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By: Egan, Ferol
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., Doubleday & Company: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11420
ISBN: 0-385-01775-8
Condition: Very Good+
582 pages, illustrations, map end-papers, wear to jacket edges. View more info
By: Elliott, Richard Smith, Mark Gardner
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3455
ISBN: 0806129514
Condition: New
292 pages, frontis, illustrations, maps. "When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, was included in its ranks. In addition to Lieutenant Elliott's duties in the Laclede Rangers, he served as a regular correspondent to the St. Louis Reveille. Elliott provided readers back home with an account of the grueling march over the famous Santa Fe Trail, the triumphant entry of the army into Santa Fe, the U.S. occupation of New Mexico, and the volunteers' eventual return to St. Louis.... View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society:
Seller ID: 293
Condition: Very Good
98 pg. Small piece of tape with title written on upper spine else VG Journal of English's trip to Honolulu, Victoria, British Columbia, Mexico City, and places in between. View more info
By: Erb, Susan M., Washington Peck
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Norman, The Arthur H. Clark Co.: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014400
Condition: New
296 pages, frontis, maps, illustrations. American Trails Series XXII. "A cooper and farmer from Ontario, Canada, Washington Peck (1801-89) spent decades traveling across the western frontier before finally settling in Washington Territory. Peck's chronicle of his itinerant life offers fresh insight into some of the less traveled emigrant routes across the nineteenth-century West. Peck left two wagon-train diaries-published here for the first time-that log western routes not often recorded: an 1850-51 trip to the California gold fields via the Platte River Road-Mormon Trail, the Salt Lake-... View more info
By: Fairholme, William, Jack B. Tykal
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Spokane Washington, The Arthur Clark Company: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1727
ISBN: 0870622609
Condition: New
186 pages, illustrations, limited to 750 copies. Fairholme a Lieutenant of the British light infantry, recorded his account of travel from the Canadian border to Western Kansas in 1841. View more info
Price: $550.00
Publisher: N.Y., Published By the Author: 1881
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14245
Condition: Very Good+
248 pages + ads, illustrations, . Farrow was an instructor of tactics at West Point, and Commanded Indian scouts in the Department of the Columbia. A "how to" hand-book for officers and soldiers on the frontier. Information on horses, equipment and supplies, how to travel in the mountains, marching, crossing rivers, the camp, mess, living off the country, tracking Indians, the trail, signs, and signals. Also a 36 page appendix on Chinook Vocabulary, Swimming exercises and rowing. Originally published in 1881, most useful in its day. Howes F56, Rader 1345 View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: N.Y., Published By the Author: 1881
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015530
Condition: Very Good+
284 pages + ads, illustrations, rebound in full leather, raised bands on spine, signature of author attached to front fly leaf (most likely transferred when it was rebound.) Housed in a slipcase with the original front cover with title in gilt. Farrow was an instructor of tactics at West Point, and Commanded Indian scouts in the Department of the Columbia. A "how to" hand-book for officers and soldiers on the frontier. Information on horses, equipment and supplies, how to travel in the mountains, marching, crossing rivers, the camp, mess, living off the country, tracking Indians, the t... View more info
By: Faulk, Odie B.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., Oxford University Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6286
Condition: Very Good+
232 pages, maps, illustrations, slight wear to jacket edges. Trail ran from Texas to San Diego. Freighting, overland mail, Civil War, travelers, cattle drives etc. View more info
By: Featherstonhaugh, George W., William E. Lass
Price: $40.00
Publisher: St. Paul., Minnesota Historical Society: 1970
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2310
Condition: Very Good -
2 volumes, Vol. 1, 416 pages, frontis, maps, Vol. 2, 372 pages, frontis, map, very slight exterior wear, slipcase, lightly rubbed. Reprint of the 1847 edition. Account of two expeditions taken by Featherstonhaugh, the 1st in 1835 from Washing D.C to Pittsburg, Cleveland, the Great Lakes and Green Bay across Wisconsin, and up the Mississippi River to the Minnesota River. In 1837 he extended from Prairie du Chien down the Mississippi by steamboat to Missouri, then east to kentucky, tennesse, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Spokane Washington, The Arthur H. Clark Co.: 2008
Seller ID: 015507
Condition: New
414 pages, maps, illustrations. "This volunteer unit of five companies was unique in many ways beyond its pioneer experience. Led by regular officers, including Philip St. George Cooke, it served as part of General Stephen W. Kearny's Army of the West, invading and occupying what would become New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Formed in July 1846 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the battalion marched to California, where it was discharged from federal service in July 1847, after exactly one year's service. In the process, it did not experience combat, but made one of the most incredible and chal... View more info
