Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Douglass Perkins traveled overland to Sacramento from Marietta, Ohio, with 5 companions, and used mules to pack his supplies, rather than wagons. He found only disappointment and death in California, but left behind an unusually full and well-written narrative, one which has also been well-edited and extensively annotated. Illustrated with drawings and maps; appendices; bibliography; index. Large format. xxv, 206 pp.

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co., 1877. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Contains 21 long letters written between October 1875 and March 1876, when David Phillips travelled to California in the unfortunately unsuccessful hope that a change of climate would restore the health of his son who was suffering from consumption. The detailed letters he wrote from there covered almost every aspect of California life at the , including the libraries of San Francisco, architecture, mining as well as the mountains and agricultural areas. A presentation copy, SIGNED "by the author" to "Hon. M. H. Chamberlain", who, in turn, presented it to McKendree College with his signed presentation right below that of the author. Bound in brick colored cloth with black decorations and gilt lettering on the front cover. 171 pp.

New York: Ives Washburn, (1970.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the campaigns of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, black soldiers with white officers - called by the Indians "Buffalo Soldiers" - between 1867 to 1891, written for young adults. Bibliography, index. 151 pp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1981.) dj. Hardcover - Describes the activities of a number of law-enforcement agencies, from those hired by banks, railroads, cattlemen associations, hired private detectives to Indian Police, Pinkerton men, Texas Rangers, Canadian Mounties, and the Mexican Rurales and the role they played in the West. Among the individual lawmen who are included in this book are Dallas Stoudenmire, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Frank Wattron of Arizona, and many others. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xii, 330 pp. ISBN: 0-806110104.

Roseville, CA: Stagecoach Publishing, (2006). Brief accounts of the gold rush towns and buildings in California. -mostly from the 1849 rush. Arranged alphabetically Illustrated with photographs. Index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-9660053-41.

Roseville, CA: Stagecoach Publishing, (2002). SIGNED first edition - Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-966005384.

Tucson: The Palo Verde Press, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first separate publication of this excerpt of perhaps the most interesting section of a work originally published in 1870 - that is a description of Pumpelly's 8 months in Arizona, including his harrowing stagecoach ride to Tucson and his efforts along with Charles Poston to develop mines in Southern Arizona - at Santa Rita and elsewhere. Preface by Will Rogers Jr. Introduction and annotations by Andrew Wallace. Photographs, doublepage map, index. xii, 141 pp Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Viking, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of one of the most important firefighting efforts in American history, as wildfires swept across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, claiming lives, towns, and mining camps. This also illustrates the larger story of how American bureaucracies, railroads, political scandal, pioneering, and ideas collided with nature. Photographs, notes, sources, index. xiii, 322 pp. ISBN: 0-670899909.

Cupertino: Foothill Community College District / California History Center, nd (1972). First edition - A collection of historical studies covering the early days of Santa Clara County in northern California - included are papers on the towns of Los Altos, Mountain View, Alviso, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Cupertino and also on the Almaden Mine, the coming of the railroad and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Bibliographies at the end of each article. 93 pp.

El Paso, TX: Bravo Press, (1998). SIGNED first edition - A history of the town of White Oaks, New Mexico, from its founding through its boom years as a mining town - the cover calls it "A True Western American Story . A Town Called Hearts Desire" Illustrated throughout with watercolors in full color (including one of Billy the Kid), maps, many drawings, reproductions of vintage photographs and modern photographs. SIGNED on the first page by the author/illustrator Bill Rakocy with the words 'from Old White Oaks' and dated in 2003. Oblong format. 175 pp. ISBN: 1-888711019.

San Francisco: San Francisco Medical Society. 1858. Hardcover first edition - Preface, introduction, includes chapters on the legal regulation of the medical profession, the development of the xray as well as biographies of 16 prominent doctors. Illustrated with photographs. Appendices, references, index. Large format. ix, 190 pp.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first publication of the recently discovered diary of Bernard J. Reid, which describes his day to day difficulties and the trying hardships the first commercial wagon train to attempt to cross the plains on the Overland Trail. They advertised a swift journey of only 60 days for $200. This diary is the richest account of the Pioneer Line and one of the best gold rush diaries. Illustrated with photographs, maps. Editor's afterword and an extensive notes section, and bibliographical information on persons mentioned in the text. Map endpapers. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-8047-11925.

Palo Alto, CA: The American West Publishing Co., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "For five months, Frank Leslie and his ''Excursion to the Pacific'' traveled by private railroad car. They stopped over in Chicago, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Virginia City, and San Francisco. They peeked into gambling casinos, opium dens, and mining camps; banqueted with Comstock silver kings and reported every detail of their trip to readers of the newspaper." This is the first time the story has been assembled book form, complete with the original drawings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In addition this trip has been coupled with an account of the same journey by an American writer 90 years later. Footnotes (at end), index. Large format, a heavy book. 207 pp.

