Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating, entertaining and scholarly look at this important, but often neglected, aspect of social history. While the book focuses on the California gold rush of 49 and the Nevada mines in the early 1900's much more is covered - including nutrition on the Overland trail, restaurants in the mining towns, etc. Much of the material is based on early diaries. Profusely illustrated. Index, bibliography. 246 pages.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover - An excellent nonfiction work on Custer, frontispiece by Leonard Baskin. Bibliography, index, 441 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-86547-1606.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reminiscences by General D.J. Cook, Superintendant of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association: A condensed criminal history if the Far West. With an introduction by Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr. Originally published in 1882, this account is considered the "outstanding bad-man narrative of the Rocky Mountain West." Over the years, Cook was a farmhand, miner, saloon-keeper, soldier, city marshal of Denver, sheriff of Arapahoe County, U.S. marshal, major general of Colorado Militia, and most importantly founder and chief of the Rocky Mountain Detect ive Association (a semi-secret and unofficial organization of sheriffs, police chiefs and marshalls). Volume # 11 of the Western Frontier Library Series. Illustrated. xvi, 319 pp.

New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, (1961) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of her years in the West - born in South Dakota, she moved to Nevada where she spent 5 years hunting and trapping and ranching. She became a prominent livestock rancher, but went bankrupt during the Depression of 1935, so she moved to California and then to Alaska where she spent 10 years on the frontier. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author. Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp.

Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing (2006). SIGNED first edition - A photographic tribute to historic barns of the West, from the California ghost town of Bodie, to New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and more, based on several years of traveling and research. In addition to the photographs, this book also contains the history behind the barns, such as the round Fountain Grove Barn of Santa Rosa, California, which had been the site of a commune, and a sucessful winery for a while. SIGNED on the half title page. Oblong format. 104 pp. ISBN: 1-555915604.

Boulder, CO: Boulder Publishing, Inc. (1968.). First edition - "The authentic story of a Western railroadman related by him to the author." Illustrated with photographs. 100 pp plus map on last page and inside back cover.

San Luis Obispo, CA: San Luis Obispo County Historical Society, 1970. First edition - A continuing collection of the community histories of San Luis Obispo County - includes an account of a trip to Carrisa Plains by Ira Condit, an article on La Loma, the oldest adobe by Alonzo P. Dana and an account of the Seaport General Store by Hazel Hansen, and more. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. 52 pp, printed only on the recto, large format, approximately 11 x 8 1/2 inches.

Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, (1984.). First edition - Collection of poems inspired by the letters and diaries of 19th century Western emigrants, buffalo hunters, soldiers, and sodbusters. Notes on the sources of each poem. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-87071-340x.

Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, (1984.). First edition - Collection of poems inspired by the letters and diaries of 19th century Western emigrants, buffalo hunters, soldiers, and sodbusters. Notes on the sources of each poem. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-87071-340x.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A detailed account of the 'silent army' of merchants, outfitters, freighters, land speculators, town builders, railroad promoters and others... who came after the mountain men and fur traders." Illustrated with 120 contemporary photographs and line drawings and 20 pen and ink drawings by Al M. Napoletano. Notes, bibliography, index. 368 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8032-65727.

Torrey, UT: Capitol Reef Natural History Association, (1986). "The little community called Fruita, never more than ten families, found itself deep inside Capitol Reef National Monument after a Presidential proclamation in 1937." Illustrated throughout with photographs, map. A title in the Man in the Waterpocket Fold Series. 63 pp.

Sanger, CA: The Write Thought, (2012). Reprint of this biography of one of Wells Fargo's greatest detectives originally published in 1969. Originally a sheriff in California's Mother Lode country, Hume was among the first to use "scientific detection" in the west - including the use of a laundry mark that helped him track down Black Bart. Photographs. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1618097033.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.). Doig's first book, an account of growing up in the rugged Montana wilderness with his restless father and his grandmother. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6899825.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother. SIGNED by the author. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.

