bibliographies.” Wallace, Arizona History VI:56. History of the forts established after the Mexican-American War to protect the interests of immigrants, especially miners and ranchers, against the incursions of Native Americans fighting for their ancestral lands. Incidental information on Arizona ranches, such as Babocomari Ranch, which, along with its herd of wild Sonoran cattle, became Camp Wallen in May 1966; the founding of temporary Camp Infantry at the Pinal Ranch in Mason Valley in 1870; photograph of supposed rustler hangout; etc. $75.00

548. BRANDES, Ray. Frontier Military Posts of Arizona. Globe, Arizona: Dale Stuart King, n.d. (1960?). Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original red pictorial wrappers. Errata note taped onto p. vii. Gift inscription. Very fine. $40.00

549. BRANDON, C. Watt. On the Big Game Trail [wrapper title]. [Kemmerer, Wyoming: The Gazette Press, 1938]. 16 [1] pp., illustrations. Narrow 8vo, original blue wrappers. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Wrapper margins sunned, internally fine, with related newsclipping laid in. Author’s inscription in blue pencil, “To Charley from Watt.” First printing. Primarily antelope hunting in the northern Red Desert of Wyoming in 1938. During their outing, the members of the party stayed at several ranches, including the Triangle C on the Wind River. $25.00

550. BRANDON, William. The Men and the Mountain: Frémont’s Fourth Expedition. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1955. xii [2] 337 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Wynar 195. History of Frémont’s disastrous attempts to find a route for the transcontinental railroad through the Rockies in the bitter winter of 1848. Includes mention of buffalo as food and buffalo hunting, the “useless” Mariposas Ranch purchased for Frémont by Larkin (gold was later discovered there), Sutter’s Ranch and the gold discovery there, and several vaqueros who served with the expedition. $65.00

551. BRANDT, Louis. An Infallible Guide to Discover the Age of Horses.... Indianola, Texas, 1860. 47 pp., 46 wood engravings by G. Kaehrle. 12mo, original embossed, gilt- lettered brown flexible cloth. Binding faded, light edge wear, front hinge cracked, lower hinge starting, text browned, but overall a very good copy of an exceedingly rare Texas imprint. First edition. Winkler 1305 (locating copies at the Library of Congress and the State Library of Pennsylvania). From the author’s preface: “Horse-dealers are frequently accused of deceiving purchasers in the age of horses; how every horse-dealer must be desirous of retaining and increasing his good reputation, and would therefore not deceive others in this respect unless he were himself deceived. The purpose of this book is, entirely to set aside this deception and to enable all, both sellers and buyers (even those who never before knew anything about the age of a horse) by a careful perusal of its contents, to discover for themselves with unerring accuracy the age of any horse.” Indianola imprints are rare. Indianola was tragically destroyed in two devastating hurricanes (1875 and 1886) and never rebuilt. Author Brandt and engraver Kaehrle are not in the Handbook of Texas Online. Kaehrle is not listed in Hamilton or Fielding. $1,500.00

552. BRASHER, Lillian. Hockley County, 1921-1971: The First Fifty Years. Epilogue, 1971-1976. Canyon, Texas: Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Staked Plains Press, 1976. [20] 401 pp., numerous photographic illustrations, maps. 4to, original red cloth. Fine, signed by author. Scarce, privately printed local history. First edition. Ranching on the Llano Estacado, with background on buffalo hunting, establishment of early ranches (including the XIT and the JA), brands, cowboys, detailed local histories, and two chapters devoted to women. $100.00

553. BRATT, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln, Chicago, & Dallas: The University Publishing Company, 1921. xi [1] 302 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates, illustrations. 8vo, original blue gilt-pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Very fine and bright in original glassine d.j. It would be difficult to find a better copy. First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 9. Dobie, p. 97. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Fifty Great Western Illustrators (de Yong 6); Western High Spots, p. 27 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”). Herd 310: “Bratt was a well-known cattleman in the early days.” Howes B725. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16. One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 84: “Throughout Bratt’s narrative are insights into the ways of camp cooks, levee gangs and other hired hands.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 2049. Reese, Six Score 13: “The author was one of the first ranchers in Nebraska. An Englishman, Bratt came to America in 1874 at the age of 17. In the late 1860s he worked as a bullwhacker supplying Ft. Kearny and other army posts. He started his cattle business in 1870, and most of his narrative is devoted to the development of the ranching industry on the central plains.” $450.00

554. BRATT, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln, Chicago, & Dallas: The University Publishing Company, 1921. Another copy, without the glassine wrapper. 8vo, original blue gilt-pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Light shelf wear and a few minor spots to binding, otherwise fine. $350.00

555. BRATTON, Sam G. New Mexico Mythology, Tradition, History: A Brief Historical Outline Extending Back to the Spanish Conquest...to the Present Date.... Washington, D.C.: GPO, SD147, 1930. [4] 32 pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. A few small faint stains to upper wrap, else very fine. First edition. Saunders 3900. Biographies of important early New Mexicans include James Hinkle, owner of Penasco Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Cattle Co. and manager of South Spring Cattle Co.; William C. McDonald, manager and eventually owner of the Carrizozo ranch and manger of the “Block” ranch owned by the El Capitan Land & Cattle Co. (one of the largest in Lincoln County); and Representative John Morrow, lawyer and stockraiser. $50.00

556. BRAYER, Garnet M. & Herbert O. Brayer. American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900. Bayside, New York: Western Range Cattle Industry Study, 1952. 128 pp., maps, text illustrations (some by Borein and Stoops). Laid in is an excellent and detailed large folding map (America’s Cattle Trails...Compiled from Contemporary Sources by Garnet M. Brayer and Herbert O. Brayer, Hugh T. Glen, Cartographer, C. O. Froid, Illustrator Sponsored Jointly by The Western Range Cattle Industry Study and The American Pioneer Trails Association.... Denver, 1949; 56 x 86.4 cm; outline coloring in red, blue, and sepia, vignettes, portraits, and brands around sides). 12mo, original brown cloth gilt. Very fine in d.j. Authors’ signed presentation copy inscribed to legendary bookseller Fred Rosenstock: “To Fred, Frances & Marilyn from Garnet & Herb, 17 June 1952.” First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Borein 40), (Stoops 12); Western High Spots, p. 28 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Book on the West”): “On trails, trail herds, and trail drivers.... [A] little gem.” Herd 314. $300.00

557. BRAYER, Garnet M. & Herbert O. Brayer. American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900. Bayside, New York: Western Range Cattle Industry Study, 1952. Another copy, very fine in d.j. and inscribed “To my fellow Westerner & friend, Phil Whitely. Herbert O. Brayer, 23 April 1953.” $75.00

558. BRAYER, Garnet M. & Herbert O. Brayer. American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900. Bayside, New York: Western Range Cattle Industry Study, 1952. Another copy, very fine in d.j., and inscribed “For the James Rose Harveys—With appreciation of their historical heritage and of their devoted service in bringing the story of the West to American youth. Affectionately Howard & Margaret Driggs. August 23, 1952” (Howard Driggs was President of the American Pioneer Trails Association). $75.00

559. BRAYER, Garnet M. & Herbert O. Brayer. American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900. Bayside, New York: Western Range Cattle Industry Study, 1952. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. $65.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

560. BRAYER, Garnet M. & Herbert O. Brayer. American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900. Bayside, New York: Western Range Cattle Industry Study, 1952. Another copy, wrappers issue. 12mo, original white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Uniform marginal browning to text due to quality of paper, otherwise very fine. $35.00

561. BRAYER, Herbert O. Boom-Town Banker—Central City Colorado, 1880. Boston: Business Historical Society, 1945. Pp. 67-95. 8vo, original flexible leather printed wrappers. Very fine. First separate printing. Offprint from Bulletin of Business Historical Society 19:3 (June 1945; Whole no. 114). Wynar 5730. Brief biography of Joseph Addison Thatcher, who gained wealth and influence through investments in mines, ranches, railroads, and utilities, with interests in the Columbia Land and Cattle Company and the Denver Union Stock Yards. Mostly consists of excerpts from Thatcher’s banking manual of 1880, with notes on “Standing of Customers” including Jos. Dostal (sheep rancher and one of the original promoters of the Colorado Cattle Growers Association) and ranchers D. Sullivan, J. A. & P. G. Shanstrom (“using money for sheep & cattle at Leadville.—Have a good herd on Arkansas R.”), as well as several blacksmiths and feed and grain dealers. $45.00

562. BRAYER, Herbert O. Boom-Town Banker—Central City Colorado, 1880. Boston: Business Historical Society, 1945. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original white printed wrappers, stapled. One corner lightly creased, otherwise very fine. $20.00

563. BRAYER, Herbert O. Land Grants of Laguna. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1936). Pp. 5-22, map. 8vo, original white printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly age-toned, otherwise very fine. First separate printing. Offprint from Research (December, 1936). Saunders 1473n. History and titles of various large tracts, including Pueblo Laguna claims for their land and mention of several ranchos; of particular interest is the Baca “grant,” applied for in 1768 by Baltazar Baca, who planned to use the land for stockraising; the validity of the grant was questioned as he apparently was issued only a permit for grazing in 1769. $20.00

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564. BRAYER, Herbert O. Ranchero. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1943). Pp. 181-95. 8vo, original white printed wrappers. Very fine, with Brayer’s business card laid in. First separate printing. Offprint from Pacific Historical Review 12:2 (June 1943). Brief biography of José María Verdugo, transferred from San Diego to Mission San Gabriel in about 1777 to guard mission lands and livestock. He established Rancho San Rafael on Arroyo Seco in 1784. Discussion of his disputes with Mission San Fernando in regard to land title and unfenced cattle. $25.00

565. BRAYER, Herbert O. Ranchero. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1943). Another copy, without Brayer’s business card laid in. Slight split at head of spine, otherwise very fine. $20.00

566. BRAYER, Herbert O. Range Murder: How the Red Sash Gang Dry-Gulched Deputy United States Marshal George Wellman. A Vignette of the Johnson County War in Wyoming [wrapper title]. Evanston: The Branding Iron Press, 1955. 20 pp. Narrow 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Very fine, with note from editors laid in. Limited edition (#185 of an unstated number of copies). Guns 261. Johnson County War incident involving George Wellman, “a quiet, retiring cowboy who had worked on Henry A. Blair’s Hoe Ranch on Powder River.” While serving as foreman of the newly consolidated Hoe and O.K. Ranches in 1892, Wellman was drafted to assemble evidence that the holdings of absentee stockmen were being looted. He was murdered while on this “secret” mission. $45.00

567. BRAYER, Herbert O. To Form a More Perfect Union: The Lives of Charles Francis and Mary Clarke from Their Letters, 1847-71. Albuquerque: [University of New Mexico Press], 1941. ix [3] 233 pp., frontispiece portrait, 6 plates. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Mild discoloration to binding, but generally fine in somewhat darkened d.j. (price-clipped, with loss of 5 x 7.5 cm area). Publisher’s copy, with small ink stamp of The University of New Mexico Press on front flyleaf. First edition, limited edition (#219 of 350 copies). Saunders 2767. In several letters home the Clarkes write of the profitability of stockraising in Missouri and Kansas, and while stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas, Clarke was in charge of all provisions, including a herd of cattle. In a particularly interesting letter to her mother in July 1871 Mary Clarke reports: “stock raising is the only thing that has paid here [Junction City, Kansas] for the last eight or nine years.... people go from here to texas and buys cows Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) there for ten or fifteen dollars a head that you would pay fifty or sixty here for. there is several parties here engaged in shiping them from there here and from here to the eastern markets.” $85.00

568. BRAYER, Herbert O. William Blackmore: I. The Spanish- Mexican Land Grants of New Mexico and Colorado, 1863-1878 [and] II. Early Financing of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Ancillary Land Companies, 1871-1878: A Case Study in the Economic Development of the West. Denver: Bradford-Robinson, 1949. vi, 381 + vi, 333 pp., frontispiece portraits, maps, photographic plates, endpaper maps. 2 vols., original navy blue cloth. Very fine set. First edition, limited edition (#39 of 500 copies). Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “A very scarce case study on land grants and railroad finance in Colorado and New Mexico. English entrepreneur William Blackmore (1827- 78) is an overlooked figure in Western history. He was a friend of Catlin, Richard Dodge, Ferdinand Hayden, and Henry Carrington. In addition to being a land speculator and promoter, he also collected over 2,000 photographs of the West for his museum in Salisbury, England. His plate book Colorado, Its Resources, Parks and Prospects.... (London, 1869) is a great western rarity. When Blackmore’s business venture finally collapsed, he committed suicide.” Wilcox, p. 17. Wynar 5168. Copious references to topics such as grazing rights and fees, British livestock operations (including in Australia and Argentina), brands, buffalo, specific cattle companies and ranches, Charles Goodnight, Peter Dotson, beef exports, raising sheep, etc. $200.00

569. BREAKENRIDGE, William M. Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1928. xix [1] 256 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Usual mild age-toning, but generally fine in the scarce d.j. (price-clipped, lightly worn and chipped; large portion of an additional d.j. neatly affixed to rear endpapers). Author’s signed presentation copy: “To Charles R. Hixson: Very truly yours William M. Breakenridge Tucson, Nov. 26th 1928.” First edition. Adams, One-Fifty 17: “A very interesting book about Tombstone, Arizona in its wild days, told by one of the law officers of that period.... The book has an important place in the early history of Tombstone.” Dykes, Kid 122: “Young Deputy Breakenridge went to Galeyville, Arizona, in May, 1881, and had a run-in with Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Jim Wallace, a rustler from Lincoln County.” Flake 803a. Graff 395. Guns 262. Herd 315. Howes B739. Rader 469. Saunders 2768. Wallace, Arizona History X:9. Wynar 6998. $200.00

570. BREAKENRIDGE, William M. Helldorado.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1928. Another copy, signed by author. Fore-edges soiled, usual mild age-toning, otherwise fine in worn, soiled and chipped d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate and pencil note “Owen White Library.” Laid in are ticket stubs for “Tombstone Helldorado.” $125.00

571. BREAKENRIDGE, William M. Helldorado.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1928. Another copy. Very fine in price-clipped d.j. (spine dark, back panel soiled, and very minor chipping). $150.00

572. BREAKENRIDGE, William M. Helldorado.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1928. Another copy. Fine, d.j. not present. $75.00

573. BREAKENRIDGE, William M. Helldorado.... Glorieta, New Mexico: Rio Grande Press, 1970. [8] xix [1] 256 [5] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, large folding map. 8vo, original tan cloth lettered in purple. Very fine. Facsimile reprint of the first edition, with added publisher’s preface, index, and folding map. $35.00

574. BRECK, Allen duPont. William Gray Evans, 1855-1924: Portrait of a Western Executive. Denver: University of Denver, 1964. 290 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations, foldout genealogical chart. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in moderately soiled and price-clipped d.j. First edition. University of Denver Department of History Series, The West in American History 4. Wynar 5732. Son of Dr. John Evans, Colorado territorial governor, Will Evans spent time as a youth on Kuhlborne, the family ranch. As a college undergraduate he became smitten with the idea of raising cattle, but in referring to Will’s “Kuhlborne fever,” his father correctly foresaw that Will’s future fortune would not derive from the hard physical labor and harsh conditions of ranch life. Kuhlborne always remained a pleasant retreat from Evans’s life in transportation development, investment, and public works. $25.00

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575. BREEN, Dan. The Charolais Breed. San Antonio: American Breeds, [1964]. xvi, 88 pp., photographic illustrations. 12mo, original turquoise pictorial cloth. Very fine in publisher’s original shipping box. Scarce. First edition. Introduced to Mexico from France, Charolais were eventually bred and raised in the U.S. beginning in the 1930s. Chapter 5, dealing with Charolais in the U.S., includes a section on the King Ranch. The author was a noted lecturer on Charolais breeding and headed the famous Rancho El Canelo at San Fernando, Tamaulipas. $75.00

576. BREIHAN, Carl W. Badmen of the Frontier Days. New York: Robert M. McBride Company, [1957]. [12] 315 pp., photographic plates, facsimiles. 8vo, original beige cloth. Text browned due to acidic paper, otherwise fine in d.j. First edition. Adams, Burs I:44. Guns 263: “Chapters on Murrell, Plummer, King Fisher, the Reno Brothers, Sam Bass, Rube Burrow, Billy the Kid, Harry Tracy, the Daltons, and Bill Doolin.” Of particular interest in regard to ranching is information on the Lincoln County War and chapter 3, “King Fisher: Gunslinging King of the Cattle Country.” $30.00

577. BREIHAN, Carl W. The Complete and Authentic Life of Jesse James. New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. [41, mostly photographic plates, some unopened] 42- 287 [1] pp. 8vo, original gilt-lettered red cloth. Very fine in d.j. with a bit of mild foxing. First edition. Adams, Burs I:45; Burs II:17. Guns 264. Mention of the occasional refuge of the James brothers— their Rest Ranch in the Texas Pecos River country. The ranch was well stocked with cattle, and defending their herd against thieves sometimes led to gunplay. $35.00

578. [BREITFELD, Alfredo]. Gaucho Collection [wrapper title]. Buenos Aires: Libreria de Antaño, n.d. [74] pp. 4to, original grey wrappers, stapled. Fine. First printing. Catalogue of gaucho literature issued by the noted Argentine rare book dealer. 453 books are described. $40.00

579. BRENT, William. The Complete and Factual Life of Billy the Kid. New York: Frederick Fell, [1964]. [10] 212 [1] pp., plates. 8vo, original half brown cloth over tan boards. Small bookdealer’s label on front pastedown, otherwise very fine in d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Guns 272. Rustling, robbery, and the Lincoln County War. $50.00

580. BRERETON, F[rederick] S[adleir]. Roughriders of the Pampas: A Tale of Ranch Life in South America. London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Limited, n.d. (ca. 1908?). 366 pp., frontispiece and plates by Stanley Wood. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Some edge wear, light foxing to first and last few pages, otherwise fine. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper dated “24 Feby. 1934.” First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Wood 32). Not in Nichols, Gaucho. English author Brereton (1872-1957) is chiefly noted as a writer of English boys’ stories with a war setting in which the main character is incredibly brave, capable, sensible, honest, and enamored of the free life. Here the author’s prototypical hero sails for Montevideo, where he goes to work as a gaucho on a rancho up the Rio Parana. A rousing tale of adventure with lots of exclamation points. $50.00

581. BRETT, Bill. The Stolen Steers: A Tale of the Big Thicket. College Station & London: Texas A&M University Press, [1977]. 116 pp., illustrations by Michael Frary. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. with a few very small tears. First edition. Realistic fiction about cattle drives from the Big Thicket at the turn of the century. $25.00

582. BRETT, Bill & Mickey Byrd (eds.). East Texas Tales. [Lincoln: Bluestem Press, 1972]. 39 pp., portrait. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Very fine. Author’s signed inscription: “To Carl Hertzog: who treats a guest as a privilege.” Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition in book form. These stories of East Texas cowboys, farmers, and hunters, written in vernacular, first appeared in the Liberty Gazette in 1971. The author’s colorful background includes stints as rancher and bronc buster; he recollects those days in the final selection. $35.00

583. BREWERTON, George D. In the Buffalo Country.... Introduction by David Lavender. Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1970. 71 [2] pp., portraits, illustrations, endpaper map. Tall 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Very fine in plain white d.j. Limited edition, first published in Harper’s in 1862. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 33n. Plains & Rockies IV:222n. Rittenhouse 82n. Independence, Missouri to Las Vegas New Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail in the early 1850s, with mention of Comanche horsemanship, hunting buffalo, and buffalo stampeding before a thunderstorm. The company included traders, travelers, and Mexican herdsmen watching over an unruly drove of about 500 loose cattle. With this book, we include its companion volume: Incidents of Travel in New Mexico. (Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1969. 73 [3] pp., illustrations, endpaper map. Tall 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Very fine in plain white d.j. Limited edition, first published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1854. Saunders 2772n.) $100.00

584. BRICE, James. Reminiscences of Ten Years Experience on the Western Plains: How the United States Mails Were Carried before Railroads Reached the Santa Fe Trail [wrapper title]. Kansas City, Missouri, 1905. 24 pp., text illustrations. Small 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stapled. Light fading to edges of wrappers, overall very fine. Very scarce. First edition. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 51. Howes B759. Rittenhouse 83. Account of delivering the weekly mail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe in 1858, including details on several skirmishes between Kiowas and ranchers near present-day Wichita, Kansas. $300.00

585. BRIDGES, Anne C. Huff & Mary Louise Bridges Witt. Do You Remember? Early Days in Luling, Texas. [Luling, 1967]. 59 [2] pp. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Fine, signed by Witt. First printing. Covers pioneer days, plantation life, Reconstruction, coming of the railroad, early settlers, the 1880s, and immigrants, with slight mention of open range days, trail drives, mavericks, the great die-off of cattle in the drought of 1873-74, etc. Luling was along the trail from South Texas to Dodge City. $25.00

586. BRIGGS, Harold E. The Development and Decline of Open Range Ranching in the Northwest. [Mississippi Valley Historical Review], n.d. Pp. 521-36. Tall 8vo, original self-wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First separate issue. Extract of an article focusing on Wyoming, Montana, and Dakota about 1870-90, when settlement by homesteaders effectively ended the open-range era. $15.00

587. BRIGGS, Harold E. Frontiers of the Northwest: A History of the Upper Missouri Valley. New York & London: D. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Appleton–Century, 1940. xiv, 629 pp., frontispiece, plates, maps, portraits, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 19 (“Western Movement—Its Literature”). Guns 275. Herd 319. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 14: “Treats section now North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Idaho and northern Colorado as six frontiers; the miner, the buffalo, the cattle-rancher, the sheep-rancher, settlement, and agriculture.... Easy style for so large and technical a book. Carefully footnoted. Extensive bibliography. Scholarly, yet of popular appeal.” Reese, Six Score 14: “Contains a twenty-four chapter section on the development of the cattle industry in the Northwest. The book as a whole is one of the best studies of the development of the region.” Smith 1071. $75.00

588. BRIGGS, J[ames] H[arper]. Friend Jasper: The Chaparral Philosopher. San Antonio: Naylor, 1944. [6] 90 pp., illustrated title page. 8vo, original ecru pictorial cloth. Mild discoloration to upper cover, upper fore-edge and endsheets foxed, otherwise fine in d.j. with light foxing and a few small tears. Author’s signed presentation inscription to Walter Prescott Webb: “To my friend Dr. W. P. Webb who[se] kindly comment on my writing has meant so much to me, and who is too human to be a professor. May 20, 1944.” First edition. Briggs used “Friend Jasper,” a small ranch owner in “the great open spaces,” as his voice in his monthly philosophical humor column published in various periodicals. $15.00

589. BRIGGS, J[ames] H[arper]. Friend Jasper: The Chaparral Philosopher. San Antonio: Naylor, 1944. Another copy, signed by author. Endsheets and fore-edges discolored, otherwise fine in foxed d.j. $10.00

590. BRIGGS, L. Vernon. Arizona and New Mexico 1882, California 1886, Mexico 1891. Boston: Privately printed, 1932. x, 282 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise fine, partly unopened. First edition. Eberstadt 107:40: “In day-by-day diary form.... A record of observation, travel, Indian lore, and pioneer and later annals not elsewhere to be found. The numerous contemporary plates are of extreme interest.” Guns 276: “This contains some information on the killing of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Jesse James by Bob Ford.... The author has a poor opinion of the Earps, which he spells Arps.” Saunders 2774. The author’s kaleidoscopic view includes slight mention of buffalo, Buffalo Bill, rustlers, ranches, sheep, skirmishes with Native Americans over livestock, and a photo of noted cowboy “One Horse Charley.” $125.00

591. BRIGHAM, Lillian Rice (comp.). Colorado Travelore, A Pocket Guide: Romance of Its Trails, Railroads, Highways, and Airways. [Denver: Peerless Printing Co., 1938]. xxxii, 447 pp., illustrations, endpaper map, folding map (Map of the Highways and Railways in Colorado, with profiles and descriptive text). 8vo, original maroon flexible cloth. Map detached but present, overall very fine and bright in d.j. From the library of Margaret Long, the noted scholar, with envelope addressed to her attached to lower pastedown (postmarked Boston, September 3, 1946), containing TLs from the Massachusetts Historical Society in regard to an unrelated research question. First edition. Wilcox, p. 18. Wynar 2171. The author arrived in Colorado at the end of “the great cattle era” and she and her husband sought a cattle property for investment purposes. Much detailed local history and lore, including numerous allusions to ranches, open range, wild forage, rodeos, roundups, longhorns, trail herds, cattle barons, Spanish methods of branding, sheep, rustling, erosion due to overgrazing, shipping cattle on railroads, conflicts between cattlemen and sheep raisers, etc. $40.00

592. BRIGHAM, Lillian Rice (comp.). Colorado Travelore, A Pocket Guide.... Denver: Peerless Printing Co., [1938]. Another copy. Frontispiece separating, ownership signature with date, otherwise very fine and bright, without the d.j. $25.00

593. BRIMLOW, George Francis. The Bannock Indian War of 1878. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1938. 241 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in red. Ownership inscription on half title, otherwise very fine in price- clipped d.j. First edition. Paher, Nevada 194: “Some of the last major Indian uprisings took place northern Nevada in 1878. This book includes information on Nevada Paiutes and Sarah Winnemucca in particular—her services as scout, interpreter and guide to the U.S. Army.” Smith 1076. Many skirmishes in the Bannock War resulted from conflicts over land use and livestock. The ranches, ranchers, and their interests, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) defended by the U.S. military, form a frequent backdrop to this history. $150.00

594. BRINCKERHOFF, Sidney B. & Odie B. Faulk. Lancers for the King: A Study of the Frontier Military System of Northern New Spain, with a Translation of the Royal Regulations of 1772. Phoenix: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1965. xx, 128 pp., frontispiece, 2 maps (one foldout), text illustrations (some in color), many pages of facsimiles. Small folio, original brown gilt-decorated cloth. Fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 243. Important scholarly study including a complete facsimile of the 1834 edition of the Royal Reglamento of 1772, with translation and notes on facing pages (see Cowan, p. 256; Graff 4914; Howes N225; LC, California 29; Streeter, Texas 76B; and Wagner, Spanish Southwest 159 for information on the Reglamento, which established a plan of frontier defense for the Spanish Southwest). On p. 77 are illustrations of a vaquero on horseback, his saddle, and equipage. Vaqueros like these were the first real cowboys and trail drivers of the Southwest. They guarded the cattle of the missions and ranchos from rustling by Native Americans. The vaqueros introduced equipment, methods of working with cattle, branding, and jargon that were later used by modern cowboys. $150.00

595. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Dull Knife (A Cheyenne Napoleon): The Story of a Wronged and Outraged Indian Tribe.... Hollywood: Privately published by E. A. Brininstool, 1935. 31 pp. 8vo, original red wrappers printed in black, stapled. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (250 copies signed by author). The white invasion of the Black Hills during the gold rush of the mid-1870s led to widespread hunger and desperation among tribes, forcing some to resort to rustling, which escalated the conflict. $150.00

596. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Fighting Red Cloud’s Warriors. Columbus: The Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co., 1926. 241 [7, ads] pp., frontispiece, portraits, text illustrations. 12mo, original terracotta pictorial cloth. Very fine. First edition. The Frontier Series 2. Guns 277. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. Smith 1083. Contains chapters on buffalo extermination, Battle of the Alamo (!), and Calamity Jane (reprinting her little autobiography and providing other materials and information on her). $100.00

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597. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Fighting Red Cloud’s Warriors. Columbus: The Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co., 1926. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original red pictorial cloth. A few inconsequential spots to binding, but generally very fine. $90.00

598. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Fighting Indian Warriors. Harrisburg: The Stackpole Co., 1953. xiii [1] 353 pp., frontispiece, portraits, maps, facsimile. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Ownership signature, otherwise very fine in price-clipped d.j. Revised and enlarged edition of preceding. Guns 278: “Scarce.” Tate, Indians of Texas 3172: “Contains a chapter on the Buffalo Wallow Fight during the Red River War. Easy reading.” $75.00

599. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Trail Dust of a Maverick. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914. [16] 249 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 8vo, original brown cloth lettered in white and with tipped-on photo of a cowgirl. Slight flecking of white lettering on spine, otherwise very fine and tight. First edition. Mohr, The Range Country 639. Rader 480. Book of poems about cowboy life, including “A Prairie Mother’s Lullaby,” “The Cowgirl,” “Cupid on a Cow Ranch,” “His Cowgirl Sweetheart,” and “‘Suffrage’ in Sagebrush.” Introduction by Robert J. Burdette. $75.00

600. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Trail Dust of a Maverick. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original olive cloth lettered in grey and with tipped-on photo of a cowgirl. Binding rubbed, otherwise fine, with contemporary ownership inscription on blank flyleaf. Second edition. $65.00

601. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Trail Dust of a Maverick: Verses of Cowboy Life, the Cattle Range, and Desert. Los Angeles: E. A. Brininstool, 1921. 244 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth with tipped-on photo of a cowgirl. Ex-library: library stamps removed from pastedowns, inkstamp on p. 33, return sheet partially removed from rear flyleaf. Binding with some edge wear and soiling, fore-edges foxed, endsheets browned, foxing adjacent to frontispiece, and a few leaves carelessly opened. Signed by author. Second edition, with added introduction by George Wharton James. $50.00

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602. BRININSTOOL, E. A. Trail Dust of a Maverick.... Los Angeles: Brininstool, 1921. Another copy. Moderate discoloration to binding, typed list of poems affixed to back pastedown with browning adjacent, otherwise fine. $50.00

603. BRINTON, Christian. Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós: An Exhibition of Paintings of Gaucho Life in the Province of Entre Ríos Argentina, 1850-1870. New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1932. [6] 23 [3] [25, illustrations from paintings] [6] pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original light brown printed wrappers. Fine. Unrelated signed and dated (1971) letter from the librarian of the Hispanic Society of America laid in. First edition. Nichols, Gaucho 1388: “Contains bibliography of other studies.” $25.00

604. BRISBIN, James S. The Beef Bonanza; or, How to Get Rich on the Plains. Being a Description of Cattle-Growing, Sheep-Farming, Horse-Raising, and Dairying in the West. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 222 [6, ads] pp., frontispiece, 7 plates. 12mo, original blue pictorial cloth decorated in gilt and black. Lower cover and section of spine water-stained, moderate outer wear, stain to blank margin of frontispiece, interior fine. First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 10. Dobie, p. 98. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12. Eberstadt 114:113: “Cattle Kings of Wyoming and Nebraska; herds; ranches; stockdrivers; men and ranches of Texas; Colorado; sheep- farming on the plains; horse-raising; the chances for the emigrant in Montana, etc.” Herd 322: “Scarce.” Howes B780. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16. One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 74. Rader 486. Reese, Six Score 15: “Brisbin’s book has long been considered the most important promotional work adding fuel to the cattle boom of the 1880s.” Smith 1092. $75.00

605. BRISBIN, James S. The Beef Bonanza.... Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1882. 222 [6, ads] pp., frontispiece, plates. 12mo, original green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt and black. Ex-library, with bookplates of the Durham Mechanics’ Institute Library, and some damage to endsheets from removal of other pasted-in materials. Some discoloration to spine (but upper cover is bright), frontispiece foxed, text fine. Second edition. $75.00

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606. BRISBIN, James S. The Beef Bonanza.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1959]. xvii [1] 208 pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 12mo, original dark green boards, spine gilt. Top edge foxed, endpapers slightly browned, otherwise fine in d.j. Scholarly reprint of preceding, with added foreword by Gilbert C. Fite. Volume 13 in the Western Frontier Library. $20.00

607. BRISTOL, Sherlock. The Pioneer Preacher: An Autobiography. Chicago & New York: Fleming H. Revell, n.d. (ca. 1887-1898). 330 [6, ads] pp., frontispiece portrait, engraved plates. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Binding moderately shelf worn (bumped at corners and front edge), front hinge weak, generally very good. Mixed edition, with points of various editions (1887, ca. 1888, and 1898); title is consistent with third issue, binding matches first issue, pagination as in first and second issues, portrait as in first issue, etc. It does not appear that the bibliographical complexities of this book have yet been worked out. Cowan, p. 72. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 52. Graff 404. Guns 279: “Scarce.... Some material on outlawry and robbery.” Howes (1954) 1210: “Includes his 1852 trip to Oregon and experiences in California and Idaho mining camps.” Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 74a-c. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1831n. Mintz, The Trail 52. Occasional references to cattle and ranching: traveling to mines over the old cattle trails; stampedes of huge herds of wild cattle in California; lassoing and rounding up cattle to go aboard ships leaving San Francisco; staying at various ranches in California (Santa Margarita Ranch, Briggs Ranch, etc.); description of Southern California (the “Cow Counties”) in 1868. The parson had “ranches” of his own in California and Idaho, but they were vegetable ranches intended to supply miners. His vegetable ranch in Idaho was stockaded to protect against Native American incursions. $50.00

608. BRISTOW, Joseph Quayle. Tales of Old Fort Gibson: Memories along the Trail to Yesterday of the Oklahoma Indian Territory and the Old South. New York: Exposition Press, [1961]. 246 [1] pp. 8vo, original red cloth. Small section of text age-toned (different paper), otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. First edition. Guns 281. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “A collection of warm and vivid stories of Oklahoma and other southwestern sections of the country at Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) the turn of the century.” Contains a chapter on longhorn cattle. $35.00

609. BRITTON, Wiley. Pioneer Life in Southwest Missouri.... Volume IX. Kansas City, Missouri: Smith- Grieves Co., [1929]. 402 [6, extracts from reviews] pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Ex- library: call letters mostly removed from spine, small bookplate on front pastedown, and slight damage to front endsheets from removal of pasted-in materials. Edge wear and light fading to upper cover, a few small snags along edge of spine. Signed by author. Revised, enlarged edition (first edition 1923). Has description of early nineteenth-century ranching and droving in southwest Missouri, including mention of losses of cattle to Spanish fever. $50.00

610. BROADDUS, J. Morgan. The Legal Heritage of El Paso. El Paso: Texas Western College Press, 1963. viii [2] 250 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations by Russell Waterhouse. 8vo, original tan cloth. Minor discoloration to binding, otherwise very fine in d.j. with a few stains on back inner flap. First trade edition. CBC 1523. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 156B. Occasional interest for ranching: legal squabbles of land use between settlers and semi-migratory herdsmen; Pike noting in 1807 that stockraising and agriculture were the principal occupations of the area; drives of sheep and cattle to California from El Paso in the mid-1800s; lawsuit over U.S. troops co-opting cattle from residents without paying for them; Coon’s Ranch and other ranches; price of sheep and cattle after the Civil War; etc. $40.00

611. BROADHEAD, W. Smithson. Hoof Prints over America: The Illustrated Story of the Light-Horse in America. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951. 96 pp., profusely illustrated by the author. Oblong 4to, original black cloth with tipped-on color illustration. Fine. First edition. Forty-five full-page illustrations with text on facing pages, relating the history of the horse in America from introduction by the Spanish to Man O’ War, with sections on “The Indian Pony,” “Mustangs,” and “The Quarter Horse.” $40.00

612. BROCK, Stanley E. Jungle Cowboy. London: Robert Hale & Company, [1972]. 190 pp., numerous photoplates. 8vo, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) original green buckram. Slight edge wear, else very fine in price-clipped d.j. First edition. Account of author’s experiences in the 1950s as a vaquero on the Dadanawa Ranch, “haven for 30,000 wild, unruly, Longhorn cattle.” The Dadanawa Ranch, located the Guyana-Brazil border on the Rupununi River deep in the southern savannah, still exists and is the largest and most isolated ranch in the country, covering some 2,000 square miles. $25.00

613. BROCKETT, L. P. Our Western Empire; or, The New West beyond the Mississippi. The Latest and Most Comprehensive Work on the States and Territories West of the Mississippi, Containing...Description...of the Geography, Geology...Climate, Soil, Agriculture, the Mineral and Mining Products.... Philadelphia, etc.: Bradley, Garretson & Company, et al., 1881. 1,312 pp., frontispiece, engraved plates, text illustrations, maps (numerous county maps of states in color, mostly double-page). Large, thick 8vo, original brown gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding worn, first few leaves of text water-stained, text and maps fine. First edition. Flake 874. Herd 326: “Scarce.” Paher, Nevada 199. Rader 493. Saunders 2776 (giving 1882 publication date). Smith 1121. A massive, well-illustrated compendium of facts and statistics on the “glorious Western Empire,” with a great deal of information on ranching and stockraising: “Nutritious Grasses in the Grazing Lands,” “Incidents, Manners and Habits of Ranch-Owners and Ranchmen,” “The Stock Region, par excellence,” “The Herdsmen or Cow-Boys,” “Stock-Raising in Texas” [and other states], “The Difference of Profit Between ‘Store’ Cattle and ‘Fat’ Cattle,” “Sheep-Farming and Wool-Growing,” “The Immigrant as a Cattle-Breeder and Stockraiser,” “How a Man with a Small Capital May Eventually Have a Cattle-Ranche of His Own,” etc. There is also much information on Western mining. The excellent color maps include Texas and Indian Territory, Alaska, and Manitoba. $100.00

614. BROMLEY, George Tisdale. The Long Ago and the Later On; or, Recollections of Eighty Years. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1904. xiii [3] 289 pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original blue pictorial cloth. Moderate outer wear, especially to edges, slight discoloration to covers, a couple of leaves carelessly opened, overall very good. First edition. Cowan, p. 73. Graff 408. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 78: “A portion of this Bohemian Club member’s reminiscences takes in his Gold Rush era experiences. He left New York in November 1850, reached the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Isthmus of Panama, boarded the steamer Tennessee on the Pacific side, and arrived in San Francisco on January 8, 1851. Only 150 copies of this book were printed.” Bromley briefly tells how he and his friend Robert Parker became involved in the hide and horn trade during the Gold Rush, trading hides and horns they gathered for groceries that they then sold. $35.00

615. BROMLEY, George Tisdale. The Long Ago and the Later On.... San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1904. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original red pictorial cloth. Moderate outer wear and discoloration, contemporary ink gift inscription on blank flyleaf, else fine. $35.00

616. BRONSON, Edgar Beecher. The Red-Blooded. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1910. [8] 342 pp., frontispiece, plates (many by Maynard Dixon, one by Russell). 8vo, original purple pictorial cloth. Light outer wear, slightly shelf-slanted, text with a few stains and mild foxing (heavier adjacent to plates), overall very good. First edition (partly reprinted from various periodicals). Dobie, p. 98: “Free-wheeling non-fiction.” Guns 284: “An excellent piece of Western Americana.” Herd 329. Rader 497. Wallace, Arizona History X:1. Chapters include “Loving’s Bend” (discusses the origin of the great Texas trail drives) and “A Cow-Hunters’ Court” about Shanghai Rhett, a cattleman in Llano County, Texas, who, in a fashion typical in the 1870s, amassed his herd by rounding up unbranded cattle from the open range. $40.00

617. BRONSON, Edgar Beecher. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [4] 341 [1] pp., frontispiece, plates (many by Maynard Dixon, one by Russell). 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Small abrasion at foot of spine, fore-edges foxed, otherwise fine. Reprint. $25.00

618. BRONSON, Edgar Beecher. Reminiscences of a Ranchman. New York: McClure Company, 1908. [6] 314 pp. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. A few faint stains to binding and slight shelf wear, overall fine and bright. Scholar Margaret Long’s copy, with her label affixed to front pastedown. First edition. Eberstadt 130:145: “Classic on the cowboy.” Graff 410. Herd 330. Howes B802. Rader 498. Smith 1131. Bronson got his start as a cowboy in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the early 1870s. $100.00

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619. BRONSON, Edgar Beecher. Reminiscences of a Ranchman. New York: McClure Company, 1908. Another copy. Light edge wear, ink ownership inscription on front pastedown, else fine and bright. $85.00

620. BRONSON, Edgar Beecher. Reminiscences of a Ranchman. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1910. [10] 369 [1] pp., plates (illustrators include Maynard Dixon and W. H. Dunton). 8vo, original terracotta cloth with tipped-on illustration. Spine a bit dark, moderate edge wear, front hinge cracked, title spotted, mild foxing (heavier adjacent to plates and on fore-edges). First illustrated edition (text enlarged also). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Dixon 39) & (Dunton 31). Smith 1132. $35.00

621. BRONSON, Edgar Beecher. Cowboy Life on the Western Plains: The Reminiscences of a Ranchman.... 19 Full-Page Wonderful Wild West Pictures. New York: George H. Doran, [1910]. [10] 369 [1] pp., plates (illustrators include Maynard Dixon and W. H. Dunton). 8vo, original terracotta cloth with tipped-on illustration. Light outer wear and soiling, small stains to a few leaves, overall very good. Author’s signed presentation copy: “Inscribed for a good old scout...for Martin Wauner...N.Y. July 24, ’16.” Reprint of preceding, with altered title. Herd 328. Smith 1130. $50.00

622. BROOKS, Bryant B[utler]. Memoirs of Bryant B. Brooks, Cowboy, Trapper, Lumberman, Stockman, Oilman, Banker, and Governor of Wyoming.... Glendale: [Privately printed for the author by] The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1939. 370 pp., frontispiece, plates, portraits, genealogical charts on endpapers. 8vo, original brown cloth, t.e.g. Very fine. Author’s signed presentation copy: “Casper Dec. 1940 To Al[?] Spaugh Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Sincerely, B. B. Brooks.” First edition, limited edition (Herd states limitation as 150 copies, Clark & Brunet state 250 copies). Dobie, p. 98. Clark & Brunet 29: “Though the original prospectus indicated 250 copies for sale, only 88 copies of the book were sold by the publisher. The balance of the edition was delivered over time to Brooks for his distribution.” Herd 332: “Very scarce.” Howes B814. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 14: “Life story of a pioneer in the vicinity of Casper, hence valuable picture of life and history of that section from 1861 to 1939.” Part 2, the author’s autobiography includes chapters “Cowboy in the Rockies,” “Starting a Cattle Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Ranch,” “The V-V [Ranch] Grows,” The Sheep Arrive,” and “My Ranches Today,” in addition to much on his political career, involvement in other enterprises such as mining, logging, and banking, and discussion of issues involved with public lands and water resources. $375.00

623. BROOKS, Bryant B[utler]. Memoirs of Bryant B. Brooks.... Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1939. Another copy. Light cover wear, otherwise very fine, with author’s presentation slip tipped in. $300.00

624. BROOKS, Chester L. & Ray H. Mattison. Theodore Roosevelt and the Dakota Badlands. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1958. [4] 60 pp., profusely illustrated (including maps and many documentary photographs). 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First printing. Well-researched guide with much on ranching, including chapters on “The Open Range Cattle Industry,” “Roosevelt Buys a Cattle Ranch,” “A Typical Cattle Drive,” “Roosevelt the Rancher,” “Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores,” “The Stockmen’s Associations,” and “Roosevelt’s Later Ranching Operations.” Some of the photographs are of interest, e.g., cattle beset by the blizzard of 1886-87, loading cattle onto a Northern Pacific Railway car, office of “The Bad Lands Cow Boy,” etc. Maps include Cattle Trails, Texas to Medora and Badlands Ranches in the 80’s. $15.00

625. BROOKS, Clinton E. & Frank D. Reeve (eds.). Forts and Forays: James A. Bennett, a Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850- 1856. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948. [4] 85 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, folding map in rear pocket. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in price- clipped and lightly rubbed d.j. Copyright notice on title verso is a cancel. First book edition (first printed in 1947 in the New Mexico Historical Review). Journal account of frontier New Mexico, including many references to ranching and droving. $65.00

626. BROOKS, Elizabeth. Prominent Women of Texas. Akron: Werner Company, [1896]. 206 pp., portraits. 8vo, original gilt-decorated green buckram. Binding flecked and soiled, corners bumped, front free endpaper almost detached and with a 2.5-cm tear (no loss), internally fine. Scarce. First edition. Winegarten II, p. 239: “Sketches of 150 well-known women. One of the earliest works on Texas women Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) and a scarce source on the Runaway Scrape.” Contains a chapter on “The Uncrowned Queen of the West,” Mrs. Richard King of the King Ranch, as well as information on other early Texas ranchwomen. Includes a biography of artist Elizabet Ney. $200.00

627. BROOKS, Frank. The Burro. Norman: University of Oklahoma, [1974]. xiii [1] 370 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. A history of the burro, including information on the impact of this hardy creature on ranching in the American West. The author first became interested in burros when teaching in a two-room elementary school in Kenna, New Mexico. $40.00

628. BROOKS, Juanita. Dudley Leavitt, Pioneer to Southern Utah. St. George: Privately printed, 1942. vi [2] 115 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 8vo, original dark blue cloth. Mint, signed by author. Rare in commerce. First edition of author’s first book. Paher, Nevada 202: “Written by his granddaughter, this biography of a Mormon pioneer to southern Utah and Nevada is a valuable record of the lifestyle of a polygamist, rancher and miner.” Good documentation on forted ranches. $250.00

629. BROOKS, Juanita. Dudley Leavitt, Pioneer to Southern Utah. St. George: Privately printed, 1942. vi [1] 115 pp. 8vo, original light blue cloth. Mint. First edition, variant issue with slightly different arrangement of preliminary material and variant binding. $275.00

630. BROOKS, Juanita. Uncle Will Tells His Story. Salt Lake City: Taggart & Company, [1970]. [16] 249 [14] pp., many photographs and illustrations. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Account of the life of “Uncle Will” Brooks (b. 1881), a “rancher, farmer, storekeeper, teacher, sheriff, postmaster” in southwestern Utah. $50.00

631. BROOKS, Sarah Warner. Alamo Ranch: A Story of New Mexico. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1903. [6] 148 pp., photographic frontispiece of the Alamo Ranch. 8vo, original olive printed boards. Spine darkened, marginal browning, upper cover detached, back joint cracked, spine chipped, first signature opened carelessly, text browned and friable. A poor copy, but from J. Frank Dobie’s library with his very critical note dated 1931: “I have no idea why Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Sarah Warner Brooks wrote this book or who she was. I bought this book ‘sight unseen’ for $2.00 & skipped over it in 20 minutes. It’s 4th hand archaeology and there’s no ranch or ranch person in it. J. Frank Dobie Oct. 26, 1931.” First edition, limited edition (250 copies). Herd 334: “Scarce.” Far be it from Dorothy Sloan—Rare Books to get in the middle of a difference of opinion between J. Frank Dobie and Ramon Adams. We include the book here because Adams included the title in Herd. In dear old Pancho’s defense, the Alamo Ranch in the Mesilla Valley was a health resort with six Jersey cows. Included in the book is an account of the author’s visit to the lacto-vegetarian Shalam Colony with glowing descriptions of the blooded stock there that had come from the Governor of New York. (A Boston dentist established the unique faith-based utopian Shalam Colony in Doña Ana in 1884 to shelter and educate orphaned slum children of all races and creeds. Today nothing remains of the colony except the road passing the site, which is named “Old Shalam Colony Trail.”) Brooks and her party also visited the Mescalero Valley where her party lodged with a ranchman. She describes the Mescalero Reservation (“one of the finest sheep ranges in the country”). $500.00

632. BROPHY, Frank Cullen. Arizona Sketch Book: Fifty Historical Sketches. [Phoenix: Ampco Press, 1952]. xi [1] 310 pp., plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Guns 288. Herd 335. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 248. Wallace, Arizona History 53. Offers a cattleman’s account of early Arizona history, with many sketches relating to ranching. $35.00

633. BROSNAN, Cornelius J. Jason Lee, Prophet of the New Oregon. New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. x [2] 348 pp., frontispiece portrait. Endsheets browned and text lightly age-toned, otherwise very fine in price-clipped d.j. Author’s lengthy signed inscription: “To Mr. Dan Greenburg, a student of Western History, and a lay historian who has labored constructively and efficiently in preserving the records and landmarks of the vanishing Last American Frontier.... Aug. 30, 1934.” First edition. Smith 1148. Biographical account of Jason Lee who was a key figure in the birth of the Oregon cattle industry; he established a joint-stock cattle company in 1837 and drove the first herd to Oregon from California the same year. $45.00

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634. BROSNAN, Cornelius J. Jason Lee, Prophet of the New Oregon. New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. Another copy. Endsheets browned, otherwise fine, without the d.j. $30.00

635. BROTHERS, Mary Hudson. Billy the Kid: The Most Hated, the Most Loved Outlaw New Mexico Ever Produced. [Farmington: Hustler Press, 1949]. 52 pp., portraits. 8vo, original stiff textured tan pictorial wrappers, brown string tie. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Guns 290. Brief account of the life of Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War. The author’s father, Bell Hudson, was a cowboy who signed on with John Chisum’s Jinglebob outfit in July 1880. $45.00

636. BROTHERS, Mary Hudson. Billy the Kid.... [Farmington: Hustler Press, 1949]. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original stiff red pictorial wrappers, black string tie. Spine worn and chipped (small section of spine missing), otherwise fine. Signed by author. $35.00

637. BROTHERS, Mary Hudson. Billy the Kid.... [Farmington: Hustler Press, 1949]. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original stiff tan pictorial wrappers (no texture), brown string tie. Light edge wear, otherwise very fine. $35.00

638. BROTHERS, Mary Hudson. A Pecos Pioneer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1943. vii [3] 169 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original red cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise fine in d.j. Scarce, especially in the d.j. First edition. Adams, Burs I:53. Campbell, p. 92: “She lived on a sheep ranch.... Her brother punched cattle for Chisum and encountered Billy the Kid. Unusual powers of description.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 11. Dobie, p. 61: “Only Ross Santee has equaled her in description of drought and rain. The last chapters reveal a girl’s inner life, amid outward experiences, as no other woman’s chronicle of ranch ways”; p. 98: “Superior to numerous better-known books.” Dykes, Kid 325: “Mrs. Brothers’ tribute to her father, Bell Hudson, one-time Jinglebob cowboy and a Pat Garrett posse member in 1880.” Guns 291: “This book is based upon notes by the author’s father, Bell Hudson.” Herd 337. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 14: “Included are accounts of...girlhood experiences on a sheep ranch near Frisco, New Mexico, in the 1890s.” Saunders 2780. $200.00

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639. BROTHERS, Mary Hudson. A Pecos Pioneer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1943. Another copy. A few mild stains to binding, otherwise fine, without the d.j. $175.00

640. BROTHERS, Mary Hudson. A Pecos Pioneer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1943. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Slight shelf wear, endpapers browned, otherwise very fine, without the d.j. $150.00

641. BROUSE, E. M. Wintering Calves in the Nebraska Sandhills. N.p.: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, Bulletin 357 (Revised), January 1955. 43 pp., tables. 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Second printing, revised (originally issued February 1944). $35.00

642. BROUSSARD, Ray F. San Antonio during the Texas Republic: A City in Transition. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1967. 40 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph 18. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 213. San Antonio had its origins as a supply center for the various large ranches of South Texas. $25.00

643. BROWER, J. V. The Missouri River and Its Utmost Source.... St. Paul: [The Pioneer Press], 1897. lxiii [1] 206 pp., frontispiece map, plates, portraits, maps, text illustrations. 8vo, new black cloth. Some water staining to lower portion of last 20 leaves (text not affected), otherwise fine. Limited edition (500 copies); second edition, with archaeological addendum. Smith 1156. Archaeology of the Missouri River area with many photographs of Native Americans. The ranching interest is found in the section on the Centennial Valley (pp. 95-108), discussing first settlement in the area by Messrs. Poindexter and Orr for stockraising in 1876. This section includes maps and a photograph of herds grazing. $75.00

644. BROWN, A. Theodore. Frontier Community: Kansas City to 1870. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, [1963]. viii [4] 235 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. History of Kansas City with mention of the livestock trade and meat packing industries that played such an important role in the town’s evolution. $40.00

645. BROWN, Belle Scott. Grandmother Belle Remembers. San Antonio: Naylor, 1941. ix [1] 119 pp., text illustrations (including the Brown Ranch House) by Caroline Keller Lewis. 12mo, original terracotta cloth. Two faint stains on spine, fore-edges mildly foxed, light browning to endpapers, otherwise fine in d.j. with slight staining on back. First edition. Herd 338: “A Texas ranch woman’s memories of her family and ranch life.” The Brown ranch was located in Throckmorton County, Texas. Not in CBC. $40.00

646. BROWN, Deborah & Katharine Gust. Between the Creeks: Recollections of Northeast Texas. Austin: The Encino Press, 1976. xiv [2] 87 [1] pp., photographic plates. Oblong 4to, original white cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. From the library of the University of Texas at El Paso, the Hertzog Collection, with their bookplate and pencil note: “The work of Wm Wittliff—protege of Hertzog.” Taped to front free endpaper is a newspaper review of the book. First edition. Whaley, Wittliff 135: “Katherine Gust and her mother tell the stories in images and words of the old timers who live in an area where the Sulphur River runs through switchcane bottoms and pasture land.” Winegarten, p. 213: “Photographs and anecdotes of rural men and women in northeast Texas around 1900.” Includes information on the Dutch Love Ranch, McNola Peel Ranch, and Broseco Ranch; some of Wittliff’s excellent photos relate to ranching. $25.00

647. BROWN, Dee. The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1958]. 317 pp., plates (photographic illustrations). 8vo, original half tan cloth over blue boards. Light outer wear, otherwise very fine in slightly worn d.j. First edition. Guns 292. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 14: “Provides one person’s interpretation of women in the West.” A vivid account of all aspects of the lives of the women who built the West, containing information on Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate, Cattle Annie, Prairie Rose, and Arizona Alice, among others. $25.00

648. BROWN, Dee. The Gentle Tamers.... New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1958]. Another copy. Light outer wear and a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) few faint stains on upper cover, mild staining to first few leaves, otherwise fine, without the d.j. $15.00

649. BROWN, Dee. The Westerners. New York, Chicago, & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1974]. 288 pp., color plates (some double-page), numerous illustrations. Small 4to, original brown cloth. One small spot on upper cover, overall very fine. First edition. Chapters on Charles Goodnight, “the father of the cowboys,” and “Teddy the Rough Rider” with information on his ranches (Maltese Cross and the Elkhorn). “When Teddy first entered into an earnest effort to learn the practical side of ranching—from roundups to branding to trail driving—the cowboys regarded him as somewhat of a joke.” The chapter on Native Americans (“The Dispossessed”) alludes to how cattle grazing on the buffalo grasslands disrupted Native American land use and culture. $15.00

650. BROWN, Dee & Marvin F. Schmitt. Trail Driving Days. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. xxii [2] 264 pp., profusely illustrated with documentary photographs, portraits, facsimiles, and brands (erratum slip tipped onto contents page). Small folio, original red cloth. Exceptionally fine in excellent d.j. First edition, first issue, with captions for illustrations on 194 and 199 reversed (in the first issue, the caption on p. 194 is incorrectly labeled “XIT in Montana” and p. 199 is “A Montana Ranch, Comfortable If Not Elegant”) and “A” beneath copyright on title verso. Adams, Burs I:54. Campbell, pp. 185-86: “Begins with the development of the longhorns from Spanish cattle and ends with the great blizzard of 1886.” Dobie, p. 98. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 436); Kid 436; Western High Spots, p. 60 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #119): “Many excellent photographs.” Guns 293. Herd 340. Photo-documentary history of the long trail drives with information on many aspects and notable characters: trail towns, Dodge City, open range, Prairie Rose, Cornelia Adair, “Queen of the Jingle Bob,” Medora von Hoffman, etc. $50.00

651. BROWN, Dee & Marvin F. Schmitt. Trail Driving Days. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. Another copy, variant binding. Small folio, original terracotta cloth. Contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf, else very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). $45.00

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652. BROWN, Dee & Marvin F. Schmitt. Trail Driving Days. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. Another copy, variant binding. Small folio, original black cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. $50.00

653. BROWN, James S[tephens]. Life of a Pioneer.... Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co., 1900. xix [1] [9]-520 pp., frontispiece portrait (photographic), 6 half-tone plates (mostly of old prints). 8vo, original brown gilt- lettered cloth. Moderate shelf wear (frayed at tips and edges, corners bumped), two small stains on covers, front hinge cracked, internally fine. Historian R. L. Hafen’s copy, signed by him on verso of portrait. First edition. Cowan, p. 77. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 55. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 34: “Scarce and important. It is reported that almost the entire edition was destroyed by water and mice.” Flake 900. Graff 426: “The writer went overland with the Mormon Battalion to California in 1846 and was present when the first gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill.” Howes B849. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 86. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1663, 1750. Mintz, The Trail 523. See Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 22. California chapters include sections on “Wild Horses and Cattle Driven into the Sea,” “Surrounded by Wild Cattle,” “Dealing with Wild Horses and Cattle,” “Brutality of Bull Fights, Horse Racing, etc.,” and “Threatened by Wild Horses.” Additionally, the author discusses conflicts with Native Americans in regard to livestock, purchasing a herd of cattle for his parents in Iowa, a trail herd with 4,000 head crossing the Green River, and his experiences purchasing and moving “work cattle” (oxen), something he was frequently called on to do by the Mormon church. $400.00

654. BROWN, James S[tephens]. Life of a Pioneer.... Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons, 1900. Another copy, variant binding (both in color and lettering on spine). 8vo, original gilt-lettered terracotta cloth. Binding lightly soiled and shelf worn (small snag at head of spine, corners bumped, some fraying along edges and at corners), hinges weak, interior fine. $300.00

655. BROWN, Jennie Broughton. Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail: A Historical Study. With “Ferry Butte” by Susie Boice Trego. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1932. 466 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, numerous text illustrations (mostly photographic), maps. 8vo, original slate green cloth. Light Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) wear to spinal extremities, endsheets browned (from d.j.), 2 embossed ownership stamps of Wyoming collector E. A. Logan (on front and back free endpapers), overall very good, in worn and browned d.j. with large chip at head of spine (loss of a small section—about 2.5 x 1.8 cm). First edition. Smith 1164. Mostly early history (exploration, fur trade, conflicts with Native Americans, etc.), but the author does mention Jesse Applegate’s “cow- column,” an overland party composed of owners of large herds; Applegate’s thoughts on the superiority of the southern trail from the Willamette Valley; buffalo hunts and stampede; and horse racing. $75.00

656. BROWN, Jennie Broughton. Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail.... Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1932. Another copy. Slight shelf wear, pencil ownership signature, otherwise very fine and tight, without the d.j. $65.00

657. BROWN, Jesse & A. M. Willard. The Black Hills Trails: A History of the Struggles of the Pioneers in the Winning of the Black Hills. Rapid City: Rapid City Journal Company, 1924. 572 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine, with bookplate of Western writer William MacLeod Raine (see Thrapp III, pp. 1188-89). First edition. Adams, Burs I:55. Graff 427. Guns 297: “Scarce.... One of the standard histories of the Black Hills, this book contains much information on the outlaws of that section.” Herd 342: “Has section on ‘The Language of the Roundup.’” Howes B850. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 126 (one of his five standards for the post-Gold Rush period): “Personalities, hold-ups, hangings, freighting experiences, Indian troubles and so forth.” Luther, High Spots of Custer 76: “Much of interest regarding the personalities of the various participants is recorded here to make this account one of the most valuable.” $275.00

658. BROWN, Jesse & A. M. Willard. The Black Hills Trails.... Rapid City: Rapid City Journal Company, 1924. Another copy. Fine. $275.00

659. BROWN, Jesse & A. M. Willard. The Black Hills Trails.... Rapid City: Rapid City Journal Company, 1924. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original(?) three- quarter maroon leather over maroon cloth. Fragile leather binding worn (3.8 cm square at top of spine almost detached, one small chip at top of lower joint and another Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) small chip on spine about 4 cm from foot of spine), board slightly exposed where leather has worn away at lower corners. Front hinge cracked, a few internal leaves browned from old newspaper clippings. Author’s signed presentation copy: “Kind Regards to My Old Time Friend George Northum by Jesse Brown 4-27-25.” The binding appears to be original, and if not, it certainly is near contemporary with publication of the book. We find no records of special presentation bindings for this book, but given the inscription, it is possible that this is one of a few special bindings done for the author. In any case, the binding needs the attention of a gentle conservator. $350.00

660. BROWN, John. Autobiography of Pioneer John Brown, 1820-1896. Salt Lake City: [Stevens and Wallis], 1941. 491 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations. 8vo, original black cloth. Other than mild discoloration to binding, fine, signed and dated by author’s son, John Z. Brown, who arranged and published the book. First edition. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 163, 215. Mintz, The Trail 58: “Brown was one of the many who took part in the Mormon migration to Utah in 1847. He continued his travels during his life in efforts to help others in emigrating to the Salt Lake Valley.” In facilitating Mormon migration to Utah, Brown crossed the plains 13 times and several times oversaw the purchase of oxen and cattle for various Mormon entities, including two carloads of sheep and cattle for the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Co. The book also mentions conflicts with Native Americans over livestock, buffalo hunting, a lengthy dream about rampaging wild cattle, etc., primarily as recorded in his journal. $90.00

661. BROWN, John Henry. History of Texas, from 1685 to 1892. St. Louis: L. E. Daniell, [1892-93]. 631 + 591 pp., frontispiece portrait, engraved plates (some photographic), maps, text illustrations. 2 vols., thick 8vo, original maroon decorative leather gilt, marbled edges. Binding wear, especially to spinal extremities (head of spine of vol. 2 chipped), labels partially removed from spines, front hinges cracked, interior fine. First edition. Basic Texas Books 22: “The earliest comprehensive history of Texas written by an active participant.... Replete with historical facts presented for the first time, and with incidents that would not have been remembered without Brown’s work. His descriptions of events in which he participated are vivid and memorable. The set Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) is still useful today, and forms one of the basic research sources for nineteenth century Texas.” Howes B856. Rader 513. Raines, p. 32. Tate, Indians of Texas 151: “An account filled with standard stories of Indian atrocities and pioneer heroism.” Mostly deals with politics and military matters, but there are short accounts of wild cattle corralled in Goliad and free grass and fence cutting troubles remedied during Governor Ireland’s administration. $250.00

662. BROWN, John Henry. Index to History of Texas Volume 1 [and] ...Volume 2. N.p., n.d. 5 + 6 pp. 2 vols., 8vo, original white printed self-wrappers. Lightly soiled and a few old pencil marks erased. First edition. Helps open up for research the mass of material in Brown’s History of Texas (see preceding entry). $30.00

663. BROWN, John Henry & John H. Cochran. History of Dallas County, Texas: From 1837 to 1887, by John Henry Brown [and] Dallas County: A Record of Its Pioneers and Progress, by John H. Cochran. The Two Major Chronicles of Early Dallas County Now Republished Together, with a Foreword by Sam Acheson. Dallas: Aldredge Book Store, 1966. xiv [4] 114; 296 pp. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine. Limited edition (510 copies). CBC 1218, 1227. Facsimiles of the 1887 and 1928 first editions (Cochran’s was a supplement to Brown’s earlier work). The two major chronicles of early Dallas County are republished together in this volume. See item 979 for the first edition of Cochran’s supplementary volume. Brown mentions the first brands and marks recorded in Dallas County, and Cochran tells how stockraising contributed to the development of Dallas County and “The Fence Cutting Legislature.” $115.00

664. BROWN, John Henry. Life and Times of Henry Smith, the First American Governor of Texas. Dallas: A. D. Aldridge & Co., 1887. 395 pp., lithographed frontispiece portrait of Smith. 8vo, original sheep, red and blue leather spine labels. Binding worn and defective (upper cover detached), as is often the case with this cheap sheep. Text fine. Association-presentation copy, to Marion T. Brown from her mother dated in 1889 (Marion’s name is neatly inked on fore-edges). Marion Brown, the author’s daughter, studied under San Antonio artist Julian Onderdonk and illustrated her father’s History of Texas and her mother’s A Condensed History of Texas. Two related clippings laid in: San Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Antonio Daily Express (January 1, 1888) reviewing the book, and another from the Dallas Times-Herald (ca. 1890) regarding the fiftieth anniversary of the George W. Fultons—Mrs. Fulton being a daughter of Henry Smith. Affixed to endpaper is the printed prospectus for the book. First edition. Howes B858. Raines, p. 32: “Covers a critical period of Texan history, a period of dissension and disaster.” Smith came to Texas in 1827 and was active in the move for Texas independence from his arrival. He went to California in 1849 and died in a mining camp in Los Angeles County in 1851. Brown’s work is included here because it contains some early details on his remarkable son-in-law, George W. Fulton, founder of the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company on Aransas Bay. Fulton was one of the most innovative men in Texas in the nineteenth century and a real leader in the cattle trade (only one of his many interests). Among his many accomplishments was shipping some of the first cattle from Texas to New Orleans, inventing a system for shipping beef under refrigeration, constructing early range fences in South Texas, and introducing new cattle breeds that still impact South Texas. $100.00

665. BROWN, John Henry. Life and Times of Henry Smith.... Dallas: A. D. Aldridge & Co., 1887. Another copy, slight binding variant. 8vo, original sprinkled sheep, red and blue leather spine labels. Binding worn and peeling, joints cracked, head of spine chipped, hinges weak. Text clean except portrait is foxed. $75.00

666. BROWN, John Henry. Life and Times of Henry Smith.... Dallas: A. D. Aldridge & Co., 1887. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original gilt-lettered brown cloth. Some abrading and staining to binding, lower hinge cracked, occasional mild foxing. $75.00

667. BROWN, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838. Kingsport, Tennessee: Southern Publishers, 1938. xi [1] 570 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, maps (one double-page). 8vo, original blue cloth. Light edge wear, otherwise very fine. First edition. Though there is only slight mention of ranching, it is interesting. The Cherokee disapproved of “the white man’s buffalo” (the cow), even eschewing to waste shot and powder on them. “They liked to leave the cows stuck full of arrows in derision. The presence of Indians in the woods was often revealed by the nervousness Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) of the cattle” (p. 213). Under the tutelage of Mrs. William Bean, a Cherokee woman named Nancy Ward introduced cattle to the tribe around 1776 and owned the first herd (dairy cattle). $125.00

668. BROWN, Mark H. & W. R. Felton. Before Barbed Wire: L. A. Huffman, Photographer on Horseback. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1956]. 256 pp., numerous illustrations from Huffman’s photographs, endpaper maps. 4to, original black cloth. Fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First edition of a photo-documentary classic of range literature. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 59 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #128); p. 84 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Guns 300: “Some information on the Johnson County War of Wyoming.” Herd 346. Reese, Six Score 16: “L. A. Huffman was the premier photographer of the northern range. Brown and Felton have added an excellent text to the superb photographs.” “If there is one quality which sets the Huffman collection apart from the work of others...it is the intimate nature of the subject matter. Huffman was part of the society which he photographed and many of his pictures portray not only certain individuals, but...various details about their daily life. Herein probably lies their unique appeal.... The Huffman pictures constitute one of the finest pictorial records of life on the western frontier” (Thrapp II, pp. 688-89). $75.00

669. BROWN, Mark H. & W. R. Felton. The Frontier Years: L. A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1955]. 272 pp., frontispiece self- portrait of Huffman, numerous illustrations from Huffman’s photographs, endpaper maps. A few faint spots on upper cover, but overall very fine in price-clipped and slightly worn d.j. Inscription signed by both authors: “For Frank Kemp, Jr., lover of the Old West...28 October 1955.” First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 59 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #126). Guns 301: “Some new material on Calamity Jane.” Herd 347. Luther, High Spots of Custer 163: “Reproduces Huffman’s photos of his 1877 visit to the battlefield. His views help us to get an idea of how the ground looked at the time.” Reese, Six Score 16n. This volume is primarily devoted to Huffman’s photographs of Native Americans, settlements in the prairies, hunting and sport, and the military, but there are a few photos with range subjects. $75.00

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Holt and Company, [1955]. Another copy. Very fine in price- clipped d.j. $65.00

671. BROWN, William S. California Northeast, the Bloody Ground. Oakland: Biobooks, 1951. xiv [2] 207 [2] pp., photographic plates, foldout map. Large 4to, original blue and red buckram. Slight fading to spine and upper cover, otherwise very fine. Limited edition (750 copies). Rocq 5411. Conflicts in regard to land use, livestock, and depredations were some of the primary factors contributing to the Modoc War, and these matters are discussed extensively. $60.00

672. BROWNE, J. Ross. Crusoe’s Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk with Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864. 436 pp., numerous humorous engraved illustrations (full-page and text illustrations; many after author’s pen drawings). 12mo, original purple pebbled cloth. Some edge wear, especially to spinal extremities, small split along top of lower joint, spine and cover edges faded, a few miniscule spots to text, internally fine. First edition. Cowan, p. 78. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers I, pp. 86-87. Howes B876. Paher, Nevada 219: “Contains the famous and entertaining A Peep at Washoe.... Among the best and liveliest reports of the early Comstock boom.... Nothing escapes his inquiring mind: the Chinese, Indians, speculators, miners, aberrations in human behavior, the madness over minerals,...restful Lake Tahoe.... This early Nevada classic anticipated Mark Twain’s Roughing It by several years.” Several brief accounts of ranches, vaqueros, and wild cattle in Mexico and California; startling account of a fight between a wild bull and a grizzly; attending a Sonora fandango thrown by rancheros and vaqueros from the neighboring ranches; illustrations of the grizzly-bull fight, a Spanish caballero, roping a grizzly. Browne’s writings are early and essential for the evolution of Western humor. “Browne spent twenty-five years in the West, about twice as long as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Francis Parkman, Richard Dana, and Bayard Taylor combined. He traveled extensively throughout California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, and Washington; and his letters, journals, articles, and reports constitute the fullest and most reliable account of life in the West left by a single person in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.... His cartoons portray as no words can the ironic view he had of himself and the turbulent life of the West he Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) experienced so fully.” (WLA, Literary History of the American West, p. 90). $175.00

673. BROWNE, J. Ross. A Dangerous Journey, California, 1849. Palo Alto: Arthur Lites Press, [1950]. 93 [1] pp., printed in black and green, text illustrations after Browne’s engravings for the first edition (some in full color), decorated initials. 8vo, original green cloth. Lower front corner bumped, otherwise very fine in d.j. First book edition (first published in Harper’s Monthly May-June 1862, reissued in 1864 as part of Crusoe’s Island). Rocq 15722. Includes observations on California ranches, wild cattle, and episodes with grizzlies, with related illustrations. $40.00

