Denver: Centennial School Supply Co., 1905. Hardcover - Updated to include the legislative changes enacted by the 15th General Assembly, A brief sketch of the history of Colorado and the prinicipal facts of the operation of the state government.

Oakland, CA: The Oakland Museum, (1981). First edition - Catalogue produced to accompany exhibitions at The Oakland Museum and the Security Pacific Plaza in Los Angeles, in 1982. Preface by Christina Orr-Cahall; Essay on "Slices of Time" by Theres Heyman; and Essay on "1960-1980" by Ted Hedgpeth. Includes photographs by A. W. Ericson, Muybridge, A. J. Russell, Watkins, William Eggleston, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz and others. Contains 22 plates most in black and white, and 3 in full color. Complete list of works in exhibition, selected bibliography. Large format. 56 pp.

New York: Eagle Brook / William Morrow, 1999. A combination of personal ancedotes, historical facts, interviews with prairie residents, even some recipes and cooking hints, tell us what it like to be inspired and sustained by a simpler way of life. Illustrated with photographs by Bob H. Miller.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. Hardcover first edition - A study of the frontier settlements - the isolated farms and small towns, the ethnic colonies (Germans, Scandanavians, African-Americans) and the co-operative utopias, colonies based on religion like the Mormons and the Huttites, and the expanded family lifesyle of the Mexican ranchero and its adaptation in the American Southwest. Illustrated with many photographs, extensive bibliography.

Fresno, California: Word Dancer Press, (1995.). "The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him." Biography of the legendary robber Black Bart, who plagued Wells Fargo & Co. and was responsible for at least 28 stagecoach robberies in California's gold country - robberies conducted on foot and with an unloaded shotgun. Meanwhile he was leading a double life in San Francisco, where he was known as the very polite Charles Boles, until he disappeared without a trace in 1888. Illustrated with vintage photographs, bibliography, index. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-884995055.

Toronto: Collins, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Autobiography of a Pioneer" In 1919, the author arrived from Yorkshire as a Canadian war bride, and she and her husband homesteaded in Northern Alberta. She shares those early days of good times and difficult in these pioneer reminiscences. Photographs. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2166127.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A definitive and readable look at why it took more than 60 years (from 1848 to 1912) for New Mexico to finally become a state. Photographs, map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xix, 362 pp.

New York: Signet, (1958). SIGNED first edition - Classic account of Butch Cassidy, Kid Curry, The Sundance Kid, Etta Place, and the rest of the Wild Bunch. INSCRIBED on the dedication page, and uncommon thus. 190 pp.

London: Heinemann, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A return to the area of Horgan's Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winning work "The Great River" - the Rio Grande - and the peoples who lived near it: Hispanic, Indian, and Anglo. Bibliography, index. Map endpapers. xii, 256 pp. ISBN: 0-434-478202.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Houston takes us through his native state, traversing its length and breadth, by car and on foot, through river valleys, forests, film studios, big cities, and border towns. Includes notes. map endpapers. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-505581.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A poignantly moving story of HuffakerÕs parents, a young couple growing up in a small Utah town. A suprisingly uncommon title by this very popular Western writer.

Menlo Park: Lane Book Company, (1963). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hardcover edition of this classic history for older children on the history of the stagecoaches in gold rush California, and in the West. Illustrated by Randy Steffen. Large format (10 1/2 by 8 inches), maps, glossary, brief bibliography and index. 64 pages. This copy is SIGNED on the front endpaper by both authors and also by the illustrator with a drawing of a horse's head. Uncommon thus.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1957) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1937, this was reissued in 1957 with additional notes and appendices. "The westward drive of the warlike Sioux Indians along a thousand miles of prairie and woodland, from the upper reaches of the Mississippi to the lower Powder River in Montana, is one of the epic migrations of history. . . and in the years of heavy conflict with the pioneer trains and the protective military, between 1865-1877, Red Cloud of the Oglalas stood out as one of the greatest of the Sioux leaders." Volume 15 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. Frontispiece. Maps, bibliography, index. xi, 331 pp.