New York: Abbeville Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Remington was both a prolific letter writer and an inveterate doodler, so this generous selection of his letters, ranging from notes to his family to his correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Poultney Bigelow, Francis Parkman, Elizabeth Custer and others, is well illustrated with his little sketches, many which had not been previously published. Selected bibliography, index. . xv, 487 pp. ISBN: 0-89659-694X.

New York: Charterhouse, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies - "The Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance. It did. It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives. . . It is the story of indomitable men and women in their bleakest hour - a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid." 371 pp. Map endpapers. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-333128397.

Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, Inc, (1990.). Autobiography of a 'vibrant, romantic, bullheaded young man in Oregon and California in the years 1918-1934 bursts with joy of living' (USA Today review) - from being a forest lookout to riding the rails to San Francisco, marrying and almost losing his wife, and finally returning to Oregon to start a new life. The author's first book, written at the age of 81, and winner of the Western States Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction upon its original publication in 1984. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-932576842.

Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, Inc, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the author's early life in Oregon and California in the years 1918-1934 - from being a forest lookout to riding the rails to San Francisco, marrying and almost losing his wife, and finally returning to Oregon to start a new life. The author's first book, written at the age of 81, and winner of the Western States Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Frontispiece. Cover and drawings at the beginning of each chapter by Laurie Levich. 350 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-932576-222.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1971) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The Seven Deadly Sins in San Francisco" - includes scandalous and intriguing real-life stories, from Sarah Winchester and her "Mystery House," to the downfall of early film star Fatty Arbuckle, and the unsolved case of Mrs. Leland Stanford's death from strychnine poisoning, Robert Louis Stevenson and Fannie Osborne, and many more. The author was the society editor of the San Francisco Chronicle for many years. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Illustrated. Index. 200 pp.

New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - The subtitle says it all - this is a collection of articles by a working journalist who has been in close contact with the people and events he writes about. xiv, 305 pp. ISBN: 0-812904656.

San Francisco: California State Minng Bureau, March 1923. First edition - Contains District Reports of Mining Engineers, an article on Peat and its occurence in California, and reports on other minerals from aluminum to cadmium, cobalt, nickle and more. Map. Pp 88-133 plus a 9 pp list of publications by the State Bureau.

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, (1965) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of the events leading to the creation of this of the 212-mile trail, as well as a guide to each section of the trail, with information about the geology, the flora and fauna and its history, as the trail traverses passes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains from Yosemite Valley to Mt. Whitney. Illustrated throughout with mostly black and white photographs, but also a few in full color. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and uncommon thus. Maps, notes and references. Folio-sized. 231 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Flamboyant Story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco's Infamous Era of Graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature herself was responsible for one; a man named Ruef was responsible for the other" He gained notoriety as the corrupt political boss behind the administration of Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco during the period before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Among those who eventually brought him down was the sugar millionaire Rudolph Spreckels, the prosecutor and ex-cowboy Frank Heney and newspaper editor Fremont Older. Illustrated with photographs. bibliography. 422 pp.

Joplin, Missouri: College Press Publishing Company, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of the Restoration Movement on the Western frontier, and of those who braved the dangers of the Oregon Trail to plant "Bible Christianity" in the wilds of Oregon. "Taken from periodicals, diaries, letters, family histories, genealogical sources, news items and biographies found only in early Western and national publications, Dr. Rushford has documented a unique story of religion, party politics, congregations, and tensions over divisive mission methods in this book." INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1998. Includes an alphabetical listing of Christian preachers in Oregon and Oregon Christians, extensive notes, bibliography and index. xiii, 543 pp plus the hymn "O Oregon.". ISBN: 0-899007775.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 (c 1970) dj. Hardcover - Autobiography of a man born in southwest Alberta in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, and who still runs a working ranch there - a look back at his life as a cowboy, broncbuster, trapper, guide, outfitter, rancher and wildlife photographer. Illustrated with photographs and drawings at the head of each chapter. xv, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-39444938X.

New York: Castle Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover - Includes over 1700 entries, alphabetically arranged and representing every category including newspaper correspondents, survey topographers, cowboy artists, magazine and book illustrators, recognized masters and more, with representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as Native American artists. Includes more than 300 half tone illustrations. A large heavy book. xxvi, 549 pp. ISBN: 1-555210147.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book on the wild horses of the West - Little Pinto is only three weeks old, so will he be able to escape the danger of the planes that round up the mustangs? Includes an afterword on the history of the mustangs and the laws which were designed to protect them and a glossary. INSCRIBED by the illustrator, Daniel San Souci, on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-763615544.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the early 18th century, this is "the story of the great changes that the coming of the horse made in the Indian's way of life. Young Wolf belonged to the first generation of Nim-i-pu as the Nez Perce called themselves to grow up in a culture that had learned to use the speed and power of the horse." Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations by Pers Crowell. 169 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-87004-2122.