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Brand Book XII The Westerners

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles Corral: 1966

Seller ID: 014974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

211 pages, photos, illustrations, limited to 500 copies, housed in a slipcase. Chapters include; The Old West is Gone, Deserted Diggings, Railroads of Arizona, California's Gold Rush Churches, Mountain Men as Explorers, Edward S. Curtis, Following Fremont's Fifth Expedition, etc.
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Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating a Report and map of the Examination of New Mexico, Made by Lieutenant J.W. Abert 1848

By: Abert, James W.

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: Washington, 1848

Seller ID: 016364

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good -

Senate 30th Congress 1st Session Executive No. 23. Original printed wraps, wear to edges and spine, 132 pages, 24 plates, fold-out map, housed in a custom case. One of the great southwestern government- sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form, according to Wagner-Camp. The lithographed plates, attributed to Abert himself, include views of Santa Fe, Fort Marcy, San Felipe, the Pueblos, Indians, etc., and are among the most celebrated depictions of the region. The text describes Abert's trip from Fort Leavenworth over the Santa Fe Trail via Bent's Fort, his survey of the northern part ...
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Henry's Journal Covering Adventures And Experiences In The Fur Trade On The Red River 1799-1801

By: Bell, Charles N.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fairfield, Washington, YE Galleon Press: 1982

Seller ID: 015113

ISBN: 0877702705

Binding: Stiff Wraps

Condition: New

20 pages, illustrations. This paper was read before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, May 4, 1888 on the subject of Alexander Henry's experiences in the fur trade on the Red River in Canada.
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Life On The Red River Of The Northwest 1857 to 1887 Being the History of Navigation on the Red River of the North By Fred A. Bill and Life on the River Towns of Fargo and Moorhead By J. W. Riggs Introduction and Preface By Usher L. Burdick

By: Bill, Fred A., Riggs, J. W., Usher L. Burdick

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Wirth Brothers: 1947

Seller ID: 015085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

122 pages, frontis, photos, 2 small owner labels on front pastedown, slight edge wear. Limited to 750 copies. Laid in is a typed letter dated 1958 from the Fargo Forum addressed to the owner of the book discussing river travel and boats.
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The History Of Minnesota 4 Volumes

By: Bjornson, Val

Price: $75.00

Publisher: West Palm Beach Florida, Lewis Historical Publishing CO.: 1969

Seller ID: 2332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

4 Volumes, Vols. 1 & 2, 964 total pages, frontis, illustrations, contain the history of Minnesota. Vols 3 & 4, 968 total pages, illustartions, contain family and personal records. Exploration, fur trade, Indian wars, Civil war, pioneers, etc.
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The Hunting of the Buffalo Introduction by Frank Dobie

By: Branch, Douglas

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press: 1997

Seller ID: 3578

ISBN: 0-8032-6137-3

Binding: Stiff Wraps

Condition: New

240 pages, illustrations. "Originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gradual extermination is chronicled by E. Douglas Branch, who drew on rich materials, including Indian legends, old letters and diaries, and tales of frontier travelers."
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Three Years In The Rocky Mountains

By: Brown, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fairfield, Washington, YE Galleon Press: 1982

Seller ID: 016382

ISBN: 0877701512

Binding: Stiff Wraps

Condition: New

Limited edition, of 500 numbered copies, 28 pages, index. "Provides what is probably the only known account of the Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1837
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Fur Traders From New England The Boston Men In The North Pacific, 1787-1800 The Narratives of William Dane Phelps, William Sturgis, and James Gilchrist Swan

By: Busch, Briton C. Barry M. Gough, William Phelps, William Sturgis, James Swan

Price: $37.00

Publisher: Spokane Washington, The Arthur Clark Company: 1997

Seller ID: 015449

ISBN: 0870622617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

137 pages. Northwest Historical Series XVIII "The earliest accounts of the Northwest fur trade, prepared and edited by two top scholars in the field. They have gathered original narratives of the earliest stages of the fur trade: William Dane Phelps' "Solid Men of Boston," William Sturgis' "The Northwest Fur Trade," "William Sturgis on the American Vessels and the Maritime Fur Trade," and "Account of the Vessels Engaged in the Sea-Otter-Fur-Trade on the Northwest Coast from 1787 to 1809," compiled by William Tufts, Esq., from his own memoranda. These rare d...
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McGillivary Lord Of The Northwest

By: Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin & Company: 1962

Seller ID: 2371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

337 pages, frontis, map end-papers, minor chipping to jacket edges. McGillivray went to Canada in the late 1700's and went to work as a clerk for a fur trading company. He quickly rose through the ranks and eventually became Chief Director.
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The American Fur Trade Of The Far West A History of Pioneer Trading Posts & Early Fur Compaines of the Missouri Valley & Rocky Mountains & of the Overland Commerce With Santa FE

By: Chittenden, Hiram Martin

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, Academic Reprints: 1954

Seller ID: 998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

2vols illustrations, 1029 total pages, minor edge wear to jackets, bookplate. They're all here, Carson, Fitzpatrick, Bonneville, Odgen, Wyeth, Astor, American & Rocky Mountain Fur Companies etc. Howes C390
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The American Fur Trade Of The Far West A History of Pioneer Trading Posts & Early Fur Compaines of the Missouri Valley & Rocky Mountains & of the Overland Commerce With Santa FE