New York: Duffield, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Stereotypical ballads depicting Chinese American life in San Francisco's Chinatown - but these also deal with some very real events - the bubonic plague which hit San Francisco in 1900 (and which first affected Chinatown) and the earthquake of 1906. Illustrated with eight glossy plates from drawings by E.C. Peixotto. 81 pp.

Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press, (2004). SIGNED first edition - A book which covers two hundred years, from the 1750s to the 1950s, of stock packing in the southern Sierra Nevada, the backcountry containing most of California's wilderness and national park lands - from From Yosemite to the Tehachapis, the Tuolumne River to the Kern, lands which are above and beyond any major roadways, the wild areas where the majority of the modern Sierra packers have plied their trade. Illustrated throughout with photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Includes several appendices listing historical pack outfits, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-878424997.

University of Nebraska Press, (2012). First edition - Using Virgina City, the boomtown Nevada town in the Comstock Lode and once one of the richest places in the country, as a microcosm of the American West, this book shows how archeology can help bring the past to life -From pieces of a Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle, to shards of a ceramic pot, from reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery, each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. Atitle in the "Historical Archaeology of the American West" series. "Photographs, notes, bibliography. xxii, 143 pp.

La Jolla, CA: Prospect Avenue Press, (1970.). A complete history of this prison from the time was it was first occupied by 15 felons in 1876 to its abandonment 34 years later. Illustrated throughout with photographs. 113 pp.

Seattle: Hara Publishing Group, (2003.). Recollections of growing up in a small town in the mountains of Northern California - in the Cottonwood Creek Valley. Illustrated. 126 pp. ISBN: 1-887542035.

Seattle: Hara Publishing Group, (2003.). SIGNED - Recollections of growing up in a small town in the mountains of Northern California - in the Cottonwood Creek Valley. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated. 126 pp. ISBN: 1-887542035.

Menlo Park, CA: Lane Book Company, (1966.). Hardcover first edition - A Sunset Book - "A comprehensive, readable text enhanced by historical illustrations, the lavish use of new photographs, maps, decorative renderings, plans and drawings." Large format. Bibliography, index. 322 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a great natural painter - a man who spent most of his life as a hired hand: a teamster in Arizona, ranch hand in Texas, sheepherder in Nebraska, farmer in the Dust Bowl - although his hope was to be a horse breeder, in his 60's, penniless and ill, he began painting the America he had known and loved. Foreword by Tom Lea. The illustrated endpapers show two of his paintings.

Reno & Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, (2012). First edition - An account of Annie Johnston - "Wild Horse Annie" - twenty-seven year fight to save the mustangs from slaughter - and to establish refuges for them, not just in her state of Nevada but across the West. Although it seemed like she had succeeded when Congress passed the Wild Free Horse and Burro Act in 1971, and the Supreme Court upheld it, there have been many setbacks since - both legislative and bureaucratic. Still, without the efforts of this shy Nevada horsewife, there would probably not be any mustangs in the wild at all. Illustrated with photographs. Notes. xiv, 212 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts a journey of over 25,000 miles through American deserts from the Black Rock Desert of Oregon to the Mexican border, with discussion about things like plate tectonics, botany and the animals that live in the deserts, but especially about the people she encounters - Navaho weavers, Hopi silversmiths, children on a reservation, an old prospector and gold miner, a cattleman and a missionary and more. Illustrated with drawings. xvi, 262 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-316482986.

New York: Putnam, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the 1846 expedition to California led by Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny, written for older children and young adults. Often overshadowed by his more flamboyant contempories - John Charles Fremont, Kit Carson, Senator Thomas Hart Benson - this is an attempt to restore Kearny to the place in history which he deserves, as a man who, in his quiet way, did more than anyone else to expand the United States to the Pacific. A title in the American Battles and Campaigns series, Earl Schenck Miers, General Editor. Index. 190 pp.

New York: George Braziller, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem, which tells the tragic story of the Donner Party - a group of families from Illinois, under the leadership of George Donner, who set out by wagon train in 1846 for California - only to find themselves trapped by early snows in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and in desperation resorting to cannibalism to survive. 254 pp. Dust jacket design by Jeanyee Wong.