New York Scribner's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Montana, and Alaska,this novel is the story of a generation, shaped by the sixties, which has reached its time of reckoning, and of a man who must uncover secrets of his past. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-684-83295X.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother, and left to him by his uncle only many years after her death. This is the story of rediscovery of his mother through her own words, many years after he wrote about his family in his 1978 book 'This House of Sky.' 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother, and left to him by his uncle only many years after her death. This is the story of rediscovery of his mother through her own words, many years after he wrote about his family in his 1978 book 'This House of Sky.' 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Among the trails and cities covered are the Osage Trail, Chisholm Trail, Abilene, The Texas Road, Texas Fever, Dodge City, California and Goodnight Trails, and more. Also contains information on Wild Bill Hickok and on Billy the Kid, the Earps, John Wesley Hardin, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Ben and Bill Thompson, and the Talbot gang, the slaughter of buffalo and it ends with the last of the trails - The Oregon and Northern. Illustrated with photographs, maps, notes, index. Top edge tinted red. xii, 274 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Schocken, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An investigation into the controversy surrounding Hunter, a 19th century white man who claimed to have been raised in captivity by the Osage Indians and who fought to save the American Indians from genocide until he was murdered in 1827. His autobiography, published in 1823, was first acclaimed, and later denounced as a fraud, but the research behind this book uncovers a different story and returns Hunter to his rightful place in history. Map endpapers. 282 pp. with index and bibliographical essay. ISBN: 0-8052-34616.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A detailed study of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, one which examines the decades leading up to the catastrophic event and the city's recovery from it. In their zeal to rebuild, leaders of the city downplayed the risks and took actions which increased the danger going forward. A book which combines urban environmental history and disaster studies and shows how the crisis and subsequent rebuilding reflect the interplay of natural and human influences that have shaped San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. A title in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, index. xvii, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0295742465.

Encampment, Wyoming: Affiliated Writers of America. 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first group biography of the Earp family, perhaps the notorious family in Western history. Based on 20 years of research, this focuses on especially on their time Tombstone and Prescott, Arizona, although the history of their crisscrossing America, starting over and over again in various states, is amazing in itself.. Photographs, bibliography, index. 261 pp. ISBN: 1-879915-103.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2010). Gripping account by this National Book Award winning author of the worst wild fire in the history of the United States. ÑA wind-swept wildfire that began on August 20, 1910, and consumed three million acres of forest in Idaho, Montana and Washington in just 36 hours. But paradoxically, this forest fire was the event that cemented the heroism of the young Forest Service (only 5 years old at the time) in the public mind and galvanized Teddy Roosevelt's campaign for public lands. Winner of the 2010 Washington State Book Award for history. Map, photographs, notes on sources, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-618-968415.

Denver: Wiconi Waste (2001). SIGNED - INSCRIBED on title page and dated. Includes historical illustrations of trail and river maps. Dedication, preface, epilogue, appendices, bibliography. iv, 110 pp. ISBN: 0-962197785.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of Fort Union in New Mexico from its founding in 1851 until it was largely abandoned in 1891. It was the supply post and focal point for dealing with the Spanish and Indian population of New Mexico, and a major target of the Confederate Army in the Civil War, although it remained in Union hands. Foreword by W. S Wallace. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Appendix, bibliography and index.xvi, 436 pp.

New York: Vanguard, (1950). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A selection from the writings of J. Ross Browne, Mark Twain, Sam Davis, Bret Harte, James W. Gally, Dan de Quille, Joseph T. Goodman and Fred Hart - all of whom spent time in the Comstock area of Nevada. Selected and edited by Emrich Duncan, the chief of the Folklore Section at the Library of Congress, who has written a brief biographical introduction to each author's works.SIGNED by Emrich on the page following the title page with the words "The Bucket of Blood in the Comstock." 363 pp.

Omaha, Nebraska: Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Catalogue for an exhibition organized by Joslyn Art Museum's Center for Western Studies based on the written accounts of the 1832-1834 North American experiences of Maximilian, Prince of Wied. Includes more than 100 of Karl Bodmer's orginal watercolors and sketches Inclides list of illustrations,and checklist of the exhibition. Large format. 103 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-936364-122.

College Station: Texas A&M University Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Using the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, the author records the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Texas Panhandle - from the beginning of permanent settlement there (around 1876) through the transition from cattle ranching to farming. Number 7 in the West Texas A&M University Series. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xxii, 323 pp. ISBN: 1585441821.