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THE WILD BUNCH AT ROBBER'S ROOST.
Edition: First thus (Completely revised and certain new material added by the author.)
New York: Abelard-Schuman, (1971.). Hardcover - The story of the outlaws who found sanctuary in the high desert canyon county of southeastern Utah - especially Butch Cassidy and his gang. Illustrated with many photographs, map endpapers. Index. 224 pp.
Condition: Near fine in cream cloth with green lettering, lacking the dust jacket.
Book ID: 48850More details Price: $14.00 -
SON OF THE MORNING STAR: Custer and the Little Bighorn.
Edition: Fifth printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light stamp to top edge, price-clipped, some sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 44037More details Price: $16.00 -
BAD BLOOD: The Families Who Made the West Wild.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67492More details Price: $15.00 -
KILLING CUSTER: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American author's first non-fiction work, the story of the Battle of Little Bighorn and the disastrous consequences for the Plains Indians (the "victors."). Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. Map endpapers of the Indian wars, 1866-1890. ISBN: 0-393-03657x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38638More details Price: $20.00 -
KILLING CUSTER: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Norton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - Native American author's first non-fiction work, the story of the Battle of Little Bighorn and the disastrous consequences for the Plains Indians (the "victors."). Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. Map endpapers of the Indian wars, 1866-1890. ISBN: 0-393-03657x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38639More details Price: $14.00 -
FIVE FIRES: Race, Catastrophe and the Shaping of California.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Beginning with the accidental introduction of wild oats by the Spanish, Wyatt uses catastrophic happenings to analyze the history of California: the gold rush, the 1906 earthquake, the post-WWII defense-industry boom, and the 1965 Watts riot. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. 288 pages. ISBN: 0-201-144794.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22890More details Price: $25.00 -
HOT TYPE & PONY WIRE: My Life as a California Reporter from Prohibition to Pearl Harbor.
Edition: First printing.
Santa Cruz, CA: Western Tanager Press, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A picture both of the changes in journalism over the years, but also of the changes in California - among the stories which he wrote about were the 1933 double lynching in San Jose's St. James Park, the Salinas lettuce strike of 1936, the first automobile down the Big Sur highway, the ghost towns of the Santa Cruz mountains, and more. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1980.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13286More details Price: $28.00