Adams, William L. (Author) & Belknap, George N. (Editor)
A Melodrame Entitled "Treason, Stratagems, and Spoils"
Eugene, Oregon: Archon Books / University of Oregon Books, 1968.
Hardcover. A significant document in the field of Western Americana, Treason, Stratagems, and Spoils, is a satirical look at the politics of the newly formed territory of Oregon which first appeared serially in the Portland Oregonian of 1852. The author.....
Applegate, Jesse; Applegate, Jesse A. & Schafer, Joseph (Editor)
A Day with the Cow Column in 1843 & Recollections of My Boyhood
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1934.
300 copies designed by William A. Kittredge and printed at The Lakeside Press. In A Day with the Cow Column in 1843, Jesse Applegate describes his experiences leading a party of pioneers, including his two brothers, from their homestead to the Oregon Country. Jesse's nephew and.....
Avedon, Richard
In the American West
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Monograph associated with an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985. Richard Avedon's In the American West was the culmination of a large-scale photographic project commissioned by the musem intended to create.....
Blakely, Joe R
Saving the Willamette: A History of Oregon's Heartland River
Independently Published, 2020.
Paperback. This is the story of the Willamette River from its birth to the 21st century. Confined in the Willamette Basin, the river has been a way of life for valley inhabitants. From early Native Americans to modern man the river has been a vital source of.....
Bowden, Jack
Railroad Logging in the Klamath Country
Hamilton, MT: Oso Publishing Company, 2003.
Hardcover. Quarto, pictorial paper over boards, 352pp, biblio., glossary, index, pen & ink illustrations by the author, 0ver 140 photos. A concise history of every lumber company that operated a railroad in the Klamath country of south-central Oregon during the first half of the.....
Carr, John & Lampson, Robin (Editor)
A Vulcan Among the Argonauts: Being Vivid Excerpts From Those Most Original & Amusing Memoirs of John Carr, Blacksmith (Signed by the Editor)
San Francisco: George Fields, 1936.
Illustrated by "hans" Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Robin Lampson on first blank. 500 Copies Designedand Hand Printed by Wilder Bentley & His Wife Ellen, Apprentice, The Archetype Press, Berkeley, July, 1936. Edited with a Preface & postscript by Robin Lampson. An edited version of.....
Chase, Borden & Schnee, Charles (Screenplay); Hawks, Howard (Director); Wayne, John (Actor)
Red River: A Film by Howard Hawks (1948)
The Criterion Collection, 2014.
First Printing. Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD, 4 Disc Set. In this film, Howard Hawks' first western, John Wayne plays an embittered Texas rancher whose tensions with his neurotic adopted son – played by Montgomery Clift in a breakout performance – reach fever pitch during a cattle.....
Clavin, Tom
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
St. Martin's Press, 2020.
Hardcover. THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice. --T.J. Stiles, The New York Times "With a former newsman's nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we.....
Dodge, John
A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm
Oregon State University Press, 2018.
Paperback. The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was a freak of nature, a weather outlier with deadly winds topping one hundred miles per hour. The storm killed dozens, injured hundreds, damaged more than fifty thousand homes, and leveled enough timber to build one million homes.....
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1987.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Dancing at the Rascal Fair is a saga of the American immigrant experience at the turn of the 19th century in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and the central volume in Doig's Montana trilogy set in the fictitious.....
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America (Signed)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
First Edition. Hardcover. Personal inscription to Western historian and friend Richard Brown signed by the author on half-title. Two journals of winter travel in the Pacific Northwest are comingled in this history and rumination on the American frontier – one from an unpublished diary.....
Drake, Benjamin
Tales and Sketches, From the Queen City
Cincinnati: E Morgan and Co., 1838.
First Edition. Hardcover. 4-5/8 x 7-1/2", brown cloth embossed with a design of stems and flowers with yellow title label, 180pp. A collection of short stories of the West, many set in the region near the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Benjamin Drake, founding.....
