Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in the Southwest in the 1880s. "A gritty, bigger-than-life and occasionally raunchy novel of the Texas-Mexico borderland and the Texas high plains" (Elmer Kelton). 201 pp. ISBN: 0-945575602.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - One of three titles in this series published in 1912. The five boys who make up the club, along with two other friends, return to Border City and the Circle T Ranch in Wyoming, to find the town booming, and a New York financier carrying on experiments with a dirigible balloon. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by the author. Tissue guard at frontispiece. Lists thru the 1912 titles at the rear, with 2 from 1913 shown as "in preparation." 320 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the Indian Wars on the Western frontier, told from the viewpoint of three very different characters: the driven George A. Custer; his wife, Libbie; and a young woman captured by the Cheyennes. An engrossing book. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019. Illustrated with photographs, author's note, bibliography. 370 pp. plus photo credits. ISBN: 978-0374249311.

Santa Barbara: W.T. Genns, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of growing-up and living on a ranch on the Santa Ynez River in Santa Barbara county: "Much of the action is true historically, but the actors and many of the places are fictitious." Illustrated with line drawings by D. Ric Johnson. Preface, 312 pp.

New York: Norton, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Ron Hansen. Contains fifteen stories by authors both new and well-established, including Peter Lasalle, Joy Harjo, Rick Bass, Ken Smith, Larry Levis, Rudolfo Anaya, Leslie Johnson, Thomas Fox Averill, Antonya Nelson, Kent Meyers, Dagoberto Gilb and more. SIGNED by Hansen on the title page. Notes on authors, list of other notable stories. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-393030180.

New York: Macmillan, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of three outlaws, set in the Texas and Mexico border country in the 1880s. Basis for the 1974 film "The Spikes Gang" featuring Lee Marvin and Ron Howard. 252 pp.

New York: Norton, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of 11 short stories set in the small towns of Utah and Arizona and dealing with letting loose - or wanting to. Highly praised by such diverse writers as William Kittredge, John Dufresne, Clyde Edgerton and others, these stories are darkly comic and full of the pain of lost hopes. ISBN: 0-393-04033x.

New York: SOHO Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Montana-born author. Follows the stories of two sisters' lives during and after World War II in which one lost a husband, the other a fiance - feminists before the word was created, because they had to be to survive. Cover praise from William Kittredge who called this novel "as beautiful and stark as the high, short grass plains where it all happens." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-939149605.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1910) dj. Hardcover - One of 25 books in the "Webster series" written under this Stratemeyer house name in the rags-to-riches style of Horatio Alger "but his tales are thoroughly up-to-date." Unlike most of the Stratemeyer series, each book featured different characters. In this two young boys are visiting a ranch in New Mexico for the summer, and they encounter rustlers, wildfire and solve the mystery of the "Lost Lode" in the mountains. Plain frontispiece. Lists to itself at the front of the book, and but to all 25 in the series at the back of the book and on the verso of the dj. 206 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (c 1911) dj. Hardcover - One of 25 books in the "Webster series" written under this Stratemeyer house name in the rags-to-riches style of Horatio Alger "but his tales are thoroughly up-to-date." Unlike most of the Stratemeyer series, each book featured different characters. In this two young boys are visiting a ranch in New Mexico for the summer, and they encounter rustlers, wildfire and solve the mystery of the "Lost Lode" in the mountains. Plain frontispiece. 206 pp.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the 10th Cavalry, one of the six African-American regiments authorized by Congress in July 1866, who fought alongside white troops (although at lower pay and under worse conditions) on teh western frontier. The name 'buffalo soldiers' was given to them by the Cheyenne. Author's foreword and an afterword with a partial list of Buffalo Soldiers who received a Medal of Honor during the period covered in this novel. Dust jacket praise from General Colin Powell and others. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-312860412.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of an often overlooked subgenre of the Western novel - of how some of the popular women writers of the time - including B.M. Bower, Caroline Lockhart, Vingie E. Roe, Honore Willsie Morrow and Katharine Newlin Burt - both appealed to the prejudices of the mass market on a superficial level, but also managed to subvert the traditional images by downplaying violence, portraying active rather than passive heroines, etc. Notes, bibliography, index. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-826315690.