674. BROWNE, J. Ross. A Dangerous Journey. Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1972. 83 [2] pp., text illustrations after Brown’s engravings for the first edition. Tall 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in plain white d.j. Limited edition (#55 of 600 copies). With this book we include Osborne’s printing of Browne’s A Peep at Washoe; or, Sketch of Adventure in Virginia City (Palo Alto, 1968; 145 [3] pp., many text illustrations, endpaper map. Tall 8vo, original green cloth. Printer’s flaw on p. 17, else very fine in plain d.j. Limited edition (#68 of 1,400 copies). See Paher, Nevada 222. $80.00

675. BROWNE, J. Ross. Explorations in Lower California, 1868. Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, [1952]. Pp. [8] [577]- 591; 740-52; 9-23 [1], text illustrations. 8vo, original stiff tan printed wrappers. Very fine. Three articles extracted from Harper’s Weekly, with descriptions and illustrations of ranches in Baja. Barrett, Baja California 372. $20.00

676. BROWNELL, Sam. Rodeos and “Tipperary” Including the Life of Sam Brownell. Denver: Big Mountain Press, [1961]. 126 pp., photographic text illustrations. 12mo, original maize printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. Wynar 8902. Brownell (b. 1887) went to work for the 76 outfit when he was eleven years old. He was a top rodeo rider for many years, and one of his string, “Tipperary,” went down in history as one of the hardest buckers of the rodeo game. Brownell worked until the age of seventy-three as a brand inspector for the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association and other agencies. Introduction by Fog Horn Clancy. $35.00

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677. BROWNLOW, Kevin. The War, the West, and the Wilderness. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. xvi [2] 602 [2] pp., numerous photographic illustrations. Large 8vo, original black cloth. Fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. History of “the Great Silent Movie Makers Who First Ventured out of the Studios into Dangerous and Distant Places to Record History on Film,” with fascinating material on the Westerns of the early 1900s and their authenticity. Fabulous documentary photographs. $100.00

678. BRUCE, Isabella M. The History of the Aberdeenshire Shorthorn. Aberdeen, [Scotland]: “Aberdeen Press and Journal” Office [for] Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, 1923. [3] xii, 655 pp., frontispiece portraits, plates (mostly photographic), text illustrations (photographic portraits). 8vo, original plum buckram. Binding lightly stained and worn, a bit shelf- slanted, lower hinge cracked, endpapers browned. Rare in commerce. RLIN lists 4 locations, OCLC lists 18 (4 of them in Great Britain), and UT’s copy is at the Ransom Center. First edition. Herd 349. Although little is known about the early origin of the cattle that later became known as the Aberdeen-Angus breed, it is thought that the improvement of the original stock found in Scotland began in the last half of the eighteenth century. Scotsman George Grant transported four Angus bulls from Scotland to the middle of the Kansas prairie in 1873 as part of his dream to found a colony of wealthy, stock-raising Britishers in America. Grant died five years later, and many of the settlers at his Victoria, Kansas, colony later returned to their homeland. However, these four Angus bulls made an enduring impression on the U.S. cattle industry. When two of the George Grant bulls were exhibited in the fall of 1873 at the Kansas City (Missouri) Livestock Exposition, some considered them “freaks” because of their polled (naturally hornless) heads and solid black color (Shorthorns were then the dominant breed.) Grant, a forward thinker, crossed the bulls with native Texas longhorn cows and produced a large number of hornless black calves that wintered better and weighed more the next spring, the first demonstration of the breed’s value in their new homeland. This Aberdeen-Angus-longhorn hybrid resulted in further crosses that created some of the West’s favorite cattle. The author wrote only one other book, A Century of Aberdeenshire Agriculture (1908). $250.00

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679. BRUCE, Robert. The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts: Narratives and Reminiscences of Military Service on the Old Frontier [wrapper title]. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1932. 72 pp., numerous text illustrations (mostly photographic), facsimiles, maps (one double-page). 4to, original stiff tan pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “The military careers of Frank and Luther North, who organized and commanded the Pawnee Scouts Battalion, and based on correspondence with Captain Luther North 1929-32. Contains photographs, correspondence, maps, detailed accounts of the Massacre Canyon Fight of 1873, the Plum Creek Fight of 1867, the Dull Knife Fight and others. Included is a photo of Red Cloud, dated October, 1876, after he had been taken prisoner, plus pictures of many other chiefs and scouts.” The book includes a short section of observations of Buffalo Bill in the 1883 Wild West Show (“Target Shooting in 1873 Riding an ‘Outlaw’ Horse...Some Observations of W. F. Cody in the early Wild West Show”). $60.00

680. BRUFF, J. Goldsborough. Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings, and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, Captain, Washington City and California Mining Association, April 2, 1849-July 20, 1851. Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines, with a Foreword by F. W. Hodge. Volume 1: Washington City to Bruff’s Camp. [and] ...Volume 2: Bruff’s Camp to Washington City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. lxxxviii, 630 + viii [631]-1404 pp., frontispieces, numerous plates (3 folding), text illustrations, facsimiles, maps. 2 vols., 8vo, original half black cloth over grey boards. Very fine set. Publisher’s box not present. First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 36: “Death Valley material of primary importance.” Howell 50, California 1473: “An extraordinary Gold Rush document—one of the most comprehensive and informative sources extant, not only for life in the mines, but also for its vivid and detailed narrative of the overland crossing. Lavishly illustrated with Bruff’s own drawings and sketches.” Howes R91. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 93: “Bruff went to California with the intention of writing an overland guidebook. West Point trained, he was the draftsman of the U.S. Bureau of Topographical Engineers.... In Nevada, the company elected to follow the Lassen Trail.... While recording what he saw in his journal in eloquent detail, Bruff also produced a series of sketches, diagrams, and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) maps unequaled in overland travel.” Libros Californianos, p. 75. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 377. Mintz, The Trail 64. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 25. Of course, the emphasis of this classic work is the Gold Rush, but there are passing references to cattle and ranches. We include the book in this catalogue primarily because of Bruff’s account of his visits to Lassen’s Ranch, which he also documents in one of his wonderful illustrations (opposite p. 780). Lassen (born Copenhagen 1800, died north of Pyramid Lake 1859) came to the U.S. in 1831 and went overland with the American Fur Trade Company to Idaho and Oregon in 1839. In 1840 Lassen sailed to Fort Ross and other California settlements, working for Sutter until 1844, when he received the 26,000-acre Rancho Bosquejo land grant on Deer Creek in Tehama. With hundreds of Native Americans, Lassen built and worked his ranch, which became a headquarters for Anglo travelers (Thrapp II, pp. 817-18). Lassen and Bruff (who was also a surveyor) laid out Benton City, an event described in the present work. $250.00

681. BRUNSON, B. R. The Texas Land and Development Company: A Panhandle Promotion, 1912-1956. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, [1970]. xi [5] 248 pp., photographic plates, extensive tables, maps, plans. 8vo, original dark green cloth. Fore-edges and endsheets foxed, otherwise fine in moderately abraded d.j. First edition. The M. K. Brown Range Life Series 9. The Texas Land and Development Company broke up ranch holdings into tracts for sale to farmers. In the Plainview enterprise, it promoted relatively high-priced lands and tried to sell fully developed, irrigated farms. Brunson’s scholarly study traces the history of the company from its inception in 1912 to its final dissolution in January 1956. $25.00

682. BRYANT, Edwin. What I Saw in California.... Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967. xiv, 480 [2] [8, index] pp., plates, folding map. 8vo, original pale green cloth. Very fine in plain white d.j. Limited edition (1,500 copies); facsimile of the 1849 Appleton edition, with added illustrations, index, and introduction by Richard H. Dillon. Cowan, p. 81n. Flake 947n. Graff 458n. Howes B903n. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 95n. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 165n. Mintz, The Trail 65n. Plains & Rockies IV:146n: “One of the most detailed and reliable of all the overland journals.... Of further interest because of its description of the life and times of American California before the discovery of gold. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

It is one of the classics of California.” Rittenhouse 82n. Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush 26. Zamorano 80 #12n. Descriptions of ranches of Marsh and Livermore, vaqueros, saddles, spurs, horsemanship, skill with the riata, hide and tallow trade, declining numbers of livestock with secularization of missions, etc. “The principal product of the country has been its cattle and horses. The cattle are, I think, the largest and finest I ever saw, and the beef is more delicious. There are immense herds of these...” (p. 449). $40.00

683. BRYSON, J. Gordon. Shin Oak Ridge by J. Gordon Bryson or Pete Shady. [Bastrop]: Firm Foundation Publishing House [for J. Gordon Bryson], 1964. x [2] 313 pp., photographic plates, text illustrations, map. 8vo, original blue cloth. Fine in worn and soiled d.j. with several large chips and tears. Signed by the author. First edition. Shin Oak Ridge lies in Central Texas along the boundary between Burnet and Williamson Counties. Interesting account of how the Snyder brothers had a contract to furnish beef to the Confederate Army, who were undersupplied in Vicksburg. After Lee’s surrender they feared the Yankees would confiscate any animals with Confederate brands, so they began converting the animals to the Snyder brand, eventually making a mint selling the herd near Brownsville. Tom Snyder became a large cattle driver, hiring hundreds of men annually to drive vast herds from Texas to Wyoming and Montana. Also an account of Dave Harrell, the first Shorthorn breeder in Texas. $35.00

684. BRYSON, John. The Cowboy. Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1951. 78 [2] pp., consisting almost entirely of photographic illustrations by Leonard McCombe, a few text illustrations and maps. 4to, original wrappers with photographic illustrations. Small stain on upper wrapper, staples rusty, otherwise fine. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 20), (Remington 441); Western High Spots, p. 59 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #117): “Has many good photos made on the Matador Ranch, a giant Texas spread.” Herd 351. Photo-documentary by an Englishman about C. H. Long, range boss of the JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle. $75.00

685. BUCK, Franklin A. A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush: The Letters of Franklin A. Buck. Compiled by Katherine A. White. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Company & Riverside Press, 1930. viii [2] 294 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine. First edition. Cowan, p. 81. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 36. Flake 961c. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 96: “These outstanding letters range in date from November 24, 1846, to January 22, 1881.” Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 27. In June of 1873, Buck writes of securing a 30-square-mile parcel which will “easily keep 2000 cattle. We have over 500 now and you have to ride some time and hunt to find them.... They look fat and sleek. The grass is now a foot high” (p. 244). In January of 1874 he reports: “In the spring I shall either go to mining or go over to Utah and buy cattle” (p. 246). In September 1877 he concludes that “the market here is very limited and cattle are very cheap. My fine stock that I have taken such pains to raise, won’t bring any higher price than common stock” (p. 265). $45.00

686. BUCKELEW, F. M. Life of F. M. Buckelew: The Indian Captive, As Related by Himself. Written by T. S. Dennis and Mrs. T. S. Dennis. Bandera: Hunter, [1925]. 192 pp., frontispiece (photograph of Buckelew in faux Apache garb). 12mo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Good to very good copy—fragile wraps worn and stained, staples rusted, first few leaves dog-eared. Scarce. Second edition, revised and enlarged (first edition, Mason, 1911; only about 50 copies printed). Dobie, p. 32. Howes B108. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “Relates the capture of 14-year-old Buckelew by Lipan Apache.... He was taken to San Carlos near San Vicente in the Big Bend, and held captive for about a year until he managed to escape. Aided by a friendly rancher, he was taken to Fort Clark where curious officers, their wives, and soldiers viewed him as a curiosity. At age 73 Buckelew permitted his daughter, Mrs. T. S. Dennis, to reprint the story of his captivity by Indians, expanding on some details not included by S. E. Banta in the 1911 edition. Includes much history of Bandera County and its environs.... Very scarce.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2266. Vaughan, Narratives of North American Indian Captivity 65. Buckelew was living and working on the Davenport Ranch on the Sabinal River near present Utopia when he was captured and adopted in March 1866. Buckelew relates how ranchers could always tell when the Apache or Kickapoo were in the vicinity of their ranches because “the restlessness of cattle always warned the early settlers of the approach of Indians. They would come in droves to the ranch houses and lay around all day and at night there would be a marked increase in the number Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) that usually bedded near the house. Often the scent of Indians would cause them to stampede” (pp. 17-18). Buckelew’s book is filled with valuable, detailed firsthand observations of the Lipan Apache—their methods of riding broncos, hunting buffalo, rustling horses, raids, domestic life and rituals, diet, rattlesnake cure, method of butchering beef, encounters with Kickapoo, dances, gambling, marriage ceremony, etc. A. C. Greene related some interesting book lore related to the photograph of Buckelew in this book. Greene Library: “After [Herman Lehmann’s] The Last Captive was offered by a Texas Book club, Bill [Wittliff] and I got a letter from an elderly woman who said: ‘That man on the cover of the book is not Herman Lehmann; it is Henry Buckelew. I know because I made that little Indian costume he is wearing.’ Bill quickly redesigned the book with a guaranteed picture of Hermann Lehmann on the jacket. However, Herman’s left foot was Henry Buckelew’s, because in the original photograph, Herman’s foot is obscured, so Bill just quickly adapted Henry’s.” $300.00

687. BUCKHORN CURIO STORE. Untitled accordion-fold brochure in colored wrappers with flap: [recto]: Famous Buckhorn Curio Store “Museum”.... [verso]: Texas Longhorn Steer Horns over 8 Feet Tip to Tip Old Tex. Chicago: Curt Teich & Co., n.d. (after 1922). Accordion-fold brochure with 9 color images on each side, length measures 73 cm. Very fine. Promotional ephemera including illustrations of Old Tex, a longhorn said to have the largest steer horns in the world. On the inside of the wraps is a blurb about the Buckhorn Curio Museum along with two poems (“Hell in Texas” and “Texas a Paradise”). Handbook of Texas Online: Buckhorn Saloon: “Albert Friedrich of San Antonio began his exotic horn collection in 1881, three years before the founding of the Lone Star Brewery, which has housed the Buckhorn Saloon since 1957.... As a result of prohibition, in 1922 Friedrich moved his business to 400 West Houston Street, where it was first known as Albert’s Curio Store and subsequently as the Buckhorn Curio Store and Cafe.” $30.00

688. BUEL, J. W. The True Story of “Wild Bill Hickok.” New York: Atomic Books, Inc., [1946]. 96 pp. 12mo, original stiff black pictorial wrappers. Paper with uniform light browning, otherwise very fine, the wraps surprisingly well- preserved. First edition. Guns 317: “More or less a reprint of the Life of Wild Bill [Guns 316].” Wild Bill chased his Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) share of rustlers, and served as sheriff of Topeka during the rowdy trail-driving days. $50.00

689. BUFFUM, E[dward] Gould. Six Months in the Gold Mines, from a Journal of Three Years’ Residence in Upper and Lower California 1847-8-9. [Los Angeles]: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1959. xxiii [1] 145 pp. 8vo, original half black cloth over black and yellow checkered boards. Very fine, in original acetate d.j. Reprint (first edition Philadelphia, 1850). Barrett, Baja California 389. Cowan, p. 83n. Graff 472n. Howes B943n. Jones 1229n. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 97d: “Observing the Gold Rush from its beginnings, he recounted every facet of life including the tremendous non-mining potential of California and the formation of government.” LC, California 198n. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 28n. Mostly on mining, but there are a few topics of ranching interest: Sutter’s livestock, abandonment of ranches when gold fever hit, “miner’s prices” for many items (including beef), observations on Spanish ranching and horsemanship in the section on Santa Barbara, etc. $35.00

690. BUFFUM, Edward Gould. From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush: Memoirs of James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum Who Grew Up with California. Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Chicago: The Lakeside Press & R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1993. lviii, 389 pp., maps, illustrations. 16mo, original black cloth. Very fine. Another edition of preceding. $15.00

691. BUFFUM, George T[ower]. Smith of Bear City and Other Frontier Sketches. New York: [Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston, for] Grafton Press, 1906. xii [2] 248 [1] pp., 6 photogravures from drawings by Franklin T. Wood. 8vo, original black decorative cloth stamped in brown and gilt, t.e.g. Top corner bumped, front hinge cracked, otherwise fine and bright, with tissue guards protecting the etchings. “Compliments of the author” written in pen on front free endpaper. Beneath is a gift inscription in pencil dated Christmas 1907. First edition. Guns 320: “Highly fictitious, but Buffum’s reminiscences of early days in New Mexico, frontier hotels, the Deadwood Stage, etc. are highly entertaining, too. Scarce.” Fine press Western fiction with photogravures is a combination seldom encountered. Buffum (1846-1926), New Hampshire merchant and author, also wrote On Two Frontiers (1918). Eminent American printer and type Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) historian Daniel Berkeley Updike at his Merrymount Press “achieved a reputation for the extraordinary care taken over details; it was said that every sheet printed was examined by one of the two partners before being delivered to the customer” (Glaister, Encyclopedia of the Book, p. 496). Painter-etcher Wood (1887-1945) was born in Massachusetts and studied at Cowles Art School, the Art Students League of New York, and abroad. Subjects and elements of the stories include Idaho mining, gunfighters, Clay Allison, Soapy Smith, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, “The Cook from Texas: An Experience of Frank R. Culbertson, Superintendent of the Tiger Mine,” Mother Jurgenson of the Black Hills (“The Queen of the Bull-Whackers”), etc. Several of the stories relate to cowboys and ranching, including “Annie” (set in California, relating a violent encounter between miners and a gang of unruly cattle rustlers) and “The Story of ‘Lost Charlie Kean’” about a faithful horse who leads a rancher’s lost son home. $125.00

692. BUFFUM, George T[ower]. Smith of Bear City and Other Frontier Sketches. New York: Grafton Press, 1906. Another copy. Corners slightly bumped, light cover wear. Author’s presentation copy, with “Frank E. Curly from the Author” in pencil on front free endpaper. $115.00

693. BUFFUM, George T[ower]. Smith of Bear City and Other Frontier Sketches. New York: Grafton Press, 1906. Another copy. Corners slightly bumped, otherwise very fine in a bright binding. $75.00

694. BUGBEE, H. D. (artist). Branding with Pen and Ink [wrapper title]. N.p.: [Diamond Shamrock and The Panhandle- Plains Historical Museum, 1980]. [4] pp., illustrations by H. D. Bugbee. Large oblong 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First issue. Christmas keepsake. “As a youngster, Bugbee was captivated by the old West, particularly the exploits of his uncle, T. S. Bugbee, a pioneer Panhandle ranchman.... Through books and an occasional visit to the Bugbee ranch, he developed a love for the range that he never lost” (inside front wrapper). Full-page illustration of a cowboy on a bucking bronco, and vignette of longhorns and herder. $20.00

695. BUGBEE, H. D. (artist). Season’s Greetings [Four black-and-white prints of pen-and-ink sketches by Bugbee]. N.p.: Diamond Shamrock Oil and Gas Company, 1969. Four Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) prints in a dual-fold olive printed wrapper and an outer printed partial wrapper embossed with the company logo and signed. Each print measures 20.2 x 25.5 cm. Very fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. Christmas keepsake for 1969. “Had the plains of Bethlehem been cattle country, the angels would have favored the cowboys with their chorus” (from wrapper). Subject of the drawings are a remuda, herding longhorns, and two of herders on the range. $40.00

696. BUGBEE, H. D. (artist). Four Christmas cards illustrated by Bugbee, one with color illustration on the front. Very fine. One of the cards is for Clarendon Press (larger, with color illustration), in original mailing envelope (to Dudley R. Dobie). The remaining three are for the Dudley R. Dobie family: one copy of a card with a single Bugbee illustration of cowboys gathered around a campfire at night; two copies of a card with three Bugbee illustrations, both in original envelopes. $20.00

697. BUGBEE, H. D. (artist). Two negatives and one proof of a Bugbee illustration with the number “23” in lower right corner. N.p., n.d. Negatives: 22.5 x 23.1 cm. Proof: 17.2 x 15.5 cm. Fine. All the images are identical, a cowboy in chaps seated on the ground with two horses behind. $10.00

698. BUNTON, Mary Taylor. A Bride on the Old Chisholm Trail in 1886. San Antonio: Naylor, 1939. ix [1] 77 pp., 2 photographic portraits (including frontispiece), text illustrations. 12mo, original green pictorial cloth. Binding lightly faded, light foxing adjacent to plates (including title), otherwise fine. With author’s presentation inscription: “Autographed for Mrs. W. E. Armstrong by Mary Taylor Bunton Author of A Bride on the Old Chisholm Trail in 1886. Please accept this little volume with my compliments and as a slight token of my appreciation of the many long years of our friendship and the courtesies you have so graciously extend[ed] to me. Wishing you a Happy Christmas and Health and Prosperity in the New Year. First Edition. December 1939.” Related ephemera laid in. First edition, limited edition (200 copies). Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 80 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “Refutes the contention that women didn’t go up the trail.” Herd 354. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 14: “An excellent account of the author’s Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) experiences on a cattle drive to Coolidge, Kansas [from Sweetwater, Texas].” The author comments: “I happen to be one of the very few women who rode the old trail, and the only woman living today to tell the story publicly and give not only the facts but a woman’s viewpoint of the trail generally as it existed at that time.... I was the first woman to ride astride in our part of the state, and you may be sure that it caused quite a stampede among the cowboys.” $150.00

699. BUNTON, Mary Taylor. A Bride on the Old Chisholm Trail in 1886. San Antonio: Naylor, 1939. Another copy. Fore-edges foxed, otherwise very fine in foxed d.j. $65.00

700. BURDETT, Charles. Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide: Comprising Wild and Romantic Exploits As a Hunter and Trapper in the Rocky Mountains; Thrilling Adventures and Hairbreadth Escapes among the Indians and Mexicans...with an Account of the Various Government Expeditions to the Far West.... Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1868 or after]. 382 pp., frontispiece portrait, engraved plates. 12mo, original olive green gilt- pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, hinges cracked, text browned. Later edition, with the added information on Carson’s death. Cowan, p. 84n. Paher, Nevada 235n. Saunders 2782 (Philadelphia, 1869 edition). Plains & Rockies IV:353:3n: “Largely a compilation of stories and legends. Parts are taken from Frémont and DeWitt Peters.” Smith 1264n. Wallace, Arizona History IV:7n. Wynar 269n. Observations on stockraising at Mission San Gabriel, several episodes involving ranches, many accounts of rustling both by and from Native Americans, account of Carson’s 1853 overland drive of an immense flock of sheep to California, buffalo, wild horses, etc. $50.00

701. BURDETT, Charles. Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide.... Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1865]. Another copy, variant binding. 4to, original terracotta pictorial cloth gilt. Upper cover stained, moderate shelf wear, a few stains to blank margins of first few leaves (affecting frontispiece and title). $40.00

702. BURDICK, Usher L. Jim Johnson, Pioneer: A Brief History of the Mouse River Loop Country. [Williston, North Dakota: Privately printed, 1941]. 32 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. Scarce. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition (300 copies, this one not numbered). Guns 324. Herd 359. Thrilled by dime novels about Buffalo Bill and his ilk, Johnson traveled West and settled in Dakota Territory in June 1874. Lengthy account of Granville Stuart’s cowboy thugs, the Montana Vigilantes, who claimed to have been sent out by the Montana Stock Association. $100.00

703. BURDICK, Usher L. Life and Exploits of John Goodall. Watford City, North Dakota: McKenzie County Farmer, 1931. 29 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly soiled and a few pages creased, otherwise fine. First edition. Graff 478: “Goodall was associated with the Marquis de Mores for a number of years in charge of his cattle and cattle ranches.” Guns 325: “Contains some information on the Montana vigilantes organized by Granville Stuart to rid the country of horse thieves.” Herd 360: “John Goodall was Teddy Roosevelt’s Ranch foreman.” $75.00

704. BURDICK, Usher L. Marquis deMores at War in the Bad Lands. Fargo, 1930. 27 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original yellow printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly soiled and abraded, minor foxing to blank margins, overall very good, unopened. Second edition (first issued in 1929). Herd 361. Account of the brief and contentious years the French Marquis spent in the Dakota badlands: conflicts with the old-time stockmen arising from his fencing of the open range; his trial for murder; and eventual failure of his packing plant at Medora (named after his wife). $15.00

705. BURDICK, Usher L. Tales from Buffalo Land: The Story of Fort Buford. Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, 1940. 215 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic), foldout facsimile. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine and bright. First edition. Dustin 322. Graff 479: “Contains information about Scout Allison and Sitting Bull.” Guns 327: “Although this book has practically the same title as the preceding one [Guns 326], it is an entirely different item. It has some information on horse thieves and the Montana vigilantes, as do the author’s other books.” Herd 365. $150.00

706. BURDICK, Usher L. & Eugene D. Hart. Jacob Horner and the Indian Campaigns of 1876 and 1877 (the Sioux and Nez Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Perce). Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, 1942. 30 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic text illustrations, map. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. Only a brief mention of cattle, but it is interesting. Horner saw buffalo by the millions in Montana in 1877. When they would stampede they were oblivious to their surroundings and desperate efforts were required to move horses, mules, and beef cattle out of the path of the stampede. Livestock caught up in the stampedes were seldom found again. $60.00

707. BURKE, John. Buffalo Bill, the Noblest Whiteskin. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1973]. 320 pp., plates. 8vo, original black cloth. Paper flaw on title, wherein title and second leaf are still attached at lower corner. Very fine in slightly rubbed d.j. with one short tear. First edition. Biography of the King of the Wild West Shows. $25.00

708. BURKLEY, Frank J. The Faded Frontier. Omaha: Burkley Envelope & Printing Co., 1935. 436 [6, index] pp., photographic text illustrations, maps. 8vo, original burgundy cloth. Slight shelf wear, generally fine. Bookplate. First edition. Graff 489: “Burkley was one of the pioneers of Omaha...many fascinating details.” Herd 368: “A chapter on ‘Cattle of the Plains.’” Howes B989. $150.00

709. BURLESON, Adele Steiner. Toughey: Childhood Adventures on a Texas Ranch. Austin: Steck, [1950]. 119 pp., text illustrations (some in color) by Elizabeth Rice. Large 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fine in moderately worn d.j. with a few small chips and tears. First edition. Campbell, p. 205: “A mother and three girls spend a summer on a ranch in Texas. Cow ponies and coon hunts, lots of fun.... Based on real experiences.” Children’s book. $35.00

710. BURNAP, Willard A. What Happened during One Man’s Lifetime, 1840-1920.... Fergus Falls, Minnesota: Burnap Estate, 1923. 461 pp., many photographic text illustrations, maps. 12mo, original brown cloth. Slight wear to corners, paper lightly age-toned, otherwise very fine. First edition. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 62. Flake 1019a. Rittenhouse 93: “Burnap spent part of his youth in the Southwest and describes a trip over the SFT in 1860 from Santa Fe to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Bent’s New Fort (pp. 11-64).” Largely devoted to intelligent and sympathetic observations of Native Americans and in regard to slavery, with a discussion of westward expansion. There are scattered topics of ranching interest: excellence of buffalo grass as forage, cattle poisoned by alkali, cowboy attire, buffalo, and Buffalo Bill. Colorful episode in which a herd stampeded at night and the author, naked on horseback, had to run down and calm the herd. $125.00

711. BURNETT, Peter H. Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer by...the First Governor of the State of California. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. xiii [1] 448 [6, ads] pp. 12mo, original brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. Some shelf wear and upper cover discolored, hinges cracked, very faint stain to blank margins of last 75 leaves. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. First edition. Cowan, p. 86. Flake 1020. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 65. Graff 496. Howell 50, California 337. Howes B1000. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 99. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 76. Mintz, The Trail 66: “Burnett traveled in the same company as Applegate, Lenox, and Whitman. He tells of the trip over the plains in 1843 and of his early days in Oregon and California.” Rocq 8471. Smith 1282. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 29. Zamorano 80 #13: “This volume is important since it is the reminiscences of the first governor of California, but even more since it is the record of an early Oregonian who forsook the territory to which he had emigrated from Missouri and joined the gold rush to California in 1848.” Material on Jesse Applegate and his cattle enterprise (“cattle then were then the most valuable property in Oregon” p. 233); mention of the Hudson’s Bay Company herds; ranches of Lassen and Sutter; frequent theft by new settlers of livestock belonging to old California families; and general observations on natural resources, agriculture, native grasses, and stockraising; etc. $275.00

712. BURNHAM, Frederick Russell. Scouting on Two Continents. Elicited and Arranged by Mary Nixon Everett. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. xxii [2] 370 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic, many portraits), maps, facsimile. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine. First edition. Dobie, p. 85: “A brave book of enthralling interest.” Graff 498: “The first seven chapters Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) relate adventures in the United States, particularly the Southwest.” Guns 333. Herd 373. As a young man the author “made a small stake by driving a bunch of wild Texas ponies up to Missouri and selling them, and for a time thereafter revelled in spurs, sombreros, all the picturesque equipment and life of a cowpuncher” (p. 21). Chapter on “The Tonto Basin Feud,” sparked by a rustling incident, as well as a chapter on “Cattle Lifting near Brakpan” discussing frequent Kafir stock stealing during the Boer War. Of Burnham, H. Rider Haggard said: “Burnham in real life is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance.” $40.00

713. BURNHAM, Frederick Russell. Scouting on Two Continents.... Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. xxii [2] 370 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic, many portraits), maps, facsimile. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Pencil ownership inscription on front flyleaf, small pencil notation on title, otherwise very fine. Reprint of preceding. $15.00

714. BURNS, Annalee Wentworth. All around the Canyon. [Uvalde: Uvalde Leader-News & Harry Hornby], 1968. 98 pp., photographic text illustrations, foldout map. 8vo, original beige wrappers with photographic illustrations. Wrappers slightly worn, generally fine, signed by author. First edition (much of the material previously appeared in the author’s column in the Uvalde Leader-News and other articles, but some of the material is here published for the first time). Short accounts of people and ranching around Utopia, Texas and the Sabinal Canyon of Bandera and Uvalde Counties—rodeo, trail drives, and much detailed local and social history. $50.00

715. BURNS, John. Summers at Lambshead. N.p.: Privately printed, 1977. 48 pp., many photographic illustrations (mostly portraits), large foldout genealogical table. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. Very fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Delightful reminiscences from the early 1900s about the historic West Texas cattle ranch owned the Matthews-Reynolds family. Lambshead is located on the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Northwest Texas. $25.00

716. BURNS, Mamie Sypert. This I Can Leave You: A Woman’s Days on the Pitchfork Ranch. Foreword by David Murrah. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, [1986]. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) xxviii, 281 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original maize cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Mamie and her husband D arrived on the immense Pitchfork Ranch in north Texas in 1942 and resided there for 23 years. Considerable social history in addition to day-to-day details of ranch operations. Includes “Last Rites for D Burns” by Curry Holden. $35.00

717. BURNS, Robert Homer, Andrew Springs Gillespie, & Willing Gay Richardson. Wyoming’s Pioneer Ranches.... Laramie: Top-of-the-World Press, 1955. vii [1] 752 pp., numerous photographic text illustrations, brands. 8vo, original red cloth, spine gilt. Very fine, signed by authors Burns and Gillespie. Scarce. First edition, limited edition (#64 of 1,000 copies, signed by Burns and Gillespie). Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 12. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #63. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 80 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “A big handsome encyclopedic volume on ranches of the Laramie Plain.” Guns 335: “Some material on Tom Horn and the Johnson County Invasion.” Herd 377. Reese, Six Score 17: “Vast compilation on early ranches of Wyoming.” $375.00

718. BURNS, Walter Noble. The Saga of Billy the Kid. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. [10] 322 pp., illustrated endpapers by Borein. 8vo, original green cloth. A few minor spots and abrasions to binding, front hinge cracked, generally very good. Bookplate of historian William MacLeod Raine along with his ink ownership inscription, annotations, and corrections. First edition. Adams, Burs I:64: “This book probably did more than any other to give the legends of the Kid a new and lasting impetus.” Campbell, p. 70. Dobie, p. 140: “Contains a deal of fictional conversation and it has no doubt contributed to the Robin-Hoodizing of the lethal character baptized as William H. Bonney.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #31 (giving a publication date of 1932): “This has proved to be the most popular of all narratives of Western outlaws.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Borein 41); Kid 107. Graff 501. Guns 337. Rader 547. Saunders 2786. $75.00

719. BURNS, Walter Noble. The Saga of Billy the Kid. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Another copy. Front hinge cracked, otherwise fine. $45.00

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720. BURNS, Walter N[oble]. The Saga of Billy the Kid. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [10] 322 [4, ads] pp., frontispiece. 12mo, original tan cloth. Edge of lower cover bumped, front hinge cracked, otherwise very good. Reprint. $15.00

721. BURNS, Walter Noble. The Saga of Billy the Kid. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., n.d. [10] 322 pp., illustrated endpapers by Borein. 8vo, original brown cloth. Covers rubbed and with a few small stains, several pages browned from newspaper clippings, overall very good. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate, related postcards laid in, and inscribed “Feb. 8, 1933. To Carl with love from Vivian.” Reprint. $15.00

722. BURNS, Walter Noble. The Saga of Billy the Kid. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., n.d. Another copy. Poor condition: Binding worn, abraded, and discolored, front hinge cracked, text browned. Artist Bill Arnold’s copy, with his signature and occasional pencil notations, such as the fact that at that time William S. Hart owned one of The Kid’s six-shooters and that he had handled it. Arnold also pasted in a number of related photographs (mainly portraits). $20.00

723. BURNS, Walter Noble. Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. ix [3] 388 pp. 8vo, original olive green cloth. Light creasing to a few pages, but overall very fine and bright. First edition. Adams, Burs I:65. Dobie, p. 140. Guns 338: “Like the author’s Saga of Billy the Kid, this book is written more as entertaining fiction than as historical fact. The author makes the turbulent old town of Tombstone live vividly, but again I wonder who recorded all of the conversations. He is very much in favor of the Earps and paints them in glowing colors as men who could do no wrong. The truth is somewhat less extravagant.” Rader 548. Wallace, Arizona History XV:33. Chapter on John Slaughter (“The Honeymoon Cattle Drive”) credits him with establishing law in the Tombstone country and tells of his 1879 trail drive across the Llano Estacado to Tombstone, with a detour to Tularosa where Slaughter married Viola Howell; she and her parents joined the drive. $40.00

724. BURNS, Walter Noble. Tombstone.... Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, n.d. ix [7] 388 [1] Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) pp., illustrations and illustrated endpapers by Will James. 8vo, original orange cloth. Fore-edges somewhat foxed, otherwise very fine in somewhat foxed d.j. with moderate chipping along upper edge. Second edition, with illustrations added. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Dufault [James] 46). $25.00

725. BURROUGHS, John Rolfe. Guardian of the Grasslands: The First Hundred Years of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Cheyenne: Pioneer Printing & Stationery Co., 1971. viii, 430 pp., color photographic frontispiece, numerous photographic text illustrations and facsimiles. 4to, original green cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Adams, One-Fifty 22: “This huge book, the history of the Wyoming Stockgrowers’ Association, covers a century of its activities and its struggles. There is an account of the Johnson County War of 1892 and the author is naturally in sympathy with the cattlemen. There is much material on cattle rustling, the Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws such as the Wild Bunch and an account of Tom Horn and his execution.” $150.00

726. BURROUGHS, John Rolfe. Steamboat in the Rockies. [Fort Collins]: Old Army Press, [1974]. 208 pp., text illustrations by Dale Crawford. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. with slight edge wear. Signed by author. First edition. Wynar 1377. In addition to occasional background information on ranching, there is a discussion of how removal of the Yamptikas allowed cattlemen to bring large herds into the superb ranges of northwestern Colorado $25.00

727. BURROUGHS, John Rolfe. Where the Old West Stayed Young: The Remarkable History of Brown’s Park...with an Account of the Rise and Fall of the Range-Cattle Business in Northwestern Colorado and Southwestern Wyoming, and Much about Cattle Barons, Sheep and Sheepmen, Forest Rangers, Range Wars, Long Riders, Paid Killers, and Other Bad Men. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. viii, 376 pp., color frontispiece photograph, numerous photographic text illustrations, maps, brands, facsimiles. 4to, original beige cloth over green pictorial boards. Ink ownership inscription on half-title, otherwise fine in d.j. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 61 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #133). Guns 340. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 14: “Includes an Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) account of Ann Bassett, accused rustler, of Brown’s Park in Colorado.” Wynar 6396. $75.00

728. BURROUGHS, John Rolfe. Where the Old West Stayed Young.... New York: Bonanza Books, [1962]. viii, 376 pp., color frontispiece photograph, numerous photographic text illustrations, maps, brands, facsimiles. 4to, original half tan cloth over tan pictorial boards. Very fine in d.j. Reprint. $35.00

729. BURROWS, Rufus & Cyrus Hull. A Long Road to Stony Creek, Being the Narratives...of Their Eventful Lives in the Wilderness West of 1848-1858. Introduction and Annotations by Richard Dillon. Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1971. [1] 70 [2] pp., text illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original beige buckram. Very fine in plain white d.j. Limited edition (#66 of 650 copies). Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 102. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 294. Mintz, The Trail 67: “A nice printing of these two short, but dramatic, overland narratives.” Burrows hired on as a herder with Tanner at Sutter’s Fort in 1848 and in the 1850s tried his hand at stockraising in the Umpqua Valley; he gives much detail on these topics in his narrative. He went on to become a successful sheep rancher in Colusa County. His father-in-law Hull also raised sheep in Colusa County and gives some account of how he was faring in that regard in 1875. $65.00

730. BURRUS, Ernest J. Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain. [Tucson]: Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society, 1965. [10] 104 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, 17 maps. Folio, original red cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (750 copies). Hill, p. 41: “[Kino’s 1705 map of California] is the earliest extant showing the Gila River, the Colorado River, and southern Arizona, on the basis of exploration. His letters, diaries, and map are indispensable sources for knowledge of the development of geographical ideas concerning California and for the early history of the region south of the Gila on both sides of the Gulf of California.” Powell, Arizona Gathering II 274: “Handsomely printed by Lawton Kennedy.” Kino, who is known as the Father of the Southwest, was very interested in cattle and ranching. He is credited with being a pioneer cattleman and for helping introduce stock and good stockraising methods. $275.00

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731. BURT, [Maxwell] Struthers. The Diary of a Dude- Wrangler. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924. viii [2] 331 pp., frontispiece (photogravure of the Tetons). 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Blank lower corner of p. 1 torn away, but overall very fine, with contemporary ink gift inscription on front flyleaf. First edition. Guns 343. Herd 380. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. The author’s uncle ranched in Arizona and California in the late 1800s, and on visits to the family in the East, he taught Burt vaquero songs and how to swing a lasso, imbuing him with a love for the West that drove him, even as a teenager, to vacation in the Rockies and beyond. He drifted about the West for a few years before settling in Wyoming, where he became involved in dude ranching. $50.00

732. BURT, [Maxwell] Struthers. Powder River: Let ’er Buck. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, [1938]. xi [1] 389 [1] [13] pp., text illustrations by Santee, map. 8vo, original red cloth. Spine and edges of covers browned, slight browning and foxing to endpapers, overall very good to fine, in the scarce in d.j. with Santee illustration (moderate wear and soiling, upper edge chipped). First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Santee 29). Guns 344: “Quite a bit of space is devoted to the Johnson County War.... This excellent writer has written one of the best books of the Rivers of America series.” Herd 381. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. Part 4, “Cattle Country,” has chapters on the great trail drives from Texas, cowboys, the open range bonanza, blizzards, cattle kings, etc.; part 5, “Next-Door Neighbors” has chapters on rustling, “Cattle Kates,” “Ladies in Pants,” etc. “Rivers and American Folk” by Constance L. Skinner constitutes the last 14 pages of the book. $75.00

733. BURTON, Harley True. A History of the J A Ranch: A Thesis, Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas.... Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1928. vii [3] 147 pp., frontispiece (photographic portrait of Goodnight), 2 plates, map. 8vo, original gilt- lettered red cloth. Binding lightly worn and with a few minor stains, spine a bit light, very small hole at lower joint, internally fine. Pencil signature of Charles Goodnight on frontispiece in shaky hand. First edition. Campbell, p. 186. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 13. CBC 77 and 5 additional entries. Dobie, p. 98. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Kid 131; Western High Spots, p. 102 (“The Texas Ranch Today”). Herd 382: “Scarce.” Howes B1030. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16. One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 71. Reese, Six Score 18: “One of the first ranch histories, and one of the rarest and most important. It is not known how many copies of this book were printed, but it was certainly no more than several hundred.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2343. J. Evetts Haley, in a review in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review for 1929 noted that the work was “already becoming rare.” The JA was Col. Charles Goodnight’s ranch, the largest in West Texas, and the foundation for the later XIT. Excellent source material on Molly Goodnight and Cornelia Adair. Cornelia was co-founder and sole owner for 40 years of the JA and established the first home in the region. $1,500.00

734. BURTON, Harley True. A History of the J A Ranch.... Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1928. Another copy. Light foxing to fore-edges and adjacent to plates. Despite the few flaws, all-in-all an excellent, tight copy, cloth unfaded. This book is difficult to find in collector’s condition. $900.00

735. BURTON, Harley True. A History of the J A Ranch.... Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1928. Another copy. Texas condition—corners bumped, binding abraded and with some insect damage, text lightly browned, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Printed label of McMurray’s Bookshop in Dallas on lower pastedown. Apparently Fred Rosenstock paid $5 for the book, which is penciled at the back. $500.00

736. BURTON, Jimalee. Indian Heritage, Indian Pride.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1974]. xvi, 176 pp., numerous illustrations (some full-page, many in color) by author. 4to, original brown cloth over beige cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Tate, Indians of Texas 1458: “Includes several Kiowa stories about the Sun Dance, how corn came to the Kiowas, the Sun Boy’s Medicine, and the captivity of Andres Martinez.” The author’s father worked on Charles Goodnight’s ranch in the Panhandle-Plains area. Scattered references to ranching, along with discussion of how reservations were located on the least desirable lands, not even suitable for grazing, making Native American self- sufficiency extremely difficult. $45.00

737. BURY, Susan & John Bury (eds.). This Is What I Remember: By and about the People of White River Country. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Meeker, Colorado: Rio Blanco County Historical Society, [1972]. 207 [4] pp., plates, photographic text illustrations, maps. Small folio, original blue and white pictorial cloth. Lower cover a bit rubbed, otherwise fine. First edition. Wynar 1360. Meeker was established in 1883 at the site of the Camp on White River (where the Meeker Massacre occurred), and cattle raising was an important industry from the early days. Firsthand accounts of 28 pioneers and short biographies of many others. Excellent social history, filled with photos, and much on women. $75.00

738. BURZLAFF, Donald F. A Soil and Vegetation Inventory and Analysis of Three Nebraska Sandhills Range Sites [wrapper title]. N.p.: University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Bulletin 206, March 1962. 32 pp., photographic text illustrations, tables, graphs, map. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Very fine. First printing. Scientific study of forage. $15.00

739. BUSBY, Mark. Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship. Denton: University of North Texas Press, [1995]. xiii [1] 344 pp. 12mo, original half burgundy cloth over marbled boards. New, as issued. First edition. Texas Writers Series. $25.00

740. BUSH, I. J. Gringo Doctor. Foreword by Eugene Cunningham. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1939. 261 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, and illustrations by James Wallis. 8vo, original copper pictorial cloth. Fore-edges moderately foxed, otherwise fine in d.j. First edition. Dobie, p. 69: “Dr. Bush represented frontier medicine and surgery on both sides of the Rio Grande. Living at El Paso, he was for a time with the Maderistas in the revolution against Díaz.” Guns 348. Herd 383. Much of the action takes place on borderlands ranches. Ranks in interest with Timothy Turner’s Bullets, Bottles, and Gardenias. $100.00

741. BUSH, I. J. Gringo Doctor.... Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1939. Another copy. Fair condition only: Binding worn and discolored, front hinge cracked, ownership inscription on dedication. Carl Hertzog bookplate. $40.00

742. BUSH, W. E. Texas & S’Western Cattle Brands. Fredericksburg: C. C. Dabney, 1936. Broadside printed on yellow paper, measuring 53.2 x 43.5 cm. Fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Over 1,100 brands are illustrated. Good exhibit item. $75.00

743. BUSHICK, Frank H. Glamorous Days. San Antonio: Naylor, 1934. [2] vi, 308 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original orange cloth. Faint discoloration to binding, mild to moderate foxing to fore-edges, endsheets, and adjacent to plates, overall very good in moderately browned d.j. with small chip on upper cover. Author’s signed inscription: “This book ought to stimulate good literature—by contrast.” First edition. Adams, Burs II:28. CBC 294. Dykes, Kid 199. Guns 349: “Touches upon many western outlaws, with chapters on King Fisher, Ben Thompson, and John Wesley Hardin.” Herd 384. History of San Antonio 1870-1900, with chapters on “Longhorns and Brush Busters,” “Trooping with Buffalo Bill,” “Going up the Trail,” and “Romance of King Fisher.” $125.00

744. BUSHICK, Frank H. Glamorous Days. San Antonio: Naylor, 1934. Another copy. Faint discoloration to binding, mild to moderate foxing to fore-edges, endsheets, and adjacent to plates. Moderately browned d.j. (spine and lower edge chipped). J. Frank Dobie’s signed note: “I knew that Frank Bushick had been a San Antonio politician for a long while, but until I read his eulogy in this book of probably the most putrid mayor any Texas city has ever had, Bryan Callaghan of San Antonio, I did not know for how very long. The book contains several good anecdotes.” $100.00

745. BUTCHER, S[olomon] D. Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska. Broken Bow, Nebraska [printed at Denver by Merchants Publishing Co.], 1901. 403 [7, ads] pp., copious photographic text illustrations (some full-page), mostly by Butcher, who was a pioneer photographer. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Binding worn and fragile, text loose with first signature starting (needs immediate attention), title with a few light stains and a small chip at top blank margin, leaves rippled due to water (but no staining visible). Rare. First edition. Guns 350: “Long chapter on the lynching of Kid Wade.” Herd 385: “Scarce.” Howes B1048. Much information and illustration on ranching, including chapters “Cattle Industry in Ranch Days,” “Hunting Buffalo on the Great Plains,” “The Killing of Two Cowboys at Anselmo,” “A Cowboy’s Story,” “Brighton Ranch,” “Tearing Down of Settler’s Houses by Cowboys,” “Tailing Up a Texas Cow,” “Hunting Wild Horses,” “Mike O’Rafferty As a Cowboy,” Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) etc. Butcher (1856-1927) took up photography in 1874 and in 1886 established a photographic gallery in Custer County, obtained a mail route, and farmed. Over the next seven years he created 1,500 documentary photographs, but most of these were destroyed in a devastating fire. Butcher resolutely recommenced his work, and with the help of rancher Ephraim S. Finch, he published this rare work. “It has articles on...the feud of Print Olive with Mitchell and Ketchum, and other primary material. Butcher did a most worthy book; it is illustrated with his photographs, many of them re-enactments of moments of early life and history of the area, since Butcher did not reach Nebraska until 1886, longer after many celebrated local events were history. Knowing this, however, does little to detract from his work. Butcher also wrote Sod Houses of the Great American Plain (1904), some of which is incorporated into the second edition of his Pioneer History” (Thrapp I, pp. 198-99). See reprint below for more on Butcher. $1,750.00

746. BUTCHER, Solomon D. Pioneer History of Custer County Nebraska, with Which Is Combined “Sod Houses of the Great American Plains.” With an Introduction by Harry E. Chrisman. Denver: Sage Books, [1965]. viii, 410 [54] pp., photographic illustrations (mostly by Butcher), endpaper maps by Chrisman. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in d.j. Second edition, facsimile of the 1901 first edition, to which is appended a facsimile of Butcher’s 1904 work on sod houses. “In the twenty years during which this portion of the Great Plains was being settled, Solomon D. Butcher pulled up his team, which drew his ‘photographic laboratory,’ and pitched his camp beside many streams and in many farm and ranch yards. There he photographed everything that came before his lens—jackrabbits, longhorn cattle, rattlesnakes, pioneer families, hired men, saddlehorses, mothers with babes in their arms, eating watermelons, log and sod buildings, cowboys, Indians, Indians’ villages and burial grounds, cattle rustlers and squaw men, pigs and piles of corn cobs. There was nothing too inconsequential for him to direct his camera upon, and there was nothing too difficult for him to attempt to capture on his glass plates for our later generations to look upon” (from editor’s introduction). $60.00

747. BYE, John O. Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short- Grass Country. [Everett, Washington, D.C.: Alexander Printing Company, 1956]. [7] ix [5] 392 pp., many plates of illustrations (mostly photographic), brands, 2 large Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) folding maps (Texas Trails Map and Short Grass Country Ranch Map) laid in. 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth. Binding lightly soiled, otherwise very fine, signed by author. First edition. Herd 388. Smith S2574. The author’s “short-grass country” takes in the area from the Missouri River to the Continental Divide, and from the southern boundary of Wyoming into southern Canada. Includes “Texas Trail Days”; origins of “Powder River, Let ’er Buck”; “Scourges of the Cattle Country” (blizzards, wolves, rustlers, tornadoes, etc.); origins of place names; horse outfits; and an incredible wealth of detail on individual ranches. Though quirky in typography and organization, the text is fascinating and the maps are excellent. $125.00

748. BYERS, Chester. Roping: Trick and Fancy Rope Spinning. With Contributions by Fred Stone, Will Rogers, and Elsie Janis. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons & Knickerbocker Press, 1928. xix [1] 105 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, many line drawings illustrating trick roping techniques. 12mo, original red pictorial cloth. Edges worn, mild to moderate foxing to fore-edges and text (especially adjacent to plates). First edition. Campbell, p. 134: “A practical manual.” Herd 389: “Scarce.” Includes a section with special advice for lady ropers written by Elsie Janis, “Lady Fancy Roper,” and a photo of Elsie “swinging the wedding ring.” $35.00

749. BYERS, William N. Encyclopedia of Biography of Colorado: History of Colorado. Vol. I [all published]. Chicago: Century Publishing & Engraving Company, 1901. xi [1] 477 pp., numerous engraved plates (many from photographs). 4to, original embossed sheep gilt, a.e.g. Joints splitting, edges and corners chafed, internally fine. First edition. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “The engraved portraits are very well executed. Only volume one was published. In addition to this work’s biographical aspects, Byers has included some interesting historical material. This includes the Indian War, 1864-65, Raid of Texas Guerillas, the Second Ute War, Frémont’s Five Expeditions, the Santa Fe Trail, the State of Jefferson, Constitutional Convention, Live Stock and Dairy, Assassination of Italians, etc.” Wilcox, p. 20. Wynar 124. A fair number of the biographies and portraits in this Colorado mug book are of individuals engaged in the livestock industry. $250.00

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750. BYNUM, Lindley (ed.). The Record Book [of the] Rancho Santa Ana del Chino. Los Angeles: Vocational Printing Classes of John C. Frémont High School, 1935. [2] 55 pp., frontispiece tipped in (facsimile of original record book in Spanish). 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, leather tie. Fragile wrappers chipped, internally fine. First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 38. Herd 390: “Scarce.” Rocq 7205. Transcription of the record book kept at the California rancho from 1849 to 1853, containing entries of goldseekers and overland travelers (many Texans) who left records of their experiences as they passed through. $75.00

Catalogue 7 (6/90) @ $75. ABE: none

751. CADY, John H. Arizona’s Yesterday: Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer. Rewritten and Revised by Basil Dillon Woon, 1915. [Los Angeles?, 1923?]. 120 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 12mo, original green gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding a bit abraded and discolored (mainly confined to lower cover), gilt on front cover slightly flecked, interior fine. Second edition, with 120 pp. (first edition, Los Angeles or Patagonia, 1915 or 1916, with 127 pp.). Eberstadt 120:30n: “Journal of a trip across the plains with the Argonauts to Arizona, with details of Indian Warfare.” Graff 535 (citing an edition with 127 pp.; copyright notice 1916; dedication notice 1915 from Patagonia; printed at Los Angeles; illustrations not listed [in the present edition, the illustrations are listed on the contents leaf]). Herd 391n (citing an edition with 127 pp. and suggesting publication at Los Angeles at the Times- Mirror Printing and Binding House in 1916). Howes C16 (noting the first edition with 127 pp. and suggesting publication at Patagonia in 1915; Howes mentions a reprint edition done at Los Angeles in 1923, but provides no collation). Jones 1731n. Author’s account of his life in early Arizona, with a chapter entitled “Sheriff, Cattleman and Farmer.” $50.00

752. CAIRNS, Mary Lyons. Grand Lake: The Pioneers. Denver: World Press, 1946. 295 pp., numerous text illustrations (mostly photographs), endpaper maps. 12mo, original red cloth. Fine in d.j. (price-clipped, lightly worn, and with old tape repair on verso). First edition. Wilcox, p. 21. Wynar 1022. Although set in ranching country, the book mostly deals with social history, mining, and even winter sports. The author drew Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) much of her information from the 1881-87 issues of the Grand Lake Prospector and the recollections and letters of old-timers like Charles L. Beck, who carried the mail from Junction Ranch to Hot Sulphur Springs to as far as Hayden in 1878 and 1879, using “snowshoes” (probably skis) in the winter. Includes some information on area ranches, such as Peck Ranch, whose owner was said to trade guns to the Utes in exchange for furs and ponies. Beck and others quoted by the author make it clear that the Ute War was inflamed by encroachment on Ute Lands by ranchers, miners, and—most of all—hunters indiscriminately slaughtering buffalo. Includes material on early resident and Western sculptor A. Phimester Proctor. $50.00

753. CAIRNS, Mary Lyons. The Olden Days, a Companion Book to “Grand Lake: The Pioneers.” Denver: World Press, 1954. 242 pp., illustrations. 12mo, original red cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Mintz, The Trail 524: “Deals mostly with Colorado.” Wynar 1023. Mentions Junction Ranch, Lehman Ranch, Never Summer Ranch, Holzwarth Ranch, Green Mountain Ranch, Cozens Ranch, and other early ranches (includes a couple of ranch-related photos). The author includes the strange tale of the mysterious death of big-footed William Redman, whose body was discovered by rancher Andy Strong and a party of cowboys who were searching for some strayed cattle. Includes an account of Mrs. Agnes B. Hatch’s 1892 hike around the Grand Lake and her bicycle trip (in bloomers!) around the lake the following year. When Agnes encountered a herd of cattle on the trail, she frightened them away by opening and closing her umbrella. The last chapter tells of the shooting of Texas Charley who was suspected of stealing cattle and loved to make the miners dance by shooting their bootstraps. $50.00

754. CAIRNS, Mary Lyons. Grand Lake in the Olden Days: A Compilation of “Grand Lake: The Pioneers,” and “The Olden Days.” Denver: World Press, 1971. 304 pp., maps, portraits, text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine. First edition thus, combining the author’s two books on Grand Lake (see items 752 & 753 above). Wynar 1021. $45.00

755. CALAMITY JANE. [BURK, Martha Jane Cannary]. Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Herself [caption title]. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1896? or slightly later?). 7 [1, blank except for ornament at center] pp. 16mo, disbound, stapled Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

(measures approximately 16.4 x 10.2 cm). Lacks wrappers, lower half of first leaf missing, top blank corner of first leaf chipped, stained at staples, worn. Early edition? The first edition, printed in 1896, is very rare. The paper in the present copy is definitely older, but the dimensions are not consistent with either the Graff copy or the Eberstadt copy, both of which had 7 pages of text plus the last leaf with ornament (as in the present copy). The text of this copy is consistent with the modern facsimile reprint (a copy of which is included with the book). Adams suggests that a reprint was done later at Livingston, Montana, but he does not date the supposed Livingston reprint, which apparently had continuing text on p. 8. Graff 484 (measures 16.5 x 10.5 cm; note indicates the Eberstadts had a copy that measured 15.9 x 10 cm, with 7 pages of text plus page with ornament, as in the Graff copy). Guns 329. Hanna, Yale Exhibit: “The records about Calamity Jane are so voluminous and contradictory that it is difficult to determine where the truth lies.... Complex and picturesque, she is one of the true ‘characters’ in Western history.” Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 115. Smith 1270. In this little autobiography, Calamity claims that she had a ranch (which also served as a roadside inn) on the Yellowstone in 1882. $300.00

756. CALAMITY JANE. [BURK, Martha Jane Cannary]. Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Herself. N.p., n.d. 7 pp. 16mo, original tan printed wrappers. Very fine. Reprint of the excessively rare edition printed around 1896. $30.00

757. [CALAMITY JANE]. Calamity Jane and Sam Bass. [Hollywood]: Universal Pictures, 1949. Full-color movie poster measuring 56.0 x 71.0 cm. Creased where formerly folded, light wear to blank margins, generally very good. Original promotional poster depicting a shootout. The movie starred Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, and Lloyd Bridges. Graham, Cowboys and Cadillacs, p. 122: “The famous Texas outlaw hooks up with the famous cowgirl.” $75.00

758. [CALIFORNIA]. BURBANK BRANCH SECURITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK. Ranchos de los Santos: The Story of Burbank. Burbank: Burbank Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, 1927. 48 pp., profusely illustrated (mostly photographic). Narrow 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers. Wrappers moderately worn and with a few minor stains, internally fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Rocq 3408. This ephemeral promotional contains good coverage and photo-documentation of the early Mexican and Anglo ranchos that became beautiful downtown Burbank. Dr. David Burbank, California pioneer and namesake of the town, acquired Burbank in 1867 and operated it as a sheep ranch (included are photos of Dr. Burbank and his ranch). Excellent photos of early ranch families and their ranches, including the Verdugos, the Goldaracenas, the Sepulvedas, Lancaster Brent, the Benjamin D. Wilsons, et al. Especially interesting is an account of the Spanish- Mexican method of surveying with a lasso. $75.00

759. [CALIFORNIA]. Northwest Coast of America and California: 1832, Letters from Fort Ross, Monterey, San Pedro, and Santa Barbara, by an Intelligent Bostonian. Los Angeles: [Saul & Lillian Marks for] Glen Dawson, 1959. [8] 19 [1] pp., decorated title. 16mo, original half green cloth over patterned paper boards, printed paper spine label. Very fine. First separate issue, limited edition (180 copies); originally published in The National Intelligencer in 1833. Early California Travel Series 48, edited by Glen Dawson. An early account of California, with mention of the missions’ cattle and hide trade. $50.00

760. [CALIFORNIA. DEATH VALLEY]. FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT OF THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Death Valley: A Guide. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, [1939]. xv [1] 75 pp., many photographic plates, folding map at rear. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Light edge wear, but overall very fine in d.j. with a few small chips, tears, and stains. First edition, later printing (without date on title). American Guide Series. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 83: “Of outstanding value are its superb photographic plates.” This excellent guide includes Furnace Creek Ranch, which had its origins in an ill-conceived endeavor to grow alfalfa in 1870. $35.00

761. CALL, Hughie. Golden Fleece. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1942]. [6] 250 pp., text illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Spine slightly darkened, mild foxing to fore-edges, else fine in the scarce d.j. (lightly worn and a few stains, price-clipped). First edition, later printing (without date on title). Dobie, pp. 62, 93, 98: “Delightful.... [Texan] Hughie married a sheepman, and after mothering the range as well Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) as children with him for a quarter of a century, concluded that Montana is still rather masculine. Especially good on domestic life and on sheepherders.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #46. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 83 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Jordan, Cowgirls, p. 287: “This is a classic among sheep-ranch wife stories.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 14. Montana 100 #67. Smith 1387. $25.00

762. CALL, Hughie. Photocopy of corrected proof sheets for The Little Kingdom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. [4] 118 [2] leaves. 4to, unbound sheets. Fine. Photocopy of publisher’s original edited manuscript. This copy is from the Dudley R. Dobie Collection and may have been sent for review to J. Frank Dobie (d. 1964). The book was published in 1964. A mother’s story about her daughter, Louise “Wezie” Call, who grew up in the early twentieth century on a Montana sheep ranch and loved animals. $45.00

763. CALL, Hughie. The Little Kingdom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. [8] 134 pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. $20.00

764. CALLISON, John J. Bill Jones of Paradise Valley Oklahoma: His Life and Adventures for over Forty Years in the Great Southwest. He Was a Pioneer in the Days of the Buffalo, the Wild Indian, the Oklahoma Boomer, the Cowboy, and the Outlaw. Kingfisher, Oklahoma: Privately printed by Author [Chicago: Printed by M. A. Donohue & Company, 1914]. 328 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine. First edition. Adams, Burs I:69; One-Fifty 25: “Very scarce.... This privately printed book was written in a humorous vein, and contains some material on the Dodge City gunmen and Billy the Kid.” Dykes, Kid 67: “Bill Jones went to work for Dave Pool, a Missouri native and an old Quantrell raider, at his ranch in Colorado.” Graff 553. Guns 365. Herd 398: “Scarce.” Howes C74a. Rader 573. This scarce biography of an Oklahoma boomer and cattleman deals extensively with ranching, trail drives, cowboys, and the often outlandish exigencies of range life in the late 1800s. $400.00

765. CALLON, Milton W. Las Vegas, New Mexico...the Town That Wouldn’t Gamble. Las Vegas: Las Vegas Daily Optic, 1962. xiv [2] 352 pp., plates. 8vo, original brown cloth. Front hinge cracked, else fine in slightly worn d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition (#53 of 1,500 copies). Guns 366: “A local history of Las Vegas in its early days with some material on Billy the Kid and his gang as well as Bob Ford and the James boys.” Mohr, The Range Country 641: “127 years of history on the Santa Fe trail.” $40.00

766. CALVERT, Charles E. United States Marshals, Territory and State, District of Colorado, 1861-1958, Research by Deputy U. S. Marshal Charles E. Calvert. N.p., [1958]. 17 leaves, typescript. 4to, stapled. Fine. First printing. Wynar 7673. Several of the marshals were also engaged in ranching. $30.00

767. CALVIN, Ross. River of the Sun: Stories of the Storied Gila. Albuquerque: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] University of New Mexico Press, 1946. xix [3] 153 pp., map, decorated initial letters and chapter headings, colored endpapers in Southwestern motif by Hertzog, photographic plates. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Inscribed and signed to Frank Gorman by Carl Hertzog. First edition. Campbell, p. 191. Farquhar, The Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 30: “Unusual insight into the character of the region, especially its vegetation. Contains a good summary of the portion of Emory’s report that relates to the Gila.” Herd 399: “Chapter VIII, ‘Thomas, the Lion, Cattle Baron,’ deals with the cattle industry.” Lowman, Printer at the Pass 35. Powell, Southwest Classics, pp. 155-56: “In format...the most attractive of Calvin’s books.” $85.00

768. CALVIN, Ross. River of the Sun.... Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1946. Another copy. Very fine in lightly worn and price-clipped d.j. $60.00

769. CALVIN, Ross. River of the Sun.... Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1946. Another copy. Slight shelf wear, otherwise very fine, without the d.j. $35.00

770. CALVIN, Ross. Sky Determines: An Interpretation of the Southwest. New York: Macmillan Company, 1934. xii [2] 354 pp., photographic plates (including frontispiece). 8vo, original grey cloth decorated in red. Spine a little dark, slight spotting to covers, otherwise fine. Dust jacket not present. First edition. Campbell, p. 103: “A masterpiece of interpretation. Not to be superseded.” Dobie, pp. 21-22. Guns 367. Herd 400. Powell, Southwest Classics, pp. 150-54: “Ecology to anthropology, history and economics through the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) long range of New Mexican culture, from its earliest appearance in the art of the Mimbres Valley potters.” Saunders 3937. “In New Mexico, whatever is both old and peculiar appears on examination to have a connection with the arid climate. Peculiarities range from the striking adaptations of the flora onward to those of fauna, and on up to those of the human animal. Sky determines” (from the introduction). This broad history of the Southwest not only includes a chapter on ranching, but also touches upon the earliest introduction of cattle, sheep, and horses to the region, as well as covering the early Mexican grazing enterprises. $35.00

771. CALVIN, Ross. Sky Determines.... [Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948]. xxii, 333 [2] pp., frontispiece photo by Calvin, illustrations by Peter Hurd. 8vo, original beige decorative cloth. Very fine in lightly chipped d.j. (price-clipped). Second edition, revised and enlarged, with new illustrations by Peter Hurd and design and d.j. by Maude Harvey and Fern Griffith. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Hurd 55). $45.00

772. CALVIN, Ross. Sky Determines.... [Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948]. Another copy. Fine in d.j. with a few small chips. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. $45.00

773. CAMP, Charles L. Desert Rats, Remembered by Charles L. Camp. [Berkeley]: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1966. [8] 55 pp., frontispiece portrait. Small 4to, original red cloth. Very fine, unopened. First printing. Series of Keepsakes 14. Designed and printed by Alfred and Lawton Kennedy. Paher, Nevada 257: “About the epithet ‘desert rat’ the author writes: ‘The title was a proud one and not lightly bestowed. Genuine burro prospectors were self-sufficient, self-reliant men; uninhibited lovers of independence and solitude.’ In this book he covers twelve ‘lesser known’ desert rats who scurried about the Nevada-California deserts.” Not in Edwards. This anecdotal history of burro prospectors mentions ranching and the transition of rangelands from cattle to sheep. $35.00

774. CAMP, Charles L. Muggins the Cow Horse. [Denver: Welch-Haffner Printing Co., 1928]. 110 [2] pp., photographic illustrations and borders of photographic sequences on almost every page. 8vo, original stiff rose Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover. Very fine. This book is difficult to find, especially in fine collector’s condition like this copy. First edition. Herd 401: “Scarce.... The story of an unusual cow horse.” McCracken, 101, p. 22: “A rare piece of Wyomingiana, this book tells the tale of Muggins, a cow horse that lived and worked in Wyoming. It also gives insight into the cattle business in Wyoming in the early years of this century and into that breed of horse known as the cow pony.” Great photos. $350.00

775. CAMP, Charles L. New Light Shed on Mr. Pegleg Smith. [San Francisco: John Howell Books], n.d. (ca. 1960). [2] 10 pp., illustrated title. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First separate printing, limited edition (200 copies); first published in Hutchings’ California Magazine 5:4 (October 1850). Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 39-40: “Authentic, definitive, impeccable account.” Paher, Nevada 258. Pegleg Smith opened a trading post on the Bear River in the 1840s, dealing primarily in horses and other stock rustled from Mexicans and Native Americans who had, in turn, rustled them from Southern California ranches. $35.00

776. CAMP, William Martin. San Francisco, Port of Gold. Garden City & New York: Doubleday & Company, 1947. xv [1] 518 pp., plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Paper lightly age-toned, else very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Rocq 8772. Most of the ranching-related material occurs in the first section on early settlement through the Gold Rush. Considerable material on early ranchers such as John Bidwell, Dr. John Marsh and his expansive Spanish land grant Rancho Los Mejanos (“four leagues of land on which he had five thousand head of cattle, five hundred horses and mares, and five thousand sheep”), and an entire chapter on Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman to arrive directly in California by way of crossing the plains (with the Bartleson party). Nancy Kelsey provided the cloth for the first “Bear Flag,” and traveled widely through early California in conjunction with her husband’s enterprises in bringing livestock to various California markets. Other members of the Kelsey family established a ranch in the Clear Lake area but were killed by Pomo Indians. $40.00

777. CAMPBELL, Rosemae Wells. From Trappers to Tourists: Fremont County, Colorado, 1830-1950. Palmer Lake, Colorado: Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Filter Press, 1972. viii, 244 pp., illustrations. Narrow 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine. Limited edition (#457 of 600 signed copies in an edition of 1,000). Wynar 955. Chapter 2, “Hamlets on the Hardscrabble,” includes much on early rancher Matt Kinkead who often drove cattle to St. Louis markets, as well as supplying emigrants on the Oregon Trail. Chapter 15, “Cotapaxi and Cattle Thieves,” discusses wild cattle, mavericks, rustling, and conflicts between settlers and ranchers. Much additional material on the open range, rustling, formation of the Fremont County Cattlegrowers Protective Association in 1897, Charles Goodnight, and ranching near Florence, Pueblo, Coaldale, etc. $45.00

778. CAMPBELL, Rosemae Wells. From Trappers to Tourists.... Palmer Lake, Colorado: Filter Press, 1972. Another copy, variant binding. 12mo, original tan cloth. Very fine. Limited edition (#498 of the limited, signed edition). $45.00

779. CAMPBELL, Walter S. The Book Lover’s Southwest: A Guide to Good Reading. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1955]. xii, 287 [2] pp. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. Signed by author with his real name and his pseudonym Stanley Vestal. First edition. Basic Texas Books B36. Herd 405. Includes sections on “Cattlemen and Cowboys,” “Horses, Cattle, Sheep,” “Institutions, Industry, Business,” and “Trails and Rivers.” Thrapp I, pp. 217-18: “B[orn] at Severy, Kansas, [Campbell’s] father, Walter Mallory Vestal died when the boy was 1 and his mother married James Robert Campbell. The family moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma, young Campbell spending his summers at Watonga, across the river from a Cheyenne camp where he grew up with Indian youngsters. He was graduated from Southwestern State Normal School at Weatherford, Oklahoma and as a Rhodes Scholar studied English language and literature at Oxford.... He is best known for his books on Plains Indians and mountain man life.” $75.00

780. CAMPBELL, Walter S. The Book Lover’s Southwest.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1955]. Another copy. Very fine in fine d.j. $60.00

781. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Fandango, Ballads of the Old West. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1927. [12] 66 pp. 12mo, original half black cloth over patterned Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) boards. Mild edge wear (especially to corners), text lightly age-toned, overall fine in slightly worn and price- clipped d.j. First edition. Campbell, p. 233. Dobie, pp. 74, 185: “A tale of the mountain men in Taos...among the most spirited ballads America has produced.” Subjects of these ballads include “Riding Song,” “Saddle Song,” Belle Starr, and Kit Carson. The d.j. has an advertisement for N. Howard Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys (“a unique collection of genuine cowboy songs, taken down for the most part from the lips of cowboy ballad-singers”). $150.00

782. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Kit Carson the Happy Warrior of the Old West.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1928. xii, 297 pp., frontispiece, endpaper maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine in d.j. with light wear and discoloration (darkened along spine). First edition. Campbell, pp. 60-61. Dobie, p. 74. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 12 (“Western Movement—Its Literature”). Malone, Wyomingana, p. 1. Paher, Nevada 262: “Eyewitness accounts from Indians, cavalrymen, and others, in conjunction with Carson’s own memoirs, provide the basis for this creditable and readable account, the premiere biography of Kit Carson.” Saunders 3212. Wallace, Arizona History IV:34. Chapter 20, “Rancher,” covers Kit’s ranching endeavors around 1850, when he partnered with Lucien Maxwell and undertook to improve the breeding of cattle, mules, and horses. Campbell states that “Kit’s attempts at ranching in New Mexico long antedated the days of the range cattle industry, for the invention of which the Texans claim all credit.” $75.00

783. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Queen of the Cowtowns, Dodge City: “The Wickedest Little City in America,” 1872-1886. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952]. viii [4] 285 pp. 12mo, original half tan cloth over brown textured cloth. Small bookdealer’s label on front pastedown, otherwise very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Adams, Burs I:393. Campbell, p. 196: “From the first camp of the buffalo hunters in 1872 to the end of the cattle trade, 1888. Much new matter. History and interpretation.” Dobie, p. 123. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 78 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “Best book in print on Kansas cow towns.” Guns 2269: “One of the best books on Dodge City. Most of its gunmen come in for some attention.” Herd 2406. $40.00

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784. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Queen of the Cowtowns, Dodge City: “The Wickedest Little City in America,” 1872-1886. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952]. viii [4] 285 pp. 12mo, original half green cloth over beige boards. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition, later printing (without “First edition” on title verso). $25.00

785. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Dodge City: Queen of the Cowtowns. [London]: Peter Nevill, [1955]. viii, 285 pp. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in moderately worn d.j. (one large tear on back and price- clipped). Ranch-theme bookplate of Mrs. Oliver F. Jordan on front pastedown. First British edition. With a different d.j. illustration. $35.00

786. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Short Grass Country. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, [1941]. x, 304 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original grey cloth. Upper fore-edge dusty and spotted, otherwise fine in worn and torn d.j. with some chipping (price-clipped). First edition. American Folkways Series. Edited by Erskine Caldwell. Campbell, pp. 110-11: “Interpretation, history, with some folklore. A love-letter to that region.” Guns 2270. Herd 2406. Saunders 4759: “Mostly Oklahoma and Texas. Contains some general material on life in New Mexico.” Chapter 8, “Home on the Range,” covers cowboy songs, stories, and vernacular. Additional information of ranching interest throughout: free range, roundups, trail drives, cowboys, cattlemen, chuck wagon, rustling, rodeos, Charles Goodnight, Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show, Cattle Annie, Anti-Horse Thief Association, dude ranch, sheep, buffalo, etc. $45.00

787. [CAMPBELL, Walter S.] (Stanley Vestal, pseud.). Wagons Southwest: Story of Old Trail to Santa Fe. New York: American Pioneer Trails Association, 1946. [4] 50 pp., illustrations, double-page map. 12mo, original multicolor pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very fine in “Souvenir from Old Santa Fe Trail” envelope, with large folding map (The Santa Fé Trail) laid in. First edition. Guns 2271: “Rare.” Rittenhouse 606. Brief discussions of ranches of Kit Carson and Lucien Maxwell, buffalo stampede, and Dodge City, “the Cowboy Capital,” terminus for Texan longhorn trail drives. $75.00

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788. CAMPO, Estanislao del (“Anastasio el Pollo”). Fausto: Impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pello en la representación de esta ópera. Buenos Aires: Editores Pueser, [1951]. lx [4] 96 [15] pp., color plates and text illustrations by Eleodoro E. Marenco, facsimiles. 4to, original stiff beige pictorial wrappers. Fragile wrappers lightly soiled and rubbed, interior fine, unopened. Third edition (first edition, Buenos Aires, 1866). Nichols, Gaucho 1060n (citing first edition). Contains a facsimile of the Fausto manuscript existing in the Museo Martiniano Leguizamón de Paraná, and a facsimile of Correo del Domingo 6:144 (September 30, 1866) that includes a copy of “Fausto.” A cow country entertainment of an entirely other breed, “Fausto” is a poem of about fifteen hundred lines, in which the author’s purpose is to give the impressions produced upon an illiterate gaucho by the grand opera of the same name. Skillful touches of local color are evident, not just in the language, but also in the artwork in this attractive edition produced in association with the “poetas gauchescos del Rio de la Plata.” (Thanks to George W. Umphrey of the University of Washington for his scholarly insight at http://www.ippi.com/gaucho.html.) $100.00

789. CANADA, J. W. Life at Eighty: Memories and Comments by a Tarheel in Texas. [La Porte, Texas: Published by the author, 1953]. 206 pp. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges, overall fine, with author’s signed inscription. First edition, second printing. Herd 407: “The latter part of the book deals with the various breeds of cattle.” The newspaperman-author came to Texas in 1905 and fell under its spell, envisioning the potential that irrigation provided for agriculture and the cattle industry. He tells of visiting with Robert J. Kleberg at the King Ranch, managing the newspaper Stockman and Farmer, William Sydney Porter, how the Houston Agricultural Credit Union helped the devastated cattle industry in the 1920s, much local history (especially Houston), etc. $20.00

790. [CANADA. CALGARY]. “The Stampede” World’s Championship Cowboy Competitive Contest.... Calgary Alberta, Canada Aug. 25 to 30, 1919... [wrapper title]. Calgary: [“The Stampede” Committee], 1919. 8 pp. Tall, narrow 8vo, original stiff pale blue printed wrappers. Other than lower corner of upper wrap and first few leaves being dog-eared, a fine copy. We find no locations on OCLC or RLIN. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First printing. Advertisement for “A Romping Rangeland Rumpus” with events including trick and fancy riding by cowboys and cowgirls, riding of bucking broncos, burros, and steers by cowboys, comedy riding, etc. A $25,000 cash purse plus prizes of saddles, chaps, bits, boots, spurs, etc. are offered, and the pamphlet gives rules, entry fee, and purse for each event. The header above the wrapper title is “Whoop—eee—eee—yow!!” and the footer is “Let’s Stampede!!” $175.00

791. [CANADA. CALGARY]. Printed invitation–mailing brochure, commencing: The presence of [Capt Hickman] is requested at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, July 5th to 10th, 1926. Come help us turn the clock back to the good old cowtown days of forty years ago for one glorious, hilarious, memorable week, ushered in by the great Stampede Parade with its miles of Indians Cowgirls and Cowboys in their gay attire and the original pioneers of the Canadian Northwest...Autos are barred; Indians, chuck wagons, cow ponies only are allowed. Calgary, 1926. 1 folded sheet measuring 27.3 x 40.4 cm, folding down to 8 sections, printed in red, black, pink, yellow, and other colors. A montage of black and white photographs, color illustrations, designs, and text. Very fine. We find no locations on OCLC or RLIN. First printing. The invitation touts competitions in “bucking horse and wild steer riding, calf roping, wild cow milking, and the relay, running horse, democrat, California cart, chuck wagon, wild horse, Indian and Roman standing races,” etc. Recipients are invited to join a tour of the high spots of the Canadian Rockies—Lake Louise, Kicking Horse Pass, Yoho Valley, and Banff. On the mailer panel of the brochure is a print bathed in a vivid pink psychedelic glow illustrating the E.P. Ranch (sixty miles south of Calgary) owned by H.R.H. Edward Prince of Wales. Among the photo illustrations are portraits of all of the Stampede organizers and lively action shots of rodeo events. This rare bit of ephemera is a great exhibit item. $300.00

792. CANTON, Frank M. Frontier Trails: The Autobiography of Frank M. Canton. Edited by Edward Everett Dale. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1930. xvii [1] 236 [1] pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in the very scarce d.j. with photographic illustration (some chipping and a few short tears). It would be tough to find a better copy than this one, even with its slightly flawed d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition (date 1930 under imprint). Adams, One- Fifty 26. Dobie, pp. 98, 107, 140: “Good on tough hombres.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #32: “Canton was trail driver, ranchman, sheriff, United States marshal, inspector for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association.” Graff 576. Guns 371: “Scarce.... The autobiography of Frank Canton, written shortly before his death and edited from the manuscript he left.... Canton was hired by the large cattle interests to fight the so-called rustlers in the Johnson County War, and naturally he tells their side of the story.... Much of the book is devoted to the better- known outlaws of Oklahoma and the time Canton was peace officer there.... During his days in Texas he was charged several times with cattle theft.” Herd 409. Howes C118. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 3. Rader 588. Saunders 2792. Smith 1477. “In 1866 [Canton and his brothers] with their widowed mother moved to Denton County, Texas. Here [Canton] became a cowboy, in 1869 hiring out to (Samuel) Burk Burnett (1849-1922) for a trail drive with 1,500 head of longhorns to Abilene. As Canton relates the adventure in his autobiography, the trip was a rough one, with dangerous fords, stampedes and affairs with Indians enlivening it. Savages swept off most of the horses and the trail drive had to be concluded largely afoot, a miserable experience for Texas cowboys.... Canton’s career is wrapped in mystery and some of the significant events of his life no doubt will never come to light” (Thrapp I, pp. 221-23). $250.00

793. CANTON, Frank M. Frontier Trails.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1930. Another copy. Other than very slight outer wear, very fine. Dust jacket not present. Bookplate of noted collector W. J. Holliday (illustrated with Father Kino’s important map). $125.00

794. CANTON, Frank M. Frontier Trails.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1966]. xix [1] 236 [2] pp. 12mo, original tan boards. Very fine in d.j. Second edition, with a new introduction by Edward Everett Dale. First printing of the Western Frontier Library edition. Dale adds some additional material on Canton to the preface of this edition. D.j. blurb: “Although the list of positions held by the author indicates that his life was one of high adventure, it was also one of loneliness and violence. He learned quite early that to survive in his chosen profession he must be resourceful, determined, and lethal in the use of firearms.” $35.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

795. CAPRON, E[lisha] S. History of California from Its Discovery to the Present Time; Comprising also a Full Description of Its Climate, Surface, Soil, Rivers, Towns, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, State of Its Society, Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, Mining, &c. With a Journal of the Voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and Back, via Panama.... Boston & Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1854. xi [1] 356 pp., folding lithographed map in full color (California 1854 [New York: Colton, 1853; 40.0 x 32.6 cm; inset of City of San Francisco, decorative border]). 12mo, original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, gilt spine with California state seal. Covers rubbed, corners and spinal extremities worn and fraying, front hinge cracked, but overall a very good copy. Map detached (but in excellent condition, with strong color), internally fine. Inscribed to “Adelaide Capron, from Cousin Henry—Feb 4th 1876.” First edition of book; second issue of the Colton map (dated 1854). Bradford 769. Cowan, p. 104. Graff 580. Howell 50, California 349: “Capron, a contemporary observer who arrived in California in 1853, devotes more than half of his book to a description of San Francisco and the gold mines.” Howes C127. Jones 1309. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 116: “In Part Second, Capron gives a description of San Francisco with details of its lurid side.” Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region 254: “This is the same map as that listed as 1853—Colton, save for the change in date. It seems also to have been included in ‘Colton’s Atlas of the World...by George W. Colton’” In his note to the 1853 issue of the map, Wheat comments: “This was probably the best- known map of California in the eastern states during the ’fifties. It was republished annually for a time, with little or no change.” The emphasis of the book is San Francisco and the Gold Rush. However, the author discusses mission cattle and the old ranchos of California (fandango, jueces del campo, branding, rodeo, corrals, lasso, saddles, expertise in horsemanship, management of cattle, etc.); mentions the hide and tallow trade in association with San Diego; gives statistics on livestock (cattle, horses, sheep, and goats); and discusses grazing potential in general and the inferiority of the nearly wild native cattle. The lure of this once fairly common book (priced at $50.00 in the Howell catalogue) is in part due to the wonderful Colton map, which in the present copy is in about as fine condition as one might ever hope for. $1,750.00

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796. CAREY, Charles Henry. History of Oregon. Chicago: Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1922. [vii]-xxviii, 21-1,016 + 768 + 750 pp., frontispieces, illustrations (mostly photographic), maps (1 foldout), portraits, facsimiles. 3 vols., small 4to, original green ribbed cloth, marbled edges. Light cover wear, upper cover of vol. 2 slightly discolored and cloth split adjacent to joint, but overall the set is in very good to fine condition, especially considering how thick and heavy the volumes are. First edition. Smith 1490. This vast compendium on Oregon history includes much of interest for ranching, beginning with the earliest raising of stock by retired trappers in the Willamette Valley and “French Prairie,” early monopoly on cattle raising by the Hudson’s Bay Company (which was not broken until 1842), first cattle drives from California to Oregon, introduction of cattle to the Native Americans by Whitman, history and pervasiveness of ranching in Eastern Oregon, first imported breeds of cattle and sheep, establishment of the Pacific International Live Stock Exposition in Portland, etc. The two volumes of biographies cover at least a few Oregonians engaged in the cattle business, including Joshua W. French, James Crockett Johnson, James H. McMenamin, et al. $275.00

797. CAREY, Fred. Mayor Jim. Omaha: Omaha Printing Company, 1930. 175 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (mostly photographic), maps. 8vo, original dark blue buckram over pale blue gilt-pictorial wrappers. Slight fading and wear at edges of covers, otherwise fine. First edition. Herd 412: “Scarce.” Chronicles the life of James C. Dahlman (b. 1845), Texas cowman and later Mayor of Omaha. Includes accounts of two epic trail drives, one from Oregon to Montana; the other from Indian Territory to Standing Rock in the Dakota Territory. $75.00

798. CAREY, Harry, Jr. Company of Heroes: My Life As an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company. Metuchen, New Jersey & London: Scarecrow Press, 1994. [10] 218 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original beige cloth. Fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Filmmakers Series 42. Carey’s account of his experiences working on the classic Westerns Three Godfathers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagonmaster, The Searchers, and Cheyenne Autumn. $85.00

799. CARHART, Arthur H. Colorado. New York: Coward-McCann, 1932. xvii [1] 322 pp., text illustrations by Paul Bringle. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Wilcox, p. 21: “A guide book to each section of the state.” Wynar 2173. This guide book and history of the state has a chapter on the “Big West” which, among other things, discusses “places where genuine cowboys work at the cow business.” Also includes a brief bibliography of books on Colorado. $40.00

800. CARLISLE, Bill. Bill Carlisle, Lone Bandit: An Autobiography. Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1946]. [2] 220 pp., plates, text illustrations by Charles M. Russell. 8vo, original tan leather, gilt vignette of Russell drawing on lower cover. Minor edge wear due to the soft leather, else very fine. First edition, limited edition (#26 of 625 signed copies). Guns 375: “The honest autobiography of the last of the lone train robbers, a man who allowed himself to be captured rather than take a human life.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 16: “The life story of a notorious but not infamous train robber: his bleak childhood, thieving youth, and roaming adult life until imprisoned at Rawlins, Wyoming. No tendency to romanticize or glamorize crime.” Yost & Renner, Russell I:47 (stating that there is no difference in the content, plates, etc., between the limited and trade edition). Chapter on the author’s range- riding days in which he meets Charlie Russell, and his mostly unsuccessful attempt to work as a ranch hand from Montana to Texas (at the Matador and XIT ranches) prior to his slightly more successful train-robbing career. $200.00

801. CARLISLE, Bill. Bill Carlisle, Lone Bandit.... Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1946]. 220 pp., photographic plates, illustrations by Charles M. Russell, endpaper maps by Clarence Ellsworth. 8vo, original red cloth. Very light foxing to edges, else fine in d.j. with minor tears. Signed by author. First trade edition. $100.00

802. CARLISLE, Bill. Bill Carlisle, Lone Bandit.... Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing. Co., [1946]. Another copy. Occasional light foxing to text, otherwise fine, with author’s signed and dated inscription (d.j. not present). $85.00

803. CARLISLE, Bill. Bill Carlisle, Lone Bandit.... Pasadena: Trail’s End Publishing Co., [1946]. Another copy. Very light foxing to edges, else fine in d.j. with minor tears. $75.00

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804. CARLSON, Paul H. Texas Woollybacks: The Range Sheep and Goat Industry. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, [1982]. xiv, 236 pp., plates (mostly photographic), maps, tables. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. with illustration by Joe Belt. First edition. A chronicle of the development of the Texas range sheep and goat industry from Spanish times to about 1930, when open-range management ended due to use of mesh-wire fences. Covers the transition from late nineteenth-century sheep wars to cooperation among the “Texas triumvirate” of sheep, goat, and cattle ranchers in the early twentieth century and their battles with the federal government over tariffs, quotas, and policies. $35.00

805. CARLSON, Raymond (ed.). Gallery of Western Paintings. New York, London, & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1951]. 85 [1] pp., with 64 pages of full-color paintings by Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Maynard Dixon, and others, 20 line drawings by Ross Santee. Small folio, original terracotta cloth with tipped-on color illustration. Slightly musty smelling, otherwise fine in d.j. with slight tear. First edition. Dobie, pp. 188-89. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Dixon 43); (Leigh 88); (Remington 452); (Santee 30). $65.00

806. CAROTHERS, June E. Estes Park, Past and Present. [Denver]: University of Denver Press, [1951]. 88 [2] pp., plates (mostly photographic). 12mo, original photographic wrappers. Light marginal browning to wraps, spine slightly creased, otherwise fine. First edition. Wilcox, p. 21: “Based on the author’s unpublished thesis.” Wynar 1164. Has information on early ranching in the region, including Griff Evans who, as early as 1871, realized that dude ranching might be more lucrative than stockraising (Isabella Bird was an early guest of Evans); and Lord Dunraven’s Estes Park Company and its conflicts with settlers. $37.50

807. CARPENTER, Eunice Pleasant. Ranch Sketches [wrapper title]. [Hayden, Colorado, 1948]. 34 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 12mo, original blue printed wrappers. Very fine. Rare in commerce; OCLC gives 8 locations, RLIN only one, the Yale copy (also noted by OCLC). First printing. Wynar 6397. Ranching on the Yampa River in the 1940s, with sections on turning cattle out on Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) their summer range, haying, and women’s role in ranching during World War II. $50.00

808. CARPENTER, Will Tom. Lucky 7: A Cowman’s Autobiography. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1957]. xxii, 119 [1] pp., text illustrations by Lee Hart. 8vo, original light green cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. Laid in is a University of Texas Press catalogue of Western Americana titles with illustrated wrappers by Lea. First edition. Herd 418. Carpenter settled in Texas in 1872, working as a cowhand and trail boss until 1900, when he established his own ranch west of the Pecos. Edited and with introduction and notes by Elton Miles. $30.00

809. CARPENTER, Will Tom. Lucky 7: A Cowman’s Autobiography. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1957]. Another copy. Light wear and soiling to binding. Dust jacket not present. Laid in is a University of Texas Press catalogue of Western Americana titles with illustrated wrappers by Lea. $15.00

810. CARR, Annie Call (comp.). East of Antelope Island. [N.p.: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, North Davis County Company, 1971]. 519 [4] [26, index] pp., illustrations, map. 8vo, original magenta cloth. Small snag at foot of spine, otherwise very fine. Fourth edition, revised, index added (first edition Davis County, 1948). This compendium of local history has frequent mention of stockraising, one of the main industries of the early pioneers on the Wasatch Front. Information on the first herd of beef cattle being driven into Skull Valley in 1869, formation of co-ops for sheep and cattle raising, and Antelope Island (rounding up wild horses, grazing church cattle, and establishing the bison herd). $35.00

811. CARR, Harry. The West Is Still Wild: Romance of the Present and the Past. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1932. iv, 257 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations by Charles H. Owens, endpaper maps. 8vo, original maize cloth, printed paper labels on spine and upper cover. Slight discoloration to label, upper corner of front cover bumped, otherwise fine in lightly worn and foxed d.j. First edition. Campbell, pp. 103-4. Guns 379. Herd 419. Paher, Nevada 276. Rader 596. Saunders 3943 (giving a publication date of 1933). Smith 1524. Stories and history of the Wild West, including details of day-to-day life on a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) southern California cattle ranch in the early 1900s. The skillful illustrations are spontaneous and charming. $40.00

812. CARR, Harry. The West Is Still Wild.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, [1932]. iv, 257 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations by Charles H. Owens, endpaper maps. 8vo, original maize cloth, printed paper labels on spine and upper cover. Fore-edges foxed, otherwise fine in d.j. with stain on upper panel. First edition, later printing (date of publication not on title). $20.00

813. CARR, Robert V. Cowboy Lyrics. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1908. 182 pp. 12mo, original gilt-lettered green ribbed cloth, t.e.g. Front hinge cracked, very small abrasion at top of front free endpaper, otherwise fine and bright. Armorial bookplate on front free pastedown. Inkstamp on front free endpaper: “Compliments of International Live Stock Expo” followed by contemporary manuscript ink notation: “From M.C.S.” First edition, second or later printing? (“Second edition” and date 1908 printed on title). The type is less worn and stronger in this “second edition” than in the undated printing listed next. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 250: “His range verse antedates that of Badger Clark.” Mohr, The Range Country 642. From author’s introduction to the 1912 edition (see item 815 below): “In 1908 the author distributed a gift edition of ‘Cowboy Lyrics’ among his friends in the western cattle country. That edition was printed solely for private circulation.” Coursey (Beautiful Black Hills; see item 1182 herein) gives a short biography and photograph of Carr: “Carr, of Hill City, became known as the ‘Cowboy Poet,’ although, as a matter of fact, he never was a cowboy. However, as a lad he did linger around cowboy camps until he became thoroughly conversant with their ways and their phraseology” (p. 244). $65.00

814. CARR, Robert V. Cowboy Lyrics. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, [1908]. 182 pp. 12mo, original gilt-lettered green ribbed cloth, t.e.g. A fine, bright copy with stylized ink ownership stamp “Otto Floto” on front pastedown and title. Perhaps the former owner was Otto Floto, sports editor for the Denver Post (Floto had bad blood with Bat Masterson and is said to have once managed Colorado heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, third or later printing? (Date not printed on title, no edition statement; the type in the present printing is more worn than in the printing listed above). OCLC shows a first and a second edition, both in 1908, but there is no indication of whether the date 1908 appears on both editions. RLIN has both a 1908 and 1912 edition, but only a single bibliographical record (Yale copy) for the 1908 edition, with no edition statement. Checking University of Texas holdings, the Center for American History has two copies of the 1908 edition that, like the present copy, are undated on the title; the Perry- Castañeda and Humanities Research Center (J. Frank Dobie’s copy) have copies like that listed in our first entry for this book. Smith 1528. $75.00

815. CARR, Robert V. Cowboy Lyrics: Roundup Edition. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, [1912]. xv [1] 229 pp., tinted frontispiece by Robert Farrington Elwell. 12mo, original burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Light edge wear, mild foxing to fore-edges and margins of a few leaves, overall very good, unopened. Second edition, revised and expanded, with new introduction by author; the “Roundup edition,” reprinting most of the material in the 1908 issue, with many new poems added; first illustrated edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Elwell 9): “In 1908 the author distributed a gift edition of Cowboy Lyrics among his friends. It was printed solely for private distribution. The 1912 Roundup edition is the only authorized edition ‘published’ and is the first to have the Elwell frontispiece.” From author’s new introduction: “This, the 1912 Roundup Edition, is the only complete, revised and authorized collection of poems under the title of ‘Cowboy Lyrics’ ever published.... The present edition contains a majority of the poems in the 1908 gift book, as well as many new verses, and late poems reprinted from magazines.” $40.00

816. CARR, Stephen L. The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns. Salt Lake City: Western Epics, [1972]. [2] 166 pp., numerous text illustrations (many photographic), maps. 4to, original black wrappers with color photographs. Very fine. First edition. Many of the ghosts towns are classified as agricultural: “This most numerous type was usually established during the colonization period and includes not only farming towns but livestock centers, and in some cases, homestead centers.” $20.00

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817. CARRILLO, Carlos Antonio. Exposition Addressed to the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union...Concerning the Regulation and Administration of the Pious Fund. Translated and Edited by Herbert Ingram Priestly.... San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. xx, 15 [1] pp. 4to, original half green cloth over green boards, printed paper spine label. Exceptionally fine, in very fine d.j. First edition in English, limited edition (650 copies), handsomely printed by John Henry Nash and with translator Priestley’s introduction and editorial notes. The rare original edition printed in Mexico in 1831 is the first book about California published by a native Californian. Barrett, Baja California 3198n. Cowan, pp. 106-7n. Rocq 8798. Weber, The California Missions, p. 14n: “It is a monument to the efforts of Carrillo and his associates to save the Pious Fund for its original purposes.” Zamorano 80 #15n. Carlos Antonio Carillo (1783- 1852) was the son of a prominent California family. His father, José Raimundo Carrillo, came to California with the Portolá expedition in 1769 and served at Santa Barbara for twelve years. In 1834 Carlos Antonio was granted one of the famous ranchos of California, the Sespe in Santa Clara Valley, which had been considered as a mission site for Serra and Palóu. Carlos Antonio was serving as California diputado to Mexico in 1831 when he delivered the present Esposición to the Mexican Congress. He objects to the proposed secularization of the California missions and confiscation of the Pious Fund, which had helped underwrite the California missions that first developed ranching and large herds of cattle in California. Carrillo expresses deep concern about secularization and its possible dire effects on property values and mission holdings, pointing out that the missions had contributed to civil settlement, conversion of Native Americans, and “the astonishing multiplication of herds of all classes.” Carrillo worries about the impact on Native American herdsmen who had abandoned their nomadic ways of life, as well as the presidial soldiers and families who had been usefully occupied with agriculture, stockraising, and industry. $75.00

818. [CARRINGTON, Margaret Irvin]. Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows: Being the Experience of an Officer’s Wife on the Plains, and Marking the Vicissitudes of Peril and Pleasure during the Occupation of the New Route to Virginia City, Montana, 1866-7, and the Indian Hostility.... Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. 284 pp., engraved text Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) illustrations and plans by Van Inge and Snyder (Court-House Rock, Chimney Rock, Camp Phisterer Canon, view of North Platte opposite Fort Fetterman, Laramie Peak, 2 plans of Fort Phil Kearney), engraved folding map (untitled map showing the area bounded on the west by Montana City and Salt Lake City and on the east by Burlington, Minnesota, and Nebraska City; 20.3 x 40.6 cm). 12mo, original plum cloth (faded to brown). Binding worn at edges and extremities, small tear on spine (inexpertly repaired), a few spots and minor stains to binding, a bit loose in binding with a few signatures starting, map split at a few folds (no losses). Bookplate of Alfred R. Williams. Second edition. Howes (C175) states that the present edition has the same imprint and collation as the first edition printed at Philadelphia in 1868 (“aa”). Graff (596) notes that the first edition does not list the map or illustrations; in the present edition, the map and illustrations are listed after the dedication leaf. Field 244: “The most valuable portion of the book is that in which she gives the personal narrations of some restored captives.” Jones 1504. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 2. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 2054. Myres, Following the Drum, p. 6: “An extensive description of the flora, fauna, and native peoples of the northern plains along with an eye-witness account of the events leading up to and following the Fetterman ‘massacre’ at Fort Phil Kearny, 1866. Carrington expressed sympathy for the Indians involved in the affair.” Smith 1536. One of the best army wife accounts of the West. A short section on ranches on the central Plains in 1865: “Ranches alike provide for man and beast, and are arranged for their special care and protection. A large yard is surrounded by a stockade paling, with stabling, feed troughs, and hay-ricks, with here and there loop-holes for the rifle.” She also mentions early abandonment of area ranches and Jack Morrow, (the “prince of ranchemen”). $300.00

819. CARROLL, Elsie Chamberlain (ed.). History of Kane County. Salt Lake City: Kane County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1960. xxiv, 472 pp., portraits. 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine. First edition. Establishment of the ranching community of Kanab in the 1860s led to numerous conflicts with Native Americans, whose supplies of food and other natural resources were impacted by the settlers’ livestock. In the 1930s this Mormon community, surrounded by spectacular and stereotypical Western scenery, became a focal point for the filming of Westerns. The entire population sometimes turned Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) out to work as extras, and local stock were even hired out to appear in films! Also includes rodeo, sheep, and a wealth of social history. $65.00

820. CARROLL, H. Bailey. Texas County Histories: A Bibliography. Foreword by Walter Prescott Webb. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1943. xxxii, 200 pp., frontispiece portrait of E. L. Shettles (“Texan Bibliographer Unexcelled”) by Bugbee, title with county map of Texas, foldout Texas county map. 8vo, original beige linen. Slight foxing to spine, edges of covers, and fore- edges, otherwise fine, untrimmed and unopened. First edition. Basic Texas Books B37: “The first checklist on the subject, with an introduction by Walter Prescott Webb.” CBC 4947. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 29). Dobie, p. 58. Tate, Indians of Texas 26: “Though...dated, this remains a valuable reference tool because it includes all books, pamphlets, articles, theses, dissertations, and even some manuscript items.” Because county and local histories are frequently so dense in information and biography, this work contains many good leads into ranching history in Texas. $150.00

821. CARROLL, H. Bailey & Milton R. Gutsch (eds.). Texas History Theses: A Check List of the Theses and Dissertations Relating to Texas History Accepted at the University of Texas, 1893-1951. Austin: Texas [State] Historical Association, 1955. xiii [1] 208 pp., frontispiece illustration of the old Barker Texas History Center. 8vo, original tan linen. Very fine in slipcase with small stain on spine label. First edition. Basic Texas Books B38: “A useful, indexed guide with content summaries to 470 theses and dissertations, updated periodically in issues of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.” CBC 4948. Tate, Indians of Texas 27: “Many...contain single chapters on local Indian history.” Valuable research tool containing many listings of interest for ranching. Perhaps the most notable is John Evetts Haley’s “A Survey of Texas Cattle Drives to the North, 1866-1895,” but there are many others indexed under cattle, cattle brands, cattle drives, cattle markets, cattle ranges, and specific ranches including the XIT, JA, and King ranches. $50.00

822. CARROLL, J. M. Just Such a Time: Recollections of a Childhood on the Texas Frontier, 1858-1867. Austin: [Printed by W. Thomas Taylor, Bradley Hutchinson, and Elaine Smyth] Kairos Press, 1987. [4] 65 [2] pp., 12 color Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) woodcuts by Barbara Whitehead. 8vo, original smooth brown calf over yellow boards. Very fine in publisher’s plain paper d.j. First edition, limited edition (150 copies). Written in 1924 when Carroll (1852-1931) was 72 years old, this hitherto unpublished and beautifully printed memoir of his childhood is a lively account of pioneer life in Caldwell in Burleson County, where Carroll’s family arrived after traveling overland in an emigrant train from Arkansas in 1858. Carroll served as pastor in Lampasas during Reconstruction and notes that “at this time [Lampasas] was a frontier town and was under martial law.” Carroll, historian and Baptist leader, was “a man of many talents [who] also enjoyed a reputation as an amateur ornithologist and owned one of the largest collections of bird eggs in Texas” (Handbook of Texas Online: James Milton Carroll). Carroll’s family was primarily involved in plantation- farming, but we include this book in this catalogue because of one incident related by him. After the Civil War, the size of the Carroll household diminished considerably and there was less help for chores (their 50 slaves had been freed). Carroll tells how as a thirteen-year-old boy he tried to keep up with the task of milking thirty cows twice a day while also attending school. However, after several months, he gave up and branded the calves and the poorest milkers. He then released the cattle on the abundant Carroll free range. $200.00

823. CARROLL, John Alexander. Reflections of Western Historians. Papers of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Western History Association on the History of Western America San Francisco, California: October 12-14, 1967. [Tucson]: University of Arizona Press, [1969]. xiv, 314 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. with light wear at head of spine. First edition. Western Historical Studies 1967. Articles include David B. Gracy, “George W. Littlefield: From Cattle to Colonization, 1871-1920,” Lewis G. Thomas, “The Umbrella and the Mosaic: The French-English Presence and the Significance of the Canadian Prairie West,” and Earl Pomeroy, “The West and New Nations in Other Continents.” $25.00

824. CARROLL, John M. Buffalo Soldiers West. [Fort Collins: The Old Army Press, 1971]. 64 pp., text illustrations by Bjorklund, Bugbee, Cisneros, Eggenhofer, Rossi, Remington, Powell, and others. Oblong folio, original terracotta pictorial wrappers, brown cloth Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) backstrip. Backstrip detaching along upper cover, else very fine. First trade edition (a limited edition of 50 issued the same year). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bjorklund 25), (Bugbee 36), (Cisneros 37), (Eggenhofer 46), (Remington 459); Western High Spots, p. 67 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #217). Fifty illustrations with brief explanatory text. Mostly of military interest, but there is a Bjorklund illustration of troopers in the Johnson County War. Also includes the work of Ace Powell, a real cowboy artist. $40.00

825. CARROLL, John M. (ed.). The Black Military Experience in the American West. New York: Liveright, [1971]. xxv [1] 591 pp., illustrations by Bjorklund, Bugbee, Cisneros, Eggenhofer, Hurd, Rossi, Remington, Russell, Schiwetz, and others, illustrated endpapers. Very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped) and publisher’s black cloth slipcase. Signed by editor Carroll. Without the 2 separate prints by Cisneros and Grandee, which are usually lacking. First edition, first printing, limited edition (#194 of 300 copies signed by editor). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bjorklund 22), (Bugbee 34), (Cisneros 34), (Eggenhofer 43), (Remington 456); Western High Spots, p. 67 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #216). While many of the illustrations in the preceding entry also appear in the present book, there are substantial variations. This work contains lengthy selections from a wide range of authors: Fray Angelico Chavez, Elizabeth Custer, Frederic Remington, J. Evetts Haley, Robert Utley, and contemporary original sources. The Bjorklund illustration of the black soldiers in the Johnson County War accompanies Robert A. Murray’s chapter on “The United States in the Aftermath of the Johnson County Invasion” (first published in Annals of Wyoming 38:1). The Haley essay is on race relations and conflicts between Texas Rangers and Black troops stationed at Fort Concho. $225.00

826. CARROLL, Wesley Philemon. Moss Agates: To My Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and to My Brother Members of the Wyoming Bar.... Cheyenne: Daily Sun Book and Job Rooms, 1890. 254 pp., 3 portraits. 16mo, original gilt- lettered brown cloth. Slight wear and a few old pansies pressed between leaves, otherwise fine and bright, with tipped-in errata slip. Author’s signed inscription “Presented to Miss Anna May Stanley with compliments.” First edition. Stopka, Wyoming Territorial Imprints 1890.1 (locating six copies). Not in McMurtrie, Wyoming Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Imprints 1866-1890. Wyoming imprint—poetry, including “The Round-Up Foreman” and “Custer and the Three Hundred.” $75.00

827. CARSON, James H. Recollections of the California Mines: An Account of the Early Discoveries of Gold, with Anecdotes and Sketches of California and Miners’ Life, and a Description of the Great Tulare Valley. Oakland: [Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles, for] Biobooks, 1950. ix [3] 113 [1] pp., wood engravings by Henry Shire, folding map, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original maroon cloth over beige buckram. Very fine. Limited edition (750 copies); second book edition (first published as a supplement to the San Joaquin Republican in 1852; the rare first book edition published at Stockton later in 1852 was the first book printed in Stockton). Cowan, p. 107n. Graff 604n. Greenwood 321n. Howell 50, California 351n. Howes C183. Jones 1273n. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 119c. Libros Californianos, p. 26n. Mintz, The Trail 527n. Rocq 15746. Streeter Sale 2703n: “Gives a fresh, first-hand account of the beginnings of the California gold rush.... One of the very few early sketches on the San Joaquin Valley.” Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 36n. Zamorano 80 #16n: “One of the earliest works written by a pioneer to give both an account of the discovery of gold and an excellent description of conditions in the mines.” Includes descriptions of California ranchos, interesting mention of the introduction of “herd grass” in the Tulare Valley, and a lengthy section on wild horses and modes of catching them. $100.00

828. CARSON, Kit [Christopher]. Kit Carson’s Own Story of His Life As Dictated to Col. and Mrs. C. D. Peters, about 1856-57, and Never Before Published. Edited by Blanche C. Grant. Taos: [Santa Fe New Mexican Publishing Corp.], 1926. 138 [1, ad] pp., frontispiece photographic portrait of Carson and Frémont), illustration, 13 plates (mostly photographic, but a few after art work of author and J. H. Sharp). 8vo, original sage green printed wrappers, stapled. Two pages of a 1948 Rocky Mountain Life article about Carson laid in. Very fine. First edition. Cowan, p. 107. Graff 603. Howes C182. Mintz, The Trail 79: “Kit traveled...in the company of Frémont and Fitzpatrick...to the Dalles. He tells of their adventures and the Great Salt Lake, and of their later adventures after reaching California.” Paher, Nevada 280: “Here again the colorful mountain man seems to have had a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) sub-grade narrative credited to him.” Plains & Rockies IV:306n. Rader 606. Saunders 2802. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “Dictated by Carson sometime in the mid-1850s to his friend Colonel Dewitt Peters, who wrote The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson in 1858. The manuscript passed to Peters’ son, for whom it was a family keepsake. A copy was acquired by Charles Camp of Cal Berkeley, who received permission from the surviving Peters brother to publish it.” Wallace, Arizona History IV:27. This account of Carson’s life has much to do with his active role in protecting the livestock and livelihoods of early western settlers, including his role in Lucien Maxwell’s sheep speculation and at Warner’s Ranch. $100.00

829. CARSON, Kit [Christopher]. Kit Carson’s Autobiography. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1935. xxxviii, 192 [3] pp., frontispiece portrait (photographic). 12mo, original maroon cloth. Slight rubbing at corners and spinal extremities, otherwise very fine. Bookplate. Second edition of preceding, with revised title, edited and with an added introduction by M. M. Quaife. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 42: “Perhaps the most reliable of all the accounts issued on the life and adventures of this frontiersman.... Much California desert material is associated with the life and adventures of this frontiersman.... A most readable account of one of those heroic stalwarts in our country’s era of overland expansion. Says LeRoy Hafen in his Old Spanish Trail, ‘The basic account of Carson’s career is his autobiography...and the best published version is edited by Milo M. Quaife’ [present edition].” Saunders 2801. $45.00

830. CARSON, Thomas. Ranching, Sport and Travel. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons & T. Fisher Unwin, n.d. [ca. 1911-12]. [8, blank leaf (signed “a”), half-title, title, and introduction] 9-316 pp., 16 plates (including frontispiece—mostly photographs, but 3 plates after C. M. Russell paintings). 8vo, original blue gilt-pictorial cloth (with illustration of a cowboy on a bucking horse), t.e.g. Slight foxing to lower fore-edge and endpapers, lower hinge cracked, 2.5-cm tear to front free endpaper and following blank, overall a very good copy, in a bright binding. Previous owner’s ink signature on front free endpaper. First American edition, printed from the sheets of the British edition of 1911, with new preliminaries and without the three-page appendix at the end (pp. 317-19 in the British edition). There is such confusion regarding the collation in the bibliographical sources on this book that Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) we had to compare a copy of the British edition with the present American edition to sort out the disorder and what it signifies. The American edition does not contain Carson’s “Notes,” which the publishers omitted, perhaps perceiving them as less than palatable to American readers. Carson’s “Notes” in the British edition were in three parts: (1) favorable commentary on Mormon polygamy (“Someday perhaps polygamy will have to be permitted”) and negative observations on how Japanese, Chinese, Native Americans, and Blacks are “swarming all over the earth”; (2) the inevitable antagonism between Americans and English, urging that Brits recognize that Americans are foreigners—not transplanted Englishmen; (3) diatribe against the present soldiery in the British Army, comparing them to the American militia and American vigilante types. Athearn, Westward the Briton, p. 190: “[Carson] went west for his health and took up ranching, ‘having no profession, and hating trade in any form.’ He gained experience with cattle since ‘the choice was limited and confined to live stock or crop farming of one kind or another.’ He was in Arizona in 1883.” Graff 605 (citing the London edition): “A good tale of cattle ranching, Indians, cowboys, and mustang hunting in Arizona and New Mexico during the 1880s.” Herd 422n (giving priority to the London, Leipzig edition): “The main portion of the volume is devoted to cattle ranching in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.” Howes C184. Rader 607. Wallace, Arizona History VII:5. Yost & Renner, Russell XVI:21a. A lively account by an Englishman—sheep ranching in Las Vegas, New Mexico; gambling in Santa Fe, Socorro, and Albuquerque; meeting Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner; cattle drive to Colorado; Mormons in Arizona; cattle rustlers; cattle ranching in “rowdy” Amarillo and Carson County, Texas; etc. $275.00

831. CARTER, Harvey Lewis. “Dear Old Kit”: The Historical Christopher Carson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1968]. xix [1] 250 pp., numerous text illustrations, map. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Ownership signature on title. First edition. Paher, Nevada 286: “The author has traveled many of Carson’s trails and visited sites associated with him. He includes Carson’s memoirs, which describe his movements with John Frémont across Nevada.” Wynar 274. $85.00

832. CARTER, Jeff. In the Tracks of the Cattle, Story of the Great Migration, from Eleven Head at Farm Cove in 1788 to Nineteen Million throughout the Cattle Lands Today. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

[Sidney, Melbourne, & London]: Angus & Robertson, [1968]. 128 pp., numerous photographic text illustrations by the author (many in color). 4to, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. with light wear and a few small chips. First edition. Photo-documentary on ranching in Australia by an Australian cattle drover. King Ranch operations in Australia are mentioned on p. 16. $35.00

833. CARTER, Kate B. The Mormon Battalion. [N.p.]: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1956. 144 pp., photographic illustrations, map of the route. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. Ownership signature. Light outer wear to fragile wraps, but generally fine. First edition. This history the famous Mormon Battalion of the Mexican-American War includes biographies of many of the men, including early Utah cattlemen Captain James Brown and Marshall Hunt (mentions Hunt’s 1848 cattle drive to San Bernardino across the southern route). $20.00

834. CARTER, Kate B. (comp.). Heart Throbs of the West, [Vol. 2]. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1940. 532 [22, index] pp., text illustrations (mostly portraits, one of Deseret alphabet characters). 12mo, original black buckram gilt. Fine. Ownership signature. First edition of volume 2 in this multi-volume compilation on Mormon pioneer history. The volumes were published several years apart, and each volume stands on its own, with completely new information. Includes material on ranching and stockmen, including Deseret money based on livestock and early cooperative livestock companies in the Salt Lake Valley. Fascinating and dense, with interesting topics and social history, such as celebration of holidays (including how the Mormon Battalion participated in the first Fourth of July celebration in Los Angeles), the Deseret alphabet, quilting, pioneer surveying in Utah, ethnic contributions of Swedes, Norwegians, and others, Mormon women (including women of the Mormon Battalion), etc. $35.00

835. CARTER, Kate B. (comp.). Our Pioneer Heritage. Volume 1. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1958. xi [1] 596 pp., portraits. 12mo, original red cloth. Slight shelf wear, spine slanted, otherwise fine. Ownership inscription. First edition of another of the compiled histories of Mormon pioneers. This volume consists mostly of social and pioneer history, with occasional mention of pioneer ranching enterprises. Includes a section on The Texas Company, describing Homer Duncan’s drive of 1,300 cattle Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) from Texas to Utah in 1857. This volume gives much information on the children of the Mormon Battalion. $35.00

836. CARTER, Robert G. The Old Sergeant’s Story: Winning the West from the Indians and Bad Men in 1870 to 1876. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926. 220 pp., frontispiece portrait, 7 photographic plates. 8vo, original red ribbed cloth. Binding badly stained, interior fine except for intermittent mild foxing. Author’s presentation copy: “To Nellie from her father R. G. Carter, Washington, D. C. May 23, 1926.” Contemporary pencil ownership inscription of Mrs. A. H. von(?) Bayer of Baltimore on verso of front free endpaper (author’s daughter?). Scarce. First edition. Guns 383. Howes C194. Rader 610. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “The story of John B. Charlton, Sergeant, ‘F’ Troop, 4th Cavalry.... In 1920, Charlton, then a retired stock raiser living in Uvalde, Texas wrote Captain Carter, his former commander, beginning a correspondence and friendship that lasted until the sergeant’s death.” Tate, Indians of Texas 3001. Wallace, Arizona History X:7. John B. (Jack) Charlton (1848-1922), the noted Indian fighter known as the “Old Sergeant,” was closely involved in many of the military operations against Native Americans that allowed ranchers in Texas and the surrounding regions to carry on their activities without the threat of constant depredations. Charlton was involved in the operations during which the Comanche, through Quanah Parker and Mow-way, finally relinquished their tribal lands to federal authority—a moment in time when the balance of power shifted from Native Americans to the Anglo ranchers and settlers. Charlton joined Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie’s Fourth United States Cavalry in 1870, participating in many pivotal campaigns, from the Blanco Canyon expedition to trailing rustlers and outlaws in Northwest Texas and Indian Territory (1875). After his discharge in 1876, Charlton began a freight service between Cheyenne and Deadwood, South Dakota, and he tells of meeting Wild Bill Hickok, Texas Jack, and Buffalo Bill Cody. Charlton prospected in Alaska and South America, accompanied the Cole Circus as a horse trainer to Hawaii and Australia, and worked in Mexico as a grader for the Mexican Central Railroad. In 1884 he returned to Texas and settled in Brackettville as a stockraiser. See Handbook of Texas Online: John B. Charlton. $550.00

837. CARTER, Robert G. The Old Sergeant’s Story.... New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926. Another copy. Top Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) corner bumped, light shelf wear, otherwise very fine. $525.00

838. CARTER, R[obert] G. On the Border with Mackenzie; or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961. [2] xxvi, 580 pp., photographic plates. Thick 8vo, original maroon buckram. Very fine. Limited edition (750 copies), second edition (first edition 1935), augmented with reprints of six of the rare pamphlets of the primary source material on the subjugation of the Native Americans of the Texas Panhandle and Llano Estacado. Basic Texas Books 25: “One of the best sources on the Federal cavalry campaigns against the Indians in the 1870s.” Campbell, p. 177. Decker 48:45: “This important historical work, the original edition of which was issued in a very limited number, has been most elusive since its first publication in 1935.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 18 (“Western Movement: Its Literature”). Howes C195. Rader 611. Tate, Indians of Texas 3002: “Perhaps the best first- hand description of Texas military life and campaigns against Comanches and Kiowas during the turbulent 1870s. As a captain in Ranald Mackenzie’s Fourth Cavalry, Carter participated in some of the most important events, and he describes these in great detail. No one researching this phase of Comanche and Kiowa history can afford to overlook this source.” See Handbook of Texas Online: Robert Goldthwaite Carter and Ranald Slidell Mackenzie. Includes information on ranching and cattlemen, including longhorns, rustling, and buffalo roping. $250.00

839. CARTER, William H[arding]. From Yorktown to Santiago with the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1900. vi [2] 317 pp., plates (photographic and half- tones after art work by Remington, Zogbaum, and others), text illustrations. 8vo, later blue cloth. Light browning and some stains and foxing to text. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 461); (Zogbaum) 24. Graff 614. Munk (Alliot), p. 39. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “The unit served with Phil Sheridan to the end of the Civil War. At the close of the war, the regiment was ordered to Texas, then after serving in Texas, to Arizona, New Mexico, and ultimately the Plains and the entire Rocky Mountain region. Carter describes the regiment’s experiences in great detail. In a succeeding work, the author states that the greater part of this edition was destroyed by a Baltimore fire. Not in Howes or Nevins. A fine work and a little- known military rarity.” Wallace, Arizona History VI:10. The Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) author says that a vast amount of scouting was done because of “restless Indians who inhabited Texas and Mexico, and who had developed ordinary horse and cattle stealing into a fine art” (p. 137). $500.00

840. CARTER, William H[arding]. Old Army Sketches. Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1906. 203 pp., half- tone plates and text illustrations by Howard Chandler Christie, Rufus T. Zogbaum, Frederic Remington, and other artists. 12mo, original blue cloth, t.e.g. Light outer wear and spotting, otherwise fine. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 462); (Zogbaum 25). Graff 615. Howes C202. Munk (Alliot), p. 39. As in the previous entry, these military reminiscences are set against a backdrop of ranch life and conflicts with gringo, Mexican, and Native American rustlers. $225.00

841. CARTER, William Harding. “The Story of the Horse: The Development of Man’s Companion in War Camp, on Farm, in the Marts of Trade, and in the Field of Sports” in The National Geographic Magazine 44:5 (November 1923). Pp. 455-566, numerous photographs and illustrations (including 24 pages of color illustrations and two from paintings by Edward Herbert Miner). 8vo, original yellow and white printed wrappers. Wrappers faded, torn, and taped at spine. First printing. A well-illustrated history of the horse, from its origins on the steppes of central Asia to modern times with information on ranching, rodeo, and mustangs as cow ponies. Includes a great photo of “Prairie Rose” Henderson riding Brandy. $10.00

842. CARTER, William Harding. The Horses of the World.... Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1923. [6] 118 [1] pp., 95 illustrations (including 24 pages of color illustrations and two from paintings by Edward Herbert Miner). 8vo, original embossed black cloth. Light shelf wear, endpapers and fore-edges lightly foxed, otherwise fine, with faint ink ownership stamp of Aubry Watson on title and half-title. First edition in book form of preceding. Dobie, p. 132: “A concentrated survey.” Herd 424: “Scarce.... A separate publication of this article from The National Geographic Magazine.” $50.00

843. CARTER OIL COMPANY. The History of Cattle Brands and How to Read Them [wrapper title]. N.p.: [The Carter Oil Company, 1955]. [12] pp., text illustrations (including Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) numerous brands). 24mo, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First printing. Herd 309. $20.00

844. CARTERET, John Dunloe. A Fortune Hunter; or, The Old Stone Corral. A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail. Cincinnati: Printed for the Author, 1888. 290 pp. 12mo, original gilt- lettered dark teal cloth. Very fine and bright. Later green ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition of early Santa Fe Trail fiction. Cohen, New Mexico Novels: A Preliminary Checklist, p. 3. Eberstadt 137:100. Rittenhouse 106: “Fiction; historically useless.” Saunders 2803a. Wright III:891. The novel is set in the decades of the Mexican-American War and the California Gold Rush. The backdrop of the tale is an old stone corral where many travelers stop. The old stone corral evolves into a large ranch. $100.00

845. CARUTHERS, William. Loafing along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places. Ontario, California: Death Valley Publishing Co., 1951. 186 pp., photographic plates, map. 8vo, original maize cloth. Very fine in price-clipped and moderately worn and soiled d.j. designed by Svenson. First edition. Guns 387. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 42: “One of the top-level items on Death Valley.” Paher, Nevada 291. Caruthers, a Los Angeles newsman, visited Death Valley in 1910 by buckboard, and met most of the region’s famous characters. Includes information on the Manse Ranche (which supplied miners) in the Pahrump Valley and its various colorful owners. The author notes: “Rarely did desert ranches show other profits than those which one finds in doing the thing one likes to do, as in the case of the recent owner of the Manse—the wealthy Mrs. Lois Kellogg—the soft-voiced eastern lady who fell in love with the desert.... Small, cultured, she yet found thrills in driving a 20-ton truck and trailer from the Manse to Los Angeles or to the famed Oasis Ranch...another desert landmark which she bought to further gratify her passion for the Big Wide Open.” $50.00

846. CARUTHERS, William. Loafing along Death Valley Trails.... Palm Desert: The Desert Magazine Press, 1951. 186 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Very fine in d.j. Second edition, slightly revised. $25.00

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847. CARVER, Jack, Jerry Vondergeest, Dallas Boyd, & Tom Pade. Land of Legend. Denver: Caravon Press, [1959]. 200 pp., numerous illustrations (mostly photographic, some in color). 4to, original charcoal cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Wynar 17. These scattered musings on Colorado history include mention of several ranches (Ah Wilderness, Cross L, Melody, Phantom Valley, Rolling R) and Range Call Rodeo (includes photos). $45.00

848. CARY, Diana Serra. The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. xv [3] 268 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original black cloth. Slight foxing to fore-edges, otherwise very fine in chipped and foxed d.j. First edition. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “Story of genuine cowboys, who, beginning in 1912, migrated to Hollywood to become stunt riders in countless Westerns. Contains information on Tom Mix, Bronco Billy Anderson, Bill Hart, Cecil B. De Mille, John Wayne, etc. Cary, herself, had an early screen career as child actress (“Baby Peggy”), making 152 silent two-reel comedies in 1920-21.” $35.00

849. CASEMENT, Dan D. Random Recollections: The Life and Times—and Something of the Personal Philosophy—of a Twentieth Century Cowman. Kansas City: Walker, 1955. 111 pp., portrait. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fine. First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 15. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #47: “One of the most colorful cowmen of the century—a Hereford breeder and one of the developers of the Quarter Horse.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 14. Herd 428. Wynar 6399. Born in Ohio, son of a Union general who built the Union Pacific, Casement attended Columbia and Princeton, earning an M.A. after a year at Columbia Law. But he became a rancher, running the Unaweep ranch in Western Colorado, and was engaged in raising Herefords for more than sixty years. Casement commences his first chapter thus: “The first impact on my life by a cow critter was when, at the age of four, and still wearing dresses, I was toddling around the barnyard at the heels of my maternal granddad. Unobserved by him, my curiosity led me too near our nice heifer Strawberry which was proudly guarding her first calf. She promptly tossed me so high and far that, if that portion of my anatomy on which I landed had not been so completely bundled in petticoats, I might not have survived Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) to write this yarn. It was a little bit rough but I learned about heifers from her.” $175.00

850. CASEY, Clifford B. Mirages, Mysteries, and Reality: Brewster County, Texas, the Big Bend of the Rio Grande. Hereford: Pioneer Book Publishers, [1972]. x, 485 [1] pp., numerous text illustrations (photographic and line drawings by Ron Reynolds), maps. 4to, original green pictorial cloth. Short tear on last leaf repaired with tape, slight musty smell, otherwise fine. First edition. Comprehensive county history by a professional historian and longtime professor at Sul Ross. Information and many photos on area ranches, including an extensive list of Brewster County brands with dates of registration. Also, Alpine, Texas in the World Wars, the Pershing Punitive Expedition against Villa, many local crimes and outlaws, and a large section of biographies (men and women). Includes photographs and information on John Young, protagonist of J. Frank Dobie’s Vaquero of the Brush Country. $100.00

851. CASEY, Robert J. The Texas Border and Some Borderliners: A Chronicle and a Guide. Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1950]. [4] 440 pp., frontispiece, photographs, photographic plates, endpaper maps, back pocket containing 35 pp. booklet The Guide (list of current area attractions). Spine a bit faded, minor shelf wear, otherwise fine. First edition, limited “Lone Star” issue (special leaf signed by author tipped in). Adams, Burs I:73. Campbell, p. 171. Dykes, Kid 414. Guns 392: “Takes in some large territory and covers practically all the outlaws in the Southwest, including those involved in the Lincoln County War.” Herd 429. History of the Texas border, with emphasis on battles and bad men (Sam Bass, Salt War, etc.); also some mention of King Ranch and other ranching topics. The author opens his history with this 1910 quotation by Joe Bailey of the Houston Post: “The Texas border is about a thousand miles long, counting detours, and it’s just as wide as anybody who owns a cow over there thinks it is.” $50.00

852. CASEY, Robert J. The Texas Border and Some Borderliners.... Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1950]. 440 pp., frontispiece, photographs, photographic plates, endpaper maps, back pocket containing 35 pp. booklet The Guide. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First trade edition. $35.00

853. CASTLEMAN, Harvey N. Sam Bass, the Train Robber: The Life of Texas’ Most Popular Bandit. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1944. 24 pp. 12mo, original white printed wrappers. Text browned due to the cheap paper on which the pamphlet is printed, otherwise very fine, wrappers very fresh. First edition. Guns 396: “A fairly accurate account.” This little biography indicates that disillusionment with his life as a cowboy led Sam Bass to a life of crime. $25.00

854. CASTLEMAN, Harvey N. The Texas Rangers: The Story of an Organization That Is Unique, Like Nothing Else in America. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1944. 24 pp. 12mo, original white printed wrappers. Text browned due to the cheap paper on which the pamphlet is printed, otherwise very fine, wrappers very fresh. First edition. Guns 397. A brief hero-worship history of the Rangers in which the author acknowledges his reliance on Walter Prescott Webb. Cattle industry interest is in the material after the Civil War: McNelly’s Rangers on the border chasing Mexican rustlers and the gringo rustlers disguised as Mexicans (1875); recovery of a herd of cattle stolen by King Fisher (1876); Ranger George W. Arrington’s routing of outlaws and cattle thieves in the first Ranger station established in the Panhandle in the 1880s (cattleman Charles Goodnight threatened to recruit a private army of his own since he did not trust the Feds to protect Panhandle cattlemen against Native American and Anglo cattle rustlers); Rangers in the Fence-Cutter Wars (1884). $15.00

855. CATES, Cliff D. Pioneer History of Wise County: From Red Men to Railroads; Twenty Years of Intrepid History, Compiled under the Auspices of the Wise County Settlers’ Association. Decatur, Texas [St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing], 1907. 471 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, portraits, ads. 8vo, original dark green cloth. Binding dull, hinges cracked and covers loose, first few leaves detached and with marginal chipping. First edition. CBC 4854. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 118 (“Ranger Reading”): “Local history that I can recommend for [its] readability.” Herd 431: “Rare.” Howes C238. Rader 627. Tate, Indians of Texas 2358: “Includes numerous accounts of Indian raids in this North Texas county, some as told by pioneer residents. Also includes a full chapter Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) on the Delaware Indians in Texas and Oklahoma.” Vandale 31. The section on “Cattle and Hogs and Conditions” gives some early ranching history. Includes biographies and family histories (many with photographs) of pioneer ranchers. Good coverage of women. $475.00

856. CATHEY, Viola. Pancake Memories. [Copperas Cove: Published by the author at Freeman Printing, 1977]. [6] 100 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations (portraits, photographic illustrations, facsimiles). 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. Fine, with related newsclippings laid in. Privately printed and very scarce. First edition. This history of the tiny farming and ranching community of Pancake (Coryell County, Texas) includes a biography of John Russell Pancake, namesake of the town. Pancake came to Texas in 1858 and purchased a tract of 1,476 acres on the Hamilton-Coryell county line where he commenced stockraising. Pancake was one of the first ranchers to fence his land, and by the time of his death in 1888, he had increased his holdings to 8,000 acres, making it one of the finest ranches in the area and the gathering point for the ranchers of Coryell, Hamilton, and Bosque Counties. Pancake contracted with northern cattle dealers and drove large herds to Kansas. Other ranches and their owners are discussed. $45.00

857. The Cattleman 4:8. Fort Worth: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas, January 1918. 55 [1] pp., illustrations, ads. 8vo, original photographic wrappers. Spine chipping and a few old tape repairs, staples rusting, wrappers lightly stained and foxed, internally fine. First printing. Contains expected cattle content on tick eradication, velvet beans as feed, “The Importance of Roughage,” Billie Whiteside and his baby beeves, numerous ads (such as one for Mollie D. Abernathy & Sons’ Swastika Ranch in Lubbock illustrating their swastika brand), etc. However, the best article in this issue is Jason W. James’s “Over the Trail in 1858: From Kansas to Utah with an Ox Train” in which James gives a firsthand account of signing on with ex-Confederate General Joe O. Shelby to carry 6,000-7,000 pounds of freight in thirty wagons to Salt Lake City to supply General Harney’s army to punish the Mormons for the Mountain Meadow Massacre. $35.00

858. The Cattleman 22:10. Fort Worth: Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, March 1936. 112 pp., illustrations, ads. 4to, original full-color pictorial wrappers with Texas Centennial theme evoking the evolution Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) of the cattle trade in Texas (six flags fly over of a map of Texas with an old longhorn on one side of the map and a well-bred Hereford on the other). Fine. First printing. Good content, including John M. Hendrix’s “Bronk Busters Paid Top Wages” with Erwin E. Smith photographs at the LS Ranch and Matador Land and Cattle Company. An article on “Scrappy Bovines” has a photo by W. D. Smithers, and Denver cowboy W. W. Thompson’s article “A Day’s Work” has a photo by Erwin E. Smith. C. L. Douglas’s “Cattle Kings of Texas” explains how the King Ranch served as a buffer between the U.S. and Mexico. $25.00

859. The Cattleman 30:4. Fort Worth: Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, September 1943. 184 pp., illustrations, ads. 4to, original photographic wrappers. Light edge wear and creasing to front wrapper, otherwise fine. First printing. Dobie, p. 132: “This monthly magazine of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association began in 1939 to issue, for September, a horse number. It has published a vast amount of material both scientific and popular on range horses.” This issue, the fifth annual Horse issue, includes Frank Reeves’s “Cowboys and Their Horses,” Florence Fenley’s Cow Horse-Sense and Camp-Cow Doings,” Hazel Oatman Bowman’s “Mrs. W. C. Wallace: Horsewoman of the Early Twentieth Century,” John M. Hendrix’s “Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, Rode a Palomino,” and much more. $15.00

860. The Cattleman 36:5. Fort Worth: Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, October 1949. 144 pp., illustrations, ads. 4to, original full-color pictorial wrappers with illustration by Tom Lea. Fine. First printing. Includes “Kansas Grass Cattle” by Frank Reeves, and an article on windmills, “Water from the Wind” by Joe M. Carmichael. $15.00

861. CAUGHEY, John Walton. Gold Is the Cornerstone. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948. xvi, 321 pp., plates (from vintage prints, plus one by J. Goldsborough Bruff), vignettes by W. R. Cameron. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. Dobie, p. 144. Rocq 15747. Mentions the undocumented era of cattle and sheep drives into California catering to the miners (specifically citing Isaac J. Wistar, one of the importers from Oregon) and the effect of the Gold Rush on the rancheros of southern California. “The Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) rancheros...accustomed to raising cattle for hides and tallow, enjoyed a fabulous boom when a market opened for beef. Few realized a dollar a pound, and not for long, but the price leveled off at several times the figure of the hide-and-tallow days.... Sometimes the rancheros staged their own drives.... Henry Miller did not become a Swift, an Armour, or a Cudahy, but, with his abattoirs and outlets in San Francisco and his ranches spread from the Mexico border into Nevada and Oregon, he was, without exaggeration, the Cattle King” (pp. 209-10). $50.00

862. CAVE-BROWNE-CAVE, Genille. From Cowboy to Pulpit. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1926. 312 [8, ads] pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear and foxing (especially adjacent to plates), generally very good. Rare in commerce. First edition. Herd 442: “Chapters on ranching and punching cows. Experiences of an Englishman who came to America and eventually became a minister.” The English author (b. 1869), while still a green youth, left home to join the circus and then signed on to be a sailor on a ship bound for South Australia, where he went to work in a rabbit extermination camp. His life changed forever when he met Mexican Joe, a famous entrepreneur of a Wild West Show, and saw a cowboy for the first time. “Every minute I could spend away from the regiment was spent with Mexican Joe and his lads from the far Western ranches, and all my early ideas of the West, where I was to spend such a big slice of my life, were gathered from the men I met there and talked to at their work.... That definitely settled it—a cowboy’s life was the life for me.” The author gives a splendid, entertaining description of ranch life and how he gained respect by developing “the most uncanny skill with the lariat, beating everybody on our own and neighboring ranches.” After a brief stint at intercepting opium smugglers in Bombay, our hero’s cowboy adventures continued in Texas, Colorado, Mexico, the Circle Dot Ranch, Utah, Wyoming, and New York (where he acted in the movies and worked as a stand-in for cowgirl actresses, wearing women’s clothing while filming dangerous stunt shots involving roping, riding, and shooting). That New York gig brought an end to the author’s escapades. A pretty Salvation Army lassie converted him and he became a minister, finally returning to England, marrying, and becoming a respectable man of the cloth. $600.00

863. CAZNEAU, [Jane M. McManus Storms]. Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border by Mrs. William L. Cazneau (Cora Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Montgomery). Austin: Pemberton Press, 1966. [10] 194 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Limited edition (500 copies); facsimile of the first edition (New York 1852), with added introduction and index. Graff 2873n. Hanna, Yale Exhibit: “More than an account of life in Texas in the 1840s and 50s. It is, in general, a plea for just and humanitarian treatment of all people, and, in particular, a stinging indictment of the abominable treatment of the Indian and the Black in America.” Howes C251n. Raines, p. 252n. Tate, Indians of Texas 2466n: “Discusses the continuous Indian raids along the southern Texas border during the early 1850s, and describes the Seminoles who had recently settled along the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.” Wallace (Destiny and Glory, chapter 12) states that the author “was the most adventurous of any American woman on record and deserves far more than the oblivion which has been her fate.” See The Handbook of Texas Online: Jane Maria Eliza McManus Cazneau. Notable American Women I:315-16. An important record of life along the recently acquired Rio Grande frontier by one of the first settlers of Eagle Pass, Texas. Ranching content includes a description of the wretched working conditions of vaqueros and peons on the vast haciendas in Mexico (as described by Severo Valdez, a vaquero who had left Mexico to work as a ranch hand for Col. Henry Lawrence Kinney in Corpus Christi); prospects for stockraising in Texas (“the prairies swarm with fine cattle, and where cows may be had at seven or eight dollars a head, and can rout out and take care of themselves the whole year”); cattle rustling and horse thievery on the border by Mexicans and Native Americans. $45.00

864. CÉLIZ, Francisco. Diary of the Alarcón Expedition into Texas, 1718-1719. Translated by Fritz Leo Hoffman. Los Angeles: Quivira Society, 1935. [12] 124 pp., plates (mostly sepia-tone photographs), maps (one foldout). 8vo, original white cloth over rose boards. Fine, mostly unopened, in publisher’s original glassine dust wrapper (slightly tattered). First edition, limited edition (#392 of 600 copies). Quivira Society Publications 5. Basic Texas Books 29: “Records the founding of the town of San Antonio and the mission of the Alamo.” Campbell, p. 173. Clark, Old South I:13. Howes C254. Tate, Indians of Texas 1708: “A valuable description of all the tribes contacted during a march from Mission San Juan Bautista to Los Adaes, Louisiana. Researchers interested in the tribes, as well as the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) mission system, should consult this highly descriptive source.” When thinking of cattle drives and overland expeditions in the West, it is sometimes overlooked that some of the most remarkable examples of this type of trail- blazing occurred in the Spanish era. The purpose of the Alarcón expedition was to strengthen and extend Spanish presence in Texas, to re-supply the missions already established in East Texas, and to found new missions in the San Antonio-San Marcos area. The party, consisting of 72 persons (with 10 families), marched and rode overland with numerous tools and supplies and a large herd of domestic animals (numerous cattle, 6 droves of mules, 548 horses, sheep, and chickens). In May 1718 at what is probably present San Marcos, the party sighted a black Castilian bull and realized that the animal tracks they had assumed to be bison were actually those of the cattle that Alonso de León had left during his first trip to Texas (1686). In September 1718, after constructing the villa of Béxar (destined to become the most important town in Spanish Texas), Céliz records that Governor Alarcón presented the village with sixty head of cattle; in January 1719, after building San Antonio de Valero, additional cattle, sheep, and other livestock were ordered to be supplied to the new mission. $250.00

865. CENDRARS, Blaise. Sutter’s Gold. Translated...by Henry Longan Stuart. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1926. [14] 179 pp., woodcut designs by Harry Cimino. 8vo, original three-quarter black cloth over gold boards in worn, price-clipped pictorial d.j. Light shelf wear, moderate discoloration to covers, color frontispiece and decorated title detached, interior bright and clean. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of W. V. Casey. First edition. Dobie, p. 144. Rocq 6661. Author describes mission livestock operations and Sutter’s grandiose ranch. $15.00

866. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Antonio and Its Beginnings: Comprising the Four Numbers of the San Antonio Series with Appendix. San Antonio: Artes Gráficas Printing Company, 1936. 99 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations (some photographic), plans. 8vo, original brown pictorial wrappers. Text browned, remains of bookplate inside back wrapper. Second edition. CBC 304n. Rader 646. Tate, Indians of Texas 1709. San Antonio history from 1691 to 1731. Includes information on ranching at San José Mission in the late 1700s and statistics on mission herds. $35.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

867. CHABOT, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio: Genealogies of the Early Latin, Anglo-American, and German Families with Occasional Biographies, Each Group Being Prefaced with a Brief Historical Sketch and Illustrations.... San Antonio: Privately Published [printed by Artes Gráficas], 1937. [10] 412 pp., frontispiece, plates (photogravures, including some after Gentilz paintings), text illustrations. Thick 8vo, original brown textured cloth. Slight shelf wear, otherwise very fine. First edition, trade issue (a limited edition of 25 autographed copies came out at the same time). Basic Texas Books 222:IV: “Noteworthy source book on early families and prominent Texans of the San Antonio region, with extensive quotations of original documents. The volume has a research value in many areas beyond the area of San Antonio.” Cumberland, United States–Mexican Border, p. 112. Not in CBC. This work includes family histories of the earliest Spanish ranchers in the San Antonio region, along with histories of their grants. One of the illustrations is a 1778 list of cattle brands in the Béxar Archives. Among the portraits is a handsome photogravure of Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870), noted early Texan and pioneer cattle and land baron. “Maverick...left a small herd of cattle originally purchased in 1847 on Matagorda Peninsula with slave caretakers. It was this herd that was allowed to wander and gave rise to the term maverick, which denotes an unbranded calf. In 1854 Maverick and his two eldest sons rounded up the cattle and drove them to their Conquista Ranch near the site of present Floresville before selling them in 1856. During the years between Maverick’s return to San Antonio and his death, he expanded his West Texas landholdings, which in 1851 totaled almost 140,000 acres. By 1864 they had burgeoned to more than 278,000 acres, and at his death they topped 300,000 acres.”—The Handbook of Texas Online: Samuel Augustus Maverick. $375.00