By: Chittenden, Hiram Martin

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, Academic Reprints: 1954

Seller ID: 016211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

1029 total pages. illustrations, minor edge wear to dust jacket edges, They're all here, Carson, Fitzpatrick, Bonneville, Odgen, Wyeth, Astor, American & Rocky Mountain Fur Companies etc. Howes C390.
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The American Fur Trade Of The Far West A History of Pioneer Trading Posts & Early Fur Compaines of the Missouri Valley & Rocky Mountains & of the Overland Commerce With Santa FE

By: Chittenden, Hiram Martin

Price: $125.00

Publisher: N.Y., Press of the Pioneers: 1935

Seller ID: 016418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2vols. Green cloth with gilt lettering, 1014 pages, fold out map, illustrated, light fading to spines. They're all here, Carson, Fitzpatrick, Bonneville, Odgen, Wyeth, Astor, American & Rocky Mountain Fur Companies etc. Howes C390.
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Yellowstone National Park Historical & Descriptive 1933 Edition Revised by Eleanor Chittenden Cress and Isabelle F. Story Illustrated With Late Photographs

By: Chittenden, Hiram, Martin

Price: $21.00

Publisher: California, Stanford University Press: 1933

Seller ID: 016224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

286 pages, frontis, photos, fold-out map, small spot on spine just a bit lighter than the rest of the cloth. Early history including the trappers, explorers, John Colter, Bridger, Raynold's Expedition, Indians, etc.
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Adventurers and Prophets American Autobiographers in Mexican California 1828-1847

By: Churchill, Charles B.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Spokane Washington, The Arthur H. Clark Company: 1995

Seller ID: 3159

ISBN: 0870622285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

278 pages. Western Frontiersmen Series XXIV. 1 of 750 copies. "These personal narratives, combined with social, cultural, political and economic elements, offer an authentic record of early California society. Kit Carson, explorer and mountain man; Richard Henry Dana, seaman; William Heath Davis, Jr., prominent trader who assimilated into the Californio upper class; James Ohio Pattie, fur trapper; William Dane Phelps, ship captain; Alfred Robinson, trader and prominent merchant and sailor; Henry Augustus Wise, U.S. Navy Lieutenant hell-bent on expansion; William Henry Thomes, feckless thr...
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Adventurers and Prophets American Autobiographers in Mexican California 1828-1847

By: Churchill, Charles B.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Spokane Washington, The Arthur H. Clark Company: 1995

Seller ID: 015915

ISBN: 0870622285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

278 pages. Western Frontiersmen Series XXIV. 1 of 750 copies, in original shrinkwrap. "These personal narratives, combined with social, cultural, political and economic elements, offer an authentic record of early California society. Kit Carson, explorer and mountain man; Richard Henry Dana, seaman; William Heath Davis, Jr., prominent trader who assimilated into the Californio upper class; James Ohio Pattie, fur trapper; William Dane Phelps, ship captain; Alfred Robinson, trader and prominent merchant and sailor; Henry Augustus Wise, U.S. Navy Lieutenant hell-bent on expansion; William He...
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This Reckless Breed of Men, The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest

By: Cleland,Robert Glass

Price: $24.00

Publisher: N.Y, Knopf: 1963

Seller ID: 60

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

361pgs,illus. maps, index, Bk.Lvrs.SW. pg59,163
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This Reckless Breed of Men, The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest

By: Cleland,Robert Glass

Price: $30.00

Publisher: N.Y., Knopf: 1963

Seller ID: 015148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

361 pages, illustrations, minor chipping to jacket edges.
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James Clyman American Frontiersman 1792-1881 The Adventures Of A Trapper And Covered Wagon Emigrant As Told In His Own Reminiscences And Diaries

By: Clyman, James Charles L. Camp

Price: $675.00

Publisher: San Francisco, California Historical Society: 1928

Seller ID: 015003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

California Historical Society Publication No. 3 (has the Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland pasted over the CA Historical Society) 251 pages, frontis paste-on, maps (1 fold-out), illustrations, very slight wear, couple corners bumped. Limited to 300 copies. Howes C81aa "One of the most trustworthy narratives of the far west, for the period 1842-6, the only Oregon overland journal of 1844." Mintz 99, Graff 769, Rader 849.
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James Clyman Frontiersman 1792-1881 The Adventures Of A Trapper And Covered-Wagon Emigrant AS Told In His Own Reminiscences And Diaries

By: Clyman, James Charles L. Camp

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Champoeg Press: 1960

Seller ID: 015008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

352 pages, maps, illustrations, frontis, in orginal mylar cover. Definitive Edition, Limited to 1,450 copies. Howes C81aa "One of the most trustworthy narratives of the far west, for the period 1842-6, the only Oregon overland journal of 1844." Mintz 99
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James Clyman American Frontiersman 1792-1881 The Adventures Of A Trapper And Covered Wagon Emigrant As Told In His Own Reminiscences And Diaries

By: Clyman, James Charles L. Camp

Price: $400.00

Publisher: San Francisco, California Historical Society: 1928

Seller ID: 016384

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

California Historical Society Publication No. 3, 251 pages, frontis paste-on, maps (1 fold-out), illustrations, minor edge wear, bookplate, frontis photo has one corner taped, not effecting image. Limited to 300 copies. Howes C81aa "One of the most trustworthy narratives of the far west, for the period 1842-6, the only Oregon overland journal of 1844." Mintz 99, Graff 769, Rader 849.
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