New York. 1884. [4],227pp. Frontis. Later gilt buckram. Ex-lib. with rubberstamps. A good, sound copy. The author read Samuel N. Townsend's letters from the West and decided to head ranchward. From 1877 to 1884 he lived on ranches and travelled in western Kansas, eastern Colorado and northern Texas. Aldridge was.....
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Illustrated with plates from engravings, lithographs, photographs, and other early sources; frontispieces; folding maps. [6]ppp. printed prospectus for the series laid into first volume. Original red cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes lightly rubbed. Bookplate.....
Ardmore, Ok. [ 1907]. 195pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, black and red gilt morocco labels. Rubbed, spine worn, contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. Good. An early printing of the state constitution, which was ratified the same year the present work was published.
Washington. 1910. 374pp. 11 folding maps and charts. Buckram. Ex-lib. with bookplate. Very good. Exhaustive report, with many detailed maps.
New York. 1928. 296pp. including plates. Frontis. Cloth. Stain on front cover affecting four letters of title, else very good, without the dust jacket. A presentation copy from Collins to Hamlin Garland, who provides an introduction, with the inscription on the verso of the frontispiece: "To piva maa Hamlin Garland.....
Chicago: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1938. [4],xliv,480pp., including frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original dark red cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo center, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded and stained. Ex-library copy with torn bookplate of Dartmouth College Library, shelving label, and deaccession stamps on.....
[Various places in Louisiana and Texas]. April 1909. [5]pp. manuscript, written rectos only of “Charles F. Craver and Sons” company stationery. Approximately 900 words. Quarto sheets, fastened with a pin. Small hole on final page from ink burn-through on two words, otherwise near fine. A matter-of-fact report from Tulsa, Oklahoma.....
Greenville, Tx. Headlight Printing House, 1899. 607pp. Portrait. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Three-cent "Indian centennial" stamp affixed to front free endpaper, bookplate on rear pastedown. Printed on poor paper and tanned, otherwise near fine. Cushman's parents were missionaries to the Choctaw beginning in 1820, and he.....
[ N.p.]: Published by Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West Company, 1902. 108pp. including plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original color pictorial boards. Spine and edges flecked or chipped, corners worn. Printed on bad paper and tanned. Withal, a good plus copy. "Uncopyrighted, the little volume was used as an advertisement for the.....
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1953. 343pp. including illustrations. Frontispiece map. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Spine lightly faded. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine. "A most interesting book of reminiscences" - Adams SIX-GUNS. Covers Nelson's experiences ranching and herding cattle in the Southwest and West, and freighting on.....
[Pawhuska. 1906]. 144pp. Lacks wrappers. Good. Confusion exists concerning this very scarce Oklahoma book. Only a very few copies were initially distributed because the author, who was also the publisher, went bankrupt shortly after publication. We are told that a remainder of this item was found by a Kansas City.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. xx,386pp. including numerous illustrations. Original pictorial brown cloth. Near fine. In slightly worn dust jacket. Later edition. Dobie's great work on the preeminent folk symbol of the prairies.
Girard, Ks. [ 1946]. 32pp. Printed wrappers. Text tanned as usual, front wrap sunned with closed tear, else very good. E. Haldeman-Julius' "Notes and Comments" appears on pages 28-32.
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. 349pp. including illustrations and folding map. Frontis. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Corners bumped, a bit of wear to head and toe of spine. Very good, untrimmed and partially unopened. A history of the exploration and development of the trans-Mississippi West, including trade, garrison.....
New York. 1898. xxiv,183pp. plus leaf of advertisements and folding facsimile frontis. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Hinges a bit loose, spine ends and corners bumped, some shelf wear. Later ownership inscription and remnants of bookplate on front free endpaper. About very good. From an edition limited to 950 copies.....
New York. 1898. xxiv,183pp. plus leaf of advertisements. Folding facsimile frontis. Original cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 950 copies. Fowler was the first American to travel through much of the territory traversed. Edited by Elliott Coues.
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Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Committee to Defend Political Prisoners, October, 1941. 23,[1]pp. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Slight wear. Old dampstain in lower outer corner throughout. Very good. A stinging attack on right-wing intimidation, violence, and political prosecutions in Oklahoma on the eve of American entry into World War II. Friesen describes.....
Washington. 1893. 80pp. Original printed wrappers. Old rubberstamp on front wrap, else about fine. Recommendations for passage of new laws regarding Oklahoma and Alaska.
London. 1869. xii,336pp. Frontis. Engraved titlepage. Later burgundy cloth, spine gilt. Cloth lightly edgeworn. Some foxing to preliminary leaves, else internally clean. Bookplate of Hermon Dunlap Smith. Very good. The author traveled on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1850s and wrote other works on his experiences in the West.....
San Francisco. 1874. xi,[1],511pp. plus plates and folding table. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Worn at spine ends and along edges. Conents shaken, else good. The extensive military experiences of an army surgeon in the Northwest, including coverage of Indian uprisings in 1855-58. Glisan served in Oklahoma and west Texas in.....
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[Scotland?]: 1884-1911. Folio or quarto broadsides. Some old folds. Very good to near fine. The Hansford Land and Cattle Company was a ranching operation centered in Texas and the Indian Territory, but directed and financed by Scottish capital, with headquarters in Dundee, Scotland. This collection includes an 1884 resolution allowing.....
New York. 1844. [4],74pp. plus three maps (two of them folding). Original printed wrappers. Fore-edge of front wrapper and spine ends chipped. Light foxing, maps somewhat tanned. About very good. "Observation tour in behalf of the Episcopal Church from Arkansas to Ft. Leavenworth. The report had previously appeared in June.....
Oklahoma City. 1932. 308pp. Frontis. Photos. Cloth. Fine. In chipped dust jacket. A biography of the Oklahoma governor.
Atoka, Indian Territory [Oklahoma]: Indian Citizen Print, 1890. 22pp. Original printed yellow wrappers. Two holes punched through near spine, not affecting text. Front wrapper lightly stained. Institutional ink stamp ("withdrawn") on verso of titlepage. Very good. A scarce Indian Territory imprint, describing the meeting of the Baptist Missionary and Educational.....
[N.p. Sept. 1, 1946]. 10pp. Original self wrappers, stapled. Minor soiling. Contemporary ownership signature on front cover. Very good. In a red cloth folder. Tribal Relations Pamphlet 1B, which lists the Indian tribes organized under the various acts mentioned, and their populations.