868. CHAFFIN, Lorah B. Sons of the West: Biographical Account of Early-Day Wyoming. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1941. 284 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in price-clipped d.j. with light wear and chip at lower margin of front panel (approximately 1.3 x 5 cm). Signed by author on front free endpaper, “Cordially Yours, Lorah B. Chaffin.” Above author’s presentation is a contemporary gift inscription: “With Best Wishes for the Christmas time and the coming year to Count and Countess Thorn(?) Rider from their friends Mr. and Mrs. J. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Gatchell.” Below author’s presentation is a the ownership inscription of Edith W. Blunk of Denver dated in 1941. First edition. Guns 403. Herd 443: “Chapters on the cattle industry of Wyoming and touches upon the Johnson County War.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 17: “Bits of information about leaders in Wyoming from early explorers to Senator O’Mahoney.... Livestock raising and rodeos.” Smith 1604. $100.00

869. CHAFFIN, Lorah B. Sons of the West.... Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1941. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in very good d.j. (lightly worn and chipped; price-clipped). $75.00

870. CHALFANT, W. A. Death Valley, the Facts. Stanford, London, & Oxford: Stanford University Press, 1930. ix [1] 155 pp., photographic plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original orange and black pictorial cloth. Lower corners bumped, otherwise very fine. First edition. Edwards, Desert Harvest 8: “Many great and enduring books have been written of this desert; but, to me, there are two of them that stand alone, distinctive and invulnerable. One of these is the Manly; the other, Chalfant’s Death Valley”; Enduring Desert, pp. 45-46: “The recognized handbook of Death Valley and, as such, assembles a veritable treasure-trove of informative material. Its content features the Valley’s geography, history, climatology, water, plants, animals, geology, mining, borax, novelties, perils, and man-made improvements. An essential item in any desert collection.” Paher, Nevada 306. Rocq 2289. Furnace Creek Ranch is discussed and illustrated: “The place would not be notable in a more favored region, but in widespread desolation and below sea- level, it is unique. Its fertile loam responds generously to cultivation.... A hundred acres of the ranch were fenced, and some forty acres have been used for alfalfa raising. The hay, cut four times a year, was fed to high- grade cattle, providing the beef supply for the one hundred and twenty-five men working at Ryan and the two hundred and fifty at Death Valley Junction” (p. 140). The author also mentions Steininger’s Ranch (later acquired by the mysterious Walter Scott, sometime cowboy and champion rough rider in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show) and San Francisquito Ranch. $37.50

871. CHALFANT, W. A. Outposts of Civilization. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, [1928]. 193 pp. 8vo, original maroon ribbed cloth. Fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Cowan, p. 112. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 45: “Scarce, important, and a worthy addition to any desert collection.” Guns 405. Howes C260. Paher, Nevada 308: “Vigilantes, early day transportation, mining camps, Nevada-California boundary dispute, Knights of the Road (Wells Fargo), millionaires and stock promotion excitement.” Rocq 15749. The chapter on “The Bandits of California” discusses pre-Gold Rush banditti, such as Andreas Armijo and Thomas Maria Carrillo, alleged leaders of cattle-rustling and horse-stealing gangs. The author tells how the Gold Rush upset the balance of power in California, revolutionizing the old ranchos in a single season (pp. 137-38, “The Bandits of California”): “There were few uses for the plains and rolling hills other than as pastures for wild cattle, slaughtered for hides and tallow, their carcasses left for the buzzards. Idyllic conditions no longer held sway.... A few occasional days of toil at cattle round-ups no longer sufficed to provide a living, and many who had so existed were ready to turn to banditry as an easy alternative.... The term ‘Greaser,’ originally applied to the American and English buyers of hides and tallow, became an opprobrious designation for those of Spanish descent, native-born, Mexican, Chilean and Peruvian.” Chalfant includes information on post-Gold Rush outlaws, including Texan John Irving (his gang stole $15,000 in gold and 900 horses from a San Joaquin Valley rancho in 1851) and much on Joaquin Murieta (“the grand duke of bandit ignobility” whose chief business became stock rustling from ranches). $100.00

872. CHALFANT, W. A. The Story of Inyo. [Chicago]: Published by the Author [at Hammond Press], 1922. xviii, 358 pp., foldout map, errata on lower pastedown. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise very fine. Bookplate of scholar Margaret Long on front pastedown; lower pastedown with printed label of Paul Elder, noted San Francisco bookseller and proprietor of the arts and crafts Tomoyé Press. First edition. Cowan, p. 112. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 45. Guns 406: “Scarce.” Herd 444: “Has a chapter on ‘The Coming of the Stockmen.’” Howes C261: “Best history of the California region east of the Sierras, the Owens Valley and Death Valley.” Paher, Nevada 309n (citing the second edition): “Exploration, geological facts, desert camps, pioneer settlements, Indian fights, bad men and transportation.” Rocq 2227. $100.00

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873. CHALFANT, W. A. The Story of Inyo. [Chicago]: Published by the Author [at Hammond Press], 1922. Another copy. Binding worn and stained. $65.00

874. CHAMBERLAIN, Hiram. My Dear Henrietta: Hiram Chamberlain’s Letters to His Daughter, 1846-1866. Kingsville: [Designed and printed by W. Thomas Taylor for] King Ranch, Inc., 1993. 103 [3] pp., 4 plates (photographic). 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Mint. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Handsomely printed by W. Thomas Taylor; edited and annotated with introduction and commentary by Bruce Cheeseman. Chamberlain’s daughter, Henrietta, married Richard King and helped him to build his fledgling rancho on the banks of the Santa Gertrudis Creek into a 614,000- acre ranching empire, which he bequeathed solely to her upon his death. Under her management, the King Ranch prospered and grew. $125.00

875. CHAMBERLAIN, Newell D. The Call of Gold: True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite. [Mariposa: Gazette Press, 1936]. xii [2] 183 pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), maps, facsimile. 8vo, original tan cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine in torn and chipped d.j. (price-clipped). Ink inscription “Redmond” on blank flyleaf. First edition. Guns 407. Rocq 5099. This book contains peripheral information of interest for ranching history, particularly several chapters on Frémont’s 44,000-acre Mariposa grant, which was challenged on the basis that the grant was originally made to Alvarado for grazing and agricultural purposes and thus did not convey mineral rights. Some mention is made of Frémont’s successful bid for supplying several thousand head of cattle to the U.S. government. $65.00

876. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Small Songs of a Big Country. N.p., n.d. [title verso: Copyright 1916/by Arthur Chapman/Press of Carson- Harper/Denver, Colorado]. 15 pp. 12mo, original grey printed wrappers. Very fine; interesting association copy. Laid in is an undated one-page manuscript letter written and signed in pencil by J. Harry Carson, (managing editor of the Railroad Red Book Monthly), to George L. Beam, Passenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad sending Beam this copy of Chapman’s book and stating that the book was printed in an edition of only 25 copies (“I Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) have a couple of copies over printed—the edition was only 25.... I really have no right to send out these books, but it is more or less a family affair”). Carson’s letter is written on the printed stationery of the Railroad Red Book Monthly. First edition (the title poem “Out Where the West Begins” first appeared in print on December 3, 1911, in “Center Shots,” the column that Chapman wrote for the Denver Republican); limited edition (25 copies printed, according to J. Harry Carson’s letter laid in the book—see previous paragraph). Carson-Harper (the printer of Chapman’s book) published the Railroad Red Book Monthly (1884-1925), which contained timetables and other material pertinent to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and Western Pacific Railway. Campbell, p. 225. Fourteen poems about cowboys and the West by Arthur Chapman (1873-1935), poet- journalist, including his Western classic, “Out Where the West Begins.” Legend has it that with only ten minutes left before the deadline for submitting copy for his column, Chapman glanced at some wire news about the Western states governors bickering over where the West began—the Alleghenies, the Mississippi, or someplace else. Chapman solved his problem by dashing off “Out Where the West Begins.” He promptly forgot his jingle and was astounded at the warm national reception his little poem received. Chapman began his newspaper career on the Chicago Daily News in 1895 and joined the Denver Republican three years later. In 1913 he became managing editor of the Denver Times, and subsequently relocated to New York. Chapman was considered “a crack newspaperman,” but the magazine articles and books he wrote brought him national recognition. He returned to Colorado several times to gather information on a Colorado history he planned to write. This slender wrapper-bound book is quite scarce. RLIN locates only a microfilm copy, without date on title (as in the present copy). OCLC gives six locations (unable to determine if the date 1916 is on the title or not). The earliest date for Chapman’s book title Out Where the West Begins is Denver, 1916. The poem was very popular. OCLC lists over a dozen printings with this poem named in the title. Other printed versions of the poem include a large illustrated postcard and a version set to music for chorus. $250.00

877. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Small Songs of a Big Country. [Denver: Carson-Harper, 1916]. Another copy. Very fine. $150.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

878. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1917. ix [3] 90 [4] pp., photographic endpapers. 12mo, original half brown cloth over grey boards. Binding lightly worn and with mild marginal browning and one small spot on upper cover, internally fine, in lightly worn d.j. (price-clipped). Author’s signed presentation copy to noted writer William MacLeod Raine (to whom Chapman dedicated his book The Pony Express: “In recognition of their large share in making this book: To Will and Mrs. Raine in whose friendship the Chapmans have always rejoiced. Arthur Chapman, Denver, March, 1917.” First edition. This work contains over fifty verses, including “Out Where the West Begins,” “The Dude Ranch,” “The Cowboys and the Tempter,” “A Cowboy’s Musings,” “The Herder’s Reverie,” “Border Riders,” “The Range Pirates,” “The Ostrich-Punching of Arroyo Al,” “Before the Gringo Came,” etc. $75.00

879. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1917. Another copy. Author’s signed presentation copy incorporating some lines from his famous poem: “‘Where there’s more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying—That’s where the West begins.’ With the author’s compliments to Mr. A. J. Fynn. Arthur Chapman, Denver, Colorado, Dec. 15, 1917.” Light shelf wear, otherwise very fine in price-clipped d.j. (somewhat worn and chipped). $60.00

880. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1917. Another copy, author’s signed presentation copy: “With the compliments of Arthur Chapman. Denver, March 12, 1917.” Very fine, without the d.j. $50.00

881. CHAPMAN, Arthur. The Pony Express: The Record of a Romantic Adventure in Business. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1932. 319 pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan buckram. A few signatures opened carelessly, otherwise very fine in fine d.j. illustrated by Will Crawford (the d.j. is scarce). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Dobie, p. 80: “Good reading and bibliography.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Crawford 16). Guns 412: “Scarce.” Howes C291. Saunders 2809. Wynar 6714. The book contains little on ranching, but we include it here because of the excellent discussion of the ponies and horsemanship of the daring riders. Furthermore, there is a fine description and illustration (p. 86 et seq.) of the Pony Express saddle designed under the direction of W. A. Cates, Pony Express rider. Chapman discusses how the Pony Express saddle was a modified design of the regular stock saddle then in use in the West, noting that the “California tree” was lighter than the heavy model evolved from the vaquero saddle, which had been found most comfortable for man and horse in roundup work and day-to- day riding on the range. In chapter 15 (“Youth in the Saddle”), Chapman maintains that the appeal of the West in the Pony Express era, unlike the Gold Rush with its mad quest for treasure, was adventure and the attraction of vocations like ranching, freighting, and staging as an escape from the humdrum life in the East and Midwest. “These young adventurers of the trail supplied the Pony Express with some of its best riders. Among the half a dozen Overland ‘Pony’ riders whom I have chanced to know, every one, at some time in his story, has brought out the fact that he had drifted west in search of excitement. It was the same spirit that sent thousands of others to the west, later on, to seek jobs as cowboys” (pp. 224-25). $100.00

882. CHAPMAN, Arthur. The Story of Colorado: Out Where the West Begins. Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, [1924]. 270 pp., color frontispiece of Spanish explorers in the Southwest by Will Crawford, numerous plates, text illustrations (2 by Crawford), maps. 8vo, original blue and green gilt-pictorial cloth. A desirable copy—fine, fresh, tight, and bright. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Crawford 15). Herd 447. Wilcox, p. 23: “Intended as a textbook for the schools of Colorado.” Wynar 18. Has a chapter on “Live Stock and Agricultural Industries.” The preface includes Chapman’s poem “Out Where the West Begins.” Pp. 182-84: “There is no way of estimating the number of cowboys who were in Colorado when the cattle business in this state had reached its height in the eighties, but there were many thousands...most of the available grazing lands in the state were occupied by vast herds.... The cattle business began in a small way in Colorado about the time it started in Texas, in the early Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) sixties.... The buffalo were not yet out of the state before their range was shared by domestic cattle, running with almost as great freedom as the wild animals and looked after only twice a year, at the spring and fall round-ups.” $60.00

883. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. More Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Bennett Printing Company, 1961. 58 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. illustrated by José Cisneros. First edition, limited edition (300 copies). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 43). Guns 414. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 131A. Tularosa is in Otero County, New Mexico, just north of El Paso. This volume includes a chapter on Three Rivers Ranch and the formation of Otero County, which had been the part of Lincoln County where the stock war occurred. Includes material on Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War. $75.00

884. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. More Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Bennett Printing Company, 1961. 58 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red pictorial wrappers by Cisneros. Very fine. First edition, wrappers issue. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 44). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 131B. $35.00

885. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. More Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Bennett Printing Company, 1966. 58 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers by Cisneros. Mild edge wear to wraps, else fine, signed by author. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. Later printing. $20.00

886. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. [8] 69 [1] pp., illustrated title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one double- page). 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in d.j. by Cisneros. Signed by author on front free endpaper, and author’s signed presentation note on verso: “Best wishes to Mr. & Mrs. A. E. McClymonds—friends of the Camp Charles’s. Bula Charles Alamogordo N.M. 2-27-1957.” First edition, limited edition (100 copies bound in cloth). Guns 415 (giving incorrect publication date of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1963). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 42). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 82A: “The exceptionally fine title-page drawing (of a young Gene Rhodes on horseback) and the illustrated map (repeated on the covers) are the work of José Cisneros.” Chapters on Eugene Manlove Rhodes and the Apache Kid, noted rustler and outlaw. Edited by Francis L. Fugate. $100.00

887. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. by Cisneros. Signed by author on verso of front free endpaper. $85.00

888. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo, [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. by Cisneros, with publisher’s announcement laid in (signed by Lola Charles and Carl Hertzog). $75.00

889. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. [8] 69 [1] pp., illustrated title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one double- page). 8vo, original terracotta pictorial wrappers by Cisneros. Slight edge wear to fragile wraps, but overall fine, signed by author on verso of front free endpaper. First edition, wrappers issue. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 82B. $40.00

890. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. Another copy. Wrappers detaching at staples. Paper fragment on inside upper wrapper. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate and pencil note on front free endpaper: “1st ed does not have footnote on pages 7 & 49”. $35.00

891. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1954. [8] 69 pp., illustrated title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one double-page). 8vo, original terracotta cloth, pale green King Ranch mesquite endpapers. Light staining in gutters, otherwise very fine in d.j. by Cisneros (second partial d.j. also present). Signed by artist Cisneros on title verso. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown and his pencil note at back: “Logging train near Cloudcroft. The narrow gauge railroad.” Printed slip regarding fourth printing laid in at rear. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Third printing, revised (footnotes added on pp. 7 and 49, colophon at end removed). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 41n). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 87A. From a personal communication with Al Lowman: “It may very well be a unique copy that Carl cobbled together from left-over scraps. It was the sort of thing he would do to bug bibliographers. If he thought it might look appealing, he wouldn't hesitate to do it. And I remember having seen that copy. Once the King Ranch book was finished, he was so intrigued with the mesquite endpapers that he used them again in the so-called Colophon Edition of Forty Years at El Paso—of which there were perhaps a hundred copies only.” $40.00

892. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1954. Another copy, variant endpapers (maize King Ranch mesquite endpapers). Light staining in gutters, otherwise very fine in d.j. by Cisneros. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate and ink note on inside flap of d.j.: “Later binding 1961.” Printed slip regarding fourth printing laid in at rear. Third printing, revised. $35.00

893. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1954. [8] 69 pp., illustrated title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one double-page). 8vo, original terracotta pictorial wrappers by Cisneros. Wrappers detached and moderately worn. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. Third printing, wrappers issue. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 87B. $20.00

894. CHASE, Agnes. First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners. San Antonio: W. A. Silveus, 1937. xiii [3] 125 pp., text illustrations. 12mo, original light green cloth. Binding spotted and faded, text fine. Revised edition (first published in 1922). A study of the forage that is the basis for the cattle industry. $20.00

895. CHASE, Doris. They Pushed Back the Forest. [Sacramento], 1959. 78 pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic), maps. 8vo, original stiff blue pictorial wrappers. Very fine, signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. The primary industries of Del Norte County, in northern California, are lumber, tourism, and dairying. There is a description DeMartin Ranch, particularly interesting for its account of bear depredations on sheep herds. $25.00

896. CHASE, Edward L. The Big Book of Horses. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951. [26] pp., color illustrations by author. Folio, original green pictorial boards. Head of spine torn (approximately 2.5 cm), otherwise fine. Children’s picture book of horses with brief explanatory text on breeds and history. Double-page illustration of “Cutting Pony and the Quarter Horse” showing a herding scene. $10.00

897. CHASE, J. Smeaton. California Desert Trails. With...an Appendix of Plants. Also Hints on Desert Travelling. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1919]. [1, ad] xvi [2] 387 [1] pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original olive pictorial cloth. Bookplate partially removed from front pastedown, otherwise very fine. First edition, early reprint (without date on title). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 48: “One of the two outstanding books descriptive of the Colorado Desert.... All phases of desert life and desert conditions are ably covered.... Indispensable to any library, large or small, whether for desert lover or desert stranger.” Flake 1259a. Rocq 16222. Description of Warner’s Ranch, driving cattle by the desert route and use of Borego Springs, challenges to livestock from desert climate and sparse, thorny forage, etc. $45.00

898. CHATELLE, Miriam. For We Love Our Valley Home. San Antonio: Naylor, [1948]. x, 114 [2, blank] [28, ads] pp., photographic plates, illustrated ads. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine in fine d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. Regional history of the Rio Grande Valley in which Chatelle discusses early Spanish land grants. She relates that prior to the Mexican-American War, longhorn cattle of the brasada were gathered by vaqueros for hides and tallow, which were picked up by schooners belonging to Boston merchants. A section on bandits discusses dispossessed Mexican rancher Juan Nepomucena Cortinas and his raids. The nature of cattle raising was quite relaxed in the Valley—most ranchers lived on the river bank with their cattle running almost wild in the brush country along the river. Includes material on Richard King, Mifflin Kenedy, and the King Ranch. Los Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Fresnos, the author’s home town, receives special attention, beginning with the history of the 1791 Espíritu Santo Grant to José Salvador de la Garza and its 1846 division into long narrow strips extending to the river, which allowed each landowner unrestricted access to water for stock. The author discusses the 1918 cattle rustling and how her family was forced to abandon their home in the wake of the violence. $60.00

899. CHATTERTON, Fenimore C. Yesterday’s Wyoming: The Intimate Memoirs of Fenimore Chatterton, Territorial Citizen, Governor, Builder. [Aurora, Colorado]: Powder River Publishers & Booksellers, 1957. 133 pp., author’s portrait tipped onto preliminary leaf, plates (photographic). 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. First edition, limited edition (#415 of 1,000 copies). Guns 416. Herd 452: “Has some material on the Wyoming cattle industry and the Johnson County War.” $65.00

900. CHÁVEZ, Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period.... Santa Fe: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1954. xvii [3] 339 [1] pp., facsimiles, text illustrations (some by José Cisneros). Large 4to, original stiff wrappers printed in red and black with illustration by Cisneros. Fine. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 45). A vast compendium of genealogical information on New Mexico spanning the years from 1598 to 1821. Excellent coverage of land grants, biographies of early ranchers and stockmen, occasional mention of livestock. $150.00

901. CHEESEMAN, Bruce S. Perfectly Exhausted with Pleasure: The 1881 King-Kenedy Excursion Train to Laredo; with Thirteen Illustrations of People and Places That Shaped Events, and Contemporary Accounts of the Trip. Austin: [W. Thomas Taylor for] The Book Club of Texas, [1992]. 41 [2] pp., plates, illustrations, map (printed by David Holman at Wind River Press). Oblong 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in original mylar d.j. First edition, limited edition (450 copies). Cattle barons Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy of King Ranch fame helped finance construction of the railroad from Corpus Christi to Laredo. The railroad allowed them to get their cattle to market more efficiently, with the added benefit that much of the state bonus lands granted for completion of this railroad eventually ended up behind King’s fences. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

A delightful account of the extravaganza that King and Kenedy arranged for the first trip on the line. Among the lavish provisions were forty baskets of champagne (in addition to other liquor) and two thousand cigars. Robert Kleberg, who accompanied the party, commented in a letter to his sister: “Quite a number of our leading citizens and Pillars of the church were perfectly exhausted with pleasure by the time they reached Laredo.” $75.00

902. CHEESEMAN, Bruce S. & Al Lowman. “The Book of All Christendom”: Tom Lea, Carl Hertzog, and the Making of “The King Ranch” [wrapper title]. Kingsville: [W. Thomas Taylor for] King Ranch Inc., 1992. 11 [1] 13 [2] pp., 4 photographic plates. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Mint. First edition, limited edition (750 copies). Shortly after the Book Club of Texas was re-established, remaining copies of the Saddle Blanket edition of The King Ranch were discovered at the ranch by archivist Bruce Cheeseman. Arrangements were made between the Book Club of Texas and the King Ranch for these newly located copies to be offered to Club members. A special dinner and event were organized at the King Ranch, complete with the excellent lectures printed in this book. Lowman quotes the printer of book, perfectionist Carl Hertzog: “No one will ever know what it takes to produce a book like this—and it’s frustrating to know that it is not what it ought to be when all the money needed was available, quite a paradox; wonderful story, wonderful people, a fine artist, a good writer, good historians, hardworking double checkers, but just too many people involved to make good—too much pressure. I wish I could start all over again.” Lowman ends his lecture with a comment that Holland McCombs made to Hertzog: “Maybe our ultimate reward will be a Running W [brand] on our tombstones.” $40.00

903. CHEYENNE CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE. One Hundred Fifty Years in Western Art. N.p.: [Pioneer Printing and Stationery Co., 1967]. 30 pp., text illustrations (art work in black-and-white and color by Catlin, Bodmer, Russell, Remington, Koerner, Schreyvogel, et al.). 4to, original yellow pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. Includes an illustration of James Walker’s painting “Cowboys Roping a Bear.” Not in Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators. $25.00

904. CHIDESTER, Ida & Eleanor Bruhn (comps.). Golden Nuggets of Pioneer Days: A History of Garfield County. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

[Panguitch, Utah: The Garfield County Chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1949]. 374 pp., text illustrations (mostly portraits). 8vo, original green cloth. Spine a bit light, otherwise fine. First edition. A wealth of local and social history, with much on ranching, which is a primary industry in this area of south-central Utah. $45.00

905. CHILD, Theodore. Spanish-American Republics. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. xii, 444 [4, ads] pp., engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations and maps by leading illustrators of the day (including Remington). Large 8vo, original dark teal pictorial cloth gilt. Light shelf wear, especially at spinal extremities and corners, front hinge a bit weak, internally fine. Contemporary ink gift inscription on front free endpaper. Small printed label of J. W. Hardy (Libreria Inglesa, Valparaiso) on front pastedown. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 468). Larned 4030: “An account of Chile, Peru, the Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay as they appeared in 1890 to an active and well-equipped traveler from the U.S.” Palau 67777. Includes descriptions and illustrations of ranches, cattle, trade, gauchos, vaqueros, etc. The Remington illustrations are on pp. 35, 73, and 93. This volume is important from a cartographic perspective, since some of the regional maps, especially for wilderness areas, were the first printed of those areas. $100.00

906. CHILDS, Herbert. Way of a Gaucho. New York: Prentice- Hall, [1948]. [10] 429 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fore-edges lightly foxed, else fine in d.j. with minor foxing. J. Frank Dobie’s copy with his inserted 3 x 5 inch card to Dudley R. Dobie: “I ordered this. It’s fiction. I don’t want it.” First edition. Novel set in late nineteenth-century Argentina depicting a legendary gaucho’s battle for his way of life against the encroachment of settlers and their fences. “With the romance and action of Wister’s The Virginian and the authenticity and down-to-earth realism of Guthrie’s The Big Sky, it does for the gaucho what the latter book did for the mountain man or our own West” (from the d.j.). $25.00

907. CHIPMAN, Donald E. Nuño de Guzmán and the Province of Pánuco in New Spain, 1518-1533. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. 322 pp., frontispiece facsimile, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) plates, map, facsimiles. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine. First edition. Spain in the West, vol. 10. Clark & Brunet 40: “Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán ranks second only to Hernán Cortés in importance in the early conquest of New Spain. This is the first biography of a very important figure in the early history of Spanish colonization.” Guzman was an early Governor of Pánuco on the gulf coast of Mexico. As the region was so poor in cattle and other livestock, Guzman parlayed the encomienda system into a livestock-for-slaves trading contract with all incoming cargo vessels. $75.00

908. CHISHOLM, Fannie G. The Four State Chisholm Trail: A Factual Account of the Origin of the Old Chisholm Trail and Other Stories of the Chisholm Family in Early Days in Texas. [San Antonio: Munguia Printers, 1966]. [7] 143 pp., numerous illustrations (mostly photographs), maps, facsimiles, ornamental borders of brands. 12mo, original brown pictorial cloth. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Adams, Burs II:35: “This author claims that the Chisholm Trail was named after her relative Thornton Chisholm, whom she claims was the first man to drive cattle over this trail. But, as we know, the original Chisholm Trail was named after Jesse Chisholm, an Indian trader.” Written by the granddaughter of Thornton Chisholm, “founder of the Chisholm Trail,” this book tells the story of four generations of a ranching family in Central Texas. Includes an account of Kid McGee, a sharp-shooting ranch hand who “knew cattle backward and forward” and was discovered to be a woman upon her death. $50.00

909. CHISHOLM, Fannie G. The Four State Chisholm Trail.... [San Antonio: Munguia Printers, 1966]. Another copy. Very fine. $45.00

910. CHISHOLM, James. South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm’s Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush, Introduced and Edited by Lola M. Homsher. [Lincoln]: University of Nebraska Press, 1960. vi, 244 [1] pp., plates, maps. 8vo, original half beige cloth over red boards. Very fine in lightly creased and rubbed d.j. First edition. Pioneer Heritage Series 3. Guns 1016. Scotsman James Chisholm, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was more suited to reviewing drama and charity balls than frontier life in raw young Cheyenne. Yet, he has left us a vivid and literate record of Wyoming and the South Pass gold rush in 1868. Chisholm arrived in Cheyenne Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) only slightly ahead of a furious blizzard and just in time for a double lynching of a suspected murderer and the head of a gang of horse thieves. Between reporting on mining and vigilante violence, Chisholm describes Wyoming’s grass bonanza and the future prospects of the Wind River Valley for stockraising (chapter 10, “Return to Wind River Valley”): “It is the finest stock raising country in God’s world” (p. 123); “There are vast expanses of fine grazing ground on which thousands of herds could be raised” (p. 137); “Nothing but the fear of Indians could prevent the settlement of all these valleys. There are no finer ranges of grazing land in all the West” (pp. 178-79). Chisholm visited with area ranchers (the first permanent settlers) and describes their operations and difficulties with Native Americans and stock-stealing. $40.00

911. CHISHOLM, Joe. Brewery Gulch: Frontier Days of Old Arizona—Last Outpost of the Great Southwest. San Antonio: Naylor, [1949]. xi [1] 180 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original brown cloth. Minor shelf wear, ink ownership inscription on front pastedown, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. First edition. Adams, One-Fifty 28: “This most interesting book assembled from Chisholm’s earlier writings...deals with most of the better-known outlaws of Arizona.” Guns 419: “Scarce.” Chisholm includes the story of Cowboy Quinn, a young waddy who worked for Bill Greene, John Slaughter, the Erie Cattle Company, and other outfits. Once when Cowboy Quinn and his buckaroos had driven a large herd of cattle to the shipping pens at La Morita for inspection, he challenged the Mexican customs officials, claiming that he and his cowboys could vanquish bulls better than any Mexican bullfighters—and without the benefit of horses or weapons. A formal challenge was organized by Quinn and held at the cattle corrals at La Morita, with hundreds of gringos and Mexicans paying admission to see the event. Quinn and his cowboys proved themselves, and the bull became so badly scared that he broke down the corral fence to escape Quinn and his cowboys. The Mexicans, however, scornfully referred to Cowboy Quinn’s bullfight as lacking all technique. Chisholm devotes a chapter to daring gambler and copper king Bill Greene, who after succeeding in mining, established the Greene Cattle Company along the San Pedro Valley international boundary. Tom Mix and other famous cowboys punched cattle for Bill Greene and successfully kept rustlers in check. $75.00

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912. [CHISHOLM BROS.]. Cowboy Life [cover title]. Portland, Maine, n.d. (ca. 1890). Accordion-fold view book with 22 sepia-tone lithographs on 12 panels, folded into original 16mo, embossed maroon leather covers with gilt illustration of a cowboy on a rearing horse. Fragile binding rubbed and lightly worn at edges; other than occasional slight foxing, the images are very fine. This type of view book is very ephemeral, and the subject matter of “Cowboy Life” is atypical of the genre. Normally, view books of this era depicted scenes of a city or scenery of a region. The images, which were adapted from photographs, include “Cowboy” (a typical cowboy wearing chaps and holding a lariat; same illustration as that found in Chittenden’s Ranch Verses with caption “They called him Windy Billy”); “The Mess Wagon”; “Roping a Steer to Inspect Brand”; “Branding on the Prairie”; “Pitching Broncho”; “Hitting the Breeze” (cowboy on a bucking bronco); “Cow Ponies Taking a Rest”; “Riding a Yearling”; “Taking up the Back Cinch”; “Thoroughbred Hereford Bulls”; “Hereford Calves”; “Cutting Out”; “Roping a Pony from the Herd”; “Group of Cowboys”; “Cowboy and Pony”; “Throwing a Steer”; “Skinning a Beef”; “A Bull Fight on the Plains”; “Throwing a Calf”; “Branding a Maverick”; “A Burro”; and “Pikes Peak or Bust.” $300.00

913. CHITTENDEN, [William Lawrence] “Larry.” The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball [wrapper title]. [Houston: Stagecoach Press, 1956]. 8 pp. Oblong 16mo, original pictorial wrappers illustrated by José Cisneros. Very fine with Carl Hertzog bookplate. Limited edition. Christmas keepsake from Charlotte and Jack Rittenhouse. “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball,” the author’s best-known poem, was first published in 1890 in the Anson Texas Western and has been reprinted and anthologized many times since. The citizens of Anson, Texas, staged a show called the Cowboys’ Christmas Ball in 1934, and the poem has been reenacted annually since (some sources say that the ball has been held continuously since 1885). G. P. Putnam’s Sons published a collection of Chittenden’s Texas poems, Ranch Verses, in 1893 (see next entry). $25.00

914. CHITTENDEN, William Lawrence. Ranch Verses. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons & Knickerbocker Press, 1893. xi [1] 195 pp., frontispiece, plates (photographic, including images of the Chittenden Ranch taken by J. N. Miller of Anson, Texas). 8vo, original teal gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding moderately worn and stained, endpapers and a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) few text leaves browned, occasional tears to some leaves and one plate (no losses), upper hinge cracked. Several related newspaper clippings pasted or laid in. Front free endpaper with ink gift inscription (September 17, 1894, and pencil ownership inscription of Mr. J. W. Ansell). Second edition, revised and enlarged. Dykes, Kid 24n. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16 (citing the first edition, which came out the same year): “First book of poems on the range.” Mohr, The Range Country 645. Rader 771. “Coming to Texas in 1883, Chittenden, with an uncle, established the Chittenden Ranch near Anson [and] began composing the western poetry that was to gain for him the name of “The Poet Ranchman” (The Handbook of Texas Online: William Lawrence Chittenden). $50.00

915. CHRIESMAN, J. A. “The Texas Sheep Industry” in The Texas Historian 31:4 (March 1971). Pp. 11-13. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers somewhat foxed, otherwise fine. First printing. In addition to the article on the Texas sheep industry there is an article with some information on ranching in the Big Bend region. The cover illustration and those in the two articles cited are by W. D. Smithers. $10.00

916. CHRISMAN, Berna Hunter. When You and I Were Young, Nebraska! [Broken Bow: Purcell’s Incorporated, 1971]. [14] 255 [11, index] pp., text illustrations (photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original maize cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. Signed by editor. First edition. Rewritten from Chrisman’s original manuscript and edited by Harry E. Chrisman and Clara Blasingame. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 15: “The author recalls life in Custer County, Nebraska, in the 1890s.” Autobiographical account of the author’s experiences growing up in a sod house in Cedar Canyon, Nebraska, and herding cattle. In 1897 her parents and the rest of her family left for Montana. Chrisman married Henry E. (Gene) Chrisman and settled with him on the Edon Ranch in Broken Bow, Nebraska. $50.00

917. CHRISMAN, Harry E. The Ladder of Rivers: The Story of I. P. (Print) Olive. Denver: Sage Books, [1962]. 426 pp., plates, map, facsimiles, brands and earmarks. 8vo, original dark grey cloth. Very fine in d.j. with a few small chips and tears. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Guns 420: “Well-written biography of one of cattle land’s unique characters, revealing many things heretofore unrecorded.” Wynar 6400. Pioneer Texas cattleman Print Olive (1840-1866) was active in Williamson County following the Civil War. The cattle business was a dangerous and violent one in Texas at that time, and Olive became known for taking the law in his own hands. After rustlers raided his pens near Taylor in 1869, Olive armed his cowboys and thenceforth they were known as “The Gun Outfit.” Olive made big trail drives in 1869 and the early 1870s. In 1876 two suspected rustlers were found dead on the Lee County prairie, killed by the “death of the skins,” an old Spanish method of torture. Wrapped alive in green cowhides with the Olive brand, the men were left to die as the sun slowly caused the skins to contract. Olive decided to remove to Colorado, but his reputation preceded him, forcing him to relocate to the Black Hills. In 1878, Olive and other ranchers organized the Custer County Livestock Association in an attempt to put a stop to widespread rustling. By 1879-80, the Olive herd in Custer County, Nebraska, numbered 31,000 head. He was found guilty of burning to death alleged rustlers in Nebraska, earning him the nickname “Man Burner.” His conviction was overturned; he once again relocated, this time to the Sawlog and Smoky Hill Rivers of Kansas. $50.00

918. CHRISMAN, Harry E. The Ladder of Rivers: The Story of I. P. (Print) Olive. Denver: Sage Books, [1965]. 426 pp., plates, map, facsimiles, brands and earmarks, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth. Bookdealer’s label pasted on title, otherwise very fine. Signed by author. Second edition, revised. $25.00

919. CHRISMAN, Harry E. Lost Trails of the Cimarron. Denver: Sage, [1961]. 304 pp., plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original light grey cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). Author’s signed presentation copy: “To Maurice Frink whose ‘When Grass Was King’ always inspired me. Sincere good wishes, Harry E. Chrisman.” First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 16. Guns 421: “Has material on Dodge City, the Coe Outlaws, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and others.” Mohr, The Range Country 646: “Mostly on the great cattle days of the High Plains and the Panhandle areas.” $75.00

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920. CHRISMAN, Harry E. Lost Trails of the Cimarron. Denver: Sage, [1961]. 304 pp., plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original tan cloth. Tape stains on endpapers, otherwise fine in fine d.j. Signed by author. First edition. $50.00

921. [CHRISTENSEN, A. H.]. Little Known Facts: 1910 Diary... [wrapper title]. [Denver?: A. H. Christensen?, 1960?]. [10] 54 [2] pp., including map. 16mo, original orange printed wrappers (stapled). Very fine. First edition. This volume was part of the author’s totally eccentric 10-volume series of odd facts presented in mimeograph format. The present volume describes the author’s 1910 train journey from Houston, San Antonio, and Laredo to Mexico and the pyramids. Among the author’s muddy ramblings on Mormonism, the pyramids, and possible origins of Mesoamericans, there is one shaft of light produced in response to Christensen sighting from his train window a lone vaquero in the brush country on the approach to Laredo: “Out in the mesquite may be seen the head and startled eyes of a steer, with menacing horns, one of the thousands of the herd. A little farther on...with drooping head and half closed eyes...stands the ‘hoss’ upon which is mounted, with full regalia, an expensive saddle, with belt of cartridges, huge iron in its holster, with ‘chaps,’ pink shirt and all, sits that romantic character endeared to all America.” $15.00

922. CHRISTIAN, Jane M. The Navajo: A People in Transition. Part One [and] ...Part Two. El Paso: Texas Western College Press, Fall 1964-Winter 1965. 35 [1] + [3] 40-69 [3] pp., illustrations (mostly photos), two double- page maps by Cisneros. 2 vols., 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First printings. Southwestern Studies 2:3-4. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 50, 51). General overview of the Navajo nation with information on the assimilation of Spanish livestock and development of their sheep-herding culture. $45.00

923. CHURCH, Peggy Pond. The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos. [Albuquerque]: University of New Mexico Press, [1960]. [10] 149 pp., text illustrations (line drawings by Connie Fox Boyd). 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in lightly soiled d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Western Book Award winner, designed by Roland Dickey. An interesting account of the transition of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

New Mexico cattle range to New Mexico nuclear range. The Los Alamos Ranch School (founded by the author’s father) was shut down to make way for “a young-looking man by the name of Oppenheimer. Cowboy boots and all.” $35.00

Catalogue 10/3 (11/00): 633; 3 records: 89 & 91 DHB dj worn $30; 87 JR dj fine $50; ABE 2002 30 copies most $20-40

924. CIPRIANI, Leonetto. California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani from 1853 through 1871, Containing the Account of His Cattle Drive from Missouri to California in 1853; A Visit with Brigham Young in the Mormon Settlement of Salt Lake City; The Assembling of His Elegant Prefabricated Home in Belmont...Later to Become the Ralston Mansion.... [Portland, Oregon: Designed and Printed by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco, for]: Champoeg Press, 1962. [6] 148 [5, index] pp., frontispiece print. Tall 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine, partially unopened. First edition, limited edition (750 copies). Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1354. Mohr, The Range Country 647. Mintz, The Trail 91. Paher, Nevada 331: “The eccentric nature of this Italian aristocrat’s character nearly overshadows historical information in his diaries, which, of course, makes them all the more fun to read. Very candid about his accomplishments and attitudes, Cipriani recalls his adventures with a cattle drive from Missouri to California in 1853.... Very readable and attractively designed.” In 1852 the Count visited several California ranchos with the idea of real estate speculation. He arrived at the vast Cienaga del Gabilan rancho in the Salinas range and describes a rodeo that was being held: “After [a] meal fit for a cannibal, the Indians and more than a hundred other participants began horseback races and jousted with one another until nightfall.” Editor and translator Ernest Falbo suggests that Cipriani’s cattle drive was the earliest recorded drive to California. The count’s cattle drive was actually a business venture peripheral to the Count’s main goal of making a scientific survey in the West. The party, consisting of 24 hired hands, 500 cattle, 600 oxen, 60 horses, 40 mules, and over 20,000 pounds of cargo, left St. Louis in May of 1853. The rigors of the trail made the Count’s scientific exploration impossible. On June 5, a great storm and whirlwind caused a stampede, with five days lost to retrieving their entire herd. On July 2 near the approach to the Platte River, an earthquake caused another stampede. At South Pass, the tired and disgusted Count entrusted the cattle drive his companion Herman Reinke, commenting: “I am leaving the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) company, tired of leading an ignoble life among beasts with the wretched aim of amassing a fortune.” $75.00

925. CISNEROS, José. Faces of the Borderlands: Twenty-One Drawings...with Text by the Artist. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1977. [58] pp., illustrations (one in color). 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. Very fine association copy, signed “José” by Cisneros on dedication leaf (the book is dedicated to Vivian and Carl Hertzog). Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph 52. Representing the faces of people living on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border, the images include “Vaquero” and “Cowhand.” $65.00

926. CISNEROS, José. “A Fortuitous Anonymous Witness to the Spewing of Santa Rita No. 1.” N.p., 1984. Print of vaquero on horseback watching the Santa Rita gusher, measuring 38.7 x 28.3 cm. Very fine, signed by Cisneros. Artist’s proof copy. Cisneros evokes the passing of one phase of Texas history into another. $100.00

927. CISNEROS, José. “A Fortuitous Anonymous Witness to the Spewing of Santa Rita No. 1.” N.p., 1984. Print of vaquero on horseback watching the Santa Rita gusher, measuring 38.7 x 28.3 cm. Lightly foxed, else fine, signed by Cisneros. Limited edition (#38 of 150). $100.00

928. [CISNEROS, José]. José Cisneros at Paisano, an Exhibit: Riders of the Spanish Borderlands [wrapper title]. [Austin: William D. Wittliff for] Institute of Texan Cultures, 1969. [32] pp., illustrations by José Cisneros. Oblong 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition (limited to 400 copies). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 4). One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 50. Whaley, Wittliff 49. Subjects include “Northern Mexico Cattleman—1740, “ “Ranchero de Texas—1827,” and “Texas Cowboy—1880.” $75.00

929. CISNEROS, José. Riders across the Centuries: Horsemen of the Spanish Borderlands. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1984. xxxx [i.e. 40], 199 [3] pp., frontispiece, illustrations (some in color), portrait of Carl Hertzog on dedication leaf. 4to, original red cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Dedicatee’s copy, with Hertzog’s bookplate. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Title-page verso: “Carl Hertzog, Consultant.” Depicts various horsemen, including “Northern Mexico Vaquero,” “Paso del Norte Roper,” “Cowboy of the Cattle Trails,” “Californian,” “Ranchero de Chihuahua,” “Charro Turn of the Century,” “Baja California Vaquero c. 1950,” and “Texas Cowboy.” $125.00

930. CISNEROS, José. Riders of the Border: A Selection of Thirty Drawings...with Text by the Artist. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1971. 64 pp., text illustrations by Cisneros. 8vo, original terracotta printed wrappers. Very fine, signed by Cisneros. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph 30. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 53). Thirty drawings, including: “Mexican Charro,” “Cattle Coming into Texas,” “Mexican Ranchero,” “California Caballero,” “Texas Herdsman 1858,” “South Texas Cowboy,” “Sonora Vaquero,” and “Baja California Cowboy.” In the text accompanying “Indian Mission Vaquero,” Cisneros comments: “‘Indians, even if descendant from kings, are not allowed to ride horses, under penalty of death,’ Thus a Spanish mandate was directed against the naturals of New Spain, forbidding their use of horses. Although the Spaniards were very severe in enforcing these laws, there were many times in which the Indians either secretly or through the help of others found the way or occasion to get on a horse. In the missions of the Southwest, especially in California, some of the padres were not only extraordinarily good teachers but also excellent horsemen. Due to the increasing size of their herds and the work that resulted, the padres diligently taught the neophytes the essentials of horsemanship. These early vaquero candidates experienced many hard spills before they qualified and, one might say, they really earned their spurs.” $60.00

931. CISNEROS, José. Riders of the Border: A Selection of Thirty Drawings.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1971. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, original green and red pictorial wrappers. Very fine. The orange wrappers (see preceding) were used for the exhibit catalogue; the pictorial wraps were used for the Southwestern Studies issue. $30.00

932. CISNEROS, José. [Four prints to accompany the limited edition of Flanagan’s Trailing the Longhorns, 1974]. Each print measures 40.0 x 30.5 cm. Very fine. All are signed. “Trailing the Longhorns” is inscribed: “Para Vivian y CH [Hertzog device], nuestros buenos amigos. Vicenta y José.” Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Limited edition. The prints are: “Trailing the Longhorns”; “Goodnight-Loving Trail 1866-1886”; “Western Trail 1876....”; and “Chisholm Trail 1867-1884.” These prints were created to accompany the limited of Sue Flanagan’s Trailing the Longhorns: A Century Later (Austin: Madrona Press, [1974]), but they are rarely found with the book. $200.00

933. CISNEROS, José. Original pen and ink drawing on artist's board, signed by artist at lower right, illustrating a cowgirl on horseback among a herd of longhorns. 33.0 x 27.8 cm (51 x 38 cm overall). Fine. The subject is wearing a split skirt and riding Western style. She has all the outfit of the “cowhandler” of legend: broad-brimmed hat, bandana neckerchief, quirt, leather gloves, six-shooter, and a lariat attached to the pommel of her saddle. The image was used as the cover illustration for Evelyln King’s Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup (Glendale: Brazos Corral of the Westerners, 1983). $500.00

934. CISNEROS, José & John O. West. Riders of the Borderlands [and] The Man and His Art. [El Paso]: University of Texas at El Paso, [1981]. [36] pp., illustrated by Cisneros, portraits. Oblong 4to, original beige cloth. Very fine in lightly chipped d.j. illustrated by Cisneros. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. First edition, limited edition (#181 of 200 copies bound in cloth, signed by Cisneros, designer Hertzog, and John West). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 56). Catalogue for the exhibit held at the El Paso Centennial Museum in November 1981. $125.00

935. CISNEROS, José & John O. West. Riders of the Borderlands [and] The Man and His Art. [El Paso]: University of Texas at El Paso, [1981]. [36] pp., illustrated by Cisneros, portraits. Oblong 4to, original terracotta wrappers with illustration by Cisneros. Very fine, signed by Hertzog. Carl Hertzog bookplate. Trade edition of preceding. $50.00

936. CISNEROS, José & John O. West. Riders of the Borderlands [and] The Man and His Art. [El Paso]: University of Texas at El Paso, [1981]. Another copy. Very fine. $40.00

937. CLAMPITT, John W. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains: Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of the Romantic and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Golden Age of the Great West, with a Graphic Account of Its Discovery, Settlement, and Grand Development. Chicago: American Mutual Library Ass’n, 1890. xvi, 19-671 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous engraved text illustrations (many full-page, some from photographs). Thick 8vo, original maroon pictorial cloth gilt. Mild to moderate binding wear, internally fine except for a bit of occasional minor spotting. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition, third printing (first printed in 1888; reprinted with same collation and imprint in 1889 and 1890). Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 81. Flake 2382n: “Profuse with material concerning Mormonism, Gentile-Mormon relations, Brigham Young, etc.” Guns 424n. Paher, Nevada 333. Smith 1770n. Wynar 2083n. Although the author’s primary focus is mining and outlaws, this well-illustrated work contains occasional references to ranching: description of large herds owned by the Mormons in Utah (with full-page engraving “Mormon Herd, Southern Utah”); Cochise’s rustling herds of cattle being driven from Mexico into Arizona Territory; first California Vigilance Committee arising from the theft of cattle; ranchmen helping maintain telegraph lines in the West. Chapter 33 contains material on the Cornelia Rancho and its female proprietor: “A California manor-house constructed of rough beams and surrounded by mud and cattle.... Cornelia was a native grandee, and claimed the right to 400 square miles of territory. Although the invasion of her country by the gold-seekers had swept away the greater part of her herds, yet there still remained over a thousand head. In full dress, adorned with gold chains, pearls and jewels, she looked very magnificent, seated in a large wagon drawn by two oxen and sixteen mules, roughing it over a country without roads.... Her home dress, however, was an old broad-brimmed straw hat, her son’s boots, a loose white shirt, and a short petticoat of coarse red flannel. She ruled over thirty Indian servants besides her son twenty- four years of age, and a homeless Portuguese adventurer.” The author claims that the theft of some of Marchioness Cornelia’s cattle was the precipitating event that led to the formation of the first Vigilance Committee in California. A non-ranching engraving of interest is “Camel Train between Austin [Nevada] and Virginia City.” $150.00

938. CLANCY, Foghorn. My Fifty Years in Rodeo: Living with Cowboys, Horses, and Danger. San Antonio: Naylor Company, [1952]. ix [1] 285 pp., plates (sepia-tone plates of famous horses by Olaf Wieghorst and photographic plates of noted Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) cowboys and cowgirls), photos, illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth. Joints stained, minor foxing to fore-edges, else fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. Foreword by Gene Autry. Herd 463. The author was a professional rodeo announcer for fifty years. The book begins with his earliest days when he scraped out a meager living (often moonlighting as a carnival barker) and carries on to his eventual success as announcer, press agent, and promoter. He was present for the rise of rodeo from a minor diversion to a major American entertainment and obsession. $250.00

939. CLARK, C[harles] M. A Trip to Pike’s Peak and Notes by the Way, etc. San Jose: Talisman Press, 1958. ix [5] 128 [3] pp., illustrated title and chapter headings (adapted from illustrations in the first edition). 8vo, original half brown cloth over beige pictorial boards. Very fine in very fine d.j. Limited edition (500 copies); second edition (first published Chicago, 1861). Edited and with biographical notes by Robert Greenwood. Howes C430: “About the best contemporary account of this gold rush.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1754. Plains & Rockies IV:372n: “Dr. Clark took part in the Pike’s Peak stampede of 1860, from Saint Joseph via Fort Kearny and the South Platte River. His is one of the few authentic accounts of that year’s travel to the Rockies.” Wynar 2031. Clark explains the use of the word “Ranche” as a road-ranch or supply and way station for travelers, rather than a stockraising establishment. The author describes Jack Morrow’s road ranche west of Cottonwood Springs, calling it one of the best stations on the road, well-built and with a large “corralle.” Morrow was suspected of stealing travelers’ stock, and when Clark later returned by the same route, he learned that Morrow had been lynched by a party of emigrants who found their stolen stock in Morrow’s possession. Near Seneca, Kansas, Clark encountered a resilient sixty-year old widow rancher rounding up her stock. Among the first settlers (arriving in 1855), the widow used her $600 nest egg to establish her ranch, which she had increased to 2,000 acres in four years. At Cottonwood Springs, Clark remarks: “This country is infested with bands of thieves and robbers, whose sole business is to stampede and secure the emigrant’s stock. Along some portions of the route, constant vigilance has to be exercised.... These ruffians have their rendezvous amid the bluffs, where they secrete the stock taken, and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) undoubtedly they have their connection with various ranches.” $60.00

940. CLARK, Dan Elbert. The West in American History. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [1937]. xi [1] 682 pp., maps. 8vo, original red buckram. Spine a bit light, fore-edges darkened, ink line on lower fore-edge, interior fine. Bookplate on front free endpaper. First edition. Herd 466. Smith 1775. Has a chapter on “Cattle Kings and Land-Grabbers,” which highlights the range cattle industry in Texas and on the northern plains. $25.00

941. CLARK, Dan Elbert. The West in American History. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1938]. xi [1] 682 pp., maps. 8vo, original red buckram. Small ink stain at lower corner of upper cover and a few pencil marks in margins, otherwise fine, with ink ownership inscription on front pastedown. First edition, third printing. $20.00

942. CLARK, James Maxwell. Colonial Days. Denver: Smith- Brooks Co., [1902]. 148 pp. 12mo, original red cloth. Hinges weak, otherwise fine. Signed by author in pencil at end of preface. Front free endpaper with pencil ownership inscription of Capt. A. Hotchkiss dated April 20, 1902. First edition. Wilcox, p. 24: “Primarily concerned with the Union Colony of Greeley.” Wynar 1464. A history of the Greeley, Colorado colony formed shortly after the close of the Civil War; mentions the conflict between the new farming colony and the cattlemen who were already in the area. $150.00

943. CLARK, James Maxwell. Colonial Days. Denver: Smith- Brooks Co., [1902]. Another copy. Fine. Signed by author in pencil at end of preface. $150.00

944. [CLARK, O. S.]. Clay Allison of the Washita, First a Cow Man and Then an Extinguisher of Bad Men: Recollections of Colorado, New Mexico, and the Texas Panhandle. Reminiscences of a ’79er. [Attica, Indiana, 1922]. [2] 135 pp., 2 original photographs tipped in at front (as issued), text illustrations (mostly photographic, but including a map). 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. Short clean tears along outer edges of fragile wrappers, book block detached from wraps, text age-toned, blank rear flyleaf creased and torn. Despite the flaws, a fine copy, signed by Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) author on title. Much better condition than the few copies that have been offered in the past twenty-five years. Second edition, best edition, revised and enlarged (first edition, Attica, 1920, 38 pp.). Adams, One-Fifty 29 (describing the 1920 edition as “exceedingly rare”): “[The second] edition published in 1922 with the same title, contains 135 pages due to much added material by other authors. This latter edition has an introduction and a map not in the 1920 edition. This edition, too, has become scarce and is the only one known to many bibliophiles.” Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books, p. 29n. Graff 740. Guns 430. Howes C445. Rader 832n. Vandale 33n (citing the 1920 edition). Wynar 322. The author was a young man punching cows in New Mexico in the 1880s when he first met rancher and deviant bad man Clay Allison. He claims to have consulted “Seringo” extensively in compiling the present work and gives an account of John “Chizum.” Replete with information on ranching in the region in the late 1800s. Allison (1840-87), gunfighter, cowboy, and rancher, was a heavy drinker and lunged though life embroiled in a series of brawls, shooting sprees, and other varieties of violence. He fought in the Confederate Army and moved to the Brazos River country in Texas after the war. Allison signed on as a cowhand with Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight and probably was among the eighteen herders on the 1866 drive that blazed the Goodnight-Loving Trail. In 1867-69 Allison rode for M. L. Dalton and was trail boss for the partnership of G. Coleman and Irvin W. Lacy. In 1870 Allison drove a herd to the Coleman-Lacy Ranch in New Mexico for a payment of 300 cattle, with which he started his own ranch near Cimarron. In 1878 he sold his New Mexico ranch and became a cattle broker in Hays City, Kansas. By 1880 Allison had settled on Gageby Creek, near its junction with the Washita River, in Hemphill County, Texas, where he registered an ACE brand for his cattle. Marriage in 1881 slowed him down a little from his reputation as the “Wolf of the Washita,” although he kept his legend alive by occasional antics. See Handbook of Texas Online: Robert Clay Allison. $1,250.00

945. CLARK, O. S. Clay Allison of the Washita. Houston: Frontier Press of Texas, 1954. 31 [1] pp., frontispiece, text illustrations. 8vo, original yellow printed wrappers. Fine. Reprint of the exceedingly rare 1920 first edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 7 (“Collecting Modern Western Americana”). $45.00

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946. CLARKE, A. B. Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by Way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California. Boston: Wright & Hasty’s Steam Press, 1852. 138 pp. 12mo, original beige printed wrappers, sewn. Light wear to fragile wraps, lower wrap lightly stained, small, light water spot at lower blank corner (affecting first few signatures), overall very good to fine. First edition. Cowan, p. 128. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 49. Graff 746. Hill, p. 54: “An important and rare overland account.” Howell 50, California 376A: “First printed description of the route north from Camargo, Mexico, through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Gila River of Arizona.” Howes C451. Jones 1275. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 138. Mintz, The Trail 534. Plains & Rockies IV:210. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 41. This well-known overland contains some material peripherally related to cattle, principally during author’s overland journey through Mexico: wild cattle (more dangerous than buffalo and hunted for food), bullfights, wild horses, fandango, Mexican riding equipage, Saltillo serape (then selling for $25-$500), sheep, Apache rustling from Mexican ranchos, Warner’s Ranch, the superiority of California cattle, meeting an American driving a herd of cattle on the approach to Sacramento, assessment that the land from Santa Barbara to San Diego “is the best grazing country,” etc. Clarke stopped at various ranches along his California route, and he describes one near Santa Barbara: “Crossing a high and steep mountain, we came to a valley stocked with thousands of cattle, belonging to a rancho at which we arrived at 10 o’clock. As it is a fair specimen of the Spanish ranches in this section, I will give a short sketch of it. The ground in front of the house was strewn with the offal of cattle, on which scores of buzzards and crows were feeding in quiet security; and, as is commonly the case, the skulls and skeletons of animals, had been allowed to accumulate, making a perfect Golgotha. Nothing was to be had for food, but beef, and hence arises the name of ranches.” $2,000.00

947. CLARKE, Mary Whatley. The Palo Pinto Story. Fort Worth: Manney, [1956]. x, 172 pp., plates (photographic). 8vo, original maroon cloth. Light outer wear, endsheets slightly browned, otherwise fine in fine d.j. Signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. CBC 3650. Guns 432: “Has a chapter on Sam Bass, giving some new material.” Herd 470. Incidents in the history of Palo Pinto County, in north central Texas, about 1840 through 1940. Replete with information of ranching interest: Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Cattle Raisers’ Association, Chisholm Trail, W. H. Belding, (veteran ranchman of Brad, who lived eighty-three years on the family ranch), buffalo, genuine skirmishes between cowboys and Indians, etc. Closes with an account of the “million dollar cow,” a longhorn slaughtered by railroad men for dinner. Disputes over the incident resulted in an extensive and costly rerouting of the railroad line in the Palo Pinto vicinity. $75.00

948. CLARKE, Mary Whatley. The Swenson Saga and the SMS Ranches. Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, [1976]. 346 pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original beige linen. Very fine in very fine d.j. First edition. Swedish immigrant S. M. Swenson arrived penniless in Galveston in 1838, quickly amassed a fortune, and in 1852 bought railroad land script in the Texas Panhandle, where he and his sons founded their famous SMS Ranch. “The SMS Ranches occupy considerable portions of twelve counties in the lower plains area of West Texas and comprise more than 300,000 acres. A man of many interests, Swenson introduced to the Texas Navy and thereafter to the Army the Colt revolver, invented by his friend Samuel Colt.... Swenson in 1854 began acquiring some 100,000 acres of unclaimed properties in Northwest Texas.... By 1882 Swenson was seeking to develop his West Texas holdings [and] after inspecting the properties...he decided to establish three ranches...the Throckmorton Ranch...Flat Top Ranch, [and] Ericsdahl Ranch, among the first in that part of Texas to be fenced.... S. M. Swenson leased his holdings to his sons, who operated them under the name of Swenson Brothers Cattle Company. The SMS brand, consisting of an extended M sandwiched between two reversed S’s, was registered by the Swensons in the spring of 1882.... At one time most, if not all, foremen of the SMS Ranches were immigrant Swedes who had come through the Swensons’ influence.” (Handbook of Texas Online: SMS Ranches). $100.00

949. CLARY, Annie Vaughan. The Pioneer Life. Dallas: American Guild Press, [1956]. 264 pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (photographic). 8vo, original light blue cloth. A few small spots on fore-edges, otherwise very fine in lightly foxed d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Herd 471: “Cowboys, ranches, and cowboy reunions.” King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 15: “Good account of life as the wife of a cowboy in the early 1900s.” “A cowgirl and a rancher’s wife,” Clary’s account, mostly of the early 1900s in the vicinity of Stamford, Texas, is the story of her “own life written against the background of the old days as well as the exploits of the cowboys and cattlemen whom I knew so well and was so closely associated with” (p. 7). $50.00

950. CLAY, John. My Life on the Range. Chicago: Privately printed, [1924]. [8] 365 [2] pp., photographic plates (some by Huffman). 8vo, original dark green gilt-lettered ribbed cloth, t.e.g. Exceptionally fine and bright, unopened, in tattered remnants of publisher’s original glassine d.j. Signed by author on half title. First edition (the book is made up from a series of articles originally published in the North British Agriculturist and the Kelso Chronicle). Athearn, Westward the Briton, p. 191. Bay, Fortune of Books: “A series of magnificent personal reminiscences, interspersed with accounts of great business ventures and economic struggles.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 22. Dobie, pp. 98-99: “Clay...managed some of the largest British-owned ranches of North America. His book is the best of all sources on British-owned ranches. It is just as good on cowboys and sheepherders.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Western High Spots, p. 18 (“Western Movement: Its Literature”); p. 85 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Graff 748: “One of the best books on ranching.” Guns 434: “Rare.... He relates many incidents of the Johnson County War.” Herd 475: “This well- written book about the author’s ranch experiences has become very scarce and is one of the most sought after cattle books.... He was one of the better-known ranch owners of the Northwest and a well-educated Scotsman. His picture of ranch life is interesting and authentic.” Howes C470. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 153: “First-person account of the range industry in the Montana-Wyoming-Dakota area of the period from the 1870’s to the early 1900’s.... John Clay was a power in the range industry which developed in the grasslands surrounding the Black Hills.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 2. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16. One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 69. Rader 841. Reese, Six Score 19: “Clay presents the banker’s view of the range cattle industry better than any other writer.” Vandale 34. Wynar 6401. $600.00

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951. CLAY, John. My Life on the Range. Chicago: Privately printed, [1924]. Another copy, without glassine d.j. Very fine and bright. Signed by author on front free endpaper. $550.00

952. CLAY, John. My Life on the Range. Chicago: Privately printed, [1924]. Another copy. Very fine and bright, with old newspaper clipping laid in (faint offsetting to one text leaf). E. A. Logan’s copy, with his small blindstamp and signed inscription describing his association with Clay and others: “E. A. Logan-April 1st 1925 Cheyenne Wyo Punched Cow 1883-84 on [Rocking 71] Ranch for Clay...under Cap Haskell, John Gatlin and Ed Harris.” Occasional light pencil corrections and notes by Logan in text. $500.00

953. CLAY, John. My Life on the Range. Chicago: Privately printed, [1924]. Another copy. Very fine and bright, mostly unopened. $425.00

954. CLAY, John. My Life on the Range. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1962]. xxiii [1] 372 [4] pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original ecru cloth. A few spots to spine and fore-edges, otherwise fine in fine d.j. Third edition of preceding; scholarly reprint with added introduction by Donald R. Ornduff and additional plates. Smith S2594. $60.00

955. CLAY, W. J. Agricultural and Statistical Report, 1905. Austin: State Printing Company, 1905. 437 pp., tables. 8vo, original tan buckram. Fore-edges browned, overall a very good copy. First edition. Section on “Livestock: How to Breed and How and What to Feed,” along with information on barbed wire, Angora goats, “Cows in Fly Time,” “Why Horses Slobber,” and “Farmer’s Daughter.” $40.00

956. CLAYTON, Lawrence. Chimney Creek Ranch [wrapper title]. College Station: Friends of the Texas A&M Library, 1994. [8] pp., illustrated tissue guard, text illustrations (some full page and/or color). Oblong 12mo, original color photographic wrappers. Very fine. First printing of this little guide with text adapted from Dr. Clayton’s 1938 work under the same title. Interpretive guide to a working ranch near Albany, Texas, once a stop for the Butterfield-Overland Mail and site of the Bud Matthews cattle pens, a facility for holding and loading cattle onto the railroad by Lambshead and other area ranches, ending the need for cattle drives. $25.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

957. CLAYTON, William. William Clayton’s Journal: A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of “Mormon” Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Salt Lake City: The Deseret News [for] the Clayton Family Association, 1921. [x] 376 pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original tan cloth. Slight edge wear on upper cover, faint pencil notes on blank flyleaf, text uniformly age-toned, otherwise fine in lightly browned d.j. Difficult to find in collector’s condition, like this copy, and especially with the d.j. First edition. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 86. Flake 2427. Howes C474. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 2. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 220. Mintz, The Trail 96: “Clayton was ‘historian’ of the Mormon overland party of 1847 and kept a daily journal in which were recorded the events of the expedition, together with observations on the country and Indian tribes.” Scallawagiana 100 #8. See Plains & Rockies IV:147. Although cattle drives are usually associated with later decades, the overland recorded here deserves to be recognized as an early, well-organized, and huge cattle drive made under difficult conditions. Clayton, who became treasurer of Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution and Recorder of Marks and Brands, here ably and fully documents the overland precipitated by the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo in 1846. The Mormon’s main staging area at the Missouri River was south of Council Bluffs. Because there was not enough grass, wood, and water to support 10,000 to 15,000 people, 3,000 wagons, 30,000 cattle, immense flocks of sheep, and great numbers of horses and mules, some of the Mormons fanned out on both sides of the river to settle small communities, while others continued west. Corrals for the herds were constructed at Winter Quarters in Nebraska. Clayton documents that in April 1847, an advance group of 148 pioneers began to move west with a year’s provisions and agricultural implements packed into 72 wagons and a large herd of cattle. These pioneers blazed a new route which became known as the Mormon Trail. The advance party arrived at the Great Basin on July 24, and it was agreed that this was indeed “The Place” (Clayton comments: “There appears to be a unanimous agreement in regard to the richness of the soil and there are good prospects of sustaining and fattening stock with little trouble” p. 314). Clayton continues his journal until October 21, detailing establishment of the new Mormon headquarters, including identification of the exact spot for a temple, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) exploration of the region, and surveying and apportioning land for homes, agriculture, and stockraising. $400.00

958. CLEAVELAND, Agnes Morley. No Life for a Lady. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1941. ix [1] 356 pp., text illustrations by Borein, endpaper maps. 8vo, original grey cloth. Fine in near fine d.j. (light wear and lower panel rubbed). First edition. Campbell, p. 92: “There is nothing to match this autobiography of a lady rancher in New Mexico about 1900”; p. 243: “She, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, and Will Rogers got together and swapped yarns.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 17. Dobie, pp. 62, 99: “Best account of the frontier from a woman’s point of view yet published.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #2. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Borein 47); Kid 298; Western High Spots, p. 27 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”); p. 53 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #60); p. 80 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Guns 436: “One of the really good western books.” Herd 483. Jordan, Cowgirls, p. 287. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 15. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 17. Reese, Six Score 20: “Dobie called it the best book on ranching from a woman’s point of view; I would expand that to almost any point of view.” Saunders 3965. During the late 1800s Agnes and her brother took over the management of the family ranch in New Mexico when their stepfather deserted them. Cleaveland ends her outstanding account with an explanation of why she wrote No Life for a Lady (p. 356): “I began to want to put into some semblance of permanent form the story of the girl who had vanished, and her life, the life that was not for what the world calls a lady.” $125.00

959. CLEAVELAND, Agnes Morley. No Life for a Lady. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1941. Another copy. Shelf worn, a few spots to binding, short tear at foot of spine. Dust jacket not present. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper: “Robt. T. Neill, San Angelo, Texas. 9-16-’41” and subsequent ink gift inscription below: “To The Beloved Friend of My Boyhood Stanley Davis of El Paso. R.T.N. 10-6-41.” Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. $40.00

960. CLEAVELAND, Agnes Morley. Advance review copy of Satan’s Paradise. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. [200] pp. (printed only on rectos). Tall, narrow 8vo, original green wrappers with printed label on upper cover, spiral-bound. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Wrappers faded and chipped at edges, overall very good. Publisher’s review-copy slip laid in. Review copy, with New York Times printed instruction slip stapled to upper cover, addressed to J. Frank Dobie, who has penciled “caustic” on the slip and noted the reference to Clay Allison on p. 26. Occasional pencil notations and corrections by Dobie in text. Uncorrected galley proofs, publisher’s review copy. Adams, Burs I:82. Campbell, p. 92: “Largely autobiographical.... Eminently readable.” Dobie, p. 62. Guns 437: “A well-written book, largely about a peace officer named Fred Lambert, with chapters on the Black Jack gang, Clay Allison, and other gunmen of New Mexico.” Herd 484. Reese, Six Score 20n. Written with the collaboration of Fred Lambert, the Cimarron lawman, this book tells of one hundred years of lawlessness in the range country. Cimarron means “wild” or “untamed.” $150.00

961. CLEAVELAND, Agnes Morley. Satan’s Paradise: From Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1952. viii [2] 274 pp., decorations by Fred Lambert. 8vo, original orange cloth. Fore-edges lightly foxed, top edge dusty, tape stains to endpapers, price-clipped d.j. First edition, later printing (without year of publication on title). $20.00

962. CLELAND, Robert Glass. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-1870. San Marino: [Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press for] Huntington Library, 1941. xiv, 327 pp., decorated title, text illustrations (including cattle brands and diseño of the Nieto grant). 8vo, original green cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise very fine in slightly dusty d.j. First edition. Barrett, Baja California 528. Dobie, p. 99. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 50: “Reference is made to bordering desert areas and peoples—Warner’s Ranch, Agua Caliente Ranch, San Gorgonio Ranch, the Cajón Pass, the Cahuilla Indians.” Graff 754. Guns 439: “Has much on Murieta and Vásquez.” Herd 485. Howes C477. Reese, Six Score 21: “The best scholarly account of the California ranchos. Cleland has made a careful investigation of life and society in southern California in this period.” Rocq 16224. $125.00

963. CLELAND, Robert Glass. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills.... San Marino: Huntington Library, 1941. Another Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) copy. Very fine, without the d.j. Bookplate of Bruno C. Zielinski. $50.00

964. CLELAND, Robert Glass. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills.... San Marino: Huntington Library, 1951. xvi, 365 pp. 8vo, original red linen. Very fine in near fine d.j. (a few minor stains). Second edition of preceding, with corrections, revisions, and substantial additions (chapter on the development of southern California between 1870 and 1880, bibliography, and numerous illustrations). Rocq 16225. $45.00