By: Flint, Timothy, (Pattie, James)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Readex Microprint: 1966
Seller ID: 1012
Condition: Very Good+
TITLE CONTINUED....During An Expedition From St. Louis Through The Vast Regions Between That Place And The Pacific Ocean, And Thence Back Through The City Of Mexico To Vera Cruz, During Journeyings Of Six Years In Which He And His Farther, Who Accompanied Him, Suffered Unheard Of Hardships And Dangers, Had Various Conflicts With The Indians, And Were Made Captives, In Which Captivity His Farther Died, Together With A Description Of The Country, And The Various Nations Through Which They Passed. Hard Cover, 300 pages, illustrations, Very Good Condition, Reprint of the 1833 edition. Wagner-Camp... View more info
By: Fordham, Elias Pym, Ogg, Frederic Austin(editor)
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Cleveland, Arthur Clark Company: 1906
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1026
Condition: Very Good
248 pages + ads, illustrations, green cloth. Howes F257 View more info
By: Foreman, Grant, Donald Worcester
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press: 1994
Seller ID: 8872
ISBN: 0803268831
Condition: New
345 pages, frontis, illustrations. "One of the best books ever written about the Southwest."--Stanley Vestal This pioneering work is about the traders, trappers, and explorers in the vast area that would become Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado. Foreman describes the early explorations of the French and Spanish in the Louisiana Territory and often focuses on the junction of the Verdigris, Grand, and Arkansas rivers, known as the Three Forks, a trading and military center from which the conquest of a large part of the American Southwest was achieved.&... View more info
By: Forsyth, James W. F. D. Grant
Price: $875.00
Publisher: Wash. D.C., Government Printing Office: 1875
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015949
Condition: Very Good -
17 pages, 5 plates, large fold-out map, spine repaired, but inside is a bit loose. Period ink inscription on cover, signed by Geo. M.???? Dec 3rd 75, Engineer Office. Sheridan ordered the expedition due to Indian hostilities and for the benefit of any future military operations in the area. Howes F272, Graff 1383. View more info
By: Freeman, Thomas, Peter, Custis
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Fairfield, Washington, YE Galleon Press: 1984
Seller ID: 014913
ISBN: 0877703280
Condition: New
74 pages, map endpapers, A reprint of the rare, 1807 printing of the third Thomas Jefferson exploration party. Freeman a surveyor, and Custis a naturalist, accompanied by a military escort, traveled up the Red River in the spring of 1806 in the vicinity of the Caddo villages where they were stopped by Spanish cavalry and forced to turn back. Wagner-Camp 6b View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Fairfield, Washington, YE Galleon Press: 1995
Seller ID: 015348
ISBN: 0877705461
Condition: New
77 pages, large fold-out map in rear cover pocket." Reprint of the 1848 Senate report, this is the rarest of a number of books by Fremont and his wife. It was later expanded into a much larger book. Included are reproductions of approximately 80 titles listed in the National Union Catalog of Pre-1956 imprints, including maps, illustrations." View more info
By: Fremont, Jessie Benton, John Charles
Price: $775.00
Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Company: 1887
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015344
Condition: Very Good+
655 pages, frontis, fold-out maps, illustrations, original decorative cloth, front hinge cracked, minor edge wear, housed in a very nice custom clamshell case with ΒΌ leather spine, raised bands and title on spine. Howes F367, "Embraces his first three exploring expeditions and the part played by him in the conquest of California." View more info
By: Frush, William and Charles
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fairfield, Washington, YE Galleon Press: 2000
Seller ID: 014960
ISBN: 0877703027
Condition: New
79 pages, Three Journals in one. The first is William Frush's overland diary detailing his trip from the Missouri to Oregon in 1850. The second by Charles Frush details his trip from The Dalles, Oregon to Fort Owen, Montana in 1858. The third also by Charles Frush is an account of his trip from Fort Owens to Fort Benton in the winter of 1858. View more info
By: Fry, James B.
Price: $400.00
Publisher: N.Y., D. Van Nostrand: 1879
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5178
Condition: Very Good+
254 pages + ads, maroon cloth, gilt lettering, very nice copy! Graff 1458, " Contains chapters on the Fetterman Massacre, Forsyth's Fight, the Grattan Massacre, and the Canby Massacre, etc." Howes F399aa, Rader 1503 View more info
By: Fry, James B.
Price: $750.00
Publisher: N.Y., D. Van Nostrand: 1879
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 015545
Condition: Very Good
254 pages + ads, maroon cloth, gilt lettering, minor wear, 2 bookplates, one of Captain Cyrus S. Roberts 17th Regt. U.S. Infantry stating, bought June 12th 1879 cost??, the other is of Charles D. Roberts. Laid in is a handwritten letter dated June 12th 1879 discussing the book, signed by James B. Fry. "General Cyrus S, Roberts. Birth: unknown Death: Mar. 19, 1917 United States Army Brigadier General. His son, Charles Duval Roberts was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, (He earned the Medal of Honor on 1 July 1898 while serving as Second Lieutenant, 17th United States Infantry, at El Can... View more info