Fremont, John C. (Author); Spence, Mary Lee & Jackson, Donald (Editors)
The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont: Volume 2, The Bear Flag Revolt and the Court-Martial
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.
Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-3/8", brown cloth, 519pp, appendix, bibliography, index, frontis. portrait, 20 illus. in text. Beginning with his third California expedition of 1845 – a time of glory for Fremont – and concluding in the spring of 1848 with his bitter resignation from.....
Fulton, Robert Lardin
Epic of the Overland: With Sketch of the Life of the Author by Dr. Herbert Wynford Hill
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1924.
First Edition. Harcover. First Edition. A narrative of the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad, touching on the vision, financing, engineering, and people that made the dream a reality. 5-5/8 x 8-1/8", blue cloth, deckled fore- and bottom-edges, 109pp, 27 illustrations, frontis. illus. with.....
Gallagher, Winifred
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
Penguin Press, 2021.
Hardcover. A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the processBetween 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men.....
Galvin, James
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 taupe cloth, burgundy paper over boards, 230pp First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. A hundred-year natural history of a meadow in the arid mountains of Colorado/Wyoming interwoven with a family's struggle to live on an.....
Hall, James
The West: Its Soil, Surface, and Productions
Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., Publishers, 1848.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration front board, 260pp, 3pp ads. An updating and thorough revision of a work originally titled "Notes on the Western States". Chapters: The Western Plain-its limits-its topography-the general character of its formation; The River.....
Harte, Bret (Editor)
The Overland Monthly; Devoted to the Development of the Country, 1868-1871 - 7 Volume Set
San Francisco: A. Roman & Company, 1868.
Hardcover. Thick octavo, green cloth over thick green boards, gilt bear decoration to spines and 584pp each volume. Bindings tight, some soiling and foxing throughout. Missing last blank page, front hinge cracked Volume 1; lower quadrant rear free endpaper torn away Volume 2;.....
Huggins, Roy (Creator)
Maverick: The Complete First Season
Warner Home Video, 2012.
DVD, Boxset. Season One (1957-1958), 7 discs, 27 episodes, 1333 minutes (over 22 hours) of entertainment. From the box: "There were never more charismatic cowboys than Bret and Bart Maverick (James Garner, Jack Kelly). Right from the beginning of the very first episode, Bret cons and.....
Kamholz, Edward J.; Blain, Jim; & Kamholz, Gregory
The Oregon-American Lumber Company Ain't No More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, grey cloth, xix, 362pp, 285 illus., 17 period-specific maps, apps., equipment rosters, folding map rear board. A lavishly illustrated history of the Oregon-American Lumber Company, one of the most important lumber firms in the Pacific Northwest between 1922 and.....
Kesey, Ken & Babbs, Ken
Last Go Round: A Real Western (Signed)
New York: Viking, 1994.
First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Second Printing of the First Edition. Flamboyant presentation inscription and signature in multi-colored inks, rubber stamps and gilt decoration by Ken Kesey on half-title. It was around a sagebrush campfire in eastern Oregon that Kesey first heard the tale from his.....
Knowlton, Christopher
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books, 2018.
Paperback. "The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" -- Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted.....
Lewis, Oscar
High Sierra Country
New York / Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, 1955.
First Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8-5/8", teal cloth, 291pp, map endpapers, index First Edition. Presentation copy signed by the author on half-title in year of publication (July 14, 1955). Tells the stories of explorers, mountain men.....
McCornack, Ellen Condon
Thomas Condon: Pioneer Geologist of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press, 1928.
Hardcover. 5-1/2 x 8", green cloth, xv, 355pp, frontis. photograph + 8 illustrations in text including folding map of Oregon, foreword by Henry Fairfield Osborn, index. An account of the life of Thomas Condon, theist and geologist, tracing the early years of the.....
McPherren, Ida
Imprints on Pioneer Trails
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1950.
First Edition. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8", red cloth, 380pp, illus. Stories of pioneers collected by Ida McPherren - including tales of her own experiences in Montana, those of her uncle, Hugo Hoppe, who started his idyll in Montana and trekked to California in 1851.....