965. CLEMENS, Samuel L[anghorn] (pseud. Mark Twain). Roughing It. Hartford, etc.: American Publishing Company, et al., 1872. 591 [1, ad] pp., 2 engraved frontispieces, 6 engraved plates, numerous text illustrations by True W. Williams and others. 8vo, original three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth, marbled endpapers and edges. Joints and edges chafed, hinges cracked, a few signatures loose, an occasional stain or tear (no losses) to text, generally a very good copy in a desirable binding. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on blank preliminary leaf: “J. P. Jones, March 11th, 1872.” First American edition, state A (p. 242 with lines 20- 21 reading “premises—said he/was occupying his”—Blanck notes that state A probably came first), ad on p. [592] (no priority). BAL 3337. Cowan, p. 130. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 26 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West” #4): “The best thing written on the miners, mining, and all the people of Early American California and Nevada.” Flake 2431. Graff 762. Guns 443. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1289 (quoting Albert Bigelow Paine’s Mark Twain: A Biography I, p. 366): “[Illustrator True W.] Williams was a man of great talent...but it was necessary to lock him in a room when industry was required, with nothing more exciting than cold water as a beverage.” Hill, pp. 377-78. Howes C481. Libros Californianos, p. 66. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1807n. Paher, Nevada 350: “This is one of Nevada’s all time books.” Powell, California Classics, pp. 92-102. Wright II:554. Zamorano 80 #18. Twain devotes two chapters to Joseph Alfred “Jack” Slade, the notorious frontiersman who had no qualms about taking the law in his own hands, executing rustlers, crooked ranchers, and other outlaws in order to clean up the cattle country. Twain describes his encounter with Slade in Wyoming (pp. 87-89): “In due time we rattled up to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) a stage-station, and sat down to breakfast with a half- savage, half-civilized company of armed and bearded mountaineers, ranchmen and station employees. The most gentlemanly-appearing, quiet and affable officer we had yet found along the road in the Overland Company’s service was the person who sat at the head of the table, at my elbow. Never youth stared and shivered as I did when I heard them call him SLADE! Here was romance, and I sitting face to face with it!—looking upon it—touching it—hobnobbing with it, as it were! Here, right by my side, was the actual ogre who, in fights and brawls and various ways, had taken the lives of twenty-six human beings, or all men lied about him! I suppose I was the proudest stripling that ever traveled to see strange lands and wonderful people. He was so friendly and so gentle-spoken that I warmed to him in spite of his awful history. It was hardly possible to realize that this pleasant person was the pitiless scourge of the outlaws, the raw-head-and-bloody-bones the nursing mothers of the mountains terrified their children with.” In Nevada, Twain makes the unfortunate purchase of a horse (“a Genuine Mexican Plug”) after admiring and hoping to emulate the horsemanship of the Californians and Mexicans: “I had never seen such wild, free, magnificent horsemanship outside of a circus as these picturesquely- clad Mexicans, Californians and Mexicanized Americans displayed in Carson streets every day. How they rode! Leaning just gently forward out of the perpendicular, easy and nonchalant, with broad slouch-hat brim blown square up in front, and long riata swinging above the head, they swept through the town like the wind! The next minute they were only a sailing puff of dust on the far desert. If they trotted, they sat up gallantly and graceful, and seemed part of the horse.” Horsemanship also comes into play in Twain’s chapters on the Sandwich Islands. In “How Dick Hyde Lost His Ranch” Twain relates the story of a landslide in the Washoe District that slid Tom Morgan’s ranch right on top of Hyde’s ranch and the ensuing chaos (the ranch landslide is illustrated). Classic Western humor, profusely illustrated with vivacious, hilarious engravings by leading illustrators of the day. $950.00

966. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorn (pseud. Mark Twain). Roughing It. Hartford, etc.: American Publishing Company, et al., 1872. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original black gilt-pictorial cloth (rebacked, original spine preserved). Binding lightly stained and worn (especially at edges and corners where boards are exposed), hinges Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) cracked, a few stains and abrasion to endpapers, text clean. Equestrian bookplate of Barbara A. Hatry. $600.00

967. CLIFTON, Robert T. Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire. [Norman]: University of Oklahoma Press, [1970]. xxi [1] 418 pp., profusely illustrated with examples of barbed wire on almost every page. 12mo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition. Fences and barbed wire marginalized the cowboy, closed the open range, and greatly influenced settlement of the American West. $50.00

968. CLOUD, John Worth. The Legend of Old Stone Ranch. Albany, Texas: Albany News, [1968]. x [4] 390 pp. 8vo, original dark grey cloth. Endpapers and fore-edges discolored, internally fine, in d.j. with light discoloration and a few minor tears. Signed by author on front free endpaper. First edition, limited edition. The subject of this epic poem utilizing Finnish rhythms peculiar to the Kalevala is Newton Givens, who built the stone ranch house around 1856 with the intention of raising cattle to sell to the U.S. Army. The work deals primarily with conflicts between Comanches and settlers in the mid-1800s in north central Texas. At that time the Old Stone Ranch was the westernmost ranch on the northern frontier. Other families temporarily occupied the structure, and in 1866 the Barber Watkins Reynolds family and ranch crew moved there. Their daughter, Sallie Reynolds, who married John Alexander Matthews in 1876, left a record of the ranch in her book Interwoven. See Handbook of Texas Online: Newton Curd Givens; Old Stone Ranch. $35.00

969. CLOVER, Samuel Travers. On Special Assignment: Being the Further Adventures of Paul Travers; Showing How He Succeeded As a Newspaper Reporter. New York: Argonaut Press, 1965. [2] 307 pp., frontispiece and plates by H. G. Laskey. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine. Second edition, limited edition (the first edition, published at Boston in 1903 is exceedingly rare; Bill Reese says that Jeff Dykes was never able to secure a copy). Guns 444n: “The author was a reporter sent out by a Chicago paper to cover the Johnson County War. Although written in the form of fiction, this book calls actual names and relates factual events as the author witnessed them.” Herd 493n. Englishman Clover (1859-1934), free-lance newspaperman who worked in Montana and Dakota Territory in Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) the 1890s “was described as ‘a horseback correspondent of the kind brought forth by the Indian wars. He was also the kind of smart reporter who always manages to be there when the story breaks.’ After a year in Chicago, he picked up a stockyards rumor about a coming expedition by cattlemen against alleged rustlers in Wyoming and sold his editor on covering the event; thus he became the first outside reporter to attend the Johnson County War, his file remaining a prime and highly readable source on the affair.... He was...‘the only newspaperman ever known to have been invited by lynchers to witness a lynching’” (Thrapp I, p. 286). $125.00

970. CLUM, John P. It All Happened in Tombstone...with a Foreword and Annotations by John D. Gilchriese. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1965. vii [1] 45 [1] pp. 8vo, original black cloth over red cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. (price- clipped). Signed by editor. First book edition, limited edition (#194 of 200 copies); reprinted from Arizona Historical Review (October 1929). Adams, One-Fifty 30. Guns 445: “Tribute to his close friend Wyatt Earp. The original publication in the Arizona Historical Review has been very scarce, and this beautiful little book is indeed a welcome addition to the history of Tombstone.” Powell, Arizona Gathering II 329. Wallace, Arizona History X:11n. The subject of the work is lawlessness in Cochise County in the early 1880s. Wells Fargo had been looted and offered a reward, dead or alive, for the robbers—rustlers whose whereabouts might have been known by the Clantons. The Clanton and McLaury clans each had a “ranch” that served as headquarters for rustling activities on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border. As tensions rose, the outlaw “cowboy” element was reputed to have drawn up a “Death List” that included the author, the Earps, and Doc Holliday. $75.00

971. CLUM, Woodworth. Apache Agent: The Story of John P. Clum. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1936. xiv [2] 296 [1] pp., color frontispiece of Geronimo, plates (mostly photos). 8vo, original red cloth, printed paper spine label. Fore-edges, endsheets, and first few leaves lightly foxed, otherwise very fine in lightly worn d.j. illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops. First edition. Adams, Burs I:83; One-Fifty 31. Campbell, pp. 80-81: “Story of a controversial figure who, as Indian agent, can only be compared with such past masters as Doctor V. T. McGillicuddy of the Red Cloud Sioux Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) agency and John Homer Seger of the Cheyenne-Arapaho agency in Oklahoma. The Apaches have never forgotten him and his sensible, courageous, and kind treatment of their people.” Dobie, p. 32. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Stoops 14). Guns 446: “Scarce.... Deals with life in Tombstone and the outlaws and gunmen of that period, such as the Earps, Johnny Behan, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, and Billy Breakenridge. It gives an account of the OK Corral fight.” Rader 848: “Government relations with Apache Indians. San Carlos Indian reservation, Arizona. Geronimo, Apache chief, 1829-1909.” Saunders 2821. Wallace, Arizona History XIV:38. Mostly on area Native Americans and Clum’s association with them, with some information on cattle rustling and outlawry in Cochise County. $125.00

972. CLYMAN, James. James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant As Told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries. Edited by Charles L. Camp. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1928. 247 [4, index] pp., frontispiece (tipped-in sepia-tone photograph of Clyman), portrait, 3 maps (one foldout), facsimile. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Very fine in chipped d.j. First edition in book form (text first printed in the California Historical Society in installments from June 1925 to March 1927); limited edition (Charles L. Camp states in the introduction to the 1960 edition that only 330 copies were printed). California Historical Society Special Publications 3. Cowan, p. 132. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 88. Flake 2439. Graff 769. Howell 50, California 380: “One of the richest sources of early Western history. The author was one of the first white men to traverse South Pass and, in 1826, to circumnavigate Great Salt Lake.” Howes C81: “One of the most trustworthy narratives of the far west, for the period 1842-46; the only Oregon overland journal of 1844.” Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 3. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 3. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 7, 102, 169. Mintz, The Trail 99. Paher, Nevada 359n: “Rare.” Rader 849. Rocq 5867. Smith 1826. Zamorano 80 #19. Clyman provides valuable firsthand documentation on early stockraising in Oregon and the last days of the California ranchos under Mexican rule. He comments on the herds he saw along the trail, including those owned by Fort Hall and other military establishments: “At one of the H[udson]. B[ay]. Cos Establishments I am informed that Thirty thousand sheep are kept and in fact a greate number of Sheep and cattle are kept at all Their Trading posts Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) north of The columbia and more particularly on Peugetts Sound” (p. 128). He urges the expansion of herds: “Considerable stocks of cattle might be kept on the vallies of Bear River and weebers river on the lower vallies near the greate salt Lake and a resting place might here be made that would verry much assist Emigrants and others passing to and from the states to all parts of the Pacific Country” (p. 123). Several times he discusses the Hudson Bay Company monopoly of trade, including livestock, commenting that now that the fur trade is dwindling HBC is expanding its cattle trade to the Sandwich Islands and other far-flung locations. Clyman documents a roundup in Oregon, describes a cooperative stockraising venture at Yam Hill, Oregon, and discusses Jesse Applegate’s ranch. Clyman’s 1845-46 account of his travels in California is filled with documentation on many of the important old ranches, the rancho life style, and the prospects for development of stockraising. Among the ranches visited and described are those of William Gordon (first Anglo settler in present Yolo County with a large ranch on Cache Creek); William Wolfskill (Rancho Río de los Putos in Solano and Yolo counties); Berryessa Family; George C. Yount (Napa Valley); General Byahos [Vallejo]; Robert Livermore (English sailor who jumped ship in California in 1822 and married Josefa Higuera); Antonio María Suñol (Spaniard who deserted his ship in Monterey in 1818, married into the Bernal family, and settled on their ranch in Alameda County), et al. Clyman describes the scene he found at the Suñol rancho: “Encamped at a ranche Belonging to a Mixican [Suñol] who with his Indian slaves ware Slaughtering cattle for the hides and tallow and a more filthy stinking place could not be easily immagined. The carcases of 2 or 300 cattle haled 20 rods from the slaughter ground and left to the vultures wolves and Bears” (p. 174). Clyman provides vivid glimpses of the California rancho lifestyle. “The Mexicans do not labour themselves the native indians perform all the labour and are kept in slavery much like the Negroes of the Southern states but not worked so steady or hard as all depend largely on their cattle stock for support and some fine Blankets are Here manufactured from the wool of their sheep The Mexican Ladies when they ride out alone mount a mans saddle in the same manner their husband would but frequently the husband takes his wife on before him and takes hold of the logerhead of his saddle with his arms around his bride and this method looks Quite loveing and kind and might be relished by the single” (p. 175). $500.00

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973. CLYMAN, James. James Clyman, American Frontiersman.... Definitive Edition. Portland, Oregon: [Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy for], Champoeg Press, [1960]. [6] 352 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, maps (2 folding). Large 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine, mostly unopened, in publisher’s original mylar d.j. Second edition, corrected, revised, and enlarged (additional illustrations, plus material discovered since the original edition was published—Ashley diary of 1825, George Gibbs’ copy of Jedediah Smith’s map, etc.). Paher, Nevada 359: “This revised and enlarged edition is preferred because it contains interesting and important material on the fur trade and on Clyman.” The revisions and additional material make it much easier to identify many of the people and places in the 1928 edition. One of the illustrations added to the present edition is an 1878 lithograph of James Clyman’s farm at Napa Valley. Many of the intrepid frontiersmen and mountain men dreamed of one day owning their own ranches and farms in the West. Clyman realized his dream when in 1850 he purchased a portion of the Vallejo ranch (“Pueblo de Salvador”) that he describes in the 1846 California portion of the present work. Clyman commented in his original journal that despite the grand scale of the Vallejo ranch (14,600 acres), only four or five hundred acres were under cultivation. Clyman transformed his Napa property into a fruit and dairy ranch, leading an active and productive life there until he died in 1881. “Fur trapper, explorer, soldier, and farmer, Clyman’s eventful life spanned the entire period of American expansion to the Pacific.... [Clyman’s] shrewd, wry observations, often ungrammatical and full of outrageous phonetic spellings are a delight.... Clyman was a true frontiersman and mountain man but with a difference. He never lost his Southern accent or his courteous manner.... He was adventurous but never reckless and had, says his biographer, Charles L. Camp, ‘a feeling for history’” (Lamar, pp. 228-29). $175.00

974. COBURN, Wallace D. Rhymes from the Round-Up Camp. [Great Falls, Montana], 1899. 138 pp., 8 plates (line engravings) by Charles M. Russell. 12mo, original olive green gilt-pictorial cloth. First few signatures a bit loose, occasional mild foxing, otherwise fine and bright. From Charles M. Russell’s library, with his illustrated bookplate and illustrated card for Parker-Russell Mining & Manufacturing Company of St. Louis laid in. Very rare. First edition, first issue, with “the” instead of “a” in title and the issue points set out by Yost & Renner for Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) text and binding (I:8). Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 188 (“Russell Rarities 4”). Graff 779. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 16n (citing the issue in flexible leather). Smith 1836. Yost & Renner, Russell I:8. From Coburn’s preface to the 1903 edition: “Many and varied volumes have been written concerning Western life by authors who have depended for their facts entirely upon a flying trip through the West, or a summer’s sojourn in a Western city. It has been my aim in this little book of verse to tell of cowboy life as it actually was, twenty years ago, and as it may still be found to a limited degree in some parts of the West along the line between Texas and Northern Montana. My characters are taken from real life as I have myself seen it during many years spent on the range, in town, and in camp with the wildest of wild cowpunchers. Some of these old companions are now successful and highly esteemed business men; others are still following their vocation on the now diminishing cattle-ranges; and others, too many, are gone forever from the ranges which they loved so well. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to my old friend and fellow range-rider, Charles M. Russell, the well-known cowboy artist, for his drawings which illustrate so faithfully and vividly the life which we knew together.” $3,000.00

975. COBURN, Wallace D. Rhymes from a Round-Up Camp.... New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons & Knickerbocker Press, 1903. ix [3] 137 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations by Charles M. Russell (some full-page), brands on endpapers. 12mo, original red gilt-pictorial cloth, t.e.g. A few trivial spots to binding, but overall very fine, bright, and fresh. Contemporary ink gift inscription on blank flyleaf: “J. E. Meeker from Maurice Wight Christmas/05.” First English edition, revised and with additional illustrations that did not appear in prior editions and issues. Yost & Renner, Russell I:8d. $300.00

976. COBURN, Wallace D. Rhymes from a Round-Up Camp. Los Angeles: Gem Publishing Company, 1925. xvii [3] 137 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations by Charles M. Russell (some full-page), brands on endpapers. 12mo, original embossed pictorial brown cloth over thin boards, t.e.g. Front free endpaper beginning to split at gutter, otherwise very fine. Author’s presentation copy: “Dear Earl, Just a little token in memory of many of the precious hours passed together spitting in the camp-fire and swapping yarns, and living over again a life never seen in any part of this Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) world except Western North America and which can never be seen again unless the Great Spirit can forget mavericking, forgive long rope cowmen, and has a good grass range and good horses—Here’s praying that there is such a camp ground however ‘old scout’ and that you and I may point a trail- herd in that direction. Yours sincerely in bad weather as well as good. Wallace D. Coburn September 1, 1927.” With his hand-drawn brand (encircled C). “New edition, revised and enlarged,” in the “art” binding (boards simulating a bunkhouse door). The illustrations are the same as those in the English edition. Yost & Renner, Russell I:8e. This edition contains a tribute to Coburn by Russell that did not appear in previous issues, in which Russell writes: “Horseman of the plains, mighty hunter, ranchman, cowpuncher, scholar, wit, practician and poet, he rounds out his career as a Westerner by being the only White Chief of the Assinaboine Sioux, his tribal name being Peta-kooa-honga, which means Cowboy Chief.... For all his prowess as horseman and hunter, he is gifted of the tenderness of a woman, the generosity of a prince, and the soul of an artist. With him friendship is almost a religion, and for all the wild vicissitudes of his adventurous life, he has always clung to the tender influences of literature and art, of home and the humanity. We have been friends, he and I, for many years, friends as only men can be who love the same life, who have camped together like true comrades and who are aware of one another’s fidelity, loyalty and courage without the need of a spoken word. Wallace D. Coburn was born in Helena, Montana, of Scotch-Irish parentage in 1876; almost from childhood he spent his summer vacations on the round-up, and for years he lived neighbor to the Assinaboine Sioux of whose nation he is the titular chieftain.” $500.00

977. COBURN, Walt. Pioneer Cattleman in Montana: The Story of the Circle C Ranch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1968]. xii, 338 [2] pp., foldout color plate by Russell, text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original dark brown cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. (illustrated by Russell). Pasted onto front free endpaper is a tan book-plate size piece of paper signed by author and with printed illustration of a cow. First edition. Guns 2479: “This excellent book gives a fine picture of one of the famous ranches in Montana and tells about some of that state’s outlaws.” Smith S2596. Coburn’s book is one of the author’s few non-fiction works, presenting his own memories, a biography of his father Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

(pioneer rancher Robert Coburn), and the men and events of the region they called a “cattleman’s paradise.” Coburn (1889-1971) had every intention to be a cattleman like his father, but he was disabled in two accidents. When Coburn read a Western pulp story in Adventure Magazine written by his Montana friend Robert J. Horton, Coburn recognized a story he had told Horton long ago. Coburn wrote Horton and asked him how he might become a writer. Horton wrote back very specifically—that Coburn should read Roget’s Thesaurus, O. Henry, Jack London, and Joseph Conrad (but no other Western stories); live a story in his mind as he wrote it; never devise a plot beforehand; and never rewrite. Coburn took Horton’s advice to heart and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of pulp Western fiction, earning the sobriquet “The Cowboy Author.” Tuska & Piekarski (pp. 49-51) estimate that Coburn wrote some 600,000 words during the 1930s and 1940s. $125.00

978. COBURN, Walt. Pioneer Cattleman in Montana.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1968]. Another copy. Very fine in very fine d.j. $85.00

979. COCHRAN, John H. Dallas County: A Record of Its Pioneers and Progress, Being a Supplement to John Henry Brown’s History of Dallas County (1887).... Dallas: Arthur S. Mathis, Service Publishing Co., [1928]. 296 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. First edition. CBC 1227. This book was written as supplement to John Henry Brown’s History of Dallas County. The author corrects errors in Brown’s work and supplies history to which Brown did not have access. Cochran mentions early stockraisers (William Kennedy, William Rowe, and others, including Alexander Cockrell, who was in the stock business before he became a city builder). He tells of the establishment of the first tannery in the county in the 1840s by R. J. West, commenting that “the demand for leather was so great that Mr. West did not let the hides remain in the vats long enough to get thoroughly tanned. They were prematurely taken up and sold as leather, which when it got wet and dried became so hard, it was called rawhide” (p. 51). (Dallas in its early years had a thriving trade in cattle and buffalo hides, and by the early 1870s was the world center for that trade.) Cochran discusses the influx of a large number of moral, intelligent, industrious, and well-to-do settlers of English, Irish, and Scottish descent who came to Dallas as result of advertising by the Peters Colony and notes that these Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) pioneers were skilled in farming and stockraising. Earlier settlers had brought inferior breeds from Missouri and other northern states. Cochran tells how the Dallas State Fairs contributed to better breeding of cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. He states that in 1882 barbed wire was introduced to Dallas, causing a contagion of fence cutting and violence that led to the “Fence Cutting Legislature” in an extra session of the Eighteenth Legislature. He claims that a piece of prairie land near the Dallas-Denton road (about two miles south of Farmers Branch) was the site of the first fence cutting in Texas. The first marks and brands recorded in Dallas were on September 28, 1846, to John Neely Bryan, John Beeman, and John Young. $250.00

980. CODY, William F. The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known As Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide. An Autobiography. Hartford: Frank E. Bliss, [1879]. xiv, 17-365 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of Cody, numerous text engravings (many by True W. Williams, some full-page). 8vo, original purple embossed cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper cover with gilt- stamped buffalo lettered “BILL.” Spinal extremities worn and frayed, corners bumped, edges rubbed, hinges cracked, small tear on front free endpaper (no loss), occasional mild staining to text, a few pencil notations in text, contemporary ink ownership inscription of J. C. Curtiss on verso of portrait. A worn copy, but still quite respectable and in its original cloth binding, with two associated items laid in: an early reprint of a photograph of Cody originally inscribed by him to Lovell H. Jerome and a contemporary clipping from the New York Tribune (with article “Conquest of the Sioux: With Crook and Custer in the Campaign of 1876”). First edition. Campbell, p. 63. Graff 786. Guns 224. Howes C531: “Probably ghost-written by Prentiss Ingraham” [Ingraham was a friend of Cody’s and wrote over two hundred wildly exaggerated dime novels about him]. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 75: “The first, and the best of the many ‘autobiographies.’” Rader 859. Smith 1849. Wynar 8352. The book relates Cody’s youthful experiences: learning expert California horsemanship from his uncle (the dashing “bocarro” Horace Billings); rounding up wild horses on the plains; herding cattle for Russell, Majors, and Waddell; and the intense influence of witnessing the incredible panorama of the West opening as the young boy viewed it from the Cody family homes in Kansas and Iowa (exotic Native Americans, thousands of emigrants moving West, the romance of freighting). In the last chapters Cody tells of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) embarking into the cattle business with Major Frank North, purchasing a ranch sixty-five miles north of North Platte in Nebraska, and buying, branding, and driving their first herd of cattle from Texas cattle drovers in Ogallala. He extols the horsemanship of the cowboys on the North Platte range (p. 361): “In this cattle driving business is exhibited some most magnificent horsemanship, for the ‘cow- boys,’ as they are called, are invariably skillful and fearless horsemen—in fact only a most expert rider could be a cow-boy, as it requires the greatest dexterity and daring in the saddle to cut a wild steer out of the herd.” Ironically, Cody, who is generally conceded to be the greatest of all romanticizers of the cowboy, describes his participation in a round-up on the North Platte in rather realistic terms: “As there is nothing but hard work on these round-ups, having to be in the saddle all day, and standing guard over the cattle at night, rain or shine, I could not possibly find out where the fun came in, that North had promised me.” Many of the vivacious engravings are by artist True W. Williams, who also illustrated works by Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, and Bret Harte. $500.00

981. CODY, William F. The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known As Buffalo Bill.... Hartford: Frank E. Bliss, [1879]. Another copy. Moderate shelf wear (especially at spinal extremities), corners bumped and frayed, front hinge cracked, three ink spots on fore-edges, text clean except for minor spotting and a few pencil marks in margins. $350.00

982. CODY, William F. The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known As Buffalo Bill.... Hartford: Frank E. Bliss, [1879]. [i]-iv [2, inserted leaf with facsimile of Sheridan letter to Cody on recto and “Opinions of the Press” on verso] [v]- 365 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous text engravings. 8vo, original purple embossed cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper cover with gilt- stamped buffalo lettered “BILL.” Shelf worn and rubbed, corners bumped and frayed (boards exposed), spine faded and slightly shelf-slanted, gilt buffalo on upper cover almost exterminated, rear hinge cracked, frontispiece and tissue guard foxed, minor spotting to text, pp. xv/xvi trimmed at outer blank margin (this leaf appears to be supplied from another copy), new endpapers. Gift inscription in pencil: “Louis K. Gould ‘Happy New Year’ from Uncle John Jan 1st 1887—John D. Candee.” Gould’s garish orange embossed notary public seal on dedication leaf. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, later issue? This copy varies from the two preceding copies. The dedication leaf (pp. [iii]-[iv]) of the preceding copies has the short dedication to General Sheridan on recto and facsimile of Sheridan’s letter to Cody on verso. In the present copy, the dedication leaf has the short dedicatory statement on recto, and the verso is blank; next is an inserted leaf on thinner paper with facsimile of Sheridan’s letter to Cody on recto and “Opinions of the Press” on verso. Otherwise the two books appear to be identical. One can only speculate why this change was made, but Storm comments in the Graff Catalogue (786): “According to a letter by A. D. Worthington of Hartford, to Richard I. Dodge, March 10, 1884, only three or four thousand of these books were sold.” The optimistic cataloguer might suggest that the inserted leaf with the glowing “Opinions of the Press” was a marketing ploy to attempt to lure more buyers. The pessimistic cataloguer would look askance at the present copy, wondering if it might be a cleverly made-up copy, the inserted leaf perhaps being a separately issue promotional piece put to “good” use. However, that does not explain why the verso of the dedication leaf in the present copy is blank, while the copy listed above has the facsimile of the Sheridan letter on the verso of the dedicatory leaf. The optimistic cataloguer would end by suggesting that despite the wretched condition of the present copy, an opportunity is offered for interesting bibliographical investigation. $200.00

983. [CODY, William F. (“Buffalo Bill”)]. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. Chicago: Blakely Printing, 1893. 64 pp., photographic portrait of Cody on title, numerous text illustrations (many photographic). Small 4to, original chromolithographed pictorial wrappers. Upper wrapper detached and with minor marginal chipping, one dark nickel-size stain on upper wrap, internally fine. Ink notation at top of upper wrapper: “Mr. Joe Byrne & Miss Laura Gibbs went to Buffalo Bills Wild West Show Sept. 29, 1893.” First edition? (collation and publication information as in the Graff copy). Graff 784: “In his best years as a showman, Cody had few rivals.” This rousing and ephemeral programme for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show contains historical sketches and biographies (often with photographs) of Western military heroes, scouts, and many of the performers, including Annie Oakley, “Cow-Boy Kid” Johnnie Baker, Sitting Bull (and other Native Americans), and Cody (including unusual shots, such as Cody in a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) gondola in Venice and visiting Earl’s Court, London, with his troupe). On p. 18 is a photograph of “‘Buffalo Bill’s’ Home and Horse Ranch on the Old Fighting Ground of the Pawnee and Sioux.” Among the articles are “The Cow-Boys” (discusses Texas cowboys); “Vaqueros of the Southwest”; “How ‘Buffalo Bill’s’ Cow-Boys Tame the Roman Wild Horses”; “Cossacks with the Wild West”; “South American Gauchos at the ‘Wild West’”; “On a Mustang” (from Sweet & Knox’s Texas Siftings); “The Wild West at the Vatican”; “Explicit Denial of the Various Charges Made against ‘Buffalo Bill’” (in response to charges of starvation and cruelty to Native Americans in the show); “The Rifle as an Aid to Civilization”; etc. Cody found his true calling in 1882 in his hometown of North Platte, Nebraska. While relaxing at the local saloon one afternoon, he was dismayed to learn that the town had no festivities planned for the Fourth of July. Always the irrepressible showman, he quickly worked up a program to show off cowboy skills, offering prizes for bronco busting, shooting, and riding. He expected about a hundred cowboys, but over a thousand applied. Cody realized that with some added frills, he had the makings of a magnificent theatrical property exhibiting Western prowess. By the following year, Cody had organized his flamboyant Wild West Show that brought the romanticized cowboy to America and Europe and transformed the image of the cowboy from uncouth and rowdy to squeaky-clean national hero. $400.00

984. COE, George W. Frontier Fighter: The Autobiography of George W. Coe, Who Fought and Rode with Billy the Kid. As Related to Nan Hillary Harrison. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1934. xiv [2] 220 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 8vo, original grey cloth. Lower free endpaper browned where a newspaper clipping was laid in, otherwise very fine and fresh in very good d.j. (slightly chipped). Clipping (in acid-free mylar) from an English newspaper (1941) laid in, with article “Aged Rancher Who Fought with Billy the Kid Dies,” reporting Coe’s death in Roswell, New Mexico, at the age of 85. First edition, first printing (with date 1934 under imprint on title). Adams, Burs I:86; One-Fifty 32. Campbell, p. 70: “Coe is anxious to correct inaccuracies and quash false rumors.” Dobie, p. 140. Dykes, Kid 195: “It has the ring of truth.” Guns 458: “Scarce.... Though a good friend of Billy the Kid, the author was never considered an outlaw. As a participant in the Lincoln County War, he gives...a fairly accurate account.” Herd 498. Howes C534. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Rader 863. Saunders 2822. The author arrived in New Mexico in 1874, traveling from Iowa with a herd of cattle. Before becoming embroiled in the Lincoln County War, he worked on his cousin, Lou Coe’s ranch. After the turmoil ended, in 1884 he set up his own ranch adjacent to Frank Coe. “Keleher reports that Coe ‘was not in any sense of the word an outlaw,’ and Adams says he ‘was never considered an outlaw,’ but others with equal or better firsthand knowledge of the facts felt differently” (Thrapp I, p. 295). $350.00

985. COE, George W. Frontier Fighter.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1934. Another copy. Other than minor rubbing to joints, fine, in very good d.j. (price-clipped and with a few minor chips and tears). $325.00

986. COE, George W. Frontier Fighter.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1934. Another copy. Binding moderately worn (primarily to spine, which is a bit dark), endsheets slightly browned, dust jacket not present. Signed in ink by Coe beneath frontispiece portrait. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. $300.00

987. COE, George W. Frontier Fighter.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, [1934]. xiv [2] 220 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 8vo, original grey cloth. Other than slight outer wear, very fine in near fine d.j. (very light wear). Signed by Coe and with his notation of his age at the time of the photograph. Front pastedown with ink ownership inscription of Frank W. Little of Seattle, Washington, indicating acquisition of the book in February 1941. Small printed label of Cobean Stationery Co. of Roswell, New Mexico, on lower pastedown. First edition, second printing (without date 1934 under imprint on title). $225.00

988. COE, George W. Frontier Fighter.... Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, [1934]. Another copy. Signed by Coe beneath frontispiece portrait: “Geo. W. Coe Glencoe New Mex Dec 25-1938 age 82.” Binding moderately worn and with a few spots and small stains, a few small spots to fore-edges, front hinge cracked, first signature a bit loose. Only one inside flap of the d.j. is present. Laid in is a newspaper clipping with a contemporary review of the book. $200.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

989. COE, George W. Frontier Fighter.... Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1951]. xiv [2] 220 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Binding lightly stained, tape stains to first and last leaves and endpapers, pencil ownership inscription of Joel Palmer. Dust jacket slightly worn and with some light staining on back panel. Second edition. $20.00

990. COE, Urling C. Frontier Doctor. New York: Macmillan Company, 1939. ix [3] 264 pp., tailpieces. 8vo, original green cloth. Top edge foxed, endpapers browned. Good to very good copy, in slightly foxed d.j. First edition. Dobie, pp. 69-70: “Lusty autobiography full of characters and anecdotes.” Guns 459: “One chapter, entitled ‘Horse Thieves and Rustlers,’ relates the author’s experiences in doctoring shot-up rustlers.” Smith 1854. Coe worked in Eastern Oregon in the early 1900s. $45.00

991. COE, Wilbur. Ranch on the Ruidoso: The Story of a Pioneer Family in New Mexico, 1871-1968.... With an Introduction by Peter Hurd. New York: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. xviii, 279 [3] pp., color frontispiece after a painting by Peter Hurd, color plate of Coe by Peter Hurd, plates (photographic), maps by José Cisneros. 8vo, original red cloth over green cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j. (slight wear). Author’s signed presentation copy to Carl and Vivian Hertzog: “November 9, 1968. To my dear friends Carl & Vivian. Thanks for your wonderful work of design on this book. With love Wilbur Coe.” Beneath is publisher’s inscription to Hertzog “And with love too from the publisher. We don’t make books like this one anymore...Coe Ranch 12 September 1975.” Laid in are a signed photograph of Louise Coe, a couple of related newspaper clippings and xerox copy of author’s TLs in regard to the book. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 56), (Hurd 60). Guns 460. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 222: “Both the binding and dust jacket are rich, colorful, and appropriate. The title-page is exceptionally well done. A period atmosphere is achieved, in part, by the use of horse-and-buggy type, which Hertzog loaned the publisher. The maps were drawn by José Cisneros.” The story of the Coe clan of pioneer ranchers in New Mexico overlaps the early history of New Mexico Territory and the transition to statehood. $200.00

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992. COE, Wilbur. Ranch on the Ruidoso.... New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Another copy. Light staining to edge of upper cover, otherwise fine in lightly foxed d.j. $75.00

993. COE, Wilbur. Ranch on the Ruidoso.... New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Another copy. Fine, without the d.j. $35.00

994. COFER, Irene Cornwall. The Lunch Tree. Brooklyn: Theo. Gaus Sons, Inc, [1969]. xvi [2] 210 pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic), chapter decorations by Roy Purcell. 8vo, original blue cloth. Upper fore-edge lightly foxed, otherwise fine in moderately foxed d.j. Signed by the author. First edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 334. We obtained this book from Fred White, Sr., who notes: “A ranch wife describes her life in western Arizona (Mohave Co.) from early this century.” Cofer, a descendant of the ill-fated Donner Party, was born in 1891 near the present village of Wickieup and grew up in an adobe ranch house in what she describes as “happy poverty.” She married Clyde Cofer at age nineteen and spent almost twenty years living in the rough range country, cooking for cowboys, washing with a scrub board, and bearing five children. She was a charter member of the “Cowbelles,” the distaff side of the Cattle Growers’ Association. Cofer documents ranches and ranch families in her region (including photographs) and gives an account of an 1893 drive of 5,000 cattle from Mohave County. $45.00

995. [COFFEEN, Herbert (ed.)]. The Teepee Book. Sheridan, Wyoming, 1915. 5 issues: July (1:7), August (1:8), September (1:9), October (misnumbered 1:9), and November- December, 1915 (misnumbered 1:10). Each issue is about 32 pp., with illustrations and ads. 5 vols., 12mo, original printed wrappers (brown, grey, and green). Some wear and soiling to wraps, but internally very fine. First printings. Includes articles and poetry relating to ranching and cowboys, such as “The Canyon Trail” and “The Fight” by Badger Clark, “The Wagon Box Fight” by E. A. Brininstool, illustrations by Borein, etc. There is an account of a ride from the Salt River Valley to Tucson by Alberta Claire, “the girl from Wyoming” who rode horseback all over the United States: “Discretion cautioned me to ignore their seeming distaste for a member of my sex in camp.” Many of the ads relate to ranching (real estate, working ranches and dude ranches, supplies, rodeos). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

“Friends, Romans, Cowpinchers.—also Bankers, Doods, and Half-breeds, record your brand with the commissary of The Teepee Book so you may get your ration of one copy each month, for every month of the year.” $150.00

996. [COFFEEN, Herbert (ed.)]. The Teepee Book: A Magazine Devoted to the Romantic Side of the Indians and the Northwest. Sheridan, Wyoming, 1916. 11 issues from 1916 (lacking only the August issue). Each issue is about 32 pp. (though the June Custer issue is 104 pp.), with illustrations and ads. 11 vols., 12mo, original printed wrappers (various colors), illustrations, advertisements. February issue bound upside-down in wrappers; May issue water damaged along blank lower margin; first page (ads) torn out of July issue; generally some wear, soiling, and chipping to wraps, overall very good to fine. First printings. “The Heavenly Roper” by Fred LaFlaire, “Mountain Music” and “The Glory Trail” by Badger Clark, “The Cowboy” and “Powder River!!” by C. B. Davis, “Christmas Out West” by Arthur Chapman, “Buckin’ Horses” by Ee-soshke-oah-bush, “A Cowboy Song” by an unknown author, “The Fetterman Massacre” by E. A. Brininstool, “Marking the Site of Historic Fort Bonneville” by Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, “Some Adventures of Sweet Root: A Cheyenne Story” by George Bird Grinnell, two contributions by Alberta Claire, “The Girl from Wyoming,” about the pioneers of the Powder River country and her travels in Mexico in 1913 (when all the news was of Pancho Villa), etc. $350.00

997. COFFIN, Morse H. The Battle of Sand Creek. Edited and with Introduction and Notes by Alan W. Farley. Waco: W. M. Morrison, 1965. 40 pp. Small 4to, original brown cloth. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (300 copies). Wynar 1699. Tensions ran high in the area northeast of Denver in the summer of 1864 as Cheyenne warriors rustled or ran off stock, took several captives, and caused overland mail and stage to be suspended, cutting off settlements in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and New Mexico from supply lines to the East. The Third Colorado Volunteer Calvary was eventually called upon to “keep open the highway to and from the East, protect ranches, etc.” (p. 5). $75.00

998. COFFIN, Robert P., et al. Lone-Star Longhorns: Texas Ballads. Cleveland: American Weave Press, [1953]. [6] 43 pp. 16mo, original brown printed wrappers, stitched. Very fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Ballads chosen from manuscripts submitted at the 1953 Fine Arts Colony at Corpus Christi creative writing workshops under the direction of Coffin. Coffin’s poem “The Ghost-March” bemoans the passing of the longhorns like the buffalo before them. The subject of “Red Gober’s Ride,” by John Vail vows “I picked up my rope / Stumbled off to the pen / And swore every step / Not to trail-drive again” (unfortunately, he did, and when lightning struck, the herd stampeded). $30.00

999. COKE, Henry J. A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles. London: Richard Bentley, 1852. x, 388 [2] pp., mounted lithographed frontispiece portrait on India paper (printed by the pioneer lithography firm of Hullmandel). 8vo, original blindstamped purple cloth (rebacked several decades ago, original spine preserved, endpapers replaced). Some shelf wear (especially at spinal extremities and corners), spine dark, small paper spine label, back hinge cracked. Interior clean except for offsetting and browning to frontispiece and title, paper age-toned (as is usually the case with this book). First edition. Cowan, p. 134. Flake 2449. Graff 796. Hill, p. 57: “A fascinating account of this perilous 1850 expedition, undertaken for sheer adventure...in which two of their seven companions perished, and the survival of any was a miracle. Coke was a globe-trotter, and his excessive spirit is thoroughly exhibited in every chapter of this book. His ability to describe easily the sights and sensations of his journey has resulted in a most entertaining book.” Howes C547. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 144: “The last chapter of this travel book features California and the Gold Rush.... He met Captain Sutter in Marysville and went to the Hock Farm.... He [gives] his views on ‘Judge Lynch’ and the Yankee personality.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 761. Mintz, The Trail 100: “One of the most stimulating of all overland narratives, and one of the West’s best adventure stories.” Plains & Rockies IV:211. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 44. Englishman Coke’s book is a great read, and we include it here because of the short appendix at the conclusion which encourages Englishmen to settle in Oregon, giving details on obtaining land and outlining the advantages of agriculture and stockraising. “The winters are so clement in Oregon that no provision is made for the stock, and they are nearly as fat in the winter as in the summer” (p. 389). Peripheral ranching material is found in the main part of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Coke’s account (on buffalo, horse racing, breaking mules, encountering a party of emigrants driving a herd of three hundred cattle, visiting Sutter’s establishment, etc.). $500.00

1000. COLE, Cornelius. Memoirs of Cornelius Cole, Ex- Senator of the United States from California. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1908. x, 354 pp., frontispiece portrait (sepia-tone photogravure). Small 4to, original navy blue cloth, printed paper spine label, t.e.g. Front hinge split, otherwise very fine and fresh, mostly unopened. First edition, the Clark remainder with their cancel slip on title. Cowan, p. 134. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 93. Flake 2452. Graff 799. Guns 463: “Scarce.” Howes C565. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 145: “Vivid recollections.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 409. Mintz, The Trail 536: “Gives the reader a realistic view of the Santa Fe Trail.” Rocq 8923. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 45. This well-written account by the Congressman and Senator from California (1863-1871) has something for everyone: a well-written and rousing overland, California Gold Rush, irrigation in California, social history, politics, railroads and The Big Four, Lincoln, California Fugitive Slave Law, Charles Dickens, law and outlaws (including Tiburcio Vásquez), California local history (especially San Francisco and Los Angeles), etc. Ranching is sparse within the plethora of history presented, but Cole makes some observations worth noting. “The practice of the former government in making enormous individual grants of land...as a rule comprising eleven square leagues, or not far from 50,000 acres each [led] to the inference that the country was fitted only for pasturage” (p. 76). “Southern California, as late as 1866, was counted of little value.... The live stock, consisting of horses, horned-cattle and sheep, subsisted the year through upon the natural herbage.... The civilized population that had just preceded these times, had diligently given what little energy they had to spare to the less laborious occupation of raising cattle. Traffic in hides and tallow had supplied all their wants, and when the Teutonic race came straggling along, they naturally fell into the habits and customs already established.” $100.00

1001. COLE, George E. Early Oregon: Jottings of Personal Recollections of a Pioneer of 1850. [Spokane: Shawn & Borden, 1905]. 95 pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original red cloth. Binding rubbed, internally fine, in Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) damaged d.j. (torn, and missing a 10 x 5-cm section on back). First book edition (first appeared in a series of articles in the Sunday Oregonian in 1901). Graff 800. Howell 32, Oregon 57. Smith 1879. Cole, a politician, stockraiser, and schoolteacher, came to the Oregon country in 1850. Here he recalls the earliest settlers in the Umpqua and Willamette Valleys, mentioning livestock, his stays with ranchers, and events occurring at area ranches. Cole wished to locate land for himself, and on his first approach to the Umpqua Valley, he had the good luck to meet Jesse Applegate and stayed at the farm and ranch of Jesse’s brother, Charles Applegate. In 1853 after making arrangements for Major James A. Lupton to buy cattle from immigrants on the plains, Cole had a narrow escape from an uprising of Native Americans in the region of Patrick’s Ranch and Cole’s Ranch. In the winter of 1855 Cole’s cattle herd at White Salmon strayed when Native Americans chased away the hired man who was looking after the herd. Cole gives a harrowing account of trying to round up his cattle on Christmas Eve and herd them to the south side of the river. This incident is worth relating to show the courage and determination of these early Oregon pioneers. First, a Cayuse (east wind) blew in and plummeted the temperature to below freezing. Cole hauled in sand to make a trail to allow the herd to cross the slippery ice on the river. No sooner was the sand trail laid than a strong Chinook (west wind) blew in and melted the ice. Not to be defeated, when the river was clear enough of drifting ice to navigate, Cole towed in a flatboat by steamer. He managed to retrieve only twenty-six head before being swept into deep, swift water he could not ford. He was rescued by a man in a canoe, but not before almost freezing to death. $75.00

1002. COLE, Maude E. Wind against Stone: A Texas Novel. Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, [1941]. 327 pp. 8vo, original beige linen. Spine slightly darkened, endpapers lightly browned and top edges foxed, interior fine. Dust jacket worn, stained, and price-clipped. First edition. The author of this novel was the grandmother of noted Texas writer A. C. Greene. Greene Library: “Wind Against Stone was the only novel my grandmother had published. It was brought out by Lymanhouse, an up-and-coming Los Angeles publisher whose rise was stopped by World War II. The owner told me, several years later, that he was just about ready to do a second printing of my grandmother’s book when the government made book publishers turn in their metal plates Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) for scrap and the war effort.... The events in Wind Against Stone were fictional, but several occurred around her mother, Mary Catherine Craghead Longley, who, with her husband, Lytle Craghead, went out to West Texas in 1884.” The protagonist is a young woman who comes to West Texas as a bride and strives to adapt to the desolate country and a hard-scrabble existence. She and her husband are homesteaders, and their struggle to survive is shown in sharp relief against that of their neighbors who are small ranchers. They visit a magnificent, isolated ranch near Phantom Hill, and the refined lady of the establishment describes her life: “I’m never lonesome. I ride the range with Albert a lot of the time. When I am home, there are usually two or three women, wives of cowboys, around.... We have picnics in the summer, cowboy balls in the winter and round-ups at branding time. Something interesting is going on all the time. I enjoy every day of my life.” $75.00

1003. COLEMAN, Ann Raney. Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontier: The Journal of Ann Raney Coleman. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1971]. xxi [1] 206 pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original light blue cloth. Edges lightly foxed, else fine in very fine d.j. First American edition. Coleman came to Texas from England in 1832 and records many experiences of historical interest, with some comments on raising sheep and driving stock. She lived in Brazoria and Cuero and made her living as a school teacher. Edited by Richard C. King. $20.00

1004. COLEMAN, James M. Aesculapius on the Colorado: The Story of Medical Practice in Travis County to 1899. Austin: The Encino Press for the Friends of the Austin Public Library, [1971]. v [3] 122 pp., chapter heading vignettes. 8vo, original half dark green cloth over light green boards, paper printed label on upper cover. Very fine in publisher’s original mylar d.j. First edition. Whaley, Wittliff 70: “The history of medical practice in Travis County, Texas, from the earliest days of settlement to 1899.” Several references to a subject not often discussed in relation to the cattle trade—health hazards arising from the trade. Many herds passed through Austin in the heyday of the trail drives, and there is reference to a complaint in 1868 about the choking dust produced by a cattle herd moving down Congress Avenue. In 1873 an ordinance was passed providing that no cattle other than milk cows should be permitted to graze on the streets of Austin. In 1882 the bridge over the Colorado River collapsed when a herd of cattle belonging to Drs. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Fields and Coleman of Manor attempted to cross it. A list of physicians of Austin and Travis county between 1845 and 1885 reveals that three of these physicians were also stockraisers (John A. Black, William C. McGown, and W. C. Philips). $35.00

1005. COLEMAN, Max M. From Mustanger to Lawyer. [Lubbock: Privately published by the author, 1952]. 156 + 207 pp., photographs, illustrations. 2 vols., 8vo, original maroon cloth. Binding with a few spots, fore-edges foxed, light foxing near frontispiece, generally very good, with author’s mimeographed “Dear Reader” promotional letters laid in. First edition, limited edition (#210 of 500 copies, signed by author, manuscript notation indicating that this copy is for “Dudley R. Dobie” of “San Marcos Texas”). Guns 465. Herd 500, 501. A fictional autobiography of the author’s life covering sixty years on the Plains of West Texas and in New Mexico and other states, with much ranching interest. $85.00

1006. COLLEY, Charles (artist). Original pencil sketch of a fair and buxom cowgirl galloping on horseback, long hair and hat flying, as she tries to rope a dogie in a cloud of dust. Signed and dated 1984. Measures 10.5 x 20 cm. Very fine. An amusing little image by an enigmatic artist. $50.00

1007. COLLIER, William Ross & Edwin Victor Westrate. Dave Cook of the Rockies: Frontier General, Fighting Sheriff, and Leader of Men. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936. xv [1] 224 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates (mostly by Joseph Collier). 8vo, original magenta cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j. (price-clipped and slightly worn). First edition. Guns 466. Wilcox, p. 25: “Biography of Denver’s famed head of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association.” Wynar 7003. Has information on the various crimes that went hand in hand with the range cattle industry: rustling, horse thievery, and the occasional murder. Our favorite words of wisdom from Dave Cook: “Never hit a man over the head with a pistol, because afterward you may want to use your weapon and find it disabled.” The photographic plates are important, being the work of Joseph Collier, the first photographer to carry darkroom tent and chemicals by pack train into the heart of the Rockies. This was before the introduction of the dry plate or film, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) necessitating careful preparation and development of each plate at the time of exposure in the camera. Collier’s work is noteworthy, not only for its technical prowess, but its aesthetic qualities. “A Storm Brewing in the Rockies” (opposite p. 32) is especially fine. $100.00

1008. COLLIER, William Ross & Edwin Victor Westrate. Dave Cook of the Rockies.... New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936. Another copy. Light shelf wear, a few foxmarks on title, otherwise fine, d.j. not present. $60.00

1009. COLLIER, William Ross & Edwin Victor Westrate. The Reign of Soapy Smith, Monarch of Misrule in the Last Days of the Old West and the Klondike Gold Rush. Garden City & New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1935. vi [4] 299 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original orange cloth. Light shelf wear, small, faint spot on upper cover, otherwise fine in the scarce d.j. (worn and price-clipped). First edition. Guns 467. Smith 1890. A chronicle of the life of Jefferson Randolph (“Soapy”) Smith (1860-98), who left the arduous job of driving longhorns over the dusty, South Texas plains in favor of the easier life of a bunco expert in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Alaska, and Mexico. “Soapy” won his nickname by selling bars of soap to cowboys under the illusion that some lucky purchaser would find a $20 bill wrapped around his purchase, although none but shills were apt to make the discovery. $40.00

1010. COLLINGS, Ellsworth & Alma Miller England. The 101 Ranch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937. xiv, 249 [1] pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. Large 8vo, original orange cloth. Superb copy in fine d.j. with a few closed tears. Neat contemporary pencil ownership inscription of Philip B. Stewart on half-title. First edition. Adams, Burs II:40. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 18. Dobie, p. 99: “The 101 Ranch was far more than a ranch; it was a unique institution. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show is emphasized in this book.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #17. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12. Herd 504. Rader 870: “Ranch life and the Miller family. History of Oklahoma.” Reese, Six Score 22: “The best history of this great Oklahoma ranch and its owners...from its founding by Col. George Miller in the 1870s to the later Wild West Show, continued ranching operations, and final bankruptcy in the 1930s. Entertaining reading.” $250.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1011. COLLINGS, Ellsworth & Alma Miller England. The 101 Ranch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938. xiv, 249 [1] pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original orange cloth. Light shelf wear, untidy ink and pencil ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in worn, chipped, and stained d.j., which appears to be supplied from another copy. First edition, second printing. $40.00

1012. COLLINGS, Ellsworth & Alma Miller England. The 101 Ranch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1971]. xxx, 255 [1] pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original yellow cloth over tan boards. Very fine in fine d.j. Second edition, with added index and historical foreword by Glenn Shirley, who comments: “The ranch encompassed three towns—Bliss (now Marland), Red Rock, and White Eagle—and was spread over parts of four counties— Noble, Pawnee, Osage, and Kay. Its 300 miles of fence cost $50,000. Its shipping pens on the Santa Fe Railroad at Bliss could accommodate 2,000 cattle.... It produced and manufactured everything to make it self-sufficient, employed hundreds of miles of good roads for ranch use as well as public travel. Bigness was its method, and when at last all ventures failed, even the failure was big.” $40.00

1013. COLLINS, Dabney Otis. Great Western Rides. Denver: Sage Books, [1961]. 277 pp., frontispiece, plates, illustrations by Eggenhofer. 8vo, original beige cloth. Front hinge cracked, otherwise fine in fine d.j. First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 55). Guns 468: “Has chapters on the Wild Bunch, the Johnson County War, and Joseph Slade.” Accounts of epic “emergency rides for high-stakes,” including Virginia Slade’s mad dash to try to save her husband Jack from the Montana Vigilantes, Alonzo Taylor’s ride to warn small ranchers and settlers of the opening of the Johnson County War, and Henry Lease’s dangerous ride to warn of the Comanche uprising at Adobe Walls in Texas. $30.00

1014. COLLINS, Dennis. The Indians’ Last Fight; or, The Dull Knife Raid. [Girard, Kansas: Press of The Appeal to Reason, 1915]. 326 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine, signed on front free endpaper: “From Capt. Phil Christophersen Supt. Camp Grafton. Nov 24, 1951.” Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Dobie, p. 99: “Nearly half of this very scarce book deals autobiographically with frontier range life.” Eberstadt 122:72: “Santa Fe Trail; freighting on the trail; cattle roundups; the Indian dances; the Whirlwind Raid; Adobe Walls Raid; California Joe; the Dull Knife Raid, etc.” Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 96. Graff 807. Guns 470: “Scarce. In telling about western outlaws, the author claims that one of the principal reasons for their development was the publication of wild West fiction and dime novels which created false impressions of the West and inflamed the imaginations and corrupted the minds of the younger generation.” Herd 505. Howes C590. The tragic attempt by Dull Knife and three hundred Northern Cheyenne (two-thirds of whom were women and children) to return to their ancestral home in Montana in 1878 rather than remain in the sterile dust-land of the Darlington Reservation in Indian Territory was one of the last attempts at armed resistance by the Plains Indians. Their party split in two parts north of Ogallala, Nebraska, and Dull Knife’s contingency was harassed, imprisoned, starved, and most of them were brutally massacred by the U.S. Third Cavalry. Although the title of the book infers that its subject is the Dull Knife Raid, Canadian-born Collins relates copious and excellent firsthand material on the cattle trade and ranching from the Dakota line to the Texas Panhandle: branding mavericks; the round-up; rustlers and vigilance committees; comparison of freighters’ and cowmen’s outfits; catching wild horses; Western ways and language; “Cowboy Acquaintances”; “The Character of the Cowboy”; the opening of Oklahoma; irrigation in the Texas Panhandle; etc. $400.00

1015. COLLINS, Dennis. The Indians’ Last Fight; or, The Dull Knife Raid. [Girard, Kansas: Press of The Appeal to Reason, 1915]. Another copy. Minor shelf wear, small spot at lower edge of upper cover, otherwise fine. $375.00

1016. COLLINS, Hubert E. Warpath and Cattle Trail. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. xix [3] 296 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations (some full-page), endpaper illustrations, and map by Paul Brown. Large 8vo, original green cloth. A fine, fresh copy, with only one small spot at edge of upper cover, in very good d.j. (slightly chipped, but no loss of image, price-clipped). The d.j., which has an illustration by Paul Brown, is scarce. First edition. Foreword by Hamlin Garland. Dobie, p. 99: “The pageant of trail life as it passed by a stage stand in Oklahoma; autobiographical. Beautifully printed Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) and illustrated. Far better than numerous other out-of- print books that bring much higher prices in the second- hand market.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #3. Graff 808: “Southwestern Indians and cattlemen.” Guns 471: “This volume contains a chapter on Cherokee Bill, telling about the outlaw’s life before he started upon his career of crime.” Herd 506. Howes C592. Rader 872. History of the Red Fork Ranch of Oklahoma, just across the Red River from Texas. At the age of ten, Collins went with his family into the Oklahoma Territory. He lived an active life as cowboy, rancher, explorer, and engineer. The illustrations by Paul Brown (1893-1953) are skillful and charming. When the artist’s family moved to Long Island in 1915, his “school” became the polo field, steeplechase courses, and horse show grounds. Brown’s specialty was the horse in action, the cowboy, Native Americans, and cavalry. He claimed he could not draw a female unless she had four legs. See Samuels, Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, pp. 69-70. $100.00

1017. COLLINS, Hubert E. Warpath and Cattle Trail. New York: Morrow, 1928. Another copy. Light shelf wear, slight fraying to corners, a few spots to upper cover, otherwise very good, without the d.j. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on dedication leaf. $50.00

1018. COLLINS, John S. Across the Plains in ’64: Incidents of Early Days West of the Missouri River—Two Thousand Miles in an Open Boat from Fort Benton to Omaha.... Omaha: [Privately printed for the author by] National Printing Company, 1904. 151 pp., facsimile letter. 12mo, original gilt-lettered green pictorial cloth. Small gouge in upper cover and several small spots to binding, a few text leaves lightly smudged, otherwise fine and bright. Author’s signed presentation inscription on front free endpaper: “To Judge E. M. Bartlett From John S. Collins April 23/05.” A few of author’s ink manuscript corrections in text. First edition. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 97. Graff 809. Howes C594: “Much unwritten history on the early trans-Missouri region.” Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 1938n. Mintz, The Trail 102. Collins witnessed and reported on the Montana- Wyoming region during the dramatic period when it transitioned from Native American hunting grounds to Anglo- American mines, cattle ranges, and settlements. Collins’ journey west ended at Virginia City, Montana, in June of 1864. He describes the activities of the Montana Vigilantes. Collins spent ten years (1872-1882) as Post Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Trader at Fort Laramie, a critical crossroads in the history of Westward expansion as it was well situated on the path of least resistance across the rugged Rocky Mountains. He describes Native Americans (including Little Bat, the quarter-blood Sioux scout who became famous as a stockraiser); U.S. military operations against Native Americans; area ranches and ranchers; mining operations; freighting; hunting (including a sporting venture with Carl Schurz, Webb C. Hayes, and artist Gaullier); etc. Collins graphically explains the perils that beset ranchers: “Back in ‘75’ the country around Fort Laramie fairly bristled with hostile Indians. Scarcely a week passed that ranchmen, herders, and wood choppers were not alarmed by small war parties raiding the stock herds” (p. 131). $500.00

1019. COLLINS, John S. Across the Plains in ’64.... Omaha: [Privately printed for the author by] National Printing Company, 1904. Another copy. Minor shelf wear, light flecking and soiling to covers, otherwise fine. To the front pastedown is pasted author’s engraved calling card with date September 17, 1905 in ink. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper (Elmer O. Gates, September 17, 1905). $450.00

1020. COLLINS, John S. Across the Plains in ’64.... [Part II] (half title preceding second half of book, Stories of the Plains...). Omaha: [Privately printed for the author by]: National Printing Co., 1904, 1911. [2] 151 [1]; 152 pp., frontispiece portrait of author, photographic plates. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Narrow 2.5-cm discoloration along upper joint, otherwise superb, very fresh and bright. Rare. Second and best edition, illustrations added and expanded text containing later frontier experiences. The undistributed copies of the first edition were bound up with Part II (Stories of the Plains...); the second part was printed after the author’s death to fulfill the conditions of his will and the work was privately distributed to his friends and family. The second edition is more rare than the first. Bay, Three Handfuls of Western Books, p. 9: “A gold mine of authentic information about overland movements.” Eberstadt 105:88: “A letter from Dr. Heberd, Ex-Librarian of the University of Wyoming, states that she had been looking for this work for many years, and that a standing order with the leading dealers of the middle west had failed to locate a single copy.” Graff 810. Mintz, The Trail 102: “The second edition...is considered the more desirable. A pertinent book for information on Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) overland travels. Collins, after crossing South Pass, took Lander’s cutoff to Virginia City. He was post trader at Ft. Laramie for 10 years. A very difficult book to find.” The wonderful photographs include a portrait of the author, Native Americans (including Sioux scout and stockraiser Little Bat), “The Five Terrors of the Wind River Range” (author with a fatigued-looking General George Crook, General F. H. Stanton, and two other men “just returned from Bear Hunt”), and more. Added stories in part two include “A Cowboy Wedding” and “Wild Buffalo in a Cattle Pen.” However, there is good ranching content throughout most of Part II. For example, Collins sets out details on the clothing and equipage of cowmen, including cost and how Collins’ saddles were the most prized. He comments that President Roosevelt was so impressed with the cowgirl model of Collins saddle that he suggested it to the fashionable riding clubs in the southern states. “Among all the thousands of customers and cowmen whose names were on our books there were none more agreeable to us or more appreciated and valued than President Roosevelt. Should these pages ever reach his eye no doubt they will remind him of the jolly rough-and-tumble life of cow camps in the piping days when he followed the trail at Medora, Montana, on the little Missouri, of the longhorns from his ranch, when he was ‘one of the men’ of that country” (p. 11). $750.00

Catalogue 4 (11/86): 77 (vf); also bull 7 $350 min. shelf wear; 87 MH fine $350 ; ($250-350; price from Mintz); 94 MH cloth fine $500, then in 97 cloth minor wear $650; 92 & 94 & 97 PHK slipcase fine $450 ABE 2002: One @ $175

1021. COLLINSON, [Walter James] Frank. Life in the Saddle. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1963]. xvi, 243 [1] pp., text illustrations by Bugbee. 12mo, original tan boards. Fore-edges and endsheets slightly foxed, otherwise fine d.j. First edition. Western Frontier Library 21 (one of the few books in this series that was taken from an original, previously unpublished manuscript). Edited and arranged by Mary Whatley Clarke from Collinson’s letters, diaries, and magazine articles. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee 41). Guns 472. Tate, Indians of Texas 3249. Collinson (1855-ca. 1943), English cowboy, rancher, traveler, and student of the frontier, moved from Yorkshire to San Antonio when he was sixteen, worked on the Circle Dot Ranch (1872), and helped John Lytle round up and brand a herd of 3,500 cattle and drive them to the Red Cloud Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Indian Reservation in northwest Nebraska, where they were turned over to Custer (1874). He set out for New Mexico Territory to fight in the Lincoln County War, but changed his mind, instead contracting to pick up a herd of 8,000 Jinglebob cattle recently purchased from John Chisum. He established the first ranch in the area of Motley County, and eventually this ranch became the headquarters for the Matador Land and Cattle Company. Collinson ranched in Big Bend (the Three Diamond Ranch on Terlingua Creek), King County, Clarendon, and El Paso. In the 1880s he made several trail drives north from the Colorado River in Texas to the Yellowstone River in Montana. “New information on notable personalities in the region, many of whom he knew personally, including John L. Bullis, Charles Goodnight, Quanah Parker, Francisco (Pancho) Villa, William A. A. (Big Foot) Wallace, and John S. Chisum.”—Handbook of Texas Online: Walter James Collinson. $40.00

1022. COLLINSON, [Walter James] Frank. Life in the Saddle. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1964]. xvi, 244 pp., illustrations by Bugbee. 12mo, original tan boards. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition, second printing. $15.00

1023. COLONNA, Maxine & Ruth Ford Atkinson. Jireh College: Stirred Embers of the Past. A Historical Analysis of Available Records and Recent Memoirs. [Albuquerque], 1963. ix [3] 134 [2] pp., 17 plates. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers. Slight wear to wraps, else very fine, signed by Maxine Colonna. First printing. Jireh College was established in 1908 in present-day Niobrara County, Wyoming, a “vast domain of grasslands and sagebrush, used as open-range grazing for cattle, sheep, and horses” (p. 1). Of the founding of Jireh, a Professor Enders reported that “the location west of Manville was in the midst of an area of government lands which until a short time before had been held by cattle and sheep ranchers. Naturally the ranchers did not take kindly to this proposed invasion of their grazing lands and did not sit up nights devising ways and means of welcoming the incoming settlers! Apparently some of the antagonism formerly existing between sheep and cattle men now united them against the newcomers” (p. 5). $25.00

1024. COLONNA, Maxine & Ruth Ford Atkinson. Jireh College.... [Albuquerque], 1963. Another copy. Very fine. $20.00

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1025. COLORADO. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. HAMROCK, P. J. & Paul P. Newlon. First Biennial Report of the State Department of Safety. “Colorado Rangers.” December 1, 1920, to November 30, 1922. Denver: Eames Brothers, 1923. 16 pp. 8vo, original grey wrappers. Wrapper edges faded and lightly foxed, text browned, else fine. First printing. There are two sections of interest for stockraising in this brief report. “Sheep and Cattle Disturbance” relates to cattlemen preventing the movement of large sheep herds on the public domain in southern Moffat County; when the rangers arrived they found both sides armed and ready to do battle but managed to negotiate an amicable settlement. “Cattle Stealing” reports on rustling in the Grand Junction and Pagosa Springs areas: “Cattle stealing and sheep stealing has been going on in the state ever since the earliest inhabitants can remember, and will, no doubt, continue...for all time to come.” $40.00

1026. COLORADO. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Official Souvenir and Manual of the Fifteenth General Assembly and State of Colorado: Being a Collection of Portraits, Engravings, and Biographies of the State Officials.... Together with Other Things of Interest in the State of Colorado. Denver: E. J. Miller, 1905. 264 [1] [ 5, index] [12, ads] pp., double- page plate (photograph of the Stevens Mine), profusely illustrated (mostly photographs and portraits). Oblong 4to, original red cloth decorated in gilt and silver, with photograph of the Colorado State Capitol on upper cover. Cover photograph browned, moderate outer wear, front hinge broken, internally fine. First printing. Wynar 7318. Mostly a mug book with much on mining and a section on the industries of Colorado, including information and statistics on stockraising, the Union Stock Yards, and the Denver Stock Yards Bank. Some of the biographies are of prominent ranchers. $150.00

1027. COLORADO. [STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION]. The Story of Colorado: Farming, Mining, Manufacturing; Eastern Colorado [wrapper title]. Denver: Brock-Haffner Press, [1918]. 31 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic, some full-page). Small 4to, original full-color pictorial self- wrappers, stapled. Fine. First printing? Wilcox, p. 30. Wynar 5173. In addition to statistics and commentary on the overall state stock industry, there is a county-by-county analysis, for Eastern Colorado, of industries such as “stock-raising and dairying.” $60.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1028. COLORADO. [STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION]. The Story of Colorado, Farming, Mining, Manufacturing, Northwestern Colorado [wrapper title]. Denver: Brock-Haffner Press, [1918]. [16] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic, some full-page). Small 4to, original full-color pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Spine reinforced with cloth tape, else fine. First printing? Similar to preceding, but with a county-by-county analysis for Northwestern Colorado, with much on stockraising. $50.00

1029. COLORADO. [STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION]. The Story of Colorado, Farming, Mining, Manufacturing, Southwestern Colorado [wrapper title]. Denver: Brock-Haffner Press, [1918]. 15 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic, some full-page). Small 4to, original full- color pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Covers detached and torn at edges, interior fine. First printing? Along with statistics and commentary on the stock industry statewide, there is a county-by- county analysis, for Southwestern Colorado, of industries such as cattle and sheep raising. $50.00

1030. COLORADO TERRITORY. Council Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. First Session. Begun and Held at Denver, September 9th, A.D., 1861. Denver: Thos. Gibson, Colorado Republican and Herald Office, 1862. 198 pp. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers, sewn. Wraps dusty and stained (heavier on lower wrap), lower right blank corner of upper wrap torn away, blue pencil notation “M” on upper wrapper, first few leaves dog- eared at lower corner, internally fine. First edition of a very early Colorado imprint (printing began in Colorado in 1859). McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 28: “The session ended November 8, 1861, and this journal was probably printed early in 1862.” Streeter Sale 2149. This imprint documents the earliest legislative assembly for Colorado Territory, including the first legislation relating to stockraising and brands (“An act concerning marks and brands for animals”; “An act to prevent non-residents from importing stock into the Territory of Colorado, for grazing purposes”; “An act concerning lost goods and estrays”; “An act to create a lien in favor of ranchmen and others”; etc. $750.00

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1031. COLORADO TERRITORY. Council Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Fourth Session.... [and] ...Fifth Session.... [and] ...Sixth Session.... [and] ...Seventh Session.... Denver: Byers & Dailey, Printers, Rocky Mountain News Office, 1865; Central City: David C. Collier, Miners’ Register Office, 1866, 1867, 1868. 157 [3]; 170 [4]; 147 [1]; 188 pp. 4 vols. in one, 8vo, late nineteenth-century three-quarter maroon roan over brown cloth. Ex-library: From the State Library in Denver, with small inkstamps (second leaf of first imprint, on titles of other three imprints, at least one more on lower pastedown). Front pastedown with typed deaccession note on Colorado Supreme Court Library stationery, dated November 22, 1944, and signed by Librarian George A. Trout. Lower cover detached, upper cover almost detached, spine chipped, internally fine except for the inkstamps. First editions of early Central City imprints. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 52, 66, 78, 93. Though mostly about organizational procedures, mining interests, regulation of game, Native Americans, infrastructure, and irrigation, the scant information related to cattle is interesting, such as House Bill No. 4 (Sixth Session): “A bill for an act to prohibit the introduction of Texas cattle into Colorado Territory.” $900.00

1032. COLORADO TERRITORY. Council Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Sixth Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, Printer, Miners’ Register Office, 1867. 147 pp. 8vo, original yellow printed wrappers, stitched. Wraps dusty, creased, and with two tiny holes and light chipping at spinal extremities, title and a few leaves soiled. First edition of an early Central City imprint. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 78. This is one of the individual volumes bound into preceding, with the interesting reference to House Bill No. 4, which prohibits the introduction of Texas cattle into Colorado Territory. $300.00

1033. COLORADO TERRITORY. Council Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Seventh Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, Register Office, 1868. 147 pp. 8vo, original light green printed wrappers, stitched. Wrappers darkened, internally fine, with contemporary signature of E. C. Parmelee and his ink stamp on upper wrap. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition of an early Central City imprint. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 93. This Council Journal contains a couple of bills related to grazing and other aspects of the livestock industry, as well as a lengthy diatribe on election irregularities questioning votes from some apparently fictional ranch precincts. $300.00

1034. COLORADO TERRITORY. Council Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Eighth Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, Register Office, 1870. 289 pp. 8vo, original violet printed wrappers, stitched. Fragile wrappers worn, chipped, and faded; stains, creases, or smudges to a few text pages, otherwise very good. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 114. The governor’s message addresses ranching and states: “The grasses throughout the whole Territory are so abundant and nutritious that stock-raising is destined to be one of the most essential elements of our permanent prosperity.” Also discusses management of pastoral lands, with abstracts of assessments for each county containing detailed information on numbers of stock animals and their value. $300.00

1035. COLORADO TERRITORY. Council Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Eighth Session.... [and] ...Ninth Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, Register Office, 1870 & 1872. 289 [3]; 16, 326 pp. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, early nineteenth-century three- quarter maroon roan over brown cloth. Ex-library from the State Library in Denver, with several small inkstamps (on pastedowns, titles, and a few other leaves); deaccession letter from the State Supreme Court Library signed by Librarian tipped in. Binding worn, spine chipped, and upper cover detaching, internally fine. The first 16 pages of the second volume are bound in twice. First editions. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 114, 147, pp. 76-77. Among new material covered in the Ninth Session is changing the Committee on Agriculture to the Committee on Agriculture and Stock-Growing, and a bill in regard to “Driving, Herding, and Rounding.” $400.00

1036. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Joint Resolutions, Memorials, and Private Acts, Passed at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado...Together with...the Organic Act of the Territory Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

