New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. A book which is part memoir, part social and cultural history, as the author returns to the small farming community in Iowa where she grew up, and where her father abandoned her mother in 1943, leaving behind 2 small children and a mountain of debts.

Fresno, CA; Valley Publishers, 1976. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fictionalized biography of the founder of the California mission system. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary paintings and drawings and with drawings by Gilbert Richards. Preface by Gwendolin B. Cobb. INSCRIBED by the author on the front pastedown. ISBN: 0-913548-32-4.

Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1994. First edition - Illustrated with many photographs. Glossary, bibliography. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-96190884x.

Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Illustrated with many photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary, bibliography. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-96190884x.

Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1992. First edition - The stories of ten courageous women who lived life on their own terms in the nineteenth century West, including Jessie Benton Fremont, Sarah Winnemucca, desperado Belle Starr, Mormon women Fanny Stenhouse and Eliza Young, artist Grace Carpenter Hudson and more. Illustrated with many photographs. Glossary, bibliography. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-96190884x.

Lakeport, CA: Wesanne Publications, (1992.). SIGNED - Brief biographies of 15 19th century women, each of whom left their mark on California and Nevada - including Eliza Cook, Nevada's first woman doctor, Lily Langtree, Eilley Orrum, Charley Parkhurst, stage coach driver, and others. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the half title page. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-961908815.

New York: Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin), (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rhymed account of the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the Amargosa desert of southwestern Nevada, just outside Death Valley - a town which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, just 6 years later, was almost deserted In a few more years it became only a ghost town with coyotes roaming the street. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Frampton. Author's historical note at the back. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-618096736.

Helena, MT: Montana Magazine and American & World Geographic Publishing . (1993). First edition - A look at this gold rush era town in Montana, including its history of vigilantes (Sheriff Henry Plummer was actually the leader of the stagecoach robbers), illustrated throughout with color photographs. Maps, timeline, suggestions for further reader, index. 64 pp. ISBN: 1560370416.

New York: Crown, (2016). First edition - Using the civil trial which attempted to recover damages after 25 yearold Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, this book becomes a larger account of the history of the environmental movement in the US and "the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. . . virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management." Focusing on Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, this book looks at the paradox of our natural parks which have a dual obligation to provide services and recreation for visitors and to preserve nature. Notes, 362 pp.

Guilford, CT & Helena, MT: TwoDot , (2014). First edition - A "collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old WestÕs most egregiously bad family-based gangs caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the James brothers and lesser known families just as the Deautremonts, the Newtons, and many more." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. ix, 229 pp. ISBN: 978-1493006137.

Fresno, CA: California History Books, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - Authoritative account of the escapades of Evans and Sontag, "accused, but never convicted, of being mail train robbers in the days of Wells Fargo Express. . . Were they heroes, villains or ordinary citizens catapulted into sudden strife by forces they could neither understand nor control?" Sontag's daughter provided much of the background of the family history in the book. Set in California's San Joaquim Valley, this tells of of life in those towns - Modesto, Visalia, Pixley - as well as how Evans and Sontag came to be the most wanted men in California in 1893, the focus of a state-wide manhunt involving a U.S. marshal, Apache trackers, and the Southern Pacific Railroad. Photographs, notes. 435 pp.

New York: Avenel, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - Attractive re-issue of a classic work originally published in 1914. Illustrations from drawings and famous paintings. Bibliography, glossary and index. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-517-604388.

Prineville, OR: Bonanza Publishing, (1990.). First edition - Stories based on personal interviews and research in journals, diaries, logs, letters, newspapers and books, most with an Oregon or Northwest connection. Illustrated by Don Gray. 58 pp. ISBN: 0-945134-096.

Prineville, OR: Bonanza Publishing, (1993.). First edition - Stories based on personal interviews and research in journals, diaries, logs, letters, newspapers and books, most with an Oregon or Northwest connection. Illustrated by Don Gray. 58 pp. ISBN: 0-945134-118.

Prineville, OR: Bonanza Publishing, (1990.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on title page. Stories based on personal interviews and research in journals, diaries, logs, letters, newspapers and books, most with an Oregon or Northwest connection. Illustrated by Don Gray. 58 pp. ISBN: 0-945134-096.

New York: Putnam, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Accounts based on three transnational journeys by train from Philadelphia, where the author is the rector of the Church of St Luke and the Epiphany, to the West - among the places described are Lake Tahoe, the Grand Canyon, the Dakotas, Jasper National Park in Canada, Yellowstone, and more. Photographs, fold out map tipped in at back. 197 pp

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Articles by several contributors discussing areas of Western scholarship, especially in 3 categories: the American West in a frontier context, as reflected in fiction, and in the rise of a new urbanized West.

New York: Penguin, 1993. A wonderful collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers . ISBN: 0-14-0174028.

New York: Random House, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A wonderful collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-679-410740.

New York: Penguin, (1993.). Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0174028.

New York: Random House, 1992.). Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp.

New York: Wings, (c 1992.) dj. Hardcover - Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-517-124084.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-679-410740.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The stories of the descendants of the pioneers - from the Jordan Valley in eastern Oregon to a man whose father rode with Butch Cassidy but went on to make a life in the Bull Mountains of Montana frontier to a mother and daughter in the general store of the New Mexico ghost town they own and more. Illustrated with full page drawings by Lloyd Bloom. 241 pp. plus final illustration. ISBN: 0-394-501934.

Fremont, Nebraska: Hammond & Stephens, 1935. Hardcover first edition - "Being mostly stories told to children about some more or less wild animals that live at 'The Cottonwoods' on the Elkhorn River in Nebraska." Illustrated with well over a hundred drawings and engravings by Clarence Ellsworth. Slightly oversized format, 109 pages printed on glossy paper.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent overview of the 1870's debate on the worth or worthlessness of the western lands, especially those proposed to be crossed by the Northern Pacific Railroad. Covers Custer's expedition into the Black Hills in 1873. In the 1870's a glowing report was written about the worth of the land, especially those proposed to be tranversed by the Northern Pacific. A letter of contradiction was written by General William B. Hazen with a retort that the land wasn't "worth a penny an acre." With this as the starting point, the author has brought together various documents (including the Hazen pamphlet, the Haas report of 1871), setting forth the arguments on both sides. Includes fold-out map. Index. ix, 268 pp.

Palo Alto, California: Lewis Osborne, 1967. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. A young New York doctor's account of his 194 day voyage around Cape Horn, mainly drawn from his letters to friends and his journal. Among the other 96 passengers were Mark Hopkins, J. Ross Browne, and A.S. Marvin, who went on to co-found Marvin & Hitchcock, the prominent San Francisco booksellers. In his later life, Stillman became an important figure in the development of Southern California's wine industry. An attractive production illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, a map on the front endpapers, and drawings and engravings from the collections of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Bancroft Library of the University of California. Number 451 of 1950 individually numbered copies. 92 pp.

New York: PublicAffairs, (2002). First edition - A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.