[and] General Laws of...the Second Session.... Denver: Thos. Gibson, Colorado Republican and Herald Office; Denver: Rocky Mountain News Printing Company, 1861 & 1862. 7 [1] 578 [2]; [7] 42-166 [2] pp. (complete). 2 vols. in one, 8vo, original law sheep, red and black leather spine labels. Covers rubbed and stained, hinges cracked, internally fine except blank margins of first and last few leaves browned. Small orange printed label of Rocky Mountain News on upper pastedown. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of E. C. Parmelee, Central City, Gilpin County, along with blind embosures from Parmelee’s notary seal, and his gilt-lettered ownership spine label. Tipped in following title are two separate one-leaf federal acts: (1) An Act to Regulate the Elective Franchise in the Territories of the United States, Department of State, March 8, 1867 (guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude); and (2) An Act Amendatory of the Organic Act of Colorado Territory, S.114, March 30, 1867 (sessions to be biennial, terms of council members to be 4 years, and those of house members two years, with both receiving $6 per day and the present mileage allowed by law, etc.). A third tipped-in leaf contains a newspaper clipping with public notice of the second act. A few condition problems, but a desirable copy in original sheep binding, with the tipped-in federal acts relating to Colorado Territory, and from the library of a Colorado pioneer. First editions of two early Colorado Territory imprints, one of which is a foundation item for Colorado history, containing the first Organic Act of the Territory. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 26, 33. The 1861 General Laws with the “Organic Act of the Territory” is a mine of information on the organization of Colorado Territory; for its content and early printing date, it is a cornerstone volume for any really serious collection on Colorado history. Of ranching interest is the text of laws relating to grazing regulations, taxation of livestock, limitations on importation by non-residents, liens on livestock, etc. $1,250.00

1037. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, and Joint Resolutions, Memorials and Private Acts, Passed at the Fourth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... Denver: Byers & Dailey, 1865. 161 [2] pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stitched. Light wear to fragile wraps, otherwise very fine. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 54. Includes an amendment to “An Act for the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Protection of Farmers against the Depredations of Stock in the Counties of Weld and Douglas” and an act in regard to restraining sheep, hogs, and stallions from running at large. A Joint Memorial to the President of the United States dated February 8, 1865, indicates the perils that ranchers and others in remote areas were experiencing. The Legislative Assembly declares that “the Indian tribes of the plains now at war with the people of this and adjacent Territories...have brutally murdered many of our people without regard to age, sex, or condition; they have driven our citizens from the sparsely populated portions of our Territory, and from the lines of travel leading to the States; they have intercepted our communication with the east, so that our people are unable to obtain necessary food and clothing which they do not produce, and cannot obtain elsewhere.” The proposed remedy offered is the establishment of one military district composed of Colorado Territory, western Kansas and Nebraska, and the territories of Utah and Montana, and placing it under the command of Brigadier General Connor. $350.00

1038. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Joint Resolutions, Memorials, and Private Acts Passed at the Fifth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... Central City: David C. Collier, Miners’ Register Office, 1866. 190 [1] pp. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. 190 [2] pp. A poor copy: Upper wrap detached, the entire volume worn, chipped, and water-damaged. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of Paul L. Littler on upper wrap. First edition of an early Central City imprint. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 68. Amendments to acts on fencing, stock with non-resident owners, and permitting stock to run at large, extension of stock law to Pueblo and Huerfano counties. A joint memorial to the President of the United States repeats the same problems and proposals regarding Native Americans as in the preceding item. $175.00

1039. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Joint Resolutions, Memorials, and Private Acts Passed at the Fifth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... [and] ...Sixth Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, Miners’ Register Office, 1866 & 1867. 190 [2]; 159 [1] pp. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, original beige and pink printed wrappers bound into contemporary law sheep, red and black spine labels. Minor wear to sheep spine, original wrappers soiled and lightly worn, a few small, unobtrusive ink Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) ownership stamps, upper corner of second wrapper lightly water-stained, overall a very good copy. First editions of two early Central City imprints. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 68, 80. The laws of the Sixth Session include the act to prohibit the introduction of Texas cattle into Colorado Territory (to deter the spread of “Texas Fever”), as well as an act to repeal protections of farmers against the depredations of stock in Douglas and Ward Counties. Joint resolutions and memorials at the end include one addressed to the Secretary of the Interior begging “Removal of the Ute Indians” and another requesting a military government for Utah because “the disgraceful state of affairs existing in the adjoining territory of Utah; the utter insecurity of the lives and property of ‘Gentiles;’ the determination of the Mormon leaders to prevent all others than those belonging to their peculiar faith, settling on the public domain with the boundaries of Utah.” $400.00

1040. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Joint Resolutions, Memorials, and Private Acts, Passed at the Sixth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... Central City: David C. Collier, Printer, Miners’ Register Office, 1867. 159 [1] pp. 8vo, original maize printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled and worn, blue pencil notation “M” on upper wrap, a few stains and smudges to text, blank corner of one leaf torn away, generally very good. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 80. Includes the act to prohibit the introduction of Texas cattle into Colorado Territory (to deter the spread of “Texas Fever”), as well as an act to repeal protections of farmers against depredations by stock in Douglas and Ward Counties. This volume contains the memorials cited in preceding entry. $200.00

1041. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Joint Resolutions, Memorials, and Private Acts, Passed at the Eighth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... [and] ...Ninth Session.... [and] ...Tenth Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, at the Register Office, 1870, 1872 & 1874. 180 [2]; 247 [1]; 347 [1] pp. (index leaves of second volume bound before title). 3 vols. in one, 8vo, contemporary law sheep, red and black spine labels. Upper cover detached (early attempt to reattach using a strip of sheep), binding worn and rubbed, corrections (mostly pencil) to text in second volume, third title page browned, worn, and missing a portion of upper margin (loss of a portion of the first two words of title). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Contemporary ink ownership inscription of J. B. Shaw on inner leaves. First editions. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 116, 149, 202. The eighth session includes repeal of law prohibiting Texas cattle in Colorado and regulations regarding herding in specific areas. The ninth session has laws on herding, branding and care of stock; compensation for stock killed by railroads; appointing sheep inspectors; fencing; etc. All three of the volumes contain memorials at the end requesting assistance against depredations by regional tribes, mentioning how these problems impede stockraising, agriculture, and mining. The volume for the ninth session contains the important memorial asking that Colorado Territory be organized as a state and admitted to the Union: “In support of our request, we present the following facts: Referring to our natural advantages and wealth...we offer these remarks: The arable lands are more extensive than in any other portion of the Rocky Mountain country...the entire area of the Territory furnishes the best of grazing facilities” (pp. 228-29). Another memorial requests a military post at Ishapa, Las Animas County: “The point designated and the adjacent country, both in Colorado and New Mexico, is and has been for years past greatly exposed to depredations from Indians as well as lawless men from Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.... Your memorialists would suggest that the section of country referred to, is one of the richest and most desirable upon the continent” (pp. 234-35). See separate volume of tenth session next for details on an important memorial relating to stockraising and transportation. $450.00

1042. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Private Acts, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials Passed at the Tenth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... Central City: Register Printing House, 1874. 347 [1] pp. 8vo, contemporary law sheep, red and black leather spine labels. Covers worn (especially spine), upper portion of spine detaching, small bookdealer’s inkstamp on front flyleaf, some browning to first and last few leaves, title page with a few small stains and lower blank corner torn away. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 202. Many regulations in regard to stock, addressing altering or defacing brands, control of livestock, rustling, sheep herding in certain counties, County Assessors’ valuations of livestock, cattle guards, fences, irrigation, stock stealing pronounced grand larceny, etc. Several of the memorials at the end have ties Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) to stockraising, such as a memorial requesting improved transportation and communication between Colorado and commercial centers in the Mississippi Valley and the east (“The great boon to be accomplished by this...is that it brings quickly and readily into the market our vast productions of wool, cattle, hides, and other results of our pastoral husbandry” (pp. 325-26). $150.00

1043. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws, Private Acts, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed at the Eleventh Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... Denver: William N. Byers, 1876. 223 [1] pp. 8vo, original violet printed wrappers, stitched (lower wrap detached but present). Wrappers sunned, lower wrap and last few leaves gouged. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 273. Several acts in regard to brands and fencing. A memorial to the House and Senate of U.S. Congress requests the establishment of a military post in southwestern Colorado in order to protect the remote settlers from depredations by unfriendly Ute, Piute, Apache, and Navajo tribes who “on account of their remoteness from any military power, have hitherto committed such depredations as they chose, without fear of punishment.” Cited are attacks on the Hayden surveying party and settlers: “The settlers in the valleys of the Animas, La Plata, and Mancos are living in constant fear of outrages upon their lives and property. Under these circumstances, the development of that section of country must, of necessity, be greatly retarded; and so long as the constant danger of Indian hostilities exists, its rich mining, pastoral, and agricultural resources must be almost untouched, instead of contributing largely to the material wealth of our country” (pp. 205-07). $150.00

1044. COLORADO TERRITORY. General Laws...Passed at the Eleventh Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado.... Denver: William N. Byers, 1876. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stitched. Fragile wrappers chipped (especially at spine and edges), lightly soiled, and with faint pencil notations on lower wrap, first few leaves soiled, otherwise fine. $175.00

1045. COLORADO TERRITORY. House Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Fourth Session.... Denver: Byers & Dailey, Printers, Rocky Mountain News Office, 1865. 215 pp. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) stitched. Head and foot of spine lightly chipped, wrappers browned, blue pencil notation “M” on upper wrap, but still a very fine copy. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 53. Though material in regard to ranching is thin in the fourth session, this volume does include data relative to tolls for various stock on roads and an act in regard to restraining sheep, hogs, and stallions from running at large. A section on the “Indian War” refers to the lack of assistance from the federal government due to the Civil War and decries the suspension of agricultural and other pastoral pursuits due to the hostilities. Superb Civil War content in this volume, including success in routing “rebel hordes.” $300.00

1046. COLORADO TERRITORY. House Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Fifth Session.... Black Hawk, [Colorado]: O. J. Hollister, Printer, Mining Journal Office, 1866. 188 pp. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers, stitched. Wrappers moderately soiled and chipped, blue pencil notation “M” on upper cover, stain at lower corner (not affecting text). First edition of the only book printed at Black Hawk during the Territorial period. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 67 & pp. 81-82 (title illustrated opposite p. 82): “Black Hawk, a mining town within five miles of Central City, was venturesome enough to undertake a newspaper during the disturbed conditions of Civil War days and thus became the seventh Colorado point at which printing was established.... Black Hawk was important enough in its time to be entrusted with a bit of official printing. The journal of the house of representatives of the fifth session of the territorial legislature was issued with the imprint ‘Black Hawk: O. J. Hollister, Printer, Mining Journal Office, 1866.’ This pamphlet of 188 pages is the only book imprint recorded from Black Hawk during the period covered in this study [1859-1876].” Contains proceedings in regard to amendments to acts on fencing; stock of non-resident owners; permitting stock to run at large; introduction of stock into Huerfano, Pueblo, Fremont, Jefferson, Boulder, and Costilla Counties for the purpose of grazing; etc. $350.00

1047. COLORADO TERRITORY. House Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado. Eighth Session.... Central City: David C. Collier, at the Register Office, 1870. 231 pp. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers, stitched. Ex-library: ink inscription on upper wrap and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) inkstamps of the State Historical and Natural History Society in Denver (two on upper wrap, two on title, and several on internal leaves). Fragile wrappers worn and with marginal chipping (no losses), text fine. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 115. Discussions in the eighth session include repeal of the law prohibiting Texas cattle (because of Texas Fever); regulations regarding herding in specific areas; collection of taxes per head for all cattle and sheep imported into the county of Conejos. Of other interest is A. H. deFrance’s impassioned plea for granting women the right to vote “however much men may ridicule the question, and however much they may seem in that way to avoid its decision and ignore its importance in the future political economy of the country, the fact can no longer be disguised that the question of the right of women of America to a voice in the political affairs of the government under which we live, is the one great vital question of the day. Negro Suffrage has gone into the past, and no longer supplies food for political discussion. In its wake, and as one of its necessary corollaries, follows the question of Female Suffrage” (pp. 59-60). $175.00

1048. COLORADO TERRITORY. Mining Laws Enacted by the Legislature of Colorado from First to Ninth Session, Inclusive, and the Laws of the United States Concerning Mines and Minerals, Together with Laws and Information Concerning Farming and Grazing Lands. To March, 1873, Including Instructions for Proceedings to Obtain Titles, &c. Fourth Edition. Central City: Collier & Hall, Register Office, 1873. 100 pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stitched. Very fine, a few pages unopened. Fourth edition, revised and considerably enlarged to include recent legislation. These vital laws for the development of Colorado’s resources were first printed at Central City in 1867 (48 pp.); a second edition came out the same year, also with Central City imprint (50 pp.); a third edition, again published at Central City, appeared in 1872 (58 pp.). McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 172: “Printed before June 12, 1873, when David C. Collier retired from the firm of Collier & Hall. On the wrapper title is the terminal date ‘To March, 1873.’” Not in Wynar. This book contains the laws of the United States and Colorado Territory in regard to agricultural and pastoral lands. On page 3 is “Extracts from land, homestead, and soldiers’ bounty land laws, together with the necessary instructions for securing homes and ranches in and out of the mountains.” $200.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1049. COLORADO TERRITORY. Mining Laws...Together with Laws and Information Concerning Farming and Grazing Lands.... Fourth Edition. Central City: Collier & Hall, Register Office, 1873. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers, stitched. Thin section of wrapper margins browned, otherwise very fine. $150.00

1050. COLORADO TERRITORY. Mining Laws...Together with Laws and Information Concerning Farming and Grazing Lands.... Fourth Edition. Central City: Collier & Hall, Register Office, 1873. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, original yellow printed wrappers, stitched. Wrappers lightly rubbed, soiled and chipped, otherwise very fine. $135.00

1051. COLORADO TERRITORY. TERRITORIAL BOARD OF IMMIGRATION. Official Information. Colorado. A Statement of Facts.... Denver: Rocky Mountain News Steam Printing House, 1872. 35 pp., tables. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stitched. Spine reinforced with black cloth tape, mild staining to wraps, small chips at two corners, interior fine. First edition of an early Colorado promotional, being the first publication of the newly established Board of Immigration. DPL, Nothing is Long Ago. A Documentary History of Colorado 1776-1976 #104 (illustrated): “Public agencies have been prominent in the promotion of tourism since the Board of Immigration, created by the legislature in 1872. Though charged with fostering immigration, the Board in this first promotional pamphlet also extolled the attractions of Colorado as a summer resort: ‘grand mountain scenery,’ ‘wonderful geographical phenomena,’...mineral and thermal springs possessing ‘medicinal properties of the most desirable nature,’ including ‘curative influence upon various cutaneous and scrofulous diseases.’ The Board reasonably expected that some tourists would settle in Colorado.... A portion might also be expected to invest in Colorado.” Eberstadt 114:240: “Mines and mining, agriculture, timber, education, public lands, Homestead Law, Preemption Act, colonization, the railway system, table of distances, etc.” Herd 534: “Rare.” McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado 162. Wilcox, p. 31. Wynar 5775. Section on Pastoral Advantages: “Already immense flocks and herds occupy portions of our territory, and stock men from Texas and elsewhere are driving their herds into Colorado, convinced of its superior advantages over every other pastoral region of the continent.” $600.00

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1052. COLORADO TERRITORY. TERRITORIAL BOARD OF IMMIGRATION. Resources and Advantages of Colorado.... Denver, 1873. 47 pp., tables. 8vo, original violet printed wrappers. Ex-library: inkstamps of the State Historical and Natural History Society in Denver (on upper wrap and title), circular paper sticker with typed call number on upper wrap. Fragile wraps worn and faded, upper right corner chipped, some marginal browning, otherwise very good. First edition of the second promotional issued by the Board of Immigration. Material from the first publication by the Board (see preceding) was used, with some revisions and rearrangement; considerable new material has been added. Eberstadt 114:242: “The second official pamphlet. Lists the newspapers, retail prices, railways, telegraph lines, irrigation, post offices, etc.” Herd 544: “Rare.” LC, Colorado 118: “Issued to promote rapid settlement and development with a view to early attainment of statehood. Extolling the climate and natural beauties, it emphasizes attractions for hunters and fishermen, mineral wealth, agricultural resources, irrigation, and pastoral advantages.” Wilcox, p. 31. Wynar 5775n. $300.00

1053. COLORADO TERRITORY. TERRITORIAL BOARD OF IMMIGRATION. Resources and Advantages of Colorado.... Denver, 1873. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Ex-library: inkstamps of the State Historical and Natural History Society in Denver (on title and several internal leaves), circular paper sticker with typed call number on upper wrap. Spine worn, moderate foxing to wraps and faint pencil notation on upper cover. $300.00

1054. [COLORADO]. AMERICAN JUNIOR RED CROSS & DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Colorado, The Centennial State. Denver: [Smith-Brooks Printing Co.], 1958. [80] pp., printed in green, numerous illustrations, folding map in color. Square 12mo, original green pictorial wrappers. Very fine, enclosed in Centennial Youth Committee envelope, and with program for the 1959 “Rush to the Rockies” laid in. Charming illustrations and brief text are devoted to cattle raising and cowboys. Section on notable people associated with Colorado history includes Buffalo Bill Cody, Isabella Bird, and John W. Iliff. Events at the Centennial include the International Stock Show and Rodeo and “Little Britches” Rodeo. $20.00

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1055. [COLORADO]. ARKINS, Edwin G. (ed). Fifth Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain and State Fair. [Denver: Williamson Haffner Engraving, 1899]. [48] pp., many photographs and color illustrations. Small oblong 12mo, original highly decorative pictorial wrappers in gold and colors, stapled. Fragile wraps a bit worn, otherwise fine. Ephemeral. No copies reported in OCLC or RLIN. First printing of an unusual Colorado imprint documenting one of the first public rodeos in the United States. DPL, Nothing is Long Ago. A Documentary History of Colorado 1776-1976 (listing the program for the first Festival of Mountain and Plain, 1895): “In the two or three decades before World War I, conventions and expositions accounted for a very large part of tourist travel to Colorado.... The most grandiose...was the Festival of Mountain and Plain.... The week-long celebration of Colorado’s productivity was in part a kind of state fair and mining exposition. But it was also an unrestrained carnival somewhat after the pattern of the New Orleans Mardi Gras.... There were sporting contests in bicycle racing, fire runs, and rock-drilling, and one of the first public rodeos in America.... The Festival of Mountain and Plain remains unchallenged as the most unusual program of community entertainment that Colorado has ever known.” This is one of the more bizarre imprints we have encountered, in design, illustration, and content. It consists of three pages of text listing the events of each day (including the rodeo), numerous documentary photographs (including “A Typical Group of Western Cowboys”), and mind-boggling color illustrations of fair scenes and highly imaginative parade floats. $250.00

1056. [COLORADO]. Art Work of the State of Colorado. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Art Photogravure Co., 1900. 12 parts (all published). Each part contains approximately 8 large photogravure plates, some with two images per plate, (gravure images range in size from approximately 18.0 x 23.5 cm to 12.0 x 17.2 cm), each part with leaf or two of text at end. 12 vols., folio, original gilt-lettered stiff brown wrappers with faux alligator texture. Some of the fragile wraps have mild to moderate nicking and rubbing; covers are detached from Parts 1, 2, and 4; Part 3 has a bookplate affixed to front cover; Parts 8 and 9 are lightly water-stained (not affecting images). Despite the flaws, most of which are due to the fragile nature of the wrappers, a very good to fine copy, the images very fine and fresh. These valuable documentary oversize view books published by the Art Photogravure Company are difficult to Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) find in collector’s condition and complete in all their parts. The present set is complete, and the images are very fine. First edition. Wynar 8364. This rare illustrated work on Colorado contains stunning photogravures that offer an invaluable record of Colorado at the turn of the century. Images include town and city views, cattle ranches, architecture, mining operations, railroads, and, most of all, majestic scenery. $950.00

1057. [COLORADO]. BAUMGARTEN, Idelia & Middle Park Times. Golden Jubilee of Kremmling, 1904-1954, Hereford Capital of the World, Official Program [wrapper title]. N.p., [1954]. [28] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white printed wrappers with illustration of a Hereford, stapled. Text age-toned, otherwise fine. First edition. Ephemeral Colorado local history. Includes photograph of Kremmling, Colorado, in 1905 when it was “just a sprawling, scattered cow town.” $35.00

1058. [COLORADO]. BEECHER ISLAND BATTLE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The Beecher Island Annual...Ninety-Third Anniversary of the Battle of Beecher Island September 17, 18, 1868. Beecher Island: Beecher Island Battle Memorial Association, [1960]. [2] 121 [3] pp., text illustrations (mostly photos). 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. Fine. First printing. Series of articles by various authors on the Battle of Beecher Island, sparked by rustling and other depredations by Sioux warriors in the Platte River area. $30.00

1059. [COLORADO]. [BRIGHAM, Lillian Rice]. Story of Colorado. [Denver: American Association of University Women of Denver, 1929]. 16 pp. 12mo, original tan decorated wrappers, stapled. One corner lightly creased, else very fine, with a few contemporary ink corrections. First edition. Wynar 3. This brief history includes sections on cattle and stockraising. “There were no cattle on the plains when the emigrants came except for the long horned cattle in Texas. Then it happened that one freighter outfit was caught here by the winter with no grain for the oxen which were turned loose to starve. The oxen, however, weathered the cold winter, fat and flourishing, living on standing dried grasses. This led to the ‘trailing’ of the long horns up from Texas” (pp. 12-13). $15.00

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1060. [COLORADO]. CANON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Canon City, Colorado, “Out Where the West Begins”.... [Canon City]: Canon City Chamber of Commerce, [ca. 1920]. [38] pp., profusely illustrated, mostly photos, many full-page. Large 4to, original grey pictorial wrappers (with circular photograph of an auto on a winding mountain road, surrounded by engraved images of agricultural bounty, a horse on left, and a Hereford on the right), stapled. Fragile wraps lightly worn and with a few stains, pencil notation on upper wrap, a few leaves detached, otherwise very good. Very scarce. First printing. A well-justified and vivaciously designed bit of boosterism for admittedly one of the most gorgeous spots in the United States. The subtitle “Out Where the West Begins” is a reference to Chapman’s noted poem (see item 876 herein). This profusely illustrated, oversize local history contains valuable documentary photographs, including a bird’s-eye view of Canon City from Skyline Drive, Royal Gorge, Phantom Canon Highway, Main Street, railroad depots, public and private architecture, mining, and agricultural and pastoral pursuits. Includes a photograph entitled “Stock Raising, One of the Leading Industries of Fremont County,” showing a herd of cattle being guided by men on horseback. Wynar 968. $125.00

1061. [COLORADO]. CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION. The Glory That Was Gold: The Central City Opera House, a Permanent Memorial to Colorado Pioneers.... Denver: Central City Opera House Association, [1936]. 160 pp., frontispiece. 12mo, original blue boards, gold printed labels on spine and upper cover. Minor creasing to upper right front board, otherwise fine. Contemporary ink inscription, “To a good friend, Clem Yore from Martha Goddard. August 10, 1936.” Third edition, with addenda (first published in 1932). Wilcox, p. 23: “Irregularly issued from time to time; additional material sometimes incorporated, sometimes appended in the form of supplements. Short biographical sketches of pioneers and others for whom chairs in the Opera House have been named.” Wynar 126. The fairly detailed biographies include several individuals involved in early ranching enterprises: Governor William H. Adams, Frank G. Bloom, John B. Cosgriff, H. W. Hildebrand, etc. $25.00

1062. [COLORADO]. CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION. The Glory That Was Gold.... Denver: Central City Opera House Association, [1936] [supplements 1938 & 1939]. 21 + Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

160; 64 pp., frontispiece. 12mo, original gold-flecked tan boards with accordion-style folded d.j. with 21 pp. supplement stapled in. Upper joint split and spine loose, else fine. Some misguided soul has erased the pencil ownership inscription of Agnes Wright Spring, noted scholar and librarian par excellence. Third edition, with addenda and second and third supplements bound in. $45.00

1063. [COLORADO]. COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas. Denver: State Historical Society of Colorado, 1954. [56] pp., map, text illustrations by Harry G. Miller, Jr. 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. This well-illustrated popular history has brief mention of “Uncle Dick” Wootton and his famous drive of 2,000 sheep to California; One-Eyed Juan, the celebrated Mexican vaquero and a fixture of the Fort, whose sole occupation was to break wild horses; and Lucien Maxwell’s vast Beaubien Miranda land grant. $25.00

1064. [COLORADO]. DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, SARAH PLATT DECKER CHAPTER. Pioneers of the San Juan Country. Colorado Springs: Out West Printing and Stationery Company; Durango: Durango Printing Company, [1942-52]. 192 pp. + 198 pp. + [10] 175 pp., photographic plates, maps. 3 vols., 12mo, original blue, tan, and green printed wrappers. A very fine set. First edition. Guns 1246 (vol. 3 only). Wilcox, p. 36. Wynar 563 (noting that a fourth volume was published). Short articles by many different authors including “A Cattleman’s Yarn” by C. E. Hampton, “The Oldest Range Man” by Senator George E. West, “‘Billy’ Adams, Colorado’s Cowboy Governor” by Genevieve E. McDermith, and “Stockmen— Heathers and Ent” by Mary C. Ayres. There is so much good material in these modest volumes, and much of interest for social history, army wives, and women in the cattle country, including the “Life Story of Victoria Sophia Folck Day” (Vol. I, pp. 83-99) in which Day tells of her experiences at Chipeta Ranch (on the Uncompahgre River near Ouray). Day and her husband bought Chipeta Ranch in the 1880s. “I managed the one hundred sixty acre ranch, and I made a success of it.... I built a dancing pavilion on the ranch, at a cost of $500 and bought a $600 pianola for it. The Camp Bird boys would phone down— ‘Can you give us a dinner and a dance tonight?’ And I would get up a fried chicken dinner...and play the pianola until two or three in the morning” (p. 96). $100.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1065. [COLORADO]. DENVER POST. This Is Colorado. Denver: Denver Post, 1959. 384 pp., profusely illustrated (many color photographs), maps, numerous ads. Large 4to, original color photograph wrappers. Light edge wear, otherwise fine. First edition. Wynar 27. The special “Gold Rush Centennial Edition” magazine section of the Denver Post. Contains sections covering the historical spectrum of ranching in Colorado, from early sheep wars and the Lake County War to rodeo and modern-day dude ranches. Includes a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt at Glenwood Springs. $25.00

1066. [COLORADO]. FLORENCE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Beautiful Florence: Its Resources. Its Attractions. Its Possibilities [upper wrapper title] ...A Conservative Statement of the Advantages Offered the Investor and Home Seeker [lower wrapper title]. [Pueblo: Chieftain Press for] The Chamber of Commerce, Florence, [ca. 1904]. [20] pp., profusely illustrated (mostly photographs), maps. Tall thin 8vo brochure, original pictorial self-wrappers with map, stapled. Wrappers slightly soiled and worn along fold, a few short marginal tears, overall very good. Laid in is a 4-page leaflet updating the brochure. Rare (RLIN locates one copy—Yale; and OCLC reports copies at SMU, Pikes Peak Library, Yale, and Western Reserve University). First edition? Similar to entries in Wynar (959) and Wilcox (p. 44); the Denver Public Library centennial exhibit catalogue lists a similar title dated ca. 1905 ([48] pp.). A rare promotional with a good section on cattle and livestock in Fremont County accompanied by related documentary photographs. This work is probably more important for the history of the oil and gas industry than ranching. “In Colorado, as in most of the western states, petroleum has come to be the king of minerals.... Although Colorado is by no means a major oil state...its oil industry is the second oldest in the country.... Until the 1890s when wells were opened in Boulder County, the Florence field supplied the only oil produced between Texas and California, filling the meager illumination and lubrication needs of the entire Rocky Mountain region. The Florence field is described in [this] early promotional pamphlet” (DPL, Nothing is Long Ago. A Documentary History of Colorado 1776-1976, pp. 81-82 & #82. $450.00

1067. [COLORADO]. FORT COLLINS COURIER. Sunlight Views of Fort Collins and Surroundings [wrapper title]. [Fort Collins: Courier Printing and Publishing Co.], [ca. 1908]. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

[5] pp. (text), 43 photographic plates, one foldout (panorama looking north on College Avenue and Linden Streets). Oblong 8vo, original black printed wrappers with red string tie. Agnes Wright Spring’s copy. Fine. Scarce (not in OCLC; RLIN locates two copies, Yale & Colorado State University). First printing. Wynar 1196. Scarce promotional viewbook, with valuable photo-documentation (Colorado Agricultural College, city and wilderness views, resorts, activities, public and private architecture, industry, agriculture, stockraising, horses and horse racing, etc.). At least one of the photos (“The Great Western Sugar Company—Fort Collins Factory”) shows a large smokestack belching clouds of black smoke into the atmosphere; strange though this image may seem for a promotional, such evidence of industry was a typical touting device of the time. Photographs of stockraising interest include Davy’s Ranch on the Laramie River, Brown’s Mountain Ranch (near Livermore), and lamb feeding near Fort Collins. $125.00

1068. [COLORADO]. GEORGETOWN COURIER. Among the Silver Seams of Colorado [wrapper title]. [Georgetown]: Georgetown Courier, [1886]. 20 pp., numerous engraved text illustrations. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers, sewn. Very fine. Rare First edition. Wynar 766. This rare and beautiful little promotional touts the Georgetown-Middle Park region of Colorado as an ideal location for a holiday, a lifetime, or profitable investment. Imaginatively entitled Among the Silver Seams, the anonymous author apparently possessed a silver tongue: “Variety in occupation is the only rest that an active, pushing man dare seek in these times of tremendous competition and marvelous industry. Even his holiday must contribute to the dominant spirit of the times.... He comes from the hot, dusty cities of the eastern and middle states to find in the cool, dry, bracing air and clear sunlight of Colorado new life and strength, and in her mines, her ranches, her coal fields, her quarries, all the elements of substantial fortune.” As for the author’s opinion on the prospects for stockraising in the region: “The hay and agricultural lands along the streams [of Middle Park] are rapidly preempted and the grazing lands support thousands of beef and cattle stock” (p. 18). The charming engraved illustrations include a bird’s-eye view of Georgetown, mining operations, Devil’s Gate, “On the Road to Berthoud Pass,” Mount of the Holy Cross, Gray’s Peak, Green Lake, and “A Rocky Mountain Nook” (angling scene). $375.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1069. [COLORADO]. History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys, Colorado. Containing a Brief History of the State of Colorado.... Embracing Its Geological, Physical, and Climatic Features; Its Agricultural, Stockgrowing, Railroad, and Mining Interests; an Account of the Ute Trouble; a History of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder and Jefferson Counties, and Biographical Sketches. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880. 710 [1, misnumbered 713] pp., a profusion of engraved and lithographed plates (portraits and views), text illustrations, map. Thick 4to, original three-quarter brown sheep over brown cloth gilt, spine gilt, a.e.g. Moderate outer wear (especially to the fragile cheap sheep on the spine and corners), upper hinge cracked (but strong), otherwise very fine and bright, the plates pristine. First edition of a bedrock book for Colorado history. Herd 528, 2409: “Scarce.” Wilcox, p. 60. Wynar 594. This weighty, well-illustrated tome has a section on “Stock- raising in Colorado” and many pioneer cattlemen are found among the biographies (these biographies in themselves constitute a mug book within the larger history). From the chapter on stockraising: “Enough has already been said in this work to indicate that the pastoral resources of Colorado are second only to the industry of mining in point of profit if not of production. The net profit of stock- growing exceeds that of agriculture every year. Probably during the decade preceding the eventful year when the mines of Leadville began to yield up their hidden treasures, the net profit of mining over and above the expense incurred in its prosecution, was not much greater than the net profit of the stock business. This is a startling statement.... The magnitude of business under the new development is something astonishing. Next to Texas, Colorado probably produces more beef than any other State in the Union, and probably, more sheep and wool than any other State except New Mexico. The business is not confined to any one section of the State, but extends everywhere, even into the Indian Reservation.... Few cattle ranches on a large scale are enlivened by the presence of the gentle sex.... The life of a cattle-herder is wild, roving, adventurous. His headquarters, and his hindquarters, too, are always in the saddle, and he soon learns to ride like a Centaur. No finer sight of the kind can be seen anywhere, than a ‘cow-boy’ mounted on his fleet but sure-footed pony, giving chase to a young and lively Colorado steer, as full of dash and undaunted mettle as the man himself.... To the stranger in Colorado, nothing connected with the cattle Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) business can be more interesting than a general round-up on the plains, where the cattle are abundant. It is not unusual to see 10,000 head gathered together in a compact but moving, animated mass—a forest of horns and heads, tossing up and down like the troubled waves of a sea.” (pp. 59-67). Stockraising is but a slice of this meaty volume, which covers every aspect of Colorado’s history and its prospects. Special strengths are found in mining, Native Americans, railroads, and biography. The illustrations are outstanding, with charming Victorian views and many lithographed portraits taken from photographs (great exhibit potential). $800.00

1070. [COLORADO]. History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys, Colorado.... [Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphics Inc., 1971]. 710 [1, misnumbered 713] pp., profusely illustrated. Small 4to, original green cloth. Very fine. Facsimile reprint of preceding. $100.00

1071. [COLORADO]. [History of Clear Creek....]. GLADDEN, Sanford Charles. An Index to “History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valley [sic], Colorado (1880).” [Boulder], 1970. [4] 1 [1] 37 pp., double-sided mimeograph. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, black cloth backstrip. Very fine. First edition. Assists in opening up for research the massive History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys. $35.00

1072. [COLORADO]. History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Company, 1881. 889 pp., frontispiece, numerous engraved and lithographed plates (portraits and views). Thick 4to, original three-quarter brown sheep over brown cloth gilt, spine gilt, a.e.g. First edition of an essential regional history of Colorado. Guns 2272: “Contains chapters on the vigilantes and outlaws of Colorado.” Herd 527, 2408: “Scarce.” Howes A314 (aa). Wilcox, p. 60. Wynar 539. This fat volume is another of the fine Baskin publications, presenting a dense history and mug book with outstanding iconography of Colorado. The publisher engages in some acceptable historical recycling, in that the first two sections on the history of Colorado and railroads as well as the section on “Stock-raising in Colorado” are identical to that found in History of Clear Creek (see item 1069 herein). Additional ranching material is found in the volume, including a section on ranches in Fremont County and the livestock, cattlemen, horse owners, and roundups in Custer County. There is a fine lithograph of “Cattle ‘Round-Up’ of James C. Jones, Bent County Colo.” (following p. 852) and a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) lithographed portrait of him (following p. 430). James C. Jones grew up on the frontier of Texas, and he and his brothers commenced stockraising in Texas after the Civil War. In 1869 the brothers drove 4,200 of their herd to Purgatoire Creek, and in 1870 they made another trail drive to take their remaining cattle to Colorado. According to the author of this section, at the time of publication, Jones’ herd numbered more than 15,000 and his ranch had enlarged to 8,000 acres. Also discussed are Jones’ experiments with Texas longhorns crossed with short-horn cattle. Jones is not in the Handbook of Texas Online. In these Colorado regional histories published by Baskin, one often finds valuable information not available elsewhere on Texas ranchers and cowboys who moved or extended their operations into Colorado. $1,000.00

1073. [COLORADO]. History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado. [Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphics, Inc., 1971]. 889 [3] 29 (index) pp., frontispiece, illustrations (portraits and views), ads. Small 4to, original green cloth. Very fine. Facsimile reprint of preceding, with added index. $125.00

1074. [COLORADO]. LARIMER COUNTY STOCKGROWERS ASSOCIATION. The Larimer County Stockgrowers Association, 1884-1956 [wrapper title]. [Fort Collins]: Larimer County Stock Growers Association, 1956. 108 pp., folding map, text illustrations, brands, ads. 12mo, original spiral-bound tan printed wrappers illustrated with the brand of the Association. Very fine. Scarce. First edition. Not in Herd. Wynar 6289. Bylaws and history of the Association; brands of the members; brief history of the ranches; and a map showing location of operation headquarters of the Association members. $65.00

1075. [COLORADO]. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Colorado: The Diamond Jubilee of Statehood. An Exhibition in the Library of Congress...November 14, 1951, to February 14, 1952. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1951. iii [1] 75 pp., frontispiece, many photographic plates (mainly views), map, facsimile. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. Wynar 117. Exhibit of Colorado high spots (mostly photographs and artifacts) with a section on ranching and livestock. Useful reference work. $30.00

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1076. [COLORADO]. PARKER PRESS. The Parker Press. Souvenir Edition...Parker Centennial 1864-1964 Celebration...June 20 & 21, 1964... [wrapper title]. [Parker, Colorado: Parker Press], 1964. [28] pp., text illustrations (photographic), map, ads. 4to, original white pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed, text browned, generally very good. Dr. Nolie Mumey’s copy, with his address label on upper wrap. First printing. Wynar 895. Many of the residents of the Parker area were ranchers and the region is nationally renown for thoroughbred horses and cattle. Establishment of a post office in the early 1860s on the Lord Ranch; Melvin’s Twelve Mile Ranch in 1868 (includes photo); deceased rancher James Sample Parker; Arapaho depredations at area ranches in 1864; 1868 murder of pregnant ranch wife Henrietta Dieteman and her five-year-old son by Arapahos and Cheyennes in 1868; etc. $40.00

1077. [COLORADO]. Portrait and Biographical Record of the State of Colorado.... Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1899. [5]-1,492 pp., many full-page portraits (photographic and engraved). Very thick, large 4to, original embossed and gilt-decorated dark brown sheep, beveled edges, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Low-grade sheep binding peeling along edges and joints, otherwise exceptionally fine. First edition. This massive illustrated compilation of Colorado biographies, which must be the mother of all Colorado mug books, is packed with biographies of many people engaged in the cattle trade. Reviewing the first fifty or so pages of this book, we find: John W. Iliff (the “Cattle King of Colorado”); George W. Baxter (“one of the most prominent representatives of the cattle industry in the Rocky Mountain region”); ex-governor Job Adams Cooper (“during the early years...in the West, he was interested in the stock business, buying cattle in Texas and feeding them on Colorado ranches”); ex-governor John L. Routt (engaged in stock business after retirement); ex-governor Albert W. McIntire (had a 4,000-acre ranch in San Luis Valley); J. Sidney Brown (embarked in the stock business in 1882 in the Platte Valley and partnered with Iliff in the Iliff-Brown Cattle Company). Occasionally a woman is thrown in, such as Helen Hunt Jackson (includes portrait), Mary F. Barry (pioneer physician in Pueblo), Eva Myra Bocco (superintendent of schools in Eagle County and ranch wife), Mrs. P. P. (Landrum) Hargrove (“successfully engaged in ranching in Sedgwick County), Mrs. Catherine Nolan (“one of the most efficient business women of El Paso County [who] owns valuable placer mine interests at Breckenridge and also the ranch where she resides”). There is an index at Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) the end. This book was recently reprinted, and the reprint edition sells for around half the cost of this original edition with far superior plates. $500.00

1078. [COLORADO]. Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905. 876 pp., frontispiece (by Charles M. Russell), engraved and photographic plates (mostly portraits and some views). Large 4to, original full black blind-embossed sheep parading as morocco, gilt- lettered spine, a.e.g. Some shelf wear (chafed at joints, edges, and corners), otherwise very fine. First edition. Wynar 148. Yost & Renner, Russell XVI:12. Adams includes in Herd the similar Bowen publication on Montana (1553), but not this volume on Colorado, nor the Wyoming volume (which Merrill selects as an Aristocrat). Many biographies of people involved in the livestock trade. The biography of William W. Wurts of Rifle in Garfield County, “one of the Western slope’s most substantial, enterprising and successful ranch and cattle men,” includes his portrait, that of his wife and the mother of their ten children, Mary Mullen Wurts, and a photograph of their ranch (pp. 544-46). The same type of photographic coverage of rancher, wife, and ranch is found in the biography of Scotsman George Yule, owner of the Bonnie Brae Ranch near New Castle and first sheriff of Gunnison County. Yule had an interesting introduction to Colorado in 1865. He took the train from Omaha to Denver and the train was attacked by Indians trying to steal the cattle on board. He bought a ranch near Denver, and the first year the grasshoppers ate all their crops. He then turned to mining and made enough money to go back into stockraising. Mormon rancher William Kenney was one of the first stockraisers in Plateau Valley; his biography is accompanied by a photograph of his ranch house in Plateau Valley, Mesa County, with his wife, their six children, and assorted hands sitting on the front porch. These biographies are filled with human and historical interest. $700.00

1079. [COLORADO]. Representative Men of Colorado in the Nineteenth Century: A Portrait Gallery of Many of the Men Who Have Been Instrumental in the Upbuilding of Colorado, Including Not Only the Pioneers, But Others Who, Coming Later, Have Added Their Quota, Until the Once Territory is Now the Splendid State. New York & Denver: Rowell Art Publishing Company, 1902. xii [2] 272 pp., frontispiece (fanciful limitation leaf illustrating the seal of Colorado surrounded by 3 putti), profusely illustrated with Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) photographic portraits (four portraits on almost every page). 8vo, original gilt-decorated black leather, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Light wear to extremities and corners, otherwise very fine. First edition, limited edition (#618 of 1,000 copies). Wynar 149. Scant biographical information is offered on the subjects of the portraits, but many are labeled as engaged in occupations relating to livestock. $100.00

1080. [COLORADO]. ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL STUDY COUNCIL. WORKGROUP ON COLORADO SOURCE MATERIALS. Source Materials for Colorado History: An Annotated Bibliography. Denver: Bureau of Educational Research, University of Denver, 1964. [2] 41 leaves, single-sided typescript. 4to, original white decorative wrappers, spiral bound. Very fine. First edition. Wynar 116. Fiction, non-fiction, pamphlets, and audio-visual aids for instruction in Colorado history; many relate to ranching. $30.00

1081. [COLORADO]. [TITLE GUARANTY COMPANY]. Seventeen Flags Flew over Colorado [wrapper title]. [Denver: Title Guaranty Company, n.d.]. [48] pp., many full-page illustrations by Gene Ellis. Large oblong 8vo, original blue and white wrappers. Fine. First printing? Wynar 85. Artwork with explanatory text. Topics include “Cattleman’s Justice” and “The End of the Open Range.” $35.00

1082. [COLORADO]. [WALLIHAN, S. S. & T. O. Bigney (eds.)]. The Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer, for 1871, Comprising a Brief History of Colorado, and...Account of Her Mining, Agricultural, Commercial and Manufacturing Interests, Climatology, Inhabitants, Advantage and Industries, Together with a Complete and Accurate Directory...First Year of Publication. Denver: S. S. Wallihan & Company, [1870]. [6, ads, including pastedown] 256 [36, ads] 257-272 [16, ads] 273-288 [16, ads] 289-304 [32, ads] 305-342 [4, ads] 343-358 [10, ads] 359-374 [4, ads] 375-384 [12, ads] 385-410 [4, ads] 411-442 [58, ads] pp. (plus ads on pastedowns), tables, numerous ads, many illustrated with engravings, ads printed on colored paper. 8vo, original gilt-decorated violet cloth. Ex-library: Concord Free Public Library, with remains of two paper labels on spine, two contemporary engraved library bookplates on front pastedown (one with deaccession stamp), small light blue inkstamp on title and a few internal leaves. Spine faded, some outer wear (particularly at Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) extremities and corners), hinges cracked, internally fine. Very good condition for a directory. First edition. Howes C611. Streeter Sale 4280: “This Directory gives useful information on the early territorial history of Colorado, including the various conventions and forms of government in the early days, railroads, colonization, and early mining.” Wynar 1905. This was the first year of publication for this comprehensive directory that includes Black Hawk, Boulder, Burlington, Caribou City, Central City, Colorado City, Denver, Georgetown, Golden City, Grand Island District, Greeley, Haddam, Idaho Springs, Keysport, Kit Carson, Nevada, Pueblo, Trinidad, and Valmont. Directories are one of the primary historical sources for the intense study of local, social, cultural, and economic history. This one is particularly interesting because it was published almost at the end of the territorial phase—a time of rapid, dramatic change in the region. The editors comment on how the perception of Colorado being in the heart of the “Great American Desert” has changed: “But a single decade has passed, and lo, what a transformation! Where only the shaggy bison and the graceful antelope roamed unmolested and at will, now a hundred herds of domestic cattle low to each other, from hill-top to hill-top, and ruminate, at ease in peaceful valleys.... Colorado is, par excellence, a grazing and dairy country. Millions of cattle may, yearly, be fattened on the succulent and nutritious grasses that grow in her valleys and on her hill-sides.... Cattle seldom need any artificial feeding in winter, but live and grow fat.... There is no limit to the business of agriculture and stock- raising in Colorado. This is destined to become the dairy and granary of half the continent” (pp. 113-14). There is hardly any subject on the region that is not discussed, and, of course, mining is uppermost. However, the section on agriculture includes brief mention of stockraising and an essay on “Mountain Ranches.” Additional information on ranching is found in the county histories and occasionally in the ads (e.g., Bull’s Head Corral and Stock Yard, Farmers’ & Drovers’ Head-Quarters in Denver). $1,000.00

1083. [COLORADO. DENVER]. DENVER BOARD OF TRADE. Report of the Denver Board of Trade Showing the Business of Denver and the Industrial Product of Colorado for 1877. Denver: Daily Times Steam Printing House, 1878. 33 pp., tables. 8vo, disbound. Back page loose, text fine. First edition. Statistics related to livestock, animal products, and allied industries, plus a short section on “The Cattle Shipments.” $150.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1084. [COLORADO. DENVER]. DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Distinctive Denver: The Romance of an American Capital. Denver: Denver Chamber of Commerce, 1925. 63 [1] pp., many text illustrations (mostly photographic). 12mo, original tan paper over blue pictorial boards. Light edge wear, ink gift inscription to Denver Public Library on title, overall very good. Fox Theatre souvenir of a silhouette laid in. First edition. Wilcox, p. 39. Wynar 2321. A bit of information on the livestock industry, sheep and cattle feeding, and the Denver Union Stockyards. $10.00

1085. [COLORADO. DENVER]. DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Second Annual Report of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade...For the Year Ended December 31, 1884.... Denver: News Printing Company, 1885. 48 pp., engraved text illustrations, tables. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stapled. Staining along upper edge and spine, some chipping, especially to upper wrap and spine. First printing. Section on “Our Stock Interests,” with statistics, as well as “Denver as a Packing Point.” $75.00

1086. [COLORADO. DENVER]. DENVER NATIONAL BANK. After Forty Years: Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Founders and Directors of the Denver National Bank...1884- 1924. [Denver: Denver National Bank, 1924]. 47 pp., photographic portraits and illustrations. Large 8vo, original grey wrappers with gilt-embossed Bank emblem on upper wrapper. Very fine. First edition. Wynar 5734. Several of the founders of the Denver National Bank were also engaged in the cattle trade, and this is noted in the text. One of these, Henry M. Porter, was also a promoter of the Denver Union Stock Yards Company. $40.00

1087. [COLORADO. DENVER]. DENVER POST. Denver Today: A Profile of Progress [wrapper title]. Denver: Denver Post, 1956. 32 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs. 4to, original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very fine in Christmas gift folder (lightly browned). First edition. Wynar 840. Brief mention and photographs of the Denver Union Stock Yards and the “Bronco Buster” sculpture near the capitol. $15.00

1088. [COLORADO. DENVER]. History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado. Containing a History of the State of Colorado...Embracing Its Geological, Physical and Climatic Features, Its Agricultural, Stock-Growing, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Railroad and Mining Interest, &c.; A Condensed Sketch of Arapahoe County, a History of the City of Denver...Biographical Sketches. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880. vi [11]-652 pp., foldout frontispiece (engraved view of Denver, numerous lithographed and engraved plates (views, portraits, architecture), engraved text illustrations. Small, thick 4to, contemporary three-quarter brown sheep over brown cloth gilt, beveled edges, a.e.g. Binding worn (especially at edges, extremities, and corners), hinges broken, front endsheets damaged from an amateurish attempt to close broken hinge, first few signatures loose. Occasional staining to blank margins (not affecting text or images), mainly confined to first few signatures, otherwise text and plates are fine and clean. First edition. Howes D262. Wynar 855. Another of the fine, well-illustrated Baskin publications, which are essential for serious collections on Colorado history. A mine of information on early Denver: early discovery of gold; journalism in Colorado; politics and organization of the Territory; climate; stockraising and agriculture; Civil War; organization of the First, Second, and Third Colorado Regiments; descriptions of the mining districts; Ute War; Meeker Massacre; affairs at the White River Agency; the Ute question; defense of Col. Chivington’s actions at the Massacre of Sand Creek, etc. The biographies include many stockraisers, most notably John W. Iliff, the pioneer cattle king of Colorado, who “at the time of his death, owned perhaps the best cattle ranche in the world, containing 20,000 acres of pasturage and some of the finest springs and grazing valleys.” Here he collected and prepared his cattle for the markets of Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, and for filling his numerous and extensive Government contracts. His fast herds, roaming over the Great Plains from the grazing slopes of Montana to the prairies of Texas, numbered fully 50,000 head, of which he marketed an average of about 13,000 head per year” (pp. 475-76). In addition, there is a fine lithographic portrait of Iliff and an engraving of his mansion in Denver. Another biography of special interest is that of pioneer photographer and artist, William H. Jackson (pp. 482-83) and an engraved view of Jackson’s Photographic Art Rooms on Larimer Street (following p. 278). $500.00

1089. [COLORADO. DENVER]. PARKER, Thomas D. Denver, the Beautiful: Being the Tale of the Growth of a Western Metropolis and a Description of the Queen City of the Plains, Picturesquely Set Forth with Camera and Pen. Denver: Colorado Press Bureau of Information, 1902. [40] Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) pp., profusely illustrated (mostly photos). 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers (printed in gold, silver, and black), stitched. Left lower corner gnawed, wrappers sunned and with a few small stains. First printing. Wynar 873. Photo and brief mention of the Denver Stock Yards. $15.00

1090. [COLORADO. DENVER]. PATTERSON, Thomas M. (compiler and reviser). The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Denver.... Denver: R. W. Woodbury, 1875. 216 pp. 8vo, original law sheep with black spine labels. Binding chafed and with a few minor stains, front hinge starting (but strong), light marginal browning to first and last few leaves (due to contact of the paper with the sheep binding), overall fine, with a few manuscript annotations to text, related newspaper clipping affixed to front fly leaf, and contemporary ink ownership inscriptions of E. T. Wells on pastedowns, and with Wells’s gilt-lettered ownership label at foot of spine. First edition. McMurtrie & Allen, Early Printing in Colorado, 227. Not in Wynar. Contains much interesting information on young, rowdy Denver: several ordinances relating to stock running at large; responsibilities of keepers of corrals; inspection of beef; hides not be stored without a permit; prohibition of storing tallow in certain locations; numerous regulations on gambling and gamblers; $10-100 fine for wearing indecent clothing or selling or exhibiting lewd books; fines for preventing “Mayor, &c.” from entering houses of ill fame; liquor licensing; prohibition against scaring horses; regulations re horse racing; barring women from working as bartenders or waiters; banning of bawdy houses; taxes on sluts (female dogs); regulations for dance houses; punishment for drunkenness; regulation of fireworks; licensing of circuses; punishment for carrying a concealed weapon; inspection of whiskey; etc. $600.00

1091. [COLORADO. DENVER]. Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado.... Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1898. [9]-1,306 pp., numerous photographic and engraved plates (mostly portraits). Large, thick 4to, original full dark brown embossed gilt-pictorial sheep, beveled edges, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Binding a bit rubbed and chafed, otherwise very fine, plates pristine. First edition. Wynar 145. Another hefty mug book, this one focusing on the citizens of the Denver area. Among them are men engaged in endeavors relating to stockraising, including John Iliff (the pioneer Colorado cattle king), Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

John J. Fraser (Iliff’s partner), Leonard Walter (secretary and treasurer of the Standard Meat and Live Stock Company), George K. Peaseley (buyer and shipper of stock), Charles B. Andrews (owner of Shadeland Ranch at Fort Collins), and many, many more. $300.00

1092. [COLORADO. DENVER]. Souvenir Album of Denver, Colorado [cover title]. [Columbus, Ohio: Ward Brothers, 1893]. 76 sepia-tone lithographs (after photographs) on 17 panels (including foldout view of Denver), folded accordion-style into oblong 8vo original blue decorative cloth covers. Minor binding wear, front hinge cracked, old tape repair to foldout view (should be removed). Except for small area of adhesion to lower center of foldout view of Denver (due to the old tape), the images are very fine and fresh. Verso of front flyleaf with inkstamp of the contemporary marketer of the album (R. G. Craig Stamp & Stationer Co.), contemporary red pencil ownership inscription on back blank flyleaf. Overall very good, with the images perfect except for the one flaw noted on the foldout view of Denver. These albums are difficult to find, especially in collector’s condition. First edition? Includes a view of the “Denver Union Stock Yards.” Illustrated albums of this type constitute an important visual record of American cities and scenes in the late nineteenth century. Other views in the album include public and private architecture, street views (e.g. “Broadway Drive”), industries, parks and recreation, and Fort Logan. This type of attractive souvenir album was common in the late nineteenth century. “They were all manufactured in Germany by what became known as the Glaser/Frey lithographic process.... The illustrations were done from photographs, with the lithographers making some alterations by adding or deleting details.... Louis Glaser of Leipzig and Charles Frey of Frankfurt am Main used a multi-stone lithographic process to achieve a monochromatic effect that seems to have been rare if not unknown among American lithographers. Using five or more stones, they laid down a series of separate shades ranging from white to light sepia-grey to the darkest sepia-grey or black. The finished lithograph has a varnished look that creates greater illusion of depth than a simple lithograph or toned lithograph” (Tyler, Unpublished Typescript on Texas Lithographs of the Nineteenth Century). For another example of this type of lithographic process see item 912 herein. $175.00

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1093. COLORADO CATTLEMEN’S CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. The Co- Operative Century [wrapper title]. [Denver], 1967. 200 pp., profusely illustrated (mostly photos), a few pages in color (mostly ads), brands, many ads. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers. Paper age-toned, else fine. First edition. Wynar 5170. Articles on “Long Ropes and Longhorns,” “A Cattleman’s Bank,” “A Century of Cattle to Commerce,” Hereford, Galloway, and Charolais breeds, rodeo, reading brands, fence controversies and barbed wire, etc., plus advertisements for Colorado Cattle Feeders Association, Record Stockman, The American Hereford Association, American Angus Association, Colorado Rancher and Farmer, etc. $20.00

1094. COLORADO PRESS ASSOCIATION. Who’s Who in Colorado: A Biographical Record of Colorado’s Leaders in Business, Professional, and Public Life. Boulder: Extension Division, University of Colorado, 1938. 1,115 [2] pp. 8vo, original green cloth. Small section of cloth torn along spine, light shelf wear and flecking, internally fine. First edition. Wynar 151. Good information on ranching in the brief county histories, as well as many entries for people engaged in stockraising in the copious biographical entries. $35.00

1095. COLT, Samuel. Sam Colt’s Own Record...of Transactions with Captain Walker and Eli Whitney, Jr. in 1847. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1949. [10] 157 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, facsimiles. Large 8vo, original half green cloth over white pictorial boards. Slight discoloration at edges of covers, otherwise very fine in original glassine d.j. First edition, limited edition (1,000 copies). This previously unpublished account of Colt’s redesign of his famous revolver in 1847 documents the creation of the pivotal weapon that helped “win the West” and which became the favorite firearm of the American cowboy in his heyday. Colt’s early revolvers had won the devotion of frontier Texans, and Texas Ranger Samuel H. Walker opened negotiations with Colt for the production of one thousand improved revolvers. Familiar with the shortcomings of the previous design, Walker outlined a substantial new design, which Colt followed. “The Colt revolver remained preeminent among such arms in Texas and throughout the West for the remainder of the nineteenth century. The 1873 Single Action Army model, known as the Peacemaker or simply six-shooter, became the standard sidearm of the postwar military, the Texas Rangers, and the majority of cowboys across the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) plains.... Windmills, barbed wire fences, and Colt revolvers have been credited with settlement of the Great Plains. The Colt revolver and Texas remain inextricably associated in history, symbolism, and romance” (Handbook of Texas Online: Colt Revolvers). $100.00

1096. COLTON, Walter. Deck and Port; or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate “Congress” to California, with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu and San Francisco. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1850. 408 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of Commodore R. F. Stockton, 4 tinted lithographic plates in shades of blue and sepia (views of Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Valparaiso, and San Francisco by Sarony & Major), text illustrations, endpapers with ads. 8vo, original dark brown blindstamped gilt-pictorial cloth. Moderate shelf wear, mild to moderate foxing to text. Nineteenth-century ink ownership inscription on blank preliminary leaf. First edition, first issue, with printed endsheets with ads, and without map. Borba de Moraes, pp. 193-94. Cowan, p. 237. Garrett, Mexican-American War, p. 201. Hill, p. 58. Howes C624. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 150: “Colton correctly predicted: ‘Not one in ten of all the thousands who have, or may go to California to hunt for gold, will return with a fortune.’” The author founded the first newspaper in California and served as first American alcalde of Monterey under American rule (see Hart, Companion to California, pp. 98-99). Colton mentions the wild cattle of California, once “the great staple of the country...now it is found in exhaustless mines of quicksilver and gold” (p. 403). While being hosted by Damon in Hawaii, Colton witnessed how livestock were herded into a secure valley surrounded by high mountains by skillful “kanacka” herdsmen on horseback with lassoes (pp. 343-46). The chapter “Sketches of Valparaiso” has a description and engraving of a Chilean horseman: “The costume of the rider was in wild harmony with his occupation. His hat rose in a high cone, like that of a whirling dervish in Turkey. His poncho, resembling a large shawl, fell in careless folds around his person. His gaiters rose to the knee; his heels were armed with a huge pair of silver-mounted spurs, while a brace of pistols peered from the holster of his saddle- bow. He was mounted on a powerful animal, impatient of the bit, and sure of foot as the mountain roe” (pp. 196-97). $175.00

1097. COLTON, Walter. Deck and Port.... New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1850. 408 [20, ads] pp., engraved Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) frontispiece portrait of Commodore R. F. Stockton, 4 sepia- tone lithographic plates (views of Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Valparaiso, and San Francisco by Sarony & Major), text illustrations, map. 8vo, original dark brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-pictorial spine. Binding worn at extremities and corners, slight foxing to blank preliminary and terminal leaves, offsetting opposite plates, otherwise fine. First edition, second issue, with added map and 20 pp. of ads, ads on endpapers omitted. In the present copy of the second issue, the palette of the tinting of the plates is confined to a sepia tone, whereas in the first issue above, the tones are more complex, with blue and sepia. We do not know if these variations are unique to the copies, or another variance of the second issue. The bindings vary, but the details of this are well documented by Kurutz. The map in the second issue is a simple rendering of North and South America showing the route of the frigate. $250.00

1098. COLTON, Walter. Glances into California. Los Angeles: [Grabhorn Press for] Glen Dawson, 1955. xxv [1] 43 [2] pp. 12mo, original green cloth. Very fine in publisher’s plain white d.j. Limited edition (250 copies), reprinting chapter 14 of Colton’s Deck and Port. Dawson’s Early California Travel Series 29, with introduction by Edwin Corle. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 150i: “An eloquent final chapter entitled ‘Glances into California,’ contrasting the old and new California and describing the effects of the Gold Rush.” Grabhorn (1940-1956) #561. Rocq 5642. $75.00

1099. COMAN, Edwin T. & Helen M. Gibbs. Time, Tide and Timber: A Century of Pope and Talbot. Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1949]. xvi, 480 pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original burgundy cloth. Very fine in chipped and worn d.j. Signed by authors. First edition. Smith S3602. A history of Pope and Talbot, a lumber and shipping company that got its start during the California Gold Rush when many of the large ranchos were being divided or sold. However, the firm really escalated its holdings during 1864 and 1866, profiting on the ill fortune of the many cattlemen who lost their herds and their lands following the dreadful drought of 1863-64. “Before the famine was over, one man, Don Abel Stearns found himself on the verge of insolvency. The bones of his hundred thousand head of cattle lay bleaching on the plains of 200,000 acres.... As these vast cattle domains were broken up and offered for sale at a few cents an acre, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) shrewd businessmen...bought thousands of acres of land in the coastal and San Joaquin valleys.... By 1874, [Pope & Talbot’s] ranch lands totaled almost 809,000 acres.” (pp. 127-28).” As the lands used for stockraising gave way to wheat fields, Pope and Talbot then reaped the bonanza of golden grain. $45.00

1100. COMBS, Joseph F. Gunsmoke in the Redlands. San Antonio: Naylor, [1968]. xii, 121 [1] pp., plates (photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges, otherwise very fine in d.j. (price-clipped). Signed by author. First edition. Guns 474. This book chronicles in bloody detail the Broocks-Border-Walt feud in the Redlands (the red-soiled piney woods in the old Neutral Ground of East Texas), long the scene of cattle raids and outlawry of all persuasions. “The Broocks-Border-Wall feud [occurred] in San Augustine just before and after 1900. The Wall boys were enemies from boyhood of Curg (Lycurgus) Border, a relative of the powerful Broocks family.” (Handbook of Texas Online: Feuds). The Walls were East Texas cattlemen, and within this history is one of the more unusual and abortive cattle drives. Lopez Wall and his cowhands hastily organized a fifty-mile cattle drive from Geneva to Nacogdoches to sell part of the Wall herd in order to raise money for Wall-faction sympathizers to attend Eugene Wall’s trial in Rusk. A marksman hidden in the woods shot Lopez dead, the cowhands scattered, the cattle stampeded, and in a matter of minutes herd and herdsmen were so far apart it took days for the cattle to be brought back together. $50.00

1101. The Commonwealth: A Monthly Magazine, Denver, Colorado, Volume I, from March to September, 1889. Denver: The Commonwealth Publishing Co., 1889. vi, iv, 136; 134 [4]; [2] 144; [2] 142; 120; 128 pp., 2 engraved portraits, ads. 6 issues bound together, 8vo, three-quarter contemporary black sheep over black cloth, spine with raised bands. Moderate edge wear, internally fine. First edition of a Denver periodical, published with the intent of stimulating writings by Western men and women. The contributions cover a large range of topics— history, fiction, economics, mining, etc. Some contributions in this volume are: “Jonathan Tarboys’ Ranch” (ranching fiction) by Jenny L. Hopkins; “Sue—A Story of Dakota” (ranching fiction) by H. M. Milliken; “A Basis for Western Literature” (including interview with H. H. Bancroft) by Will C. Ferril; “The Future of the Arid Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Regions” (good ranching content) by C. L. Ingersoll; “Irrigation Conditions in Colorado” by J. S. Greene; and “Administrative Control of Water” by Hon. Platt Rogers. $75.00

1102. CONARD, Howard Louis. “Uncle Dick” Wootton, the Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region: An Account of the Adventures and Thrilling Experiences of the Most Noted American Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Scout, and Indian Fighter Now Living. Chicago: W. E. Dibble & Co., 1890. 473 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, 30 plates (included in pagination), text illustrations. Large 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth. Other than a few faint spots on rear cover, a very fine, tight, and bright copy. Related newsclippings laid in. First edition. Campbell, pp. 60-61. Dobie, p. 72. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 100. Flake 2470. Graff 846. Howes C659. Littell 208: “One of the most authentic and interesting accounts of early life in the Rockies and on the plains.” Rittenhouse 121. Saunders 2828. Wynar 275. Wootton (1816-1893) went West to work for Bent & St. Vrain’s Fur Company at the age of twenty. He was involved in various cattle and sheep enterprises, referring to himself as “something of a ‘cattle king’” (p. 245) and driving nine thousand sheep from New Mexico to California in 1852 (chapter 16). In 1847, when contracted to supply cattle to the troops stationed at Taos, Wootton lost to Ute rustlers $5,000 worth of fine beef steers being driven from Arkansas Valley to Taos. In chapter 12, Uncle Dick recounts serving as scout on the Doniphan expedition which, with Kearney’s conquest, gave the U.S. its claim to New Mexico and Arizona. This expedition is considered one of the most brilliant long marches ever made. Without quartermaster, paymaster, commissary, uniforms, tents, adequate provisions, or even military discipline, the force covered 3,600 miles by land and 2,000 by water, all in the course of twelve months. One of Uncle Dick’s tasks was to draw on the resources of the country to feed the men. “There were bands of wild cattle roaming over the hills and mesas...and whenever we wanted a supply of meat we ‘rounded’ up a lot of these cattle.... It was thought advisable to lasso, instead of shooting them, as some ammunition would be saved thereby. Lassoing wild cattle was a new business to most of the [soldiers], and they had some very amusing experiences.... At first the soldier always thought he had the steer, but before much time had elapsed he usually learned that the steer had him. Being able to lasso an Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) animal of that kind is one thing, and knowing how to land him on his back, instead of being landed on your own back, and perhaps seriously hurt, is quite another.” (pp. 190- 91). $400.00

1103. CONARD, Howard Louis. Uncle Dick Wootton. Chicago: Lakeside Press; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1957. xxvii [1] 464 pp., plates, map. 12mo, original navy blue cloth. Fore-edges foxed, else fine, with presentation card of Lakeside Press laid in. Third edition, index and map added, and corrected and edited by M. M. Quaife, who wrote the introduction and notes. The first edition came out in 1890, and a second edition (a reprint of the first) was published in 1950. $20.00

1104. CONGER, Roger N. “Fencing in McLennan County Texas: A History of Barbed Wire” [wrapper title] from The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 59:2 (October 1955). Extract containing pp. 215-221, photographs and illustrations. 8vo, original pale green wrappers. Fine. First separate printing. CBC 3118. Mohr, The Range Country 653. “Of the several different factors which combined near the close of the last century to bring an end to the romantic era of the cattle trails, one of the most obvious and most important was the advent of the barbed wire fence” (p. 215). Conger presents a history of fencing from early methods of stone, split wood, and bois d’arc hedges to the introduction and spread of barbed wire. $25.00

1105. CONLEY, James K. Memorabilia...An Album of Early West Texas. Abilene: Reporter Publishing Company, [1971]. [80] pp., mostly photos. Oblong 4to, original brown printed wrappers. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Reproduction of a photo album for the counties within about a hundred-mile radius of Abilene from the last quarter of the 1800s to about World War II, including a section on “Grazing and Growing” with several ranch and cowboy photographs (Pitchfork Ranch boys tenderly holding coyote pups, with text: “Hollywood cowboys who mumble about ‘those mangy coyotes’ might note this photograph taken in 1917”); Two “authentic cowboys” (Clem Davis and Frank Austin, from a tintype taken June, 1885, in Coleman after a cattle drive); decked-out Abilene cowboy John H. Bullock at eighteen years of age in 1906; a cowboy Christmas in Eastland County ca. 1918 with a Santa looking more like a cowboy; etc. $25.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1106. CONLEY, James K. Memorabilia...An Album of Early West Texas. Abilene: Reporter Publishing Company, [1971]. Another copy. Very fine. $15.00

1107. CONNELLEY, William Elsey. The Life of Preston B. Plumb, 1837-1891. Chicago: Browne & Howell Company, 1913. vi [4] 473 pp., frontispiece portrait (photogravure in sepia tone), foldout maps. 8vo, original navy blue cloth, t.e.g. Fine, mostly unopened. Presentation copy from Plumb’s son with his presentation TLs to Hattie Horner Louthan laid in. First edition. Biography of Preston B. Plumb (U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1871-1891), with a chapter on Texas cattle and Plumb’s role in the early cattle trade in Kansas. Plumb was active in the Grange movement, championing the cause of stockraisers and farmers in the Senate and working to make the Department of Agriculture one of the Executive Departments of the government. Plumb, born in Ohio in 1837, went to Kansas Territory in 1856 to aid the Free-State cause and established a newspaper in Emporia. When the Civil War broke out, he raised a group of volunteers who mustered into the 11th Kansas Cavalry, fighting at Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Lexington, and against guerrillas. Included are accounts of the border warfare (Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, Price’s Raid, etc.) and Plumb’s service in the Indian Wars in Wyoming in 1865. $125.00

1108. CONNELLEY, William Elsey. Wild Bill and His Era: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1933. [2] xii [2] 229 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original red gilt-pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, spine light, foxing adjacent to plates, but overall very good. First edition, limited edition (#87 of 200 copies, printed on heavier stock than the trade edition). Adams, Burs I:87; One-Fifty 33. Dobie, pp. 141-42. Graff 852. Guns 480: “Scarce.” Howes C690. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 105: “An honest attempt to get at the truth about Hickok.” Rader 896. Saunders 2831. Smith 1959. In the chapter “Cowboys and Cowboy Life” the author expounds on the necessity for marshals like Hickok to protect frontier towns from cowboys and to protect the cowboys from the towns. $200.00

1109. CONNELLEY, William Elsey. Wild Bill and His Era: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok. New York: Press Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) of the Pioneers, 1933. [2] xii [2] 229 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original red cloth. Tape residue on pastedowns and flyleaves, ink ownership inscription on verso of half-title, overall very good. First trade edition. Introduction by Charles M. Harger. $75.00

1110. CONNELLEY, William Elsey. Wild Bill—James Butler Hickok...David Colbert McCanles at Rock Creek. [Topeka, 1928]. 27 pp. 8vo, later grey library boards. Very good. First separate issue, reprinted from Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society 17:2 (1926-1928). $20.00

1111. CONNER, Daniel Ellis. Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1956]. xxii, 364 pp., plates (mostly photographic portraits, but including Alfred Jacob Miller’s 1837 painting of Walker and his Native American wife), maps. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Slight shelf wear, a few spots to fore-edges, back endpaper torn, otherwise fine. First edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 362. Wallace, Arizona History IV:70. Walker (1798-1872) was one of the great mountain men and his impact on the West was immense. He engaged in herding and ranching several times during his life (supplied beef to California Gold Rush mining camps; purchased a ranch in Monterey County in the 1850s; and spent the last five years of his life ranching in Contra Costa County). The present work contains Conner’s biography of Walker and the first publication of Walker’s own well-written, insightful account of his 1861 expedition to central Arizona. This expedition resulted in the capture of Mangas Colorados, perhaps the greatest Apache leader of record, and thereby opened the region to ranchers and settlers. Mangas was known and feared for his devastating raids on Mexican ranches and theft of stock from the Arizona ranchers and miners who came later. Other ranching interest in this volume: witnessing Apache warriors rustling a herd of sheep from a Mexican, and their custom of taking the herder as a slave to continue care of the flock; visiting the old rock corral (subject of a later work fiction [see item 844 herein]); visiting ranches in the region; Apache rustling stock from a ranch on Granite Creek and the ensuing fierce battle. $50.00

1112. CONOVER, George W. Sixty Years in Southwest Oklahoma; or, The Autobiography of George W. Conover with Some Thrilling Incidents in Indian Life in Oklahoma and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Texas. Anadarko, Oklahoma: N. T. Plummer, Book and Job Printer, 1927. [6] iii [1] 129 pp., frontispiece portraits, text illustrations (mostly photographic portraits of Native Americans, but including “Conover Cattle on the Range”). 12mo, original blue cloth gilt. Just about perfect condition. First edition. Campbell, p. 97. Graff 854. Herd 565: “The author denies that there ever was such a thing as the Chisholm Trail, and claims the Indian Red Blanket drove the first cattle over the trail.” Rader 899. Tate, Indians of Texas 3006: “Conover...arrived as a soldier in western Oklahoma during 1867 and witnessed some of the most important events in Indian-military confrontations.” A pioneer’s autobiography describing life and tribes on the plains of Oklahoma in the latter part of the nineteenth century: Chisholm Trail, cattle trade, captivities, rustling, Adobe Walls, Battle of the Washita, etc. After leaving government service in 1873, the author embarked in the cattle business, taking charge of the Chander Ranch on the Little Washita. “Here I had the opportunity to observe some of the work of the cattle thieves and whiskey peddlers. They had headquarters over the line in the Chickasaw Nation or across Red River in Texas. They would trade with the Indians for a number of horses, then sell them whiskey, and while the Indians were drunk, they would drive off a herd of horses many more than they had bought” (p. 66). $225.00

1113. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains. Denver: Republican Publishing Company, 1882. 285 pp., engraved pictorial half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous primitive and lurid wood-engraved plates by A. P. Proctor (32 plates in all, including the rare pictorial half-title, frequently lacking). 8vo, original dark teal pebbled cloth with gilt-pictorial illustration of two hands up and knife. Slight shelf wear, front hinge cracked, 2.5- cm split at lower portion of upper joint, otherwise very fine and bright. On front free endpaper is a note in purple ink: “Colorado Live Stock Record. Compliments of D. J. Cook.” This book is notoriously difficult to find complete and in fine collector’s condition. First edition. Adams, One-Fifty 34 (citing the wrappers issue): “This rare book was originally published to be sold on trains by newsboys. It was reprinted the same year bound in cloth. When the cloth edition was first issued, there was a picture on the cover of two upraised hands holding a scalping knife. The knife was said to have Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) belonged to Wild Bill Hickok and to have been given to Cook. The design was made from a photograph of Wild Bill’s hands and his scalping knife. It is said the book was largely written by Thomas Fulton Dawson, a prolific writer and editor. The scarcity of the first edition is claimed by some to be the result of using its pages for gun wadding during an Indian scare.” Campbell, p. 74. Eberstadt 105:94: “Cook was Chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association and from 1871 to 1879 Sheriff of Arapahoe County.” Graff 861. Guns 483. Howes C728. Wilcox, p. 32. Wynar 7005. McLoughlin, Wild & Woolly, pp. 110-11: “This saga of murder, robbery, lynching, and shootouts...makes Garrett’s Authentic Life of Billy the Kid seem like a bedtime story for squeamish infants. This Rocky Mountain blood-hound managed to survive all his shooting scrapes, and he died in his home at Denver on April 29, 1907.” The 1882 edition of this book is genuinely rare, and it is a mere fluke (and the luck of the collector) that dear old Fred Rosenstock had a little stash of this Denver imprint in variant bindings. The present copy is the cream of the crop. Chapter 5, “A Cowboy’s Sad Fate,” is about Johnny Pelt, “a cowboy, who used to make his headquarters at Alamosa, was a reckless a lad as ever punched cattle in Southern Colorado.” Chapters 34-36 deal with the 1871 murder of ranchman George Bonacina and his sister Mrs. Belle Newton by Theodore Meyers. Chapter 43 relates the nefarious doings of horse thieves George B. Britt and William Hiligoss, who in 1866 stole a herd of horses at McNassar’s corral in Denver. Chapter 57 “(A Townful of Thieves”) is about the rustling activities of the people of Carson, whose specialty was stealing entire cars of livestock from the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company during 1877; Cook arrested the entire male population of the town. In chapter 65 (“A Mexican Bandit”) Cook describes the crimes and capture of Candado Costello after he and his gang stole a fine cattle herd from wealthy Mexican cattleman Romero and murdered him at his ranch near Bernalillo in 1886. $2,500.00

1114. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life.... Denver: Republican Publishing Company, 1882. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original gilt- pictorial purple pebbled cloth. Corners bumped and frayed, slightly shelf-slanted, new endpapers, frontispiece reinforced with tissue, some spotting and smudging to interior, generally very good. A laid-in card has an unrelated illustration (“Hands Up”) with descriptive text. $2,000.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1115. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life.... Denver: Republican Publishing Company, 1882. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original gilt- pictorial terracotta pebbled cloth. Moderate shelf wear and soiling, new endsheets, first and last leaves and occasionally a few inner leaves chipped and with short tears (mostly confined to blank margins), occasional smudges and soiling. $1,500.00

1116. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life.... Denver: Republican Publishing Company, 1882. Another copy (lacking the pictorial half-title, which is often absent). 8vo, original gilt-pictorial pebbled green cloth. A poor, defective copy, recased with a heavy hand at an early date. Binding worn, spotted, and slightly flecked, heavy cloth tape along hinges, front and back free endpapers chipped, some spotting and smudging to interior, a few repairs to torn leaves. $600.00

1117. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life.... Denver: Republican Publishing Company, 1882. Another copy, rebound into an apparently recycled contemporary full sheep binding with spine lettered “Denver Board of Fire Underwriters.” Text block detached, first plate missing, frontispiece, front and back pages chipped, newsclippings pinned in front. $500.00

1118. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life.... Denver: W. F. Robinson Printing Company, 1897. [2] 442 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original purple cloth. Slight shelf wear, a few minor spots to upper cover, pencil ownership inscription on front pastedown, otherwise fine and bright. Second edition of preceding, revised and enlarged to cover fifteen additional years of Cook’s experiences. Compiled by John W. Cook. Adams (Guns 483) notes that this 1897 edition is scarce. $275.00

1119. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life.... Denver: W. F. Robinson Printing Company, 1897. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original dark brown cloth. Light shelf wear, slight discoloration to covers, small split at top of upper joint, upper hinge cracked, ink ownership inscription on front pastedown, otherwise very good. $225.00

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1120. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life.... Denver: W. F. Robinson Printing Company, 1897. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Light shelf wear, lower edge of cover dented, front free endpaper removed, and front hinge cracked. $225.00

1121. COOK, D[avid] J. Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life.... Denver: W. F. Robinson Printing Company, 1897. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Light shelf wear, slight fraying to corners and edges of spine, small chip in back hinge. $225.00

1122. COOK, H. G. (Teen). Boomer-Sooner: A Life Story. Norman: Cooperative Books, 1939. 56 pp. 8vo, original tan wrappers. Very fine. Caustic manuscript critique in ink by J. Frank Dobie on title: “Like nearly all other pioneer chronicles of Oklahomans, this lacks zest and meat. They were a bunch of petty land-grabbers—a bunch of pop-suckers. A little about a few cattle Cook helped handle in Texas & Oklahoma is my only excuse for putting this tedious and significance-lacking item in my cowboy collection. J. Frank Dobie, Austin, Tx May 15, 1939.” First edition. Herd 568. The author (b. Yolo County, California 1869) was raised by his ’49er grandfather, John E. Copp, who “owned most of Sacamata Valley.” Cook spent part of his youth on his grandfather’s horse ranch at the foot of Mount Shasta and then on a large ranch near Lubbock beginning in 1880. “The ranches were far apart and no fences at all. The cattle in those days were all Spanish long horns and very wild” (p. 6). In 1883 Cook ran away from home and went to work at Sam Reynolds’s ranch east of Denton. Next he entered Indian Territory, working on a ranch for two years and eventually rushing for his own claim. $50.00

1123. COOK, Harold J. Tales of the 04 Ranch: Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887-1909. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1968]. xviii [2] 221 pp., photographic plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in very good d.j. (rubbed). First edition. Harold was the son of James H. Cook, author of Fifty Years on the Old Frontier (see next entry), and grew up on their 04 Ranch in Nebraska. His collection of reminiscences chronicles the transition of Nebraska from open range to fenced ranches. Introduction by Agnes Wright Spring. $30.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1124. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier As Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. xix [1] 291 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic plates, some foldout, one in color). 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Upper corners slightly bruised, otherwise fine in the rare d.j. (good to very good, with some mild to moderate staining and a few small chips and tears). Laid in is author’s ALs (2 pp., 8vo, in ink on his engraved stationery) to Dudley R. Dobie dated March 6, 1936, in original mailing envelope. Responding to Dobie’s praise for the present book, Cook responds (in part): “I am one of the ‘Old Boys’ who being ‘short’ of schooling which an Author should have, has attempted to tell a few straight stories relative to the life of which I was a part.” Cook invited Dudley and J. Frank Dobie to come “break bread” with him at his ranch in Agate, Nebraska. First edition. Adams, Burs I:88. Campbell, p. 84. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 19. Dobie, p. 100. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #4: “Nothing better on cow work in the brush country and trail driving in the 70s has appeared.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Kid 87: “Cook managed a ranch for English capitalists in southwestern New Mexico from 1882 to 1887, and writes that he took a hand in restraining a number of cowboys who seemed to desire to become noted desperadoes. After their capture, a number of them told him that they did not know ‘where they got the idea that the life of an outlaw was a desirable career.’ Cook believed that many of them sought to imitate Billy the Kid, and that the reading of trashy novels was a contributing cause.” Graff 863. Guns 484: “An outstanding western book with much on outlawry and a good firsthand account of the battle between the cowboys and Elfego Baca, a fight in which the author participated.” Herd 569. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 3. Rader 907. Reese, Six Score 23: “Cook’s career spanned the whole West; much of it was concerned with cattle.” Saunders 2833. Smith 2008. Cook was a direct descendant of the noted explorer Captain Cook. $375.00

1125. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Another copy. Occasional mild stains to text (mainly confined to last few leaves and last plate), otherwise fine (d.j. not present). Author’s signed presentation copy to Mrs. Stephen G. Skinner, dated at Agate, Nebraska, October 1923. $150.00

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1126. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Another copy. Light shelf wear, paper lightly age-toned, otherwise fine, without the d.j. $75.00

1127. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. xix [1] 291 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic plates, some foldout, one in color). 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Slight shelf wear, contemporary ink ownership inscription on front pastedown, otherwise fine. First edition, second printing. $45.00

1128. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. xix [1] 291 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic plates, some foldout, one in color). 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j. (slightly dusty). Author’s signed presentation copy to C. Nash, dated at Agate, June 9, 1925. First edition, third printing. $125.00

1129. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier As Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. xix [1] 291 pp., photographic plates (some foldout). 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j. (slightly chipped ). Author’s signed presentation copy: “To A. A. Spaugh with the compliments of his old time friend, the author, James H. Cook. Agate Nebraska, Jan 17th 1929. In these days of luxuries, and rapid transit, let us not forget the days when we taught the Spanish ‘Longhorns’ how to make nice trails ‘North of 36.’” Spaugh has marked in red pencil a couple of passages in the book where Cook refers to him or incidents involving him. Laid in are two photos of author (one at his desk writing, with his dated and signed ink note on verso: “This photo will prove that the ‘Old Trail’ Boys are far more pretty than when they worked with the ‘Cows’ on the ‘Chisholm Trail’”; and the other from 1937, showing Cook with the daughter of Chief Red Cloud (then over 100 years old), “One of the last of the old Sioux ‘Wild Women.’” Affixed to rear pastedown are three more photos of Cook, these with Spaugh (contemporary ink identifications). Penciled telegram affixed to back pastedown (Harold J. Cook telegraphs Spaugh on January 2, 1942, that “Father died Sunday afternoon”). Related newspaper clippings laid in. First edition, fourth printing. One passage in Cook’s book referring to Spaugh is on pp. 82-83: “By the time we Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) got to Indian Territory we were all about played out. It had been raining a great deal, and we had lost a lot of sleep. One night we had a terrible storm and were up all night. It rained all the next day, and we were with the cattle again all that night. The rain continued the following day, and when night fell every old cowboy in the outfit—that is, those over thirty years of age—quit the herd and went to camp, where they lay down in the mud. They said they could not stand it any more and must have rest. The only ones who stayed with Mac Stewart (for he was with the cattle all the time, and would have fallen dead from his saddle before he would ever have let them get away from him) were three very young cowboys named Charley Dyer, Bert Helbert, and Addison Spaugh, and myself. I could scarcely keep myself awake at all, and would even go to sleep riding along, in spite of myself. At last I went to the wagon, got a piece of tobacco from the cook, and repeated my old trick of rubbing some of the spittle on my eyelids and into my eyes. By thus torturing myself I kept going. The cattle were so nearly worn out by this time that they could not run, but kept drifting about all night. In the morning the sun came out warm and bright, and the cattle, after grazing a while, all lay down to rest.... Stewart did not say a word to the men who had left the herd, but I could see very plainly that they would never again go over the trail with him.” $500.00

1130. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Another copy. Light shelf wear, slight discoloration along lower edge of back cover, otherwise fine in lightly worn d.j. Author’s presentation copy to Ira C. Prichard. $100.00

1131. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Another copy. Slight shelf wear, lower corners bumped, else fine. Dust jacket not present. Presentation copy from Emil Kopac to A. L. L. Condit, with author’s signed inscription dated March 4, 1931. $75.00

1132. COOK, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Another copy. Slight shelf wear. Presentation copy from one noted Western writer to another: “To William MacLeod Raine, In memory of the many kindnesses you have shown me and may you find something of interest in this book. Sincerely, William M. Breakenridge.” $60.00

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1133. COOK, James H. Longhorn Cowboy.... Edited and with an Introduction by Howard R. Driggs. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1942]. xi [3] 241 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations by Herbert Stoops. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Binding lightly soiled, slight browning to endpapers, otherwise fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Dobie, p. 100. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Stoops 17). Guns 485. Herd 570: “This book is founded upon the original edition [see item 1124 herein]...and arranged for younger readers.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 18. Saunders 2834. $65.00

1134. COOK, James H. Longhorn Cowboy.... New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1942]. Another copy. Covers soiled, corners bumped, endpapers lightly browned, internally very good. Dust jacket not present. $10.00

1135. COOK, Jim Lane. Lane of the Llano: Being the Story of Jim (Lane) Cook As Told to T. M. Pearce. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. xiv, 269 pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, endpaper maps with border composed of brands. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Slight shelf wear, otherwise very fine in very good d.j. with a few minor chips. First edition. Adams, Burs I:89. Dykes, Kid 239: “Cook’s father was John Chisum’s partner on the Concho in 1867 and as a boy of nine, Jim Cook accompanied a herd from there to the Pecos in New Mexico.” Guns 486. Herd 572. Saunders 2835. Firsthand account of life on the Llano Estacado of Texas and eastern New Mexico. $75.00

1136. COOK, John R. The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains; The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas; The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo; Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes; A Story of Mountain and Plain. Topeka: Crane & Company, 1907. xii, 351 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (some full-page, mostly photographic). 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Lower corners lightly bumped, endsheets a bit browned, otherwise fine, with related 4-page poem (“Address to the Hunters, after the Ninety Days’ Scout” by Vox Buffaloreum) tipped in at back. Newsclipping laid in. First edition. Campbell, p. 58: “A classic of the Hide Hunters. The author’s personal account. A collector’s item.” Dobie, p. 159. Dykes, Kid 46: “Very scarce.” Guns 487: “Contains some information about the Benders of Kansas.” Graff 864: “Border warfare between Missouri and Kansas and the slaughter of the buffalo are the principle Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) subjects.” Howes C730. Rader 909. Rittenhouse 128. Saunders 2836. Tate, Indians of Texas 2032. There was not room enough on the vast plains for buffalo, Native Americans, cattle, and farmers, and in the struggle for survival, the buffalo were the first to succumb. Frontiersman Cook (1844- 1917) grew up in Kansas and Indiana and fought with the 12th Kansas Infantry in anti-guerilla service. He visited Texas, New Mexico, and other points in the West and lived in Dakota Territory and Eugene, Oregon, in later life. The fame of this candid southern plainsman (and the emphasis of the present book) is the destruction of the buffalo, which Cook graphically relates from a firsthand perspective. Ranching interest is interspersed throughout the book. Cook tells of his 1873 trip to Texas (chapter 2), where he became embroiled in a feud and stampede related to the Texas cattle fever trouble along the Indian Territory border. Chapter 3 on his sojourn in New Mexico includes the amusing story of an atheist and some cowboys who were driving a herd of cattle to Taos from the Arkansas River. While engaged in a buffalo hunt on the Llano Estacado in Texas, Cook noted that in summer of 1881 approximately 200,000 head of Texas cattle were herded across the North Fork of Red River; he observed several trail drives in progress (3,000 head destined for the Wind River country and another 2,500 head to stock a range on the Cimarron in southwest Kansas). He comments: “We hunters were making it possible for this to be done” (chapter 7). $175.00

1137. COOK, John R. The Border and the Buffalo.... Topeka: Crane & Company, 1907. Another copy. Very fine. $125.00

1138. COOK, John R. The Border and the Buffalo.... Chicago: Lakeside Press; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1938. [1, ad] xliv, 480 pp., frontispiece portrait. 16mo, original red cloth, t.e.g. Fine. Second edition, edited by Milo Milton Quaife, with added introduction, notes, and index. Quaife comments in his introduction: “As long as we continue a meat-eating race, the calling of the butcher will remain an essential one.... Although the destruction of the buffalo was a necessary preliminary to the advance of civilization over his domain, the professional killers who performed the service have gathered no haloes; instead they have almost universally met with disapproval and contempt. John R. Cook...was a commonplace man who by force of circumstances became a professional buffalo-killer. More than this, he regarded his work as a patriotic service.... For unadorned realism, the narrative he prepared has seldom, if ever been Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) surpassed. Historically, it has two claims to importance; it presents the clearest first-hand recital ever written of the wholesale destruction of earth’s grandest ruminant; and it supplies as good a defense of the work of the destroyers as can be made.” $45.00

1139. [COOK BOOK]. The Texas Cook Book: A Complete Guide to Modern Cooking. Seguin: The South Texas Printing Company, [1950]. 200 pp., text illustrations by A. Medlin. 8vo, original white pictorial boards lettered in red, upper cover with illustration of a cowboy, spiral bound. Very fine. First edition. Chosen for the cover illustration, a caricature of the stereotypical cowboy in full regalia. Text from the recipe for Huevos Rancheros: “They tell us to tear up all other Rancheros recipes. This one is ‘IT.’ We do know when our rancher friend dictated it to us in the bank one day, she sounds like a person who knows her Mexican cookery” (p. 9). $50.00

1140. COOKE, Philip St. George, William Henry Chase Whiting, & Francois Xavier Aubry. Exploring Southwestern Trails, 1846-1854. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938. 383 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, foldout map. 8vo, original red cloth, t.e.g. Very fine. First edition. Southwest Historical Series 7; edited by Ralph P. Bieber. Campbell, pp. 137, 191-92. Clark & Brunet 19:VII. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 27. Flake 2500n. Garrett, Mexican-American War, p. 202. Howes S791. Paher, Nevada 128. Rittenhouse 47. Wallace, Arizona History IV:51. This volume contains three accounts of travel in the Southwest. Cooke’s journal as commanding officer of the Mormon Battalion on its march from New Mexico to California in 1846-1847 first appeared in print as a government document (SED 2, 1849). The present version “follows Colonel Cooke’s manuscript journal more accurately” (Plains & Rockies IV:165n). “The Battle of the Bulls” (a herd of wild cattle attacking the wagon train) was one of the more bizarre incidents in Cooke’s astonishing march with the Mormon Battalion across the Colorado Desert to San Diego to open a wagon road to California. While in the region of the “Ranches of Albuquerque” trying to purchase replacement livestock and rations in preparation for the rigors of the dreaded jornada de muerte, Cooke found that the entire male population had deserted one of the villages of the “Lunas” (great sheep holders) in order to pursue Navajos who had rustled 6,600 sheep; Cooke’s men recovered the herd and purchased a portion of it. The party rounded up wild cattle Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) near the vast old Arizpe Ranch at San Bernardino (near the northern boundary of Sonora), which, according to Cooke, had lost some 80,000 head of cattle to Apache rustlers, as had other ranches in the region. After a perilous journey, the party arrived in California at Warner’s Ranch (good description of the ranch and Warner). Regarding the other two accounts in this volume: Whiting established the southern route (which would become so important for Texas cattle drovers supplying the California market); and after Aubry grew weary of his occupation as a Santa Fe trader, he made two journeys (1852 and 1854) to California to drive New Mexican sheep westward. $200.00

1141. COOLIDGE, Dane. Arizona Cowboys. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1938. 160 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates by the author. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Faint browning to endsheets, small label partially removed from lower pastedown, otherwise fine in fine d.j. First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 20. Dobie, p. 100. Guns 488: “Contains a chapter on the Pleasant Valley War between the Grahams and the Tewkesburys.” Herd 573. Wallace, Arizona History VII:21. Firsthand account of cowboy life on the Arizona range in the early 1900s. Dane Coolidge (1873-1940), Harvard-trained naturalist and writer of western fiction and non-fiction, worked in the West as a field collector of animals and as wild-life photographer before turning to writing fiction and non-fiction. “He worked his way through mining towns, on Indian reservations, and ranches, collecting stories and everywhere making friends among the Indians” (Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, pp. 54-55). $85.00

1142. COOLIDGE, Dane. Arizona Cowboys. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1938. Another copy. Very fine, without the d.j. $65.00

1143. COOLIDGE, Dane. Comanche Chaser. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1938. 255 pp. 12mo, original tan cloth. Minor soiling to covers, a few spots on spine, endpapers browned, overall very good. Author’s signed presentation inscription in ink: “Comanche Chaser With many thanks to my kindest critic, G. W. Harris. From Dane Coolidge, Berkeley, Cal., April 3, 1938” on a card tipped onto front free endpaper. First edition. “In 1937 The New York Times declared ‘no man alive today writes better Westerns’” (Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, pp. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

54-55). Novel centered on French-Canadian Hautecoeur at his forted ranch in the valley of the Little Cimarron, New Mexico, “a tract of land, much as kings conferred.... Every morning the Mexican herders drove their bands of bleating sheep through the gateway to the plains below; and up the valley, well shut in by the high walls of the canyon, thousands of cattle grazed along the meandering stream. Such was the domain of the noble Frenchman.” The action opens with Comanche rustlers making off with the Utes’ prize herd of horses, but then the tables turn. A contemporary review of the book in the New York Herald Tribune stated: “A humdinger and no mistake, complete with Utes, Comanches, Kiowas and Apaches, two heroic trappers, a couple of nice girls.... A grand fantasia based on the Kit Carson days.” $75.00

1144. COOLIDGE, Dane. Death Valley Prospectors. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1937. 178 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates by author. 8vo, original orange cloth with photograph by author. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. (price-clipped). Pencil presentation inscription to scholar Margaret Long from Anne Martin. First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 55: “Activities of notable Death Valley characters.” Paher, Nevada 378: “Stories of emigrants and prospectors begin with 1849.” Rocq 2292. The chapter on Death Valley Scotty reveals that as a young man he was a bronco rider and worked as one of Buffalo Bill’s Big Six cowboys. $75.00

1145. COOLIDGE, Dane. Fighting Men of the West. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1932]. 343 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates (some by author). 8vo, original red cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise fine in near fine d.j. (slightly chipped). Newsclipping laid in. First edition. Adams, Burs I:90. Campbell, p. 68. Dobie, p. 140. Dykes, Kid 182: “Despite the fact that John S. Chisum hardly ever carried a gun, Coolidge devotes a chapter to him.... Since [Chisum] was a thief on a grand scale, stealing entire herds rather than a cow or two, he became the cattle king of his day.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 55: “Even in its reprint editions this book is hard to come by.” Guns 489. Herd 574. Howes C742. Rader 916. Saunders 2840: “Biographies of Charles Goodnight, John Chisum, Clay Allison, and others.” Wallace, Arizona History X:21. Tuska & Piekarski, Encyclopedia of Frontier & Western Fiction, p. 55 (evaluating the present work, Death Valley Prospectors, and Texas Cowboys as the best of the author’s non-fiction books). One of the chapters is devoted to noted Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) rustler-regulator Texas Ranger John R. Hughes (see item 1150 below). $75.00

1146. COOLIDGE, Dane. Fighting Men of the West. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1932]. Another copy. Binding moderately discolored, fore-edges and a few leaves foxed. Dust jacket not present. $30.00

1147. COOLIDGE, Dane. Jess Roundtree, Texas Ranger. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1933. 252 pp. 12mo, original blue cloth. Spine faded, a few spots to upper cover, moderately foxed, overall very good. First edition. Romantic Western novel set against the backdrop of 1880s Texas range life. “[Coolidge] spent a good deal of time in mining towns, on Indian reservations, on round-ups, and with Texas Rangers on the Rio Grande, collecting material for stories” (Handbook of Texas Online: Dane Coolidge). $25.00

1148. COOLIDGE, Dane. Long Rope. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1935]. 254 pp. 12mo, original orange cloth. Lightly worn, spine sunned, a few stains to binding, fore- edges foxed, endpapers browned. Author’s signed presentation inscription tipped onto front free endpaper: “To G. W. Harris. My Good Angel on the Times. With many thanks for his boost on Long Rope. Dane Coolidge, April 28, 1935.” First edition. Western novel about rodeo cowboys. $50.00

1149. COOLIDGE, Dane. Old California Cowboys. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. 158 pp., frontispiece, plates (author’s photos and old prints). 8vo, original light blue cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. with only slight wear (price- clipped). First edition. Dobie, p. 100: “Well illustrated by photographs.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 59 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating” #110): “Coolidge, sometimes historian and a better than average western novelist, was an itinerant photographer. He visited the roundups, camps, and ranches taking pictures everywhere.” Herd 575. The book is divided into three sections, California, Arizona, and Mexico, and discusses the historical background of vaqueros from the Spanish era to modern times. $50.00

1150. COOLIDGE, Dane. Ranger Two-Rifles. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1937. 248 pp. 12mo, original tan cloth. Binding a bit faded and spotted, endpapers browned, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) generally a very good copy in lightly worn d.j. (price- clipped). Contemporary postcard (probably by Coolidge) with photographic print of Texas Ranger John R. Hughes, with contemporary ink notation in margin of photo: “Capt. John R. Hughes, The Old Texas Ranger.” Hughes (1855-1947), who spent most of his adult life as a Texas Ranger, was one of the most colorful of the Rangers; Hughes got his start in chasing rustlers in 1886 when he successfully apprehended in New Mexico the horse thieves who had stolen livestock from his ranch near Liberty Hill, Texas. See Handbook of Texas Online: John R. Hughes. Dudley R. Dobie suggested that this novel was based on Hughes, who is one of the men discussed in Coolidge’s Fighting Men of the West (see item 1145 herein). First edition. Western novel about Texas Rangers, Mexican rustlers and outlaws, and romance along the Rio Grande. “[Coolidge] wrote some forty novels of Western life and was considered an expert on Indian and cowboy lore. His novels with a Southwest or Texas setting include The Texican (1911), The Law West of the Pecos (1924), Lorenzo the Magnificent: The Riders from Texas (1925), Jess Roundtree, Texas Ranger (1933), and Ranger Two-Rifles (1937)” (Handbook of Texas Online: Dane Coolidge). $100.00

1151. COOLIDGE, Dane. Texas Cowboys. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1937. 162 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates by author. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Campbell, p. 85: “Coolidge wrote his novels for money and his fact books for love. Incidentally, his (genuine) Texas cowboys were at work in New Mexico.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 21. Dobie, p. 100: “Thin, but genuine.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 59 (“High Spots of Western Illustrating”). Herd 576. A firsthand account of the work of the Cherry Cow outfit on the San Carlos Indian Reservation in Arizona— “every man a straight Texan.” $75.00

1152. COOLIDGE, Dane. The Texican. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1911. 368 [1] pp., frontispiece and color plates by Maynard Dixon. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Binding worn and with mild to moderate staining, preliminary leaves and fore-edges mildly foxed, occasional light stains to text. Good to very good. First edition. Dobie, p. 178n: “Some ‘Westerns’ have a kind of validity. If a serious reader went through the hundreds of titles produced by William McLeod Raine, Dane Coolidge, Eugene Cunningham, B. M. Bower, the late Ernest Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Haycox, and other manufacturers of range novels who have known their West at firsthand, he would find, spottedly, a surprising amount of truth about the land and men, a fluency in genuine cowboy lingo, and a respect for the code of conduct.” Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Dixon 47). Historical novel about the Pleasant Valley range war between the Grahams and the Tewksburys. $45.00

1153. COOLIDGE, Dane. Wally Laughs-Easy. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. 249 pp. 12mo, original tan cloth. Endpapers a bit browned, otherwise fine in lightly worn d.j. Author’s signed presentation inscription to G. W. Harris tipped onto front pastedown: “To my old friend G. W. Harris who got me started as the Dean of the Western Writers. I always look up to you in the Times. Dane Coolidge.” First edition. Romantic Western fiction featuring gold mining and range wars in Nevada. $50.00

1154. COOLIDGE, Herbert. Pancho McClish. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1912. [10] 341 pp., 4 color plates after oil paintings by J. N. Marchand (including frontispiece). 8vo, original green decorated gilt-lettered cloth. Lightly worn, top edge mildly foxed, overall very good. J. Frank Dobie’s copy with his pencil note on front free endpaper: “Owned for the illustrations by Marchand. J. Frank Dobie.” First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Marchand 17). Adventures of the narrator and his foster father and brother, the McClishes, who trade, doctor, and break horses. $45.00

1155. COOLIDGE, Mary Roberts. The Rain-Makers: Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1929. xii [1] 326 pp., photographic frontispiece and plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original teal cloth lettered and decorated in red. Very fine, mostly unopened, in fine pictorial d.j. with only a few chips. Bookplate. First edition. Campbell, p. 113: “Well-written descriptions of the Desert tribes.” Dobie, p. 28: “Contains an excellent account of the Hopi snake ceremony for bringing rain.” Laird, Hopi 458. Saunders 2124. Has a chapter entitled “The Pastoral Navajos” and brief discussions of the origins and cultural impacts of Navajo and Pueblo stockraising. One of the photographic plates shows a Hopi woman at summer camp tending a herd. Mary Coolidge (wife of Dane Coolidge [see items 1141-1153 above]) was a member of the California State Board of Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Education and a professor of sociology at Mills College, working for years in social and economic research and on behalf of women’s rights. The present work covers the social life, religion, arts, and crafts of the Southwest Indians. $125.00

1156. COOLIDGE, Mary Roberts & Dane Coolidge. The Navajo Indians. Boston, New York, & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1930. x, 316 pp., photographic frontispiece and plates (mostly by authors), endpaper maps. 8vo, original bright orange cloth decorated and lettered in black. Very fine in near fine d.j. (price-clipped and lightly chipped) illustrated with photographs by the authors. First edition. Campbell, p. 113: “Contains a good bibliography. Well-written description.” Dobie, p. 28. Laird, Hopi 457. Saunders 904: “History, customs, arts, religion, governmental relations.” The chapter on “Navajo Men and Navajo Sheep” explores cultural and economic aspects of Navajo sheepraising. The photographs are wonderful, and although we prefer Dane Coolidge’s “Canyon de Chelly, the Old Navajo Stronghold,” in the context of this catalogue we are obliged to mention that there are four photographs relating to sheepraising. Includes three chapters on Navajo blankets and one on “Silver-Work and Symbolism.” $150.00

1157. COOMBES, Cha[rle]s E. Moods, Meditations, and Memories. Stamford, Texas [& Arlington: Berachah Press for] Chas. E. Coombes, [1939]. 38 [2] pp. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. A few stains on lower wrapper, otherwise fine. First edition. Herd 577: “Scarce.... Has a chapter on the Texas cowboy.” The author declares that “the Texas Cowboy is the most unique character in all history and as different from others as if an inhabitant of another world.” Among those designated as true Texas cowboys are Larry Chittenden, Will Rogers, Walt Cousins, David Guion, Charles Russell, Will James, and J. Frank “Doby” (one shudders to think what Pancho would have to say about that misspelling). In only two pages, the author manages to capture in purple prose every stereotype about the mystique of Texas cowboy. $35.00

1158. COOMBES, Charles E. The Prairie Dog Lawyer. Dallas: Texas Folklore Society & University Press, 1945. xv [1] 286 [1] pp. 8vo, original blue cloth. Light foxing to fore- Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) edges, one spot on lower fore-edge, endpapers slightly browned, otherwise fine in lightly foxed d.j. First edition. Dobie, p. 68: “Experiences and anecdotes by a lawyer better read in rough-and-ready humanity than in law.” Herd 578. The northwest Texas lawyer started out as a cowpuncher in the 1890s. Introduction by Amon Carter. $65.00

1159. COOPER, J[oe]. E. With or without Beans: Being a Compendium to Perpetuate the Internationally-Famous Bowl of Chile (Texas Style) Which Occupies Such an Important Place in Modern Civilization.... Dallas: William S. Henson, 1952. 247 [1] pp., text illustrations (cartoons), illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original grey cloth with illustration of devil reading a book while stirring a steaming caldron of chili over a flaming fire. Very fine in very fine d.j. (with cover illustration repeated on background of red and white checks). Laid in is a mint copy of the illustrated publicity brochure for the book. First edition. An informal biography of chili, mostly history, lore, humor, and comments about chili from statesmen, journalists, ranchers, authors (including J. Frank Dobie), and humorists, with a few recipes. Doyle L. West, then co-owner and manager of Wolf Brand, Inc., states that “Chili is not a Mexican food,” suggesting instead that “the chili we now know originated among the cowboys, whose cooks had been preparing for them their own indigenous brand of Irish stew.... A cook ran out of black pepper [and] searching for a substitute, he was offered some red pepper by the Mexicans, or Indians, of the region now known as Southwest Texas.” The author declares in the preface: “In Texas four things temporal are held inviolate—woman, states’ rights, a cattle brand, and chili.” We would have to take exception to at least one of those. $75.00

1160. [COOPER, JOE E.]. The Hottest Book of the Year.... [Dallas: William S. Henson, 1952]. Publicity brochure. 1 folio sheet, illustrated, folded to brochure size. Very fine. Chiliana ephemera. Publicity brochure for With or without Beans. Includes an insert with reprints of six newspaper articles reviewing the book (1 folio sheet, folded to brochure size, printed in brown on one side, very fine). $5.00

1161. COPELAND, Fayette. Kendall of the “Picayune”: Being His Adventures in New Orleans, on the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, in the Mexican War, and in the Colonization of the Texas Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1943. [12] 351 [2] pp., plates (including the Kendall Post Oak Spring Ranch), folding facsimile of the first issue of the Picayune. 8vo, original brown cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine, with Carl Hertzog bookplate. Related newspaper clippings and magazine article laid in. First edition of the best biography of the first modern war correspondent and the father of the sheep industry in Texas. Basic Texas Books 116n. Rittenhouse 134. Tate, Indians of Texas 2032. The chapter entitled “Gentleman Rancher” describes Kendall’s sheep ranch. Handbook of Texas Online: George Wilkins Kendall: “In the 1850s Kendall played a major role in promoting the sheep business in Texas. In 1852 he and three friends purchased and placed twenty-four Spanish merino rams and a flock of chaurro ewes on a ranch on the Nueces River.... Within a year Kendall moved the flock to the Waco Springs Ranch, near New Braunfels, and acquired the Post Oak Springs pasture, near Boerne. He battled blizzards, grass fires, and disease until 1856, when he began making a profit. The flock doubled to 3,500 animals within two years.... Kendall promoted the Texas sheep business in every way.... At his death on October 21, 1867, Kendall generally was regarded as the father of the sheep business in Texas.” $50.00

1162. CORDIER, A. H. Some Big Game Hunts. Kansas City, Missouri: [Union Bank Note Company], 1911. 317 [1] pp., frontispiece, photographic text illustrations. 12mo, original pale green pictorial cloth. Lower hinge cracked, endpapers browned and stained, first signature loose, title with light marginal browning and staining, a good to very good copy, with two old printed catalogue slips pasted to front free endpaper. First edition. Eberstadt 121:388. The Kansas City physician-hunter’s quest for game includes an account of javalina hunting on the Callaghan Ranch, located between Laredo and San Antonio and made famous beyond Texas in the tales of O. Henry. Cordier gives a good description of the Callaghan Ranch, and a few details on the nearby Coleman Ranch, including: “Ford’s ranch is composed of one hundred and fifty thousand acres all under a four wired, barbed fence... [The Coleman Ranch] has under wire about nine hundred miles of fence enclosing five hundred thousand acres of Southwestern Texas grazing land.... Ford...is one of the pioneer cattle men of the Southwest. His stories of early hardships, Indian scares and cattle roundups are very interesting, and would make a most readable book.... Of all my hunting trips, this one to the Callahan (sic) and Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Coleman ranches was the most comfortable and enjoyable” (pp. 287-302). Cordier regales the reader with other hunts, including the following in North America: Colorado (deer and bear, 1888), Wyoming (elk, deer, bear, and mountain sheep on difficult mountain trails, 1905), New Brunswick (moose and caribou, 1900), British Columbia and Alaska (mountain sheep, goat, and bear, 1907), etc. Most interesting is Cordier’s trip to the No Man’s Land of southwest Kansas, where he hunted antelope and buffalo in 1883. His party heard from some cowboys that a buffalo herd was in the vicinity, but despite their searches, initially they could not find the herd. After the author left, the remaining hunters eventually discovered the herd by a waterhole and surrounded it, killing all seventeen of the buffalo. Cordier expresses keen disappointment that he missed being part of “the last successful buffalo hunt of the whole Southwest.” He describes the kill as “ruthless slaughter” but goes on to say: “It only hastened the inevitable.... This same broad expanse of prairie at the present time has a farm on every quarter section of tillable land. The buffalo and the Indian, the original inhabitants, have been corralled and put on reservations or in side-shows, where the curious can see them at so much a ticket. After all, I presume that the white settlers with their vast fields of grain, millions of domesticated animals and little white school houses are making better use of the country and prove to be far better and more desirable citizens than the Indian and the buffalo” (pp. 34-35). $450.00

1163. CORLE, Edwin. The Gila: River of the Southwest. New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, [1951]. [14] 402 pp., decorated title and text illustrations (some double-page) by Ross Santee. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. with illustration by Santee. First edition. Farquhar, The Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 31: “A good summary of miscellaneous activities in the Gila basin from two hundred million years ago to the present time.” Guns 495. Herd 583. Wallace, Arizona History I:14. Corle includes a section on ranching enterprises and cowboys of the Gila, in which he comments: “The industry that followed mining and became as essential to the economy of the Gila Valley as its predecessor was stock raising. And with the cattle ranch came the great American figure popular in ‘horse operas’ from generation until generation, with possibly Hopalong Cassidy as the quintessential example—the cowboy” (p. 361). $75.00

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1164. CORLE, Edwin. The Royal Highway (El Camino Real). Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [1949]. [2] 351 pp., plates (mostly photographic), maps, endpaper maps decorated with cattle brands. 8vo, original red cloth. Binding slightly worn and mildly stained, internally fine. First edition, limited “Mission Bell Edition,” signed by author. Guns 497. Rocq 16784: “Past events are located in terms of present landmarks.” Weber, The California Missions, p. 21: “A lively and popular book about the roadway extending northward from Peninsular California to Sonoma.” Includes ranches and ranching activities along the Camino Real. $30.00

1165. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar: A Guide and History. San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. vi [2] 166 [26, ads (some illustrated)] pp., plates (many photographs and plans), front endpaper with photographic illustration of the Menger Hotel, back endpaper with map of central San Antonio. Large 8vo, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, beveled edges. A trace of outer wear, otherwise exceptionally fine and bright, in the deluxe binding, with extra gilt and beveled edges. First edition. Agatha, p. 71: “Today a rare item for the book collector because of the historical sketch by Sidney Lanier.” Bradford 1076. CBC 312. Graff 878. Guns 498. Howes C778. Raines, p. 55: “A mass of authentic information...the best which has yet appeared relative to San Antonio.... The maps and ground plans of old San Antonio, the Alamo, and the four missions were especially made for this work, and constitute the only permanent record of the original lines of this interesting town and its mission establishments.” Schoelwer, Alamo Images, p. 190. Contains extracts from the memoirs of Mary A. Maverick (see Herd 1460), illustrated plate of sketches of ranch life, section on the resources of West Texas with statistics on livestock and touting the region as excellent for grazing, description of San Antonio stockyards, etc. $175.00

1166. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 4to, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, beveled edges. Moderate cover wear, contemporary pencil gift inscription on blank preliminary leaf, interior very fine— overall very good to near fine, in the deluxe binding, with extra gilt and beveled edges. $150.00

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1167. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 4to, original gilt-decorated turquoise cloth. Light shelf wear, some spotting and discoloration to covers, interior fine. $150.00

1168. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 4to, original gilt-decorated red cloth. Slight shelf wear, covers lightly soiled, contemporary gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. $125.00

1169. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. 4to, original olive cloth. Light shelf wear, pencil inscriptions on title page, a few pencil inscriptions to blank margins, otherwise fine. $125.00

1170. CORNETT, Frank M. Recollections of a Pioneer Cowboy (A True Story). Simi: Simi for Service, 1962. [4] 31 [13] pp., text illustrations (photographic). 8vo, original stiff brown pictorial wrappers, spiral bound. Lower edge of first few leaves foxed, otherwise fine, with pencil notations by J. Frank Dobie, and his initialed comment: “Not much, but not pretending to be otherwise.” First edition. Rocq S2419. Interesting reminiscences of old-time cattle trading, with many good photos of the cattle trade in California at the turn of the century. $125.00

1171. CORNING, Leavitt. Baronial Forts of the Big Bend: Ben Leaton, Milton Faver, and Their Private Forts in Presidio County. [Austin]: Trinity University Press, 1967. xv [1] 146 pp., title and text illustrations by Leavitt Corning, Jr., plates (photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo, original terracotta cloth over yellow cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Carl Hertzog bookplate. Related newspaper clippings laid in. First edition. History of the Big Bend area in the mid-1800s, focusing on two of the early personalities. Ben Leaton, the “noble desperado,” lived a controversial life at his fortress, El Fortin and was law unto himself. Of greater ranching interest is Milton Faver, who owned three large ranches: Big Springs Cibolo, Cienega, and La Morita. Two of Faver’s ranches that were forted and manned with soldiers were used by locals as a refuge from Native American attacks. In addition to ranching, Faver freighted, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) farmed, and traded, accruing great wealth that he used to become a cattle king. $40.00

1172. CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES. Corpus Christi: A History and Guide.... [Corpus Christi]: Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 1942. [2] viii, 245 [1] pp., numerous photographic text illustrations, decorated chapter headings and tail pieces, endpaper maps. 8vo, original turquoise cloth. Back cover lightly spotted, otherwise very fine in fine d.j. The pictorial d.j. is seldom found with the book. First edition. This book was part of the American Guide Series, prepared by the Works Project Administration in Texas and sponsored by the Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce. CBC 3505. The guide was the basis for a 1952 history of Corpus listed by Herd (584), but the present work is not in Herd. A chapter is devoted to the history of stockraising in the area, including the King Ranch. There is also a chapter on Henry Lawrence Kinney (1814-1862), founder of Corpus Christi, who engaged in ranching and trading beginning in 1841. Kinney’s practice of buying out small ranchers and traders in the area created considerable opposition. $100.00

1173. CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES. Corpus Christi 100 Years. [Corpus Christi]: The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 1952. 148 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Minor outer wear and a few light stains, interior fine. First edition. Herd 584: “Contains a chapter on the King Ranch and its cattle.” $30.00

1174. [CORY, V. L. & Parks, H. B.]. Catalogue of the Flora of Texas. College Station: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1937. 130 pp., map. 8vo, original printed self- wrappers, stapled. Wrappers detached from text, tape repairs to spine and one tear at top of wrap, first few leaves foxed. First printing. An attempt to catalogue the plant life in Texas and standardize names. Of prime consideration is “the relationship of plant life to the other factors which taken together permit animal life to exist.” Surely the animal life of primary importance to the agricultural college was livestock in its various forms. $35.00

1175. COSSLEY-BATT, Jill L. The Last of the California Rangers. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1928. xix [1] 299 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, facsimiles, endpaper illustrations after Nahl’s painting “Sunday in the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

California Diggings.” 8vo, original blue cloth gilt. Very fine and bright in lightly worn d.j. (with illustration of Murieta falling off his horse when captured). First edition. Cowan, p. 144. Guns 499: “Scarce.... Continues to rehash Ridge’s account of Murieta” (see Zamorano 80 #64). Rocq 15762. Biography of William James Howard (ca. 1829-1924), the last surviving member of the California Rangers. Includes information and photograph of his wife, who had difficulty adjusting to living on the isolated Howard Ranch, close to the mining camps and nine miles from any other woman. Isabelle eased her unrest by attending Spanish fandangos, riding about the countryside, and hunting. “At 24 Howard, who owned a ranch twenty miles west of Mariposa, California, joined Harry Love in the California Rangers in an attempt to extirpate banditry in central California, his ranch to be headquarters. Howard helped Love recruit the twenty men considered necessary and accompanied the posse on its long circuitous search for the bandit Joaquin, also known as Murieta, and his principal lieutenant, Three Fingered Jack. The pair were run down and killed July 25, 1853, on Cantua Creek, near present Coalinga, California” (Thrapp II, pp. 684-85). There is also some Texas interest: William James Howard came to the Republic of Texas with his family in 1843 and lived at Laffite’s Fort on Galveston Island. Includes an interesting story about Sam Houston and a photographic plate of the Alamo. $175.00

1176. COSTIGAN, Edward P. Papers of Edward P. Costigan Relating to the Progressive Movement in Colorado, 1902- 1917. Edited by Colin B. Goodykoontz. Boulder: University of Colorado, 1941. xiv, 379 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in very good d.j. (lightly chipped). First edition. University of Colorado Historical Collections 4, Political Series 1. Wilcox, p. 34. Wynar 7718. Includes information on cattle grazing on public lands; suggests streamlined legislation to allow stockraisers and farmers to more easily market their products; discusses the necessity for a law to protect farmer’s crops from destruction by large herds of cattle; promotes protecting agricultural and livestock interests in Colorado (“realizing these allied industries are the foundation of our permanent prosperity”); etc. The pro-and- con debate on stockraisers paying a fee per head for grazing cattle on Forest Reserves includes this observation by a delegate from the Colorado Stock Growers’ Association: “I am in favor of this resolution.... I want to tell Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) you...what the Forest Reserves are doing for my little county, Hinsdale County, up here in the mountains. We graze during the summer more sheep and more cattle and horses than any other single county in the Rocky Mountain region.” $35.00

1177. COSTIGAN, Edward P. Papers of Edward P. Costigan.... Boulder: University of Colorado, 1941. Another copy. Spine and portions of covers faded, otherwise fine. Dust jacket not present. $30.00

1178. COSULICH, Bernice. Tucson. Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, [1953]. xvii [1] 310 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (illustrations by Bruce Marshall), endpaper maps. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 390. Wallace, Arizona History IX:24. History of Tucson with discussion of ranching activities over the centuries, beginning with Father Kino, founder of the cattle industry in the Southwest. The chapter on the bloodless conquest of Tucson includes an account the “Battle of the Bulls” (see item 1140 herein). $45.00

1179. COTTEN, Kathryn. Saga of Scurry. San Antonio: Naylor, [1957]. vii [1] 165 pp., plates. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise fine in lightly foxed d.j. First edition. CBC 4028. Herd 586: “History of various ranches of Scurry County, Texas.” $35.00

1180. COTTLE, H. J. “Studies in the Vegetation of Southwestern Texas” from Ecology 12:1 (January 1931). Extract containing pp. 105-155, photographs, tables, graphs. 8vo, original plain white wrappers, stapled. A few stains to wrappers, otherwise fine, with clipping about Texas bird life laid in. First separate issue. Scientific study of the grasslands of southwestern Texas, with particular emphasis on the effects of grazing (and overgrazing). $30.00

1181. COUNSELOR, Jim & Ann Counselor. Wild, Woolly, and Wonderful. New York: Vantage Press, [1954]. vi [2] 392 pp. 8vo, original green cloth. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine in chipped d.j. with sunned spine. First edition. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 6 (“Collecting Modern Western Americana”): “About ranching in another part of New Mexico, the Navajo country, where they Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) combined sheep raising with keeping a trading post.” $50.00

1182. COURSEY, O. W. Beautiful Black Hills: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Black Hills of South Dakota.... Mitchell, South Dakota: Educator Supply Company, 1926. 265 [3, ads] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic, including Annie Tallent, the first Anglo woman in the Black Hills). 12mo, original red cloth. Slight shelf wear, endpapers lightly browned, a few short tears to blank margins, and one text leaf wrinkled, overall very good. First edition. Guns 500: “Chapters on Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.” Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 225. The author draws on several pioneer accounts of the Black Hills, including Maguire’s The Coming Empire (Herd 1428), Tallent’s The Black Hills (Herd 2232), and Brown and Willard’s Black Hill Trails (Herd 342). The author adds subsequent history and outlines features and scenic wonders of the Black Hills region. There is scattered ranching interest in the volume, including an account of the Maxwell Fight (1877). The Maxwell family was driving their cattle and belongings from Miles City to the proximity of the Stanley military road in order to establish and develop a large ranch. Their cattle were rustled by Sioux and Nez Perces, followed by an attempt to murder the Maxwells and their party. Maxwell and his four men quickly threw together an improvised fort and held off the war party during three days of intense onslaught. The war party left on noon of the third day because they were out of ammunition. $65.00

1183. COURSEY, O. W. Pioneering in Dakota. Mitchell, South Dakota: Educator Supply Company, [1937]. 160 pp., frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (many photographic, several full-page). 12mo, original brown textured cloth. Fine. Author’s signed presentation copy to Elsie Snow-Hanson dated December 30, 1938. First edition. Home-spun pioneer recollections, with much on women and social history. Included is a chapter on “A Pioneer Fourth-of-July” in which the local cowboys come in from the range to dance, “each with a buxom pioneer girl on his arm.” In the chapter on “Our Loyal Animals” Coursey recalls “Old Watch” the faithful shepherd dog who was invaluable in tending and herding the cattle and “Old Jim” the cow pony (a Mexican mustang who was “A Dr. Jekyll and a Mr. Hyde,” and “a regular man eater and a woman hater”). $45.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1184. COURSEY, O. W. Wild Bill (James Butler Hickok). Mitchell: Educator Supply Company, [1924]. 80 pp., photographic text illustrations. 16mo, original red cloth. Slight shelf wear, cloth buckled in dime-size area on upper cover, otherwise fine. First book edition (first printed as an article in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader). Adams, One-Fifty 35: “The author tames down the McCanles-Hickok affair somewhat. While some writers have claimed the fight was the result of McCanles’s horse stealing and others have stated that he was trying to collect a debt, this author says the trouble started over the woman Kate Shull. But he makes quite a to-do over the marvelous shooting of his hero: ‘Wild Bill was a sure shot. He never missed! He could shoot backward and forward at the same time; and he is undoubtedly one of the few men who ever lived that could.’” Guns 501: “Scarce.... Only a few of these little books were printed.” Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 109. $200.00

1185. COUTANT, C. G. History of Wyoming from the Earliest Known Discoveries. In Three Volumes. Volume I [all published]. Laramie: Chaplin, Spafford & Mathison, Printers, 1899. xxiv [17]-712 pp., frontispiece portrait of author, 76 illustrations (including map with color outlining) on 27 half-tone plates (photographic, from vintage prints, and after the work of Wyoming artist M. D. Houghton). Thick 8vo, original three-quarter dark brown morocco over dark brown cloth, gilt seal on upper cover. Very fine. First edition. Flake 2543: “Mormons in Wyoming; Mormon trail; Mormon colonization.” Graff 889: “Only the first volume was published.” Howes C810 (erroneously calling for 76 plates). Jones 1683. Malone, Wyomingana, p. 3. An important aspect of this book is the many illustrations of the original art work of Merrill Dana Houghton (1846-1918), “Wyoming sketch artist in watercolor and pen and ink of landscapes, mines, and ranches.... His drawings and maps are important historical records” (Samuels, Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, p. 238 & plate 146). This history ranges from early exploration to the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, which does not include the hey-day of ranching in Wyoming. However, there is much fugitive information on the earliest activities in the area relating to livestock and ranching. A chapter is devoted to Mormon pioneers, some of whom remained in Wyoming, becoming early stockraisers. Coutant documents some of the early ranches that were used by the military as headquarters or Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) bivouacs during the many engagements with tribesmen and discusses the constant depredations of stock on the Bozeman Trail. As time passed and more Anglos came into Wyoming, the identity of the rustlers became somewhat murky: “It sometimes became a nice question to determine whether a robbery had been committed by Indians or white outlaws, as their methods in most cases were alike. During the month of September the beef herd at Fort Fred. Steele...was run off and while an effort was made to recapture them, not a hoof was recovered.” Among the pioneer biographies are stockraisers: Captain Henry E. Palmer, with information on his participation in the Grinnell Live Stock Company; W. P. Noble, a South Pass miner who afterward was a prominent stockraiser in Fremont County; F. G. Burnett, who in addition to his own ranching activities served as “head farmer” on the Shoshone Reservation teaching agriculture and stockraising; John M. Hornecker, who turned to stockraising to supply mining camps; John Hunton, who arrived at Fort Laramie in 1867, clerked for the sutler, and in 1882 established his own ranch on the Chugwater (“this ranch became one of the best of the territory”). Coutant interviewed many of the early pioneers and old mountain men and includes their recollections. $375.00

1186. COUTANT, C. G. History of Wyoming from the Earliest Known Discoveries.... Laramie: Chaplin, Spafford & Mathison, Printers, 1899. Another copy, in original binding. Light outer wear, rubbed along joints, grey paper pasted over original endpapers at an early date, occasional short tears to blank margins and a few old tape repairs, generally a very good copy, with interesting provenance. Preliminary blank with contemporary ink presentation to H. W. Zeemen. Ink ownership stamp and pencil notation of Grace Raymond Hebard (occasional additions and corrections in Hebard’s hand). Later ownership inscription of Agnes Wright Spring. Related newsclipping pasted to front endpaper. The 1941 index is included with this copy. First edition. A first-rate copy regarding provenance, having been owned by two fine Wyoming historians: Agnes Wright Spring, noted librarian and historian of Colorado and Wyoming (inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and recipient of many other honors); and Grace Raymond Hebard, Wyoming feminist writer, librarian, self-taught historian, and educator. The pasted-in newsclipping gives the difficult history of the publication of the present work, the only published volume of Coutant’s projected three-volume history of Wyoming. The Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First National Bank of Laramie underwrote the cost of publication, and lost money on the project, making publication of subsequent volumes difficult. Grace Raymond Hebard purchased from Coutant’s widow the unpublished manuscript and research materials for Coutant’s second volume, used it for her own research, and later sold it to the Historical Department of the State of Wyoming. In 1940 Coutant’s second volume began publication as Annals of Wyoming. Also included is the W.P.A. Index to History of Wyoming by C. G. Coutant (Cheyenne: Wyoming State Library, 1941. 45 leaves. 12mo, green mimeographed wrappers, spine stapled and taped. Wrappers chipped. Agnes W. Spring penciled on cover. First printing. Graff 890. Howes C810.) $350.00

1187. COUTS, Cave Johnson. Hepah, California! The Journal of Cave Johnson Couts from Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los Angeles, California during the Years 1848-1849. Tucson: [Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy for] Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society, 1961. [4] 113 [10, index] pp., frontispiece portrait, 9 maps (1 foldout), 4 illustrations after sketches by Samuel E. Chamberlain. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine, mostly unopened. First edition, limited edition (750 copies). Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 59-60. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 393. Rocq 16232. Thrapp IV, pp. 116-17: “Best summary of the march.” Couts (1821-1874) accompanied the Graham expedition from Monterrey, Mexico, to Los Angeles (1848- 1849), and his penetrating insights, sharp tongue, and youthful exuberance provide quite a different perspective than that found in the official accounts. Couts mentions various ranches along the route, including Warner’s Ranch “San Jose is owned by one Warner, a white man, famed for his ability in telling lies, but not surpassed even in this by his notoriety as a rascal. He, Warner, stole my stallion as the horses passed. Luckily for him that it was not known to us until we had left him” (p. 91). Couts preferred the owner of the next ranch (Ojo Caliente), “a fine old Indian, Captain Antonio” (a Northern Diegueño whose claim to his ranch Warner would subsequently preempt). Couts later became a rancher in San Diego County when he married Ysidora Bandini, who was given the square-league Rancho Guajome as a wedding present by her brother-in-law Abel Stearns. Couts made a very successful ranch from what had been a wasteland, with extensive herds of cattle, horses, sheep, and mules. As we see in the present work, Couts was already attuned to livestock, placing a high value on them and frequently, as a good cavalryman, expressing disgust at Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) their mistreatment. (From 1856 Couts frequently held the office of “judge of the plains,” regulating and overseeing livestock matters). $85.00

1188. COWAN, Bud [Robert Ellsworth Cowan]. Range Rider. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1930. x [2] 289 pp., 7 sepia-tone plates by Ross Santee (including frontispiece; one plate illustrates brands). 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in very good clipped d.j. (illustrated by Santee). Bookplate of Claude L. Peterson, with his engraved portrait. First edition. Introduction by B. M. Bower. Campbell, p. 85: “Recollections of a musical cowboy, of his experiences in Montana, Texas, etc. Readable.” Dobie, p. 97. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Santee 36). Guns 503: “A chapter on the Hole-in-the-Wall and its bunch of outlaws.” Herd 588. Wynar 6404. Chapters on “The Trek North,” “Trail Work,” “Rustling Trouble,” and “Round-up Technique.” $75.00

1189. COWAN, Bud [Robert Ellsworth Cowan]. Range Rider. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1930. Another copy. Moderate outer wear and soiling, upper joint with one small puncture, spine faded, front hinge cracked. Dust jacket not present. $25.00

1190. COWAN, Robert E. A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, 1510-1906. Columbus: Long’s College Book Company, 1952. xxxvii [3] 279 [3] [62, index]. 4to, original salmon cloth. Very fine. New edition, with introduction by Henry R. Wagner, and additional notes by Robert G. Cowan. The original edition was published by the Book Club of California in 1914. Cowan, p. 146. Zamorano 80 #23n. A useful research tool with good leads into the history of ranching and the cattle trade. $75.00

1191. COWLING, Mary Jo. Geography of Denton County. Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Company, 1936. xii, 132 pp., plates, including one of cattle brands, text illustrations, maps, tables. 8vo, original red cloth. Top edge lightly foxed, otherwise very fine. First edition. Adams, Burs I:96. CBC 1333. Guns 504: “Condensed account of the highlights in the life of Sam Bass.” Herd 592. Designed to be used by teachers of Denton County history, with much on ranching and ranchers: cattle baron John Chisum, Burk Burnett (whose famous “6666” brand was adopted in honor of a lucky poker hand which won him a Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) ranch and herd of cattle); Luther Clark (the last surviving cowman from the first organizational meeting of the Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association in 1876), Crow Wright (said to have had the largest ranch of horses in the Southwest), etc. $175.00

1192. COX, Edwin T. History of Eastland County, Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, [1950]. xii, 95 pp., photographic plates. 12mo, original blue cloth. Very fine in very good d.j. First edition. CBC 1461. The chapter “Occupations of Eastland County” includes a discussion of early ranchers and ranching. There is also a section on goats and sheep. $50.00

1193. [COX, James]. Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas and Adjacent Territory. St. Louis, Missouri: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., 1895. 743 pp., color frontispiece, 16 photographic plates, numerous text illustrations (portraits, ranches, activities with cattle, etc., many photographic), tables. Folio, original brown pictorial morocco stamped in gilt and blind. Light wear to spinal extremities and joints beginning to crack, otherwise an exceptionally well- preserved, complete copy, in slipcase. Difficult to find in this condition. First edition. Basic Texas Books 34: “This compendium on Texas cattle and cattlemen is also one of the rarest Texas books.... Nearly 400 pages are devoted to biographies of some 449 Texas cattlemen, and these sketches are a gold mine for research into the cowboys.... The other half of the volume...provides one of the two or three best contemporary accounts of the history of the Texas cattle trade.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 23. Dobie, p. 100: “In 1928 I traded a pair of store-bought boots to my uncle Neville Dobie for his copy of this book. A man would have to throw in a young Santa Gertrudis bull now to get a copy.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Kid 29; Western High Spots, p. 27 (“My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West”); p. 103 (“The Texas Ranch Today”). Graff 891. Herd 593: “Very rare.... One of the ‘big four’ cattle books. An important book on the history of the cattle industry, and no collector’s library would be complete without it. It is rarely found with the frontispiece, and since it is an unusually heavy book and the leather has deteriorated with age, its back strip is usually missing or in bad condition. It is said that the scarcity is due to the fact that nearly all the edition was lost in a warehouse fire.” Howes C820. King, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 15. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, pp. 9-10, 17: “Great source book for both history and biography.” One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 51. Rader 1891. Reese, Six Score 24: “One of the ‘big four’ cattle books, and after Freeman’s Prose and Poetry, the most important.... Vital and useful.” Saunders 2846. Vandale 44. The only thing we can add is that this is a superb source for women in the cattle country, with many biographies and portraits of the distaff side of the ranching world. $7,500.00

1194. COX, James. Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry.... New York: Antiquarian Press, 1959. [8] 293 [1] pp. + [16] 297-743 pp., color frontispiece, 16 photographic plates, text illustrations, tables. 2 vols., 4to, original dark brown leather (blindstamped with brands) over brown buckram, t.e.g. Very fine in publisher’s slipcase. Laid in is the original announcement for this edition. Second edition, limited edition (#223 of 550 copies), facsimile reprint with a new introduction by J. Frank Dobie—his Uncle Jim Dobie’s biography appears in the book. Basic Texas Books 34A. Dykes, Western High Spots, pp. 86-87 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “First reprint of [this] exceedingly rare book.” Herd 593n. McVicker B114. $400.00

1195. COX, James. My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People, with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends, and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young. Philadelphia: Blair Publishing Co., 1903. 400 pp., plates (many photographic, including frontispiece). 8vo, original blue cloth. Binding rubbed and worn, hinges cracked, front free endpaper absent. Reprint of the first edition (Philadelphia, 1895). Eberstadt 111:174. Flake 2564n. Herd 594n. Chapters on “The Mormons and Their Wives,” “The Invasion of Oklahoma,” “Wards of Our Native Land [Indians],” “Cowboys,” etc. $20.00

1196. COX, Mary L. History of Hale County, Texas. Plainview, Texas: [Privately published by the author], 1937. xi [1] 230 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 8vo, original orange cloth. Fore-edges lightly foxed, endpapers browned, otherwise fine in publisher’s original glassine d.j. (chipped). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. CBC 2140. Herd 595. The chapter on industrial and agricultural development includes a section on cattle. There are also several pioneer accounts of Slaughter’s Ranch, other ranching tales, and much on buffalo. $150.00

1197. COX, W. W. History of Seward County, Nebraska.... Lincoln: State Journal Company, Printers, 1888. 290 pp. 8vo, original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Light outer wear, some darkening at lower margin of upper cover, otherwise fine. First edition. County history with discussion of ranching enterprises in the late 1800s. The author first visited the Salt Creek area in 1861 and recalls many of the early settlers’ ranches and farms (Wilson’s Ranch at Wilson Creek, McKee’s Ranch on the Nemaha, Mr. Meecham “a weak- kneed Mormon who had fallen out by the way,” etc.). What drew the settlers to Salt Creek at that time was the possibility of finding salt, which was in short supply during the war. The author and his family joined these settlers in 1862. There follows a litany of Midwestern pioneer concerns and events—bitter winters, troubles with Native Americans, grasshoppers, dust storms, Fourth of July celebrations, poor crops, good crops, etc. Chapter 2 contains a section on stock breeding and feeding, in which the author rejoices that the myth of “The Great American Desert” has been shattered. $85.00

1198. COX, W. W. History of Seward County, Nebraska.... Lincoln: State Journal Company, Printers, 1888. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original gilt-lettered maroon cloth. Spinal extremities frayed, overall fine. $85.00

1199. COX, W. W. History of Seward County, Nebraska.... Lincoln: State Journal Company, Printers, 1888. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original gilt-lettered olive green cloth. Some outer wear and staining, but generally very good. $85.00

1200. COX, William R. Luke Short and His Era. Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. 214 pp. Small 8vo, original green cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges and endpapers, otherwise fine in very good d.j. First edition. Adams, Burs I:97. Guns 505: “Contains many errors of fact and some wrong dates.” Biography of a famous gambler, an important ally of the Earps in Tombstone, and a power in Fort Worth in his own right. Luke Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Short, like many icons of the old West, traded his career as a cowboy for that of a gambler and gunman. $75.00

1201. COY, Owen C. The Humboldt Bay Region, 1850-1875. Los Angeles: California State Historical Association, 1929. xiii [1] 346 pp., plates (including tipped-on photographic illustration of redwoods), maps (one foldout), text illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Light outer wear, ownership signature in pencil on front pastedown, generally very good to fine. First edition. Cowan, p. 145. Rocq 2034. Contains much information on ranching and stockmen. “The stock business developed rapidly during the later fifties, not only through natural increase but also on account of the large numbers of cattle driven into the region.... During the year 1857, many cattle were driven south from Oregon, although probably the larger number came over the trails from the Sacramento Valley or up the coast from Sonoma” (pp. 115-16). Stockraisers were forced to abandon many good grazing pastures in 1860-61 as a result of Native American hostilities, but the industry quickly recovered. In fact, it was during this period that the first cattle shipments were made by Captain Morgan to be sold in San Francisco. By 1866, large drives were being made to other parts of the state. Good material on sheepraising, also. $75.00

1202. COZZENS, Samuel Woodworth. The Marvellous Country; or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico. Boston: Lee and Shepherd Publishers, 1891. 548 [2, ads] pp., engraved pictorial half-title, title, numerous plates, text illustrations, map. Thick 8vo, original slate green pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, spine rubbed, hinges cracked, front free endpaper detached, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Father Stanley, with his taped typewritten label “New Mexico Collection” on front free endpaper. Reprint (first edition Boston, 1873). Bradford 1104n. Graff 898n. Howes C838n. Jones 1562n. Munk (Alliot), p. 57n. Rader 950n. Powell, Arizona Gathering II 396n. Saunders 2847n. Wallace, Arizona History 3. Ranching interest includes brief descriptions of ranches, Father Kino, several incidents of Apache stock rustling (including Capt. Ewell’s pursuit and recovery of a herd rustled from a ranchero, with illustration of Apache stampeding the herd; see chapters 14 & 15); statistics on stock rustling in the Rio Grande Valley by Navajos; Native American flocks and herds; the ever-changing Rio Grande and how it sometimes destroyed corrals and ranches; etc. Many of the excellent engravings, which run the gamut from droll to majestic, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) bear the engraved mark of John Andrew-Son. Englishman John Andrew (1815-1875) came to Boston some time prior to 1851 and became one of the leading engravers in the United States (see Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers II, pp. 40-41). Andrews skillfully captures the many faces of young Arizona; his images far outstrip the sensationalism of Cozzens’s book, which Bancroft described as “written to sell” (Thrapp I, p. 333). $65.00

1203. CRABB, Richard. Empire on the Platte. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, [1967]. x, 373 pp., illustrated title by Ernest L. Reedstrom, text illustrations (mainly photographic, some full-page). 8vo, original beige cloth over brown boards. Corners bumped, otherwise very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First edition. Guns 506: “One of the most nearly complete histories of the feud between the Olives and Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum, with some material on Doc Middleton, Jesse James, and Johnny Ringo.” Extensive information on range wars, cattle kings, and cowboys, all primary players in the early history of the region. $40.00

1204. CRAIG, John R. Ranching with Lords and Commons; or, Twenty Years on the Range, Being a Record of Actual Facts and Conditions Relating to the Cattle Industry of the North-West Territories of Canada, and Comprising the Extraordinary Story of the Formation and Career of a Great Cattle Company. Toronto: Briggs, [1903]. 293 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, upper hinge starting, otherwise fine. First edition. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 24. Dobie, pp. 100-101. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12. Graff 900. Herd 598: “Scarce.... The inside story of the great Oxley Ranch.” Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 17. Howes C842: “Financial skullduggery connected with the operation of a great cattle company in the Northwest.” One Hundred Head Cut Out of the Jeff Dykes Herd 70. Reese, Six Score 25: “Craig was an American who became manager of the Oxley Ranch in the province of Alberta during the 1880s.... A classic example of absentee ownership...and the subsequent mismanagement brought about by conflicts between Craig and the owners.” Streeter Sale 2390. $750.00

1205. CRAIG, Nute. Thrills, 1861-1887. [Oakland: N. N. Craig, n.d.]. [2] 62 pp., frontispiece portrait, plate, facsimile. 12mo, original maroon cloth. Very fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Guns 507: “Scarce.” In 1867 the author worked his way overland from Kansas to the West and landed in Wyoming. “In the spring of 1871 I found myself at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, a hummer of a town.... The town was built of partly lumber and the balance of tents. Lively business in all directions. Theaters full of pretty girls and gamblers. Liquor flowed like water. And in the gambling dens men were crowding over each other to get to the tables to throw their money away” (p. 22). Craig worked as a telegraph operator in Rawlins for Western Union in 1876. “The town was a real ‘frontier’ town, made up...of railroad men, ranch men, miners, gamblers, and a sprinkling of Indians, and ‘red lights’” (pp. 24-25). Craig met Thomas Edison in 1876 when Edison visited Rawlins to take observations of an eclipse. In 1884 Craig was elected Sheriff of Laramie County, Wyoming Territory, and there is a chapter on his 1885 capture of “The King of Horse Thieves” at Brown’s Hole. $100.00

1206. CRAIG, Reginald S. The Fighting Parson: The Biography of Colonel John M. Chivington. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1959. 284 [1, ad] pp., plates (mostly photographic), title and text illustrations by Don Louis Perceval, maps, endpaper decorations. 8vo, original burgundy cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. (clipped). Signed by author on half-title. First edition. Great West and Indian Series 17. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Perceval 61). Wynar 474. Though primarily concerned with the life of Col. John M. Chivington and his role in the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass and the Sand Creek massacre, there is passing mention of Kolosky’s Ranch, Johnson’s Ranch, and Pigeon’s Ranch, over and through which the Battle of Glorieta Pass took place. $60.00

1207. CRAMPTON, Frank A. Legend of John Lamoigne and Song of the Desert-Rats. Denver: Sage Books, [1956]. 32 pp., photographic text illustrations, map. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Very fine. Ownership inscription on half- title. First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 61. Rocq 2295. Has good information on the Furnace Creek Ranch of Death Valley. $35.00

1208. CRAMPTON, Frank A. Legend of John Lamoigne and Song of the Desert-Rats. Denver: Sage Books, [1956]. Another copy, variant subtitle on wrapper (printed in red below the Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) title is: The Story of Death Valley’s Greatest Prospector). Very fine. $35.00

1209. CRANE, Leo. Desert Drums: The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1540-1928. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. x [2] 393 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, foldout map. 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine and fresh, in an attractive binding. First edition. Campbell, pp. 113, 247. Laird, Hopi 491. Saunders 1520. Discusses statutes relating to those who trespass with livestock on Pueblo lands (one dollar per head); strict land use laws due to sparse grazing only in good seasons; irrigation; litigation relating to stockraisers grazing on Pueblo lands without permits; migration of some tribe members away from the original site in order to improve grazing; etc. $85.00

1210. CRANE, Leo. Indians of the Enchanted Desert. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. x, 364 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, folding map. 8vo, original black pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. Bookplate of Ruth Harter, and colored postcard of “The Mesa and Old Walpi” addressed to Harter and dated at Santa Fe. First edition. Laird, Hopi 494: “Crane worked among the Hopi and Navajo, and his accounts are, if nothing else, firsthand. He is sometimes bitingly satirical and viscously humorous; he is always prejudiced. The illustrations are generally excellent, and the details of Hopi life and customs are usually clear but not ethnographic in the scientific sense. He relates many historical incidents, describes Hopi life and comments at length on problems between the U.S. Government and traditional Hopi.” Saunders 2127: “Generalized account of everyday life of Southwestern desert Indians. Mostly concerned with Arizona, but contains some material on Navajos which is applicable to New Mexico.” There is peripheral information on Navajo sheepraising. $65.00

1211. CRANFILL, J. B. & J. L. Walker. R. C. Buckner’s Life of Faith and Works: Comprising the Story of the Career of the Preacher, Editor, Presiding Officer, Philanthropist, and Founder of Buckner Orphans’ Home. Dallas: Buckner Orphans Home, 1915. xxi [1] 359 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, facsimiles. 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear and mild staining to binding, light foxing to fore-edges and a few leaves near frontispiece, good to very good copy. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Dobie, p. 109n: “Cranfill was a trail driver from a rough range before he became a Baptist preacher and publisher.” $40.00

1212. CRANFILL, J. B. & J. L. Walker. R. C. Buckner’s Life of Faith and Works.... Dallas: Buckner Orphans Home, 1916. xxi [1] 367 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, facsimiles. 8vo, original green cloth. Worn, spine faded, hinges cracked, lightly browned. Second edition, revised and enlarged. $25.00

1213. CRAVENS, Kathryn. Pursuit of Gentlemen. New York: Coward-McCann, [1951]. x, 307 pp., text illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original red cloth over tan boards. Slight shelf wear, small spot to edge of back cover, bookplate, otherwise fine in two worn dust jackets. Signed by author. First edition. Novel about the daughter of a ranching family in Phantom Hill, Texas, set in the mid-nineteenth century. $15.00

1214. CRAWFORD, [John Wallace] Jack. The Broncho Book: Being Buck-Jumps in Verse, Roped for Relief of the Author, the Divertisement of Tenderfeet, and the Joy of All Those Who Love God’s Great Out-of-Doors. East Aurora, [New York]: Roycrofters at their Book Ranch, 1908. 143 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait of author (sepia-tone etching). 12mo, original full flexible suede wrappers, white satin moiré pastedowns, t.e.g. Very fine. Autographed by author on half-title: “Jack Crawford, Capt. Jack.” First edition. Wallace, Arizona History XV:17. Range verse in a Western binding. Irishman Crawford (1847-1917) came to the U.S. in 1847 and fought in the Civil War. Crawford is thought to have arrived in the Black Hills shortly after the Custer Massacre. “He became chief of scouts for the Black Hills Rangers, an irregular organization. Crawford served as scout and messenger for Merritt and Crook in the 1876 Big Horn and Yellowstone expedition.... He seems always to have been fairly honest and reliable in [his] duties.... He established a ranch at San Marcial on the Rio Grande in New Mexico in 1886 and made that his headquarters for most of the remainder of his life, although he had a home in Brooklyn. By the late 1870s he had become well known as a composer and reciter of verses, winning the soubriquet of the ‘Poet Scout.’ His renown during his life was considerable. He was tall, thin, wore his hair and beard trimmed as did Buffalo Bill Cody. Crawford had a mixed reputation as a scout and ‘his verses, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) though popular in his day, can by no stretch of courtesy be called poetry’” (Thrapp I, pp. 338-39). $225.00

1215. CRAWFORD, [John Wallace] Jack. The Broncho Book: Being Buck-Jumps in Verse.... East Aurora, [New York]: Roycrofters at their Book Ranch, 1908. Another copy. Very fine. $175.00

1216. CRAWFORD, [John Wallace] Jack. Lariattes: A Book of Poems and Favorite Recitations. Sigourney, Iowa: William A. Bell, 1904. [3] 84 [6] pp., text illustrations (some full- page, mostly photographs of Crawford). 8vo, original brown pictorial wrappers. Wrappers chipped at spine and adjacent to staples, otherwise fine. First edition. The verse is preceded by John G. Scorer’s biography of Crawford, which includes a diatribe against some other Wild West shows: “When other scouts and would-be scouts sought to bolster up the questionable fame given them by the writers of fiction by posing as dashing Indian slayers and cut-throats in the area of the wild west show or on the stage in the vile blood-and-thunder border drama, Crawford quietly and modestly worked his way to the front in the higher field of literature and platform entertainment.... The better classes of people have become sickened of men who call attention to their prowess by the wild whoop of defiance and the crack of the blank cartridge charged six-shooter.... The attractiveness of the extravaganza is waning and has become uninteresting if not obnoxious.” At the end there is a is a section entitled “Broncho vs. Bicycle” with prose, poetry, and hilarious illustrations of a race between a bicycle (a “crooked tail affair”) and a bronco. $50.00

1217. CRAWFORD, [John Wallace] Jack. The Poet Scout: Being a Selection of Incidental and Illustrative Verses and Songs. San Francisco: H. Keller & Co., 1879. 208 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, plates, text illustrations (some full-page). 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Moderate outer wear, corners bumped, flyleaves chipped, otherwise fine. First edition. Campbell, pp. 44, 227: “Life sketch of Crawford, a prose article on Buffalo Bill’s Indians, poems on frontier and border.” Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 254: “Crawford was a scout, guide, and showman.... He writes of Custer, Wild Bill, California Joe, and of dying scouts and lonely log cabins in the Hills.” McCracken, 101, p. 23. “Crawford’s first book, named The Poet Scout, was published in 1879” (Thrapp I, pp. 338-39). Includes Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

“Farewell to Our Chief” (to W. F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody), “The Death of Custer,” “California Joe and the Girl Trapper: A Camp Fire Reminiscence,” “The Rangers Retreat,” etc. $150.00

1218. CRAWFORD, [John Wallace] Jack. The Poet Scout: A Book of Song and Story. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886. [2] 181 [7, ads] pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, plates, text illustrations (some full-page). Small 4to, original teal gilt-pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, some spotting to lower cover, generally fine, with related newspaper clipping laid in. Author’s signed presentation copy, “To his good old friend of yore—Sam Davis. Mar 17th 1886.” Second edition. $100.00

1219. CRAWFORD, [John Wallace] Jack. The Poet Scout: A Book of Song and Story. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886. Another copy, variant binding. 4to, original tan gilt-pictorial cloth. Signed by author on blank preliminary leaf: J. W. Crawford, Capt. Jack.” Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper (“Homer H. Allen, La Junta, Colorado”). Binding with mild to moderate wear and some staining on lower cover, internally fine. $85.00

1220. CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Badlands and Broncho Trails. Bismarck: Capital Book Company, [1922]. 114 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 12mo, original maroon cloth. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. First edition. Dobie, p. 101: “Catches the tune of the Badlands life.” Herd 604: “Scarce.” Tales of ranching in the Dakota Badlands in the early 1900s. $75.00

1221. CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Badlands and Broncho Trails. Bismark: Capital Book Co., [1926]. 99 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates. 12mo, original black cloth over orange boards, printed orange paper spine label. Foxing to fore- edges, endsheets, and adjacent to plates, overall very good in lightly worn d.j. Signed inscription by author. Second edition. $50.00

1222. CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Badlands and Bronco Trails. Bismarck: Capital Book Co., [1926]. Another copy. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine, without the d.j. $35.00

1223. CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Ranching Days in Dakota and Custer’s Black Hills Expedition of 1874. Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, 1950. 110 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) original green cloth. Very fine, in publisher’s plain brown d.j. First edition. Dobie, p. 101: “Good on horse-raising and the terrible winter of 1886-87.” Herd 606. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 45. Introduction by Usher L. Burdick. $100.00

1224. CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Rekindling Camp Fires: The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca). An Authentic Narrative of Sixty Years in the Old West As Indian Fighter, Gold Miner, Cowboy, Hunter, and Army Scout. Bismark: Capital Book Company, [1926]. [4] 324 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, map. 8vo, original three- quarter red morocco over red cloth. Cloth lightly dampstained, fore-edges foxed, otherwise fine and unopened in publisher’s slipcase. Author’s signed inscription to Harry and Helene Sickles, “...lovers of rare books, from the author... Sept. 6 1934.” First edition, limited edition (#81 of 100 signed copies). Adams, Burs II:98. Dobie, p. 101: “[Arnold] was a squaw man, scout, trapper, soldier, deserter, prospector, and actor in other occupations as well as cowboy. He had a fierce sense of justice that extended to Indians. His outlook was wider than that of the average ranch hand.” Flake 2577. Graff 912. Guns 509. Herd 607. Howes C872. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 95: “In 1875 Arnold was operating a road ranch between Cheyenne and Red Cloud Agency.” Luther, High Spots of Custer 40. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 17. Rader 959. Smith 2100. $450.00

1225. CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Rekindling Camp Fires: The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca).... Bismark: Capital Book Company, [1926]. [2] 324 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, map. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine, unopened, in d.j. First trade edition. $150.00

1226. CRAWFORD, Oswald. By Path and Trail. [Salt Lake City?]: The Press of the “Intermountain Catholic,” 1908. xi [3] 223 pp., plates (photographic). 8vo, original black cloth. Moderate shelf wear and spotting to covers, generally very good. Scarce. First edition. Two issues came out the same year, and it appears that the only difference is the name of the publisher. The other issue was printed at Chicago by the Chicago Newspaper Union. One record in OCLC suggests Salt Lake City as the place of publication for the present Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) issue. Not in Barrett, Baja California. Contains information on ranching in Baja California, with a photographic plate of “Half-blood Cowboys, Lower California.” Important study on the Yaqui, Tarahumara, Digger, Moqui, Papago, and other ethnic groups. $75.00

1227. CRAWFORD, Samuel J. Kansas in the Sixties. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. xvii [1] 441 pp., frontispiece portrait, 2 other portraits. 8vo, original black cloth. Fine. First edition. Campbell, p. 166: “Autobiographical in treatment.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2880: “Crawford includes his special report prepared for the commission that negotiated the Medicine Lodge Treaty.” Some of the border violence included rustling of livestock. $75.00

1228. CRAWFORD, Thomas Edgar. The West of the Texas Kid, 1881-1910: Recollections of Thomas Edgar Crawford, Cowboy, Gun Fighter, Rancher, Hunter, Miner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1962]. xviii, 202 [4] pp., illustrations by Eggenhofer. 12mo, original yellow boards. Fore-edges and endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine d.j. First edition (not a reprint, as are most of the Western Frontier Library). Volume 20 in Western Frontier Library, edited and with an introduction by Jeff Dykes. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer 61). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 62: “One of the most intimate records available concerning the day-by-day life in the old supply camp [Ballarat] during the peak of its activity.” Guns 510. $25.00

1229. CREER, Leland Hargrave. The Founding of an Empire: The Exploration and Colonization of Utah, 1776-1856. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, [1947]. xv [3] 454 pp. 8vo, original maroon buckram. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Includes a section on ranching enterprises in Utah in the mid-nineteenth century. $45.00

1230. CRICHTON, Kyle S. Law and Order, Ltd.: The Rousing Life of Elfego Baca of New Mexico. Santa Fe: New Mexico Publishing Corporation, 1928. viii, 219 pp., photoplates. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j. First edition, limited edition (375 copies, with limitation statement, “inscribed by Mr. Baca and the author,” but not signed and numbered). Adams, One-Fifty 36. Campbell, p. 71: “One of the most delightful autobiographies to come out of the Southwest, about a clever gunfighter engaged in hilarious and daring Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) adventures.... A fair portrait of a Spanish-American who was brave, kind-hearted, fair-minded, and gentle-mannered, admirably written. Straight New Mexico.” Guns 511: “Scarce.... First book devoted entirely to this noted gunman.... Much information about the now famous fight at Frisco, New Mexico, his association with Billy the Kid, and two chapters on Joel Fowler.” Howes C886. Saunders 2855. Has much on New Mexico range wars. $150.00

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1231. CRICHTON, Kyle S. Law and Order, Ltd.: The Rousing Life of Elfego Baca of New Mexico. Santa Fe: New Mexico Publishing Corp., 1928. viii, 219 pp., photoplates. 8vo, original brown cloth. Light shelf wear, hinges loose, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. Baca singed presentation copy to “Attorney Charles J. Mahoney. Work faithfully for 8 hours a day and don’t worry; then in time you may become judge and work 16 hours a day and have all the worry.” First trade edition. $300.00

1232. CRICHTON, Kyle S. Law and Order, Ltd.: The Rousing Life of Elfego Baca of New Mexico. Glorieta, New Mexico: The Rio Grande Press, 1970. [10] viii, 219 [8, index, ads] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine and bright. Photocopy tipped in. Reprint. $50.00

1233. CRIMMINS, M[artin] L[alory]. Texas Brands [wrapper title]. [San Antonio: Martin Lalory Crimmins, 1928]. [8] pp., cover illustration by Mary Bonner, brands. 12mo, original beige pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (1,000 copies). Herd 610: “Rare.” Mary (Polly) Bonner (1887-1935), Texas artist and printmaker, studied in Europe, joined the Woodstock art colony in upstate New York in 1922 (where she decided to devote the rest of her life to the art of etching), and apprenticed with École des Beaux-Arts-trained print maker Édouard Henri Léon in Paris. Bonner’s unusual and highly creative etchings and art work, inspired by ranch life in South Texas, are avidly sought by collectors. With this pamphlet is a sheet of printed brands on clay-coated paper (source unknown). $125.00

1234. CRISSEY, Forrest. Alexander Legge: 1866-1933.... Chicago: Alexander Legge Memorial Committee, 1936. xiv, 232 [2] pp., color frontispiece portrait, plates (photographic, Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) mostly portraits). 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine, unopened. Engraved card from the Alexander Legge Memorial Committee laid in. First edition. Herd 611: “Has a chapter on ranch life in Nebraska and ‘Big Sandy,’ Wyoming cowboy.” $35.00

1235. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Abiquiu Story [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 35 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. The present work mentions early sheepraising concerns as well as the very early ranching operation of Antonio Montoya, who received an encomienda in the region in the early 1700s. This history, and the many following, were written by Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola, a Catholic priest and teacher who used the pen name F. Stanley. Father Stanley wrote prolifically on all phases, aspects, and eras of New Mexico’s history, from Native Americans before the arrival of Coronado to the wild and woolly outlaw years of Billy the Kid, and on to modern rodeo. Thanks to Father Stanley and his lack of restraint in delving into historical minutiae, much fugitive local history of New Mexico has been preserved. “Father Stanley has produced a prodigious number of works on the Southwest, including a series of pamphlets on New Mexico towns.... Much that was buried has come to light through his researches” (Reese, Six Score 102n). Almost all of the following items are autographed by Stanley, who signed almost all of his books and pamphlets. There is a joke in the book world that the rare Stanley item would the one that is not autographed. $30.00

1236. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Acoma, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1963. 24 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Touches upon the sheepraising interests of the pueblo. $30.00

1237. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Alamogordo, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1963. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Mentions sheepherding and lists F. A. Brisco and J. C. Cravens as cattlemen of the region at the turn of the nineteenth century. $30.00

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1238. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Alma, New Mexico Story [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 18 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Guns 2091. Named for the new lease on life that ranchers gave this area of southwestern New Mexico in the late 1800s, Alma was a ranching community. James H. Cook guided some of the early “cattle barons” to the region, and later started the Stockman’s Association. Also mentions events at the WS, the SU, and the WH (White House) ranches. Ben Lilly, William H. Antrim (The Kid’s stepfather), and Butch Cassidy and his Hole In The Wall gang round out the story. $35.00

1239. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Antonchico, New Mexico Story [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 18 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Guns 2092: “Has some mention of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett.” Antonchico was “the center of an immense grazing area, many cowboys were attracted to the senoritas of the town” (pp. 13-14). $35.00

1240. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Arch, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1967. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions the breakup of larger ranches due to homestead laws and the coming of railroads, and notes ranches in the community— Boyd Ranch, John Hawks Ranch, and Hebe Steward Ranch. $30.00

1241. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Belen, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Has passing references to early sheepraising concerns in the area. $25.00

1242. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Bernalillo, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Touches briefly on various early ranching and sheepherding operations. $30.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1243. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Carlsbad, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1963. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Has brief mention of the ranchers that gave Carlsbad “a fighting chance.” $30.00

1244. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Chloride, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Mentions some of the tension between cattlemen and sheepmen over grazing rights. $30.00

1245. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Ciudad Santa Fe, Spanish Domination, 1610-1821. [Denver: The World Press, 1958]. ix [1] 412 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Well-researched work on the Spanish Colonial era, with good information and research value regarding early cattle and sheep enterprises in the region. $60.00

1246. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Civil War in New Mexico. [Denver: The World Press, 1960]. xiii [3] 508 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Light spotting to lower cover, otherwise fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Some of the Civil War battles in New Mexico were fought or launched from area ranches. $150.00

1247. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Clay Allison. Denver, 1956. xi [1] 236 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition. Guns 2093: “The most complete biography of this noted gunman to date, printed in a small edition, which was exhausted immediately after publication and hence was scarce from the beginning.” Stanley cuts through the mythology and presents the man behind the gun. After the Civil War, Allison headed west. He signed on with Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, helping to drive the first herd up the famous trail named after the two legendary Texas cattlemen. In 1870 he started a ranch of his own near Cimarron, New Mexico, where he became embroiled in range skirmishes against the notorious Santa Fe Ring. $300.00

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1248. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Clayton, New Mexico Story. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1960). 42 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2094: “Has material on Black Jack Ketchum and other Clayton outlaws.” Short history of Clayton, New Mexico, a town that got its start through ranching. $30.00

1249. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Clovis, New Mexico, Story. [Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1966]. [3] x [3] 358 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). A history of Clovis that touches upon various ranching enterprises in the region, including the XIT. $65.00

1250. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Colfax, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1967. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Gives credit to cattle ranching as one of the enterprises that got the area on its feet. $30.00

1251. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Colmor, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1967. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Passing mention given to the fact that the area is good ranching land and there are a few ranches around the now abandoned community. $25.00

1252. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Columbus, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1966. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Although without doubt the biggest thing to come to Columbus was the Pancho Villa raid of 1916, the community is rooted in ranching, and the author refers to local ranches such as the Palomas Land & Cattle Company, the P.O.L. Ranch, and the Stiles Ranch. $35.00

1253. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Dave Rudabaugh, Border Ruffian. [Denver: World Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Press, 1961]. viii, 200 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Signed by author. First edition. Guns 2095: “Only biography to date of this outlaw companion of Billy the Kid.” Like so many other famous and infamous men of the West, Dave Rudabaugh was a cowboy before abandoning that pursuit for more nefarious enterprises. $100.00

1254. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Dawson, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1961. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition. Named for Dawson’s Ranch, bought out of Maxwell’s Land Grant, the town quickly turned to mining as its major enterprise. $30.00

1255. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Dawson, New Mexico Tragedies. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). $30.00

1256. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Deming, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Lists prominent cattlemen at the turn of the nineteenth century and mentions problems with cattle rustlers. $30.00

1257. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Des Moines, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1965. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). The town was established in 1887 as a cattle stop on the Colorado & Southern Railroad. $30.00

1258. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Desperadoes of New Mexico. [Denver: World Press, 1953]. xv [1] 320 pp., photoplates. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#333 of 800 copies). Campbell, p. 69: “Interesting, readable, valuable.” Guns 2095: “Covers practically all the well-known outlaws of New Mexico. The author tells some things that do not appear in other books on the subject.” Outlawry in New Mexico was Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) often synonymous with range wars and cattle rustling. $125.00

1259. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Duke City: The Story of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1706-1956. [Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1963]. [6] xiii [1] 267 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in lightly chipped d.j. Author’s signed presentation inscription to Mrs. Oliver F. Jordan, with her Western- theme bookplate on front pastedown. First edition. Guns 2097: “A chapter entitled “The Law—Both Sides” deals with some of the outlaws and gunmen of Albuquerque, including Baca and Clay Allison.” Albuquerque is the center of a large area of sheepraising, and this is discussed by the author. Also has early newspaper history, including that of The New Mexico Stockman, and discusses livestock at the state fair. $65.00

1260. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Duke City: The Story of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1706-1956. [Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1963]. Another copy. Very fine in lightly chipped d.j. Signed by author. $60.00

1261. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Elida, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1966. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Before there was a town, there was ranching in Elida: “Chisum’s cowboys rode the range where houses now stand.” (p. 3). Also mentions prominent cattleman William P. Littlefield, and Dee Harkey, author of Mean As Hell. $30.00

1262. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Elizabethtown, New Mexico Story. Dumas, Texas, 1961. 19 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2098: “Has some mention of Clay Allison, Wall Henderson, and other gunmen of the period.” $30.00

1263. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Folsom, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition. Guns 2099: “Has some material on William Coe, the outlaw, and on Black Jack Ketchum.” The Folsom anthropological discovery was made by the foreman of the XYZ Ranch. Also mentions the bad blood between William Coe and Charles Goodnight. $30.00

1264. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Fort Bascom, Comanche-Kiowa Barrier. [Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1961]. [4] v [1] 224 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. Author’s signed presentation inscription to Mrs. R. A. Hulcie Sullivan. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2100: “Has material on Clay Allison, Chunk Colbert, Davy Crockett, Jim Courtwright, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Gyp, Joe, Jim, and Mannen Clements, Billy the Kid, and others.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2966: “Begins with a chapter on Kit Carson’s 1864 victory over the Comanches and Kiowas at Adobe Walls, then moves into the 1867-1868 campaigns on the Southern Plains, culminating in the Battle of the Washita.” Includes chapters on “Comancheros and Rustlers” and “The Bell Ranch.” $80.00

1265. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Fort Bascom, Comanche-Kiowa Barrier. [Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1961]. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. $75.00

1266. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Fort Conrad, New Mexico Story. Dumas, Texas, 1961. 19 pp. 8vo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. The fort was created in part to guard the remudas of the garrisons at El Paso, Dona Ana, and Socorro. $30.00

1267. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Fort Stanton. [Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1964]. [6] iv, 263 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2101: “History...from Civil War days to the present. There is much on the Lincoln County War and Billy the Kid.” $75.00

1268. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Fort Union, New Mexico. N.p. [1953]. xiii [1] 305 pp., photoplates. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) d.j. and slipcase. Author’s signed presentation inscription to Mrs. Troy Smith. Western-theme bookplate of Mrs. Oliver F. Jordan. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2102. Rittenhouse 533: “First book-length work on the history of Fort Union.” Tate, Indians of Texas 2967. Mentions in passing various ranching enterprises as they concerned the fort. $100.00

1269. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Fort Union, New Mexico. N.p. [1953]. Another copy. Very fine in rubbed d.j. Signed by author. $85.00

1270. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The French, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Briefly mentions various ranching concerns of the area. $30.00

1271. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Galisteo, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1965. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Briefly mentions cattle and sheep operations in the area. $30.00

1272. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Glorieta, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1965. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions the ranches of the area in the context of the Civil War battle of Glorieta Pass. $30.00

1273. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Golden, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Peripheral mention of the cattle herds of the early governors. $30.00

1274. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Grady, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1968. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Slight spotting to lower cover, else fine, signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition (400 copies). The townsites of this area of eastern New Mexico were originally bought out of the large holdings of cattlemen. $25.00

1275. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Grant That Maxwell Bought. [Denver: The World Press, 1952]. [8] 256 pp., photographic illustrations, folded map (Map of the Beaubien and Miranda or Maxwell Grant in Colorado and New Mexico, patented May 19, 1879) in pocket on rear pastedown. 4to, original blue cloth. A few mild stains to binding, otherwise very fine, signed by author. First edition of author’s first book, limited edition (#69 of 250 copies). Campbell, p. 191. Dobie, p. 109. Guns 2103: “Very rare. The limited edition was immediately sold out and is now very rare. In a chapter on Clay Allison the author tries to correct some of the legends.” Herd 2149. Howes C892. Reese, Six Score 102: “The Maxwell Land Grant at one time comprised a large portion of New Mexico, and its history inevitably involves much concerning land and cattle. Father Stanley’s work...deals extensively with the history of the area, with emphasis on personalities.” Wynar 161. By industry, luck, and trading, fur trapper and trader Maxwell in 1864 became the sole owner of the legendary grant of approximately 1,777,000 acres, said to be the largest single tract owned by any one individual in the United States. “After coming into possession of the land grant [Maxwell] was regarded as being the richest man in the region, living like a feudal lord in a mansion he had built at Cimarron.... He possessed vast herds of sheep and cattle, married the aristocratic Señorita Luz Beaubien, and sired a half dozen offspring” (McLoughlin, Wild & Woolly, pp. 110-11). $850.00

Catalogue Tom Swinford has it at $850. Only one auction record: 1999 @ $350 PBA map loose at rear

1276. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Hillsboro, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions the rustling activities of Toppy Johnson. $30.00

1277. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Inez, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1967. 20 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions the range wars—fought both in court and with six-shooter— that were waged between the pro-fence farmers and the anti- fence ranchers. $30.00

1278. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Jim Courtright: Two Gun Marshal of Fort Worth. [Denver: World Press, 1957]. xii, 234 pp., portraits, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#457 of 500 copies). Guns 2104. Like many of the accounts of lawmen and outlaws of the West, Courtright’s story unfolds against the backdrop of cowboys, cattlemen, and range wars. Courtright was a wizard with his six-shooters and one of that rare breed of ambidextrous gunslingers. In the 1880s Courtright worked as foreman on the New Mexico ranch of General A. Logan, in a region where the range was being overrun by nesters. $75.00

1279. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Johnson Mesa, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1965. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). The area was named for Elijah Johnson, who moved west from Texas after the Civil War to try his luck as a cattleman. $30.00

1280. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Kenna, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1966. 23 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Kenna was home to Bob Crosby, a world-champion cowboy known as “The King of Cowboys.” $30.00

1281. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Kingston, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1961. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2105. “In 1883 Kingston was the hotbed of rustler activity” (p. 6). Toppy Johnson and the Kinny Gang drained the herds of Kingston area ranchers, and much of this volume deals with efforts to control their activities. $30.00

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1282. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Lake Valley, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Guns 2107: “Contains some information on Jim McIntire and Jim Courtright.” Jim McIntire, author of Early Days in Texas and for a time a cowboy with the Loving outfit, lived in Lake Valley. $30.00

1283. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Lamy, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1966. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Guns 2108: “Early Lamy was noted for its lawlessness. There is material on robberies, horse stealing, Ike Stockton, Joel Fowler, the Ketchums, and others.” Mentions various cattle and sheep enterprises in the area from the mid-1600s to the mid-1900s. $30.00

1284. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Las Vegas, New Mexico Story. [Denver: The World Press, 1951]. xi [1] 340 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear, closed tear to back flyleaf, otherwise fine in worn and torn d.j. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2109: “Has a chapter on Vicente Silva and another on outlaws and lawlessness. His account of the of the capture of Billy the Kid and Rudabaugh at Stinking Springs is quoted from the Las Vegas Optic.... There is good material on Doc Holliday and many others of Las Vegas’ lawless days.” Mentions ranching activities in the area. $150.00

1285. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Lincoln, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 26 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Guns 2110: “A story of Lincoln County and its troubles.” $35.00

1286. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Loma Parda, New Mexico Story. Nazareth, Texas, 1969. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions various ranching enterprises through the years, among them Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) the miniature range war of John Hittson, once a partner of John Chisum. $30.00

1287. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Manzano, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 19 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Mentions cattle rustling and the assassination of Charles G. Kusz, a newspaperman who purportedly was about to expose the rustlers. $30.00

1288. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Melrose, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1965. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Briefly mentions ranching enterprises in the region. $30.00

1289. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Miami, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Information on the Miami Ranch. $30.00

1290. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Milnesand, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1968. 23 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions the Bob Crosby Ranch, the Flying M Ranch, and the once vast DZ Ranch. $30.00

1291. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Mogollon, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1968. 23 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Guns 2111. Briefly mentions cattle rustling activities in the area. $30.00

1292. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Mosquero, New Mexico Story. Nazareth, Texas, 1970. 24 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions cattle ranching activities on the open range before the town was incorporated. $30.00

1293. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Nambe, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1966. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Briefly mentions sheepraising of the pueblo. $30.00

1294. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). No Tears for Black Jack Ketchum. [Denver: World Press, 1958]. x, 148 pp. 12mo, original black wrappers. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#145 of 500 copies). Guns 2112. Black Jack Ketchum was another outlaw who got his start riding the open range as a cowboy. $100.00

1295. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Notes on Joel Fowler. Pep, Texas, 1963. 19 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2113: “Gives some highlights on Fowler’s life, his murder of James Cale, and his own lynching.” Joel Fowler was an eccentric, Shakespeare-quoting, ranch owner of the Gallinas Mountains of New Mexico, who strayed to the other side of the law. $30.00

1296. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). One Half Mile from Heaven; or, The Cimmaron Story. [Denver: World Press, 1949]. [8] 155 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2114: “Contains much material on Clay Allison and other gunmen of Cimarron.” Has information on ranching enterprises throughout the history of the region and the Maxwell Land Grant. $250.00

1297. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). El Potrero de Chimayo, New Mexico. Nazareth, Texas, 1969. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Has information on sheepraising as it pertained to Native American weaving: “Sheep and goats were to the New Mexican what steers were to be to the Texan” (p. 15). $30.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1298. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). [The Private War of] Ike Stockton. [Denver: World Press, 1959]. x, 169 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. A few small spots to covers, otherwise fine in d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#19 of an unstated number of copies). Guns 2116: “Includes the life of Stocktons, bad men of the first order, the story of the Colfax County War, and an account of the San Juan County War and touches on the Lincoln County War.” Wynar 7006. $125.00

1299. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Puerto de Luna, New Mexico Story. Nazareth, Texas, 1969. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions sheepraising activities in the area. $30.00

1300. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Questa, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Fine. Author’s unsigned presentation copy to Mrs. Oliver Jordan, with her Western-theme bookplate inside upper cover. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Peripheral mention of sheepraising activities. $30.00

1301. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Questa, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. Another copy. Fine, signed by author. $30.00

1302. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Raton Chronicle. [Denver: World Press, 1948]. [12] 146 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Soiled and shaken, pencilings on lower cover. Signed presentation copy from author to Mr. and Mrs. Boyle. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2117: “Has some material on early-day lawlessness in Raton, New Mexico, and some information on Bob Ford’s stay in Raton.” Howes C893. Rittenhouse 534. Includes material on ranching operations in the area. $250.00

1303. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Raton Chronicle. [Denver: World Press, 1948]. Another copy. Very fine. $250.00

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1304. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Red River, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Mentions grazing in the area. $30.00

1305. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Rodeo Town: Canadian, Texas. [Denver: World Press, 1953]. [12] 418 pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in slightly worn d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#99 of 500 copies). CBC 2395. Herd 2150. History of Hemphill County in the Texas Panhandle, with brief biographies and anecdotes, some involving ranch women. $150.00

1306. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Rogers, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1967. 23 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). A familiar story was once again played out here when cattlemen and nesters skirmished. The townsite was once part of the vast DZ ranch. $30.00

1307. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The San Marcial, New Mexico Story. [White Deer, Texas, 1960]. 18 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2118: “Has some material on Dave Rudabaugh.” Rudabaugh joined forces with Billy the Kid, and their gang was suspected of most of the stock thefts in the Territory. This was the first of Father Stanley’s “story” series of booklets on New Mexico places. $30.00

1308. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Sapello, New Mexico Story. Nazareth, Texas, 1970. 23 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions various sheepraising and ranching activities in the area. $30.00

1309. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Seven Rivers, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1963. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2119: “Has some information on the Beckwiths, Billy the Kid, Bob Olinger, Tom Pickett, Billy Wilson, Dave Rudabaugh, and others.” Sheepraising; Lincoln County War; early visit to the area by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving; Clay Allison; various episodes of rustling. $30.00

1310. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Shakespeare, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1961. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2120. Includes information on William Tattenbaum (also known as Russian Bill), the wealthy, multilingual young lieutenant of Czar Alexander II’s Imperial White Hussars. Russian Bill deserted the Hussars in 1880, landing in Tombstone outfitted in the finest of western-style raiment and arms. Russian Bill supposedly took up with the then-powerful Clanton gang, whose main business was cattle rustling. When making a solo trip into New Mexico on an allegedly stolen mount, Russian Bill was promptly thrown in jail at Shakespeare and within forty-eight hours was swinging from a beam in the banquet hall of the Grant House. $30.00

1311. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). Socorro, the Oasis. [Denver: World Press, 1950]. [16] 221 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Very fine in worn and soiled d.j. Bookplate. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Guns 2121: “Has some history of early-day Socorro, with a chapter on Joel Fowler and his lynching, as well as information on the vigilantes and on Elfego Baca.” Howes C894. The emphasis is on crime and lawlessness, but it occurs in the context of ranching and cowboys. Vigilantes lynched Fowler at Socorro because he knifed a man to death while on a drunken spree celebrating the sale of his ranch at White Oak for $53,500. Baca, considered the best peace officer Socorro ever had, won his fame in a lop-sided gun- battle siege unique in Western history. Over eighty cowboys, most of whom were Texans in the employ of John B. Slaughter, persistently attacked Baca in a tiny shack for over 36 hours. Baca escaped unscathed to stand trial for killing one cowboy; he was acquitted. $225.00

1312. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Sofia, New Mexico Story. Nazareth, Texas, 1970. 24 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions the ranching operations that proliferated in the area before the large spreads were broken up to encourage homesteaders. $30.00

1313. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Springer, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2122: “Has some mention of Black Jack Ketchum and his gang.” Information on various ranching enterprises of the region. $30.00

1314. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Sugarite, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions Al Coe and his ranch; also some material on Clay Allison. $30.00

1315. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Texas Panhandle: From Cattlemen to Feed Lots. [Borger, Texas: Jim Hess Printers, 1971]. [10] xx [2] 656 pp. Thick 8vo, original blue cloth. Light browning to front pastedown, otherwise very fine in slightly worn d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). “This book is an over-all picture of the breaking up of large ranches like the XIT, Shoe Nail, Shoe Bar, Anchor T, and many others into smaller ranches, farms, cities and villages” (d.j. blurb). $250.00

1316. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Tolar, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1967. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions that this region comprises some of the best grazing land in the state. $30.00

1317. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Tome, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1966. 22 p. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Includes information on colonial sheepraising. $30.00

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1318. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Van Houten, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. 22 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Fine. Author’s signed presentation copy “For Mrs. O. Jordan, F. Stanley,” with her Western-theme bookplate. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). As was often the case with New Mexican mining towns, the area had various ranching enterprises before mining came to the fore. $35.00

1319. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Van Houten, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1964. Another copy. Very fine, signed by author. $30.00

1320. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Wagon Mound, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1968. 24 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Peripheral mention is made of various ranching activities, noting the lush grazing grounds of the area. $30.00

1321. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Watrous, New Mexico Story. Pantex, Texas, 1962. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Mentions various local sheep and cattle outfits. $30.00

1322. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The White Oaks, New Mexico Story. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1961). 23 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition. Guns 2123: “Has some information about Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Dave Rudabaugh, Joel Fowler, and others.” $30.00

1323. [CROCCHIOLA, Stanley Francis Louis] (F. Stanley, pseud.). The Yeso, New Mexico Story. Pep, Texas, 1969. 20 pp. 12mo, original yellow wrappers, stapled. Very fine, signed by author. First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Mentions sheep and cattle enterprises. $30.00

1324. CROFFORD, Lena H. Pioneers on the Nueces. San Antonio: Naylor, [1963]. xiii [1] 185 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Fine in fine d.j. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. CBC 3541, 3978. About half of the book is devoted to a history of Danish pioneer rancher John Edward Henrichson (1807-77) and his family, who settled at San Margarita on the coastal bend of South Texas in the early 1830s. The end of this section traces the ranching activities of the Henrichson sons at Cotulla, Valley Wells, Artesia Wells, Encinal, Medina River Valley, Asherton, and Dilley. The remainder of the book covers other ranching families of the region, along with local history and lore. $50.00

1325. CROSBY, Thelma & Eve Ball. Bob Crosby, World Champion Cowboy. Clarendon, Texas: Clarendon Press, 1966. xii, 244 [4] pp., frontispiece portrait of Crosby by Peter Hurd, text illustrations (photographic plus illustrations by Olive Vandruff Bugbee). 4to, original blue denim cloth with printed leather label on upper cover (denim and leather supplied by Levi Strauss & Company), decorated endpapers. Very fine. Limited edition, “The Trophy Edition” (#104 of 175 copies, signed by authors). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Hurd 65). Crosby’s wife Thelma writes of her life with Wild Horse Bob, “King of Cowboys” and National Rodeo All-Around Cowboy in the 1940s and 1950s. Thelma’s candid, loving memoir provides an unusual, seldom-heard voice from the world of rodeo—the distaff side. “The first time I ever saw Bob Crosby he almost drowned me, and I am sure there were times he wished he had. On many occasions I was almost angry enough to have killed him, but they never lasted long. In spite of these things, we had a very happy marriage” (p. 3 in the chapter “Roped and Tied”). “Six days a week I rode and worked cattle [on their New Mexico ranch]. And how I loved it! I loved that wild, free life.... I regret that the era of the big ranch is almost a thing of the past” (p. 25). After Bob’s first big wins in the rodeo world, “I attempted to analyze the situation and its effect upon our future. There were things I knew I must accept: Roberta [their daughter] and I were no longer the first consideration in Bob’s life. That was hard. Having admitted to myself that these things were true, I must adjust to them. They meant that we were not to have a permanent home but become nomads” (p. 5). $200.00

1326. CROSS, Cora Melton. “Tells of Indians and Cattle Thieves” in 1973 facsimile issue of Frontier Times 3:2 (November 1925). Pp. 4-7. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers. A bit of mild staining to upper cover, otherwise fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Contains recollections of G. L. Epperson, who came overland to Llano County in 1856. At age nine when the Civil War broke out, he was the only “man” on the ranch “My main job was to herd the cattle in the woods, for Indians were thick, for safety, and it wasn’t too safe at that, for they stole my horses many a night.” Includes an account of crafty ranch wife, Mrs. John Friend, who knocked down a chief with a smoothing iron, pretended to be dead when shot with an arrow, and after the raiding party left staggered three miles to a neighbor’s ranch. $15.00

1327. CROSS, Jack L., Elizabeth H. Shaw, & Kathleen Scheifele (eds.). Arizona: Its People and Resources. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,1960. [4] vi [1] 385 [1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic), maps. 4to, original tan cloth. Fine in near fine d.j. (slight wear and a few minor chips). First edition. “A Seventy-fifth Anniversary Commemorative Volume.” Powell, Arizona Gathering II 58: “A compendium of information about the state. Useful and surprisingly readable.” The book has a section on the economy of Arizona, with much information on sheep and cattle. $30.00

1328. CROUCH, Carrie J. Young County: History and Biography. Dallas: Dealey and Lowe, 1937. [16] 339 [5] pp., frontispiece, photographic plates (including brands), endpaper maps. 8vo, original red textured cloth. Mild foxing to fore-edges and endpapers, otherwise fine in very good d.j. (lightly worn and foxed). First edition. CBC 4880. Guns 518: “Scarce.” Herd 620. Howes C926. History of Young County in northern Central Texas from its organization in 1856 to the 1930s. The principal occupation of the county was stockraising, and in 1877 the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas organized in Graham. Includes a chapter on the cattle industry, an account of the blazing of the Goodnight-Loving Trail, biographies of pioneer ranchers, and details on Oliver Loving and his dreadful death. Good coverage of women and social history. $350.00

1329. CROUCH, Carrie J. Young County: History and Biography. Dallas: Dealey and Lowe, 1937. Another copy, variant endpapers (without endpaper map at back). Light foxing to fore-edges and endpapers, otherwise fine. Dust jacket not present. $250.00

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1330. CROWELL, Pers. Cavalcade of American Horses. New York, London, & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1951]. vi [2] 311 pp., text illustrations (photographs and vignettes by author). 4to, original teal cloth over pale green boards. Light shelf wear, minor stain on fore-edges, otherwise a fine copy in lightly worn d.j. with tape reinforcement at foot of spine. First edition. The chapter on “The Western Horse” traces the introduction of horses into present-day United States by Spanish conquistadors. Also includes Native American horsemanship (“The Plains Indians were credited by American generals with being the world’s best cavalry soldiers”); horses of the California missions; Young and Hally’s cattle drive from California to the Oregon country, which broke the Hudson’s Bay Company monopoly on cattle herds and horses and introduced the cattle that would form the nucleus for a new industry in the Northwest; Spanish mustangs; rodeo; etc. $35.00

1331. CROY, Homer. Last of the Great Outlaws: The Story of Cole Younger. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, [1956]. x, 242 pp., plates. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. illustrated by Jim McCrea. First edition. Guns 524. Includes material on the Cole Younger-Frank James Wild West Show, a short-lived venture. The chapter on alleged rustler and outlaw Belle Starr tells of her riding sidesaddle down the streets of Dallas dressed in an extreme style with two pistols buckled around her waist, her “big romance” with Cole, and her strange death. $65.00

1332. CRUM, Josie Moore. Ouray County, Colorado: The Agency and the Indians; Ouray and Mining; Dallas; Ridgway; We, the Kids. [Durango: San Juan History, Inc., 1962]. [2] 132 [4] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographs), maps. Large 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. One small stain at upper left corner of wrappers, ownership signature, otherwise fine. First edition. Wynar 1288. Although the focus of this local history is mining and railroads, there is some mention of ranching enterprises in the area: grueling 1875 drive of several thousand head of cattle to the Ute Los Pinos Agency on the Uncompahgre (“beef was the mainstay of the Indian diet”); pervasiveness of ranching in Ridgeway and their famous Sunday rodeos (wonderful descriptions of the disreputable cowboy heroes); etc. In her chapter “We, the Kids,” the author tells how at the beginning of the century girls began riding astride (“no girl would have Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) dared to wear anything that looked like a pair of trousers, so the divided skirt was invented”). $35.00

1333. CRUMP, Irving. The Boys’ Book of Cowboys. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1934. xvii [1] 232 pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographs by W. S. Basinger of the Union Pacific Railroad and E. E. Nelson of the Northern Pacific Railroad). 12mo, original grey pictorial cloth. Binding with mild to moderate staining, fore-edges foxed, remnants of erased pencil inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. Excellent juvenile with superb documentary photographs, covering all aspects of cowboy life, from riding the range to rodeos. The author was assisted in his research by Guy Clark, owner of the Diamond D Ranch in Montana and Ralph Johnson (“a bronc twister”), and many “range riders of the west.” $35.00

1334. CULLETON, James. Indians and Pioneers of Old Monterey: Being a Chronicle of the Religious History of Carmel Mission Considered in Connection with Monterey’s Other Local Events and California’s General History; Also a Sketch of Aboriginal Monterey. Fresno: Academy of California Church History, 1950. [14] 286 pp., frontispiece, plates (woodcuts by C. Whitman based on historical prints). 8vo, original navy blue buckram. Spine lettering faded, otherwise very fine. First edition. Academy of California Church History, Pub. 2. Rocq 5659. Weber, The California Missions, p. 22; Catholic Footprints in California (Newhall, 1970), p. 218: “A very precisely constructed enumeration of historical fact.” Includes information on ranching and stockraising within the larger context of the mission history of Old Monterey: introduction of cattle to the Upper California missions by Portolá and Anza; Father Crespi’s supervision of stockraising at Monterey; allotment of one bull and seventeen cows to each mission; Carmel’s first cattle herd from cattle driven from San Diego in 1771 (“these animal were ancestors of the great herds that roamed mission lands in the early 1800s”); foundation herds for Missions San Francisco and Santa Clara sent by Serra from Monterey; Franciscan relinquishment of their rights to cattle that had once belonged to the Lower California missions; first private ranchos established due to 1794 viceregal regulations allowing land grants (subsequent failure of these ranches due to Native American depredations); chapter 10 “Tallow, Trade, Taxes, and Souls...1809-1819”; etc. $50.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1335. CULLEY, John H. (Jack). Cattle, Horses, and Men of the Western Range. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, [1940]. xvi, 337 pp., frontispiece, photographic plates, text illustrations by Katherine Field. 8vo, original brown cloth. Endpapers slightly browned from contact with d.j., otherwise very fine in good to very good pictorial d.j. (slightly chipped at extremities and edges). The d.j. is very scarce. First edition. Adams, Burs I:101; One-Fifty 40. Campbell, p. 84. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 26. Dobie, p. 101: “Especially good on horses.... Has the luminosity that comes from cultivated intelligence.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 14; Western High Spots, p. 85 (“A Range Man’s Library”). Graff 941. Guns 527: “Scarce.” Herd 623: “This excellent book was written by a well-educated Englishman [and] he devotes some space to the history of the ranch.” Howes C952. Reese, Six Score 26: “In 1893 [Culley] and his wife came to America, and he became manager of the Bell Ranch in New Mexico, which in those days comprised three quarters of a million acres.” Saunders 3995. Culley’s English ancestors were noted for their attention to improving horses, cattle, and sheep, and George Culley, Jack’s great uncle wrote a famous book, Culley on Livestock that was the leading livestock authority for the eighteenth century. Before taking on management of the Bell Ranch, Culley and a relative, William Pinkerton, operated a sheep and cattle ranch on a large grant in New Mexico. He also worked for various horse and cattle outfits in New Mexico, including the A1 Bar, Rail 12, and others. He and his brother Chris started a small livestock business of their own before he went to the Bell Ranch. $350.00

1336. CULLEY, John H. (Jack). Cattle, Horses, and Men of the Western Range. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, [1940]. Another copy. Light shelf wear, several embossed and ink stamps of Ed Storey, otherwise fine, without the d.j. $100.00

1337. CUMMINS, [James R.] Jim. Jim Cummins’ Book...The Life Story of the Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell’s [sic] Guerrillas, by One Who Rode with Them. A True but Terrible Tale of Outlawry. Denver: The Reed Publishing Company, 1903. 191 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates, portraits, facsimile. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Very fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. There are two states of the binding. The present copy has the word “Illustrated” as the last line on upper cover. Adams, One-Fifty 41. Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books, pp. 16-19 (illustrated): “Cummins wrote his own story of his association with Quantrill, the James brothers and the Youngers, [and] it is very rare.” Graff 948. Guns 528: “An exceedingly rare book giving previously untold information about the Missouri outlaws. Cummins had been written about so exaggeratedly in wild West fiction, and in real life he was such a meek looking man, that when he tried to give himself up after the James gang was disbanded, no one would believe he was Cummins. He was never brought to trial.” Howes C951. Rader 996. “[Cummins was a] blue-eyed, sandy-haired stringbean of a man who was born around 1840. Cummins fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.... For many years he was a hanger-on of the James gang although he never became a particularly active member” (McLoughlin, Wild & Woolly, p. 120). In chapter 29 (“Trailing Horse and Cattle Thieves”), Cummins relates chasing down some cattle and horse rustlers who were creating havoc along the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad line near Winslow and Flagstaff. At the time Cummins was working as a scout under Lieutenant Johnson at Camp Apache, and the sheriff at Flagstaff had asked for assistance in capturing the rustlers. Cummins quit after successfully completing this assignment. He was irritated at Lieutenant Johnson for not accompanying him on the raid, instead sending Cummins on his way with an “old Indian” (claimed by Lieutenant Johnson to be the best trailer) and his squaw. Cummins was incensed at making only $50 a month for such dangerous work and outraged that the squaw, who trailed right along with the party of seven men, made only $26 a month, particularly in light of the Flagstaff sheriff not sharing the considerable plunder with them. $950.00

1338. CUMMINS, Jim. Jim Cummins’ Book.... Denver: The Reed Publishing Company, 1903. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. The present binding has the word “Illustrated” as the last line on upper cover. Lower corners slightly bumped, otherwise very fine. $900.00

1339. CUMMINS, Jim. Jim Cummins’ Book.... Denver: The Reed Publishing Company, 1903. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original terracotta pictorial cloth. Slight shelf wear, otherwise very fine. The present copy does not have the word “Illustrated” as the last line on upper cover. $900.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1340. CUMMINS, Sarah J. Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins. [Walla Walla: Walla Walla Bulletin, 1914]. 61 pp., portrait. 12mo, original grey printed wrappers. Fine. First edition, later printing, with 61 pages and imprint of Walla Walla Bulletin on back wrap. The first printing came out at La Grande, Oregon, and had 64 pages. Four printings of this excellent overland came out in 1914. Graff 949. Howell 32, Oregon 70. Howes C952. Hubach, p. 100. Mintz, The Trail 114: “This is a somewhat impetuous but enthralling account of the near-demise of Sarah when she was a teenage bride crossing the plains. She speaks of Frémont traveling with them for a short time, being saved from hostile Indians in Sioux country, and adds a bit about the Yellowstone area.” Smith 2153. Soliday I:365: “Much out-of-the-way material of the overland as seen through a woman’s eyes.” The party drove one hundred head of cattle with them on their trek from St. Joseph, Missouri, to the Oregon country in 1845. When they reached the Cascades, they divided into two parties, since it would have been impossible to take so large a herd down the river. Sarah insisted on accompanying her new husband over the Cascades with the herd rather than going in the boats with the other women. The cattle herd strayed during a blizzard near Mount Hood, and petite eighty-pound Sarah almost froze. $75.00

1341. CUNNINGHAM, Eugene. Famous in the West. El Paso: Hicks-Hayward Co., 1926. [6] 25 [1] pp., illustrations (some photographic). 12mo, original beige pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, bound in contemporary green buckram with original watercolor and ink illustration (after illustration on upper wrapper) mounted on upper cover. Acidic paper browned, otherwise fine. First edition. Adams, Burs I:102: “In this rare little booklet is a chapter on Billy the Kid.” Dykes, Kid 111. Guns 529: “Exceedingly rare.... Originally published as an advertisement to be distributed by a firm dealing with cowboy style clothes. It is said to have been published in an edition of 60,000 copies, but when the dealer discovered how much postage it would take to distribute them, he gave up the idea and destroyed most of the copies. The author tells about the Texas Rangers and the outlaws of the Southwest.” Rader 999. The pamphlet has chapters on “Jim” Gillett, “Billy the Kid: He Died with His Boots Off,” John Wesley Hardin, Dallas Stoudenmire, and full-blooded Cherokee “Tom Threepersons: Northwest Mounty, World’s Champion Cowboy, Border Peace Officer.” The imprint has Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

“Rodeo Town” next to El Paso; the work is dedicated “to those heroic old-timers of our West—the sort of men who would have been most perfectly clothed in RODEOS!”; the back wrapper has the rodeo-theme logo of the clothing firm; and the last leaf of text illustrates John Hicks’s TLs endorsing “the Rodeo breeches I wore in Central America [which] proved under the hardest sort to jungle travel every claim you’ll ever make for them. One night in Costa Rica a native cowboy rode up to our camp. He couldn’t take his eyes off my Rodeos. Finally, he burst out in broken English: Ah! That lovely Pants!” $400.00

1342. CUNNINGHAM, Eugene. Famous in the West. El Paso: Hicks-Hayward Co., 1926. Another copy, in wrappers as issued. Other than usual browning to text, fine. $300.00

1343. CUNNINGHAM, Eugene. Famous in the West. El Paso: Hicks-Hayward, 1926. Another copy, variant state, with Hicks-Hayward Company on wrapper verso, brands on last page. 12mo, original beige pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. Other than usual browning to text, fine. Inkstamp of Robinson & Company, Alpine, Texas, on upper cover. $300.00

1344. CUNNINGHAM, Eugene. Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters, with Technical Notes on Leather Slapping As a Fine Art, Gathered from Many a Loose Holstered Expert over the Years. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934. xvii [3] 441 pp., photographic plates, illustrations. Large 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, lettering and illustration in darker blue. Top blank edge of front free endpaper stained, otherwise fine in pale blue d.j. (fine, with only slight wear). Laid in is author’s signed letter dated December 24, 1934, typed on his engraved stationery to “A.B.M.”, Literary Editor of the Kansas Star: “I have just seen the feature review of TRIGGERNOMETRY in the Star and I want to express my appreciation for both the space and the manner. Since some nine years of hard, if pleasant, work is represented in TRIGGERNOMETRY, I very much appreciate such reviews as that of yours. Sincerely, Eugene Cunningham.” First edition. Foreword by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, illustrations from the Rose Collection. Adams, Burs I:103; One-Fifty 42. Campbell, p. 68. Dobie, p. 141: “Excellent survey of codes and characters. Written by a man of intelligence and knowledge.” Dykes, Kid 206. Graff 951. Guns 530: “Scarce in first edition.... A standard work and reliable on most points.” Greene, The Fifty Best Books on Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Texas, p. 34. Howes C954. Rader 1000. Saunders 2860. Smith 2155. Wallace, Arizona History X:24. $450.00

1345. CUNNINGHAM, Eugene. Triggernometry.... New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934. Another copy, variant binding and d.j. 8vo, original dark blue cloth with lettering and illustration in gilt. Fore-edges lightly foxed, otherwise fine in moderately worn and chipped yellow d.j. Dudley R. Dobie’s presentation inscription to Guy Skiles, his camp mate: “To Guy Skiles, With Pleasant Recollections. Here’s hoping we trail the Canyons again this Fall. Dudley R. Dobie, June 4, 1936.” The jacket on this copy varies not only in color, but also typesetting and slight changes in design. $300.00

1346. CUNNINGHAM, Frank. Big Dan: The Story of a Colorful Railroader. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1946. 350 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine in lightly chipped and worn d.j. (price-clipped). Presentation copy to J. D. Lloyd from Dan Cunningham, also signed by author. First edition. Biography of Dan Cunningham, official for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Salt Lake City for thirty-two years and an outstanding figure in Rocky Mountain life. The emphasis of the biography is railroad history and Dan’s part in it, but there is peripheral mention of cowboys and ranchers, including a comedic account of an out-of-work cowhand hired by Dan to be a watchman for a locomotive. Not understanding that the term “watchman” in railroad lingo meant watching to put water in the boiler, the cowboy built a big barricade of track ties alongside the cowcatcher, took his rifle in hand, and resolutely stood guard, keeping at bay the railroad rustlers (i.e., the rest of the crew). Included is an account of Dan’s youthful sojourn on the Wimberly ranch of his uncle John Henry Saunders, who joined the Confederate Army at age thirteen, ranched and taught school at Wimberley, and was one of the first in Texas to import purebred angora goats. Dan attended school with a group of young cowboys: “Not that the cowboys had any abnormal desire for schooling, but the teacher was an attractive twenty-year old girl named Annie McLaughlin. The cowboys, lured by the sight of the pretty girl, came to classes in their chaps and spurs and lined up with the children in the spelling matches. As Dan stood in line with the tall cowboys, he felt as if his Deadwood Dick characters were coming to life” (pp. 91-92). $50.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1347. CUNNINGHAM, Frank. Big Dan: The Story of a Colorful Railroader. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1946. Another copy. Fine in chipped d.j. Presentation copy from “Big Dan” Cunningham. $40.00

1348. CUNNINGHAM, William H. Log of the “Courier,” 1826, 1827, 1828.... Los Angeles: [Westernlore Press for] Glen Dawson, 1958. vi [2] 75 [2] pp., plate of the ship Courier (after a contemporary painting), title, text, and binding illustrations by Don Louis Perceval. 12mo, original dark blue cloth over pale green boards decorated with brands, cow heads, anchors, compasses, and stars. Very fine. Laid in is a printed announcement for the final volumes of Dawson’s Early California Travel Series. First edition of a previously unpublished manuscript, limited edition (200 copies). Early California Travels Series 44. Introduction by Glen Dawson. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Perceval 19). Captain Cunningham (Bancroft, Pioneer Register, p. 112) was one of the enterprising Boston sea captains who in the 1820s engaged in trading manufactured goods to the California missions, Russians, and others in exchange for tallow, horns, and cattle and seal hides. One stop was at “Bullock Hide Bay” which the editor suggests may have been Avalon Bay on the east side of Catalina Island. Captain Cunningham frequently mentions his California agent, W. G. Dana, noted early Santa Barbara trader and stockraiser (Bancroft, Pioneer Register, p. 114). Typical log entry: “Unmoored—hove up and run up to Yerba Buena.... Employed trading hides and tallow and cash. We have received during the last 23 days about 1000 hides, a large lot of tallow, and cash not enough to pay the dutys. The padres who inhabit the borders of this bay are in want of warm hats, strong wrought hoes, distillary, good wine, and implements of husbandry.” (p. 10). $75.00

1349. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine]. Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinú. London: William Heinemann, [1921]. xiv, 247 pp., frontispiece portrait. Large 8vo, original red cloth. Minor shelf wear and corners bumped, endpapers and text browned, overall very good, partially unopened. First edition, limited edition (#19 of an unspecified number of copies). See Dobie, p. 123. Extensive discussion of the cattle industry in Colombia and Venezuela, and comparison to the cattle trade in other Latin American countries. $40.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

1350. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine]. The Horses of the Conquest. London: William Heinemann, [1930]. xiv, 161 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original red cloth. Fore-edges, preliminaries, and text foxed (fairly heavily on first and last leaves), overall very good in d.j. (worn, dusty, and old tape repair at lower spine). Author’s signed presentation inscription on front free endpaper dated June 11, 1934. First edition of a true classic. Campbell, pp. 130-31: “Cunninghame Graham ranched for...a short time in Texas.... A Southwestern classic. He was an urbane British aristocrat of Scottish and Spanish ancestry who spent years in Latin America and in the saddle. Horses brought to the Americas by the Spaniards spread all over the plains of both continents. His book describes the horses of the conquistadores with loving sympathy and imagination. He knew such horses and the records. The result is a charming book, easy to read.” Dobie, pp. 132-34: “Graham was both historian and horseman, as much at home on the pampas as his ancient Scottish home. This excellent book on the Spanish horses introduced to the Western Hemisphere is a pasture to itself.” Nichols, Gaucho 266. Plates include Spanish horsemen from Mesoamerican pictorial codices, illustrations from rare books (including “Hunting Wild Cattle in Tucuman [Argentina]” from El Libro del la Monteria by Gonçalo Argote de Molina, published at Seville in 1582), and equipage (e.g., “Marmeluke Bit Used with Saddle...The reins were long and the hand was always held high in the fashion of the Gauchos, Mexicans and American Cowboys, and by the Moors in Africa”). $100.00

1351. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine]. The Horses of the Conquest. London: William Heinemann, [1930]. Another copy. 8vo, original red cloth. Spine a bit light, front hinge with short split at top, small stain to lower blank pastedown, fore-edges, preliminaries, and text foxed, overall very good. Dust jacket not present. $40.00

1352. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine]. The Horses of the Conquest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1949]. xvii [1] 145 [2] pp., color frontispiece and text in sepia and black (by J. Craig Sheppard). 4to, original maize linen. Endpapers slightly browned, else very fine in very fine d.j. First U.S. edition (first published in England in 1930, translated into Spanish and published in Argentina in 1946). Edited by Robert Moorman Denhardt, who comments in Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) his foreword: “In truth, it is a shame that more norteamericanos are not acquainted with Don Roberto’s works. South of the Río Grande his name is an open sesame as I found out to my delight. Josto Sáenz (hijo), to whose excellent translation of The Horses of the Conquest this volume owes much, is a case in point. If you say ‘Shakespeare,’ a Latin-American may say ‘no comprende,’ but say ‘Don Roberto,’ and he will say ‘mi casa es suyo.’” Denhardt opens his tribute to Cunninghame Graham: “The Man Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore, was a Gaucho, prospector, Scottish laird, revolutionary soldier, bronc rider, cattle rancher, buffalo hunter, historian, member of Parliament, store clerk, Indian fighter, speaker of Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, English, Italian, and besides (as his good friend and admirer W. H. Hudson so aptly stated) a ‘singularisimo escritor inglés.’ Singular writer he was, whether writing of a Brazilian agnostic, a Scotch funeral, an Uruguayan caudillo, a Moorish skirmish, a Spanish grandee, a Texas Indian, or a Paraguayan harlot.” $75.00

1353. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine]. Rodeo: A Collection of the Tales and Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Selected and with an Introduction by A. F. Tschiffely. Garden City & New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1936. [2] xx [2] 438 pp. 8vo, original black cloth. Endpapers browned, otherwise very fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped). First American edition. Herd 914: “English edition published in London same year.” $35.00

1354. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine]. Rodeo: A Collection of the Tales and Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Garden City & New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1936. Another copy. Light shelf wear, spine sunned, front hinge cracked. Dust jacket not present. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate. $20.00

1355. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine] & G[abriela Cunninghame Graham]. Father Archangel of Scotland and Other Essays. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896. xi [1] 227 [1] pp. 12mo, original red cloth. Light shelf wear, upper fore-edge, endsheets, and text browned, occasional slight foxing to text, overall very good, unopened. First book edition (first published as articles in periodicals). This work, co-authored by Cunninghame Graham’s wife, focuses on the gaucho as plains nomad, rather than as herder of cattle. Includes a chapter “The Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Horses of the Pampas,” and other information on gauchos and horses in “A Vanishing Race.” $65.00

1356. CURRY, George. George Curry, 1861-1947: An Autobiography. [Albuquerque]: University of New Mexico Press, [1958]. xv [1] 336 pp., tipped-in color frontispiece portrait, photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. Carl Hertzog’s copy with his bookplate and a presentation note from Leland “Dear Carl, There is the Curry book—all for you. It’s a gift! Leland” laid in. First edition. Guns 972: “Has much material on the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid, and the troubles of Oliver Lee and has some information on Elfego Baca and other characters of New Mexico.” Edited by H. B. Hening. $50.00

1357. CURRY, George. George Curry, 1861-1947: An Autobiography. [Albuquerque]: University of New Mexico Press, [1958]. Another copy. Very fine in fine d.j. $45.00

1358. CURRY, Margaret. The History of Platte County, Nebraska. Culver City: Murray & Gee, [1950]. xv [1] 1,011 pp., profusely illustrated with portraits, endpaper maps. 4to, original padded navy leatherette with embossed gilt decoration gilt. Fine. First edition. Mohr, The Range Country 656: “Surely the largest local history ever published.” The chapters entitled “Industry” and “Agriculture” discuss ranching enterprises of the area: the huge cattle market that flourished in Schuyler before 1869 when enterprising locals attempted to secure part of the cattle market which was herded northward from Texas; violence between Texas drovers and Blue Valley farmers who stampeded herds that damaged their crops; 1871 blizzard that killed many Texan herds and left the plains carpeted with the bones and horns of thousands of longhorns when the snow melted; etc. Some of the pioneer recollections tell of “Buffalo Bill” Cody assembling and rehearsing his Wild West show on the circus grounds west of Columbus. $100.00

1359. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. xvi, 702 pp., engraved frontispiece and text illustrations (some full-page; several by Frederic S. Remington), maps. Large 8vo, original full leather, red and black leather labels. Covers worn and detached, interior fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

First edition. Campbell, p. 67. Dary, Kanzana 235. Dustin 77. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington 494). Luther, High Spots of Custer 5: “Well worth reading for the picture of frontier army life and for tracing Custer’s career on the western plains. Mrs. Custer was a charming and talented woman who idolized her husband.” Myres, Following the Drum, p. 7. Rader 1009. Raines, p. 60. Sloan, Auction 9 (quoting Pingenot): “Gives a wonderful picture of life in Western army posts from a woman’s point of view. Included are several chapters on her stay in Austin and commentary on the state of lawlessness in Texas at that time.” Smith 2186. Tate, Indians of Texas 2773: “Includes the 1867 Southern Plains campaign and the Battle of the Washita.” Libbie Custer’s book is included here because of her copious descriptions of horses, horsemanship, and equipage in the various places she accompanied Custer and the 7th Cavalry after the Civil War (Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska). Libbie, herself an avid rider, was one army wife who insisted on not being left behind; she found nontraditional camp life invigorating. One of the engravings by Frederic Remington shows Custer rescuing his wife from a speeding horse as she slips from her sidesaddle. She comments on Texans’ branding practices: “The horse-flesh of Texas was a delight to [General Custer]; but I could not be so interested in the fine points as to forget the disfiguring brands that were often upon the fore-shoulder, as well as the flank. They spoke volumes for the country where a man has to sear a thoroughbred with a hot iron, to ensure his keeping possession. Father Custer used to say, ‘What sort of country is this, anyhow, when a man, in order to keep his property, has got to print the whole constitution of the United States on his horse?’” (p. 211). Chapter 19 discusses Platte River ranchers’ problems with Native American depredations. Not on our subject but of high interest is an account of Black soldiers in the 1867 military engagement near Fort Wallace against the Cheyenne under Roman Nose (with an engraving of the Buffalo soldiers by Remington). $175.00

1360. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster Company, 1889. [2] xvi, 702 pp., engraved frontispiece and text illustrations (some full-page and several by Frederic S. Remington), maps. Large 8vo, original green gilt-pictorial cloth. Binding with mild to moderate shelf wear and some light staining, internally very fine. Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)

Second edition. $150.00

1361. CUTBIRTH, Ruby Nichols. Ed Nichols Rode a Horse. [Dallas]: Texas Folklore Society & University Press, 1943. x, 134 pp., frontispiece by Jerry Bywaters. 12mo, original green cloth. Fore-edges foxed, else fine in d.j. Presentation copy to Dudley R. Dobie, signed by author and Ed Nichols: “To Dudley R. Dobie, from one who was born and raised on the Chisholm Trail and grew up to be one of the best ropers and riders on the trail.” First edition. Range Life Series. Dobie, p. 111. Herd 627. McVicker B41. Chapters include “Cow Boy,” “Ranching in Palo Pinto,” “Coming of the Iron Horse,” “Driving Horses to Kansas,” and “Me and Buffalo Bill.” $200.00

1362. CUTBIRTH, Ruby Nichols. Ed Nichols Rode a Horse. [Dallas]: Texas Folklore Society & University Press, 1943. Another copy. Fine in d.j. Signed by author and Ed Nichols. $150.00

1363. CUTBIRTH, Ruby Nichols. Ed Nichols Rode a Horse. [Dallas]: Texas Folklore Society & University Press, 1943. x, 134 pp., frontispiece by Jerry Bywaters. 12mo, original brick red pictorial cloth. Fine in lightly stained d.j. Signed by author and Ed Nichols. First edition, second printing. $50.00

1364. CUTTER, Donald C. Malaspina in California. San Francisco: [Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy for] John Howell-Books, 1960. [4] viii, 96 pp., map, illustrations of expeditionary art work (color plates of birds by Jose Cardero). 4to, original grey cloth. Fine, unopened. First edition. Rocq 5494. Documentation on the 1791 Spanish scientific expedition that visited Monterey, California. Included is information on cattle and the cattle trade in California, including prices as regulated by tariffs: three pesos for a bull over two years old; four pesos for a bull three to four years old; four pesos for a round-up cow or young bull; five pesos for a work ox; one peso for a bull or heifer one year old; five pesos for a fresh cow; six reales for an aroba (25 pounds) of jerked beef; two reales for an arroba of fresh beef; two reales and one peso for an arroba of impure tallow; four reales and two pesos for an arroba of cattle grease; four reales and two pesos for tallow candles; four reales and two pesos for an arroba of lard; one reale for an undressed cowhide; three reales for a dressed cowhide. The same information is Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) presented for eleven categories of horses, mules, and burros (trained she-mules having the highest value). $100.00