6 1/2" x 10" AN EARLY WIRE PHOTO OF ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS VIOLENT GANGS LEADING TO THE ELECTROCUTION OF IRENE CRAWFORD SCHROEDER IN PENNSYLVANIA AFTER HER CAPTURE IN ARIZONA One of the most legendary crime sprees that began in 1929 with a series of robberies with Irene Schroeder..... More
Silver City New Mexico; (2003): High Lonesome Books. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies, this copy signed by the author on the title page. Allison was noted as the best gunman in Texas. He became the youngest sheriff in Texas at age 27 in 1888, was gunned down in..... More
Douglas, AZ: Published By Author, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 82 pages, signed by the author on the title page. The controversial story began when Percy Bowden decided that so many lies were told about him that he got Ervin Bond to write covering his life as "the kid chief of..... More
Np/(1997): Historical Research Associates / Glenn G. Boyer. Octavo. Signed by the author. 135pp. Reprint of rare 1967 first issue, with the addition of un-published plates. Illustrated with period photographs. Bound in black cloth lettered in white, spine lettering white, in a peach illustrated dust jacket with fading to spine..... More
(Santa Fe, NM, 1988): Clear Light Publishers. First Edition. Octavo. 269pp. Illustrated by photograph. Well-traveled Santa Fe Trail couldn't help drawing a few bad men. The angry citizens of Las Vegas, NM had a running feud with outlaws, and more than a few were jailed or hanged in that fine..... More
Cheyenne, WY; (1995): Beartooth Corral, LLC. First Printing. Octavo. 327pp. Illustrated history of Joe Lefors, U.S. Marshal, and the capture and trial of Tom Horn, bounty hunter. Lefors is the "white hat" man in the posse following Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, which prompted the movie line, " who IS..... More
Cheyenne, WY; (1991): Beartooth Corral. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 260, (2)pp. Illustrated with period photographs of people and town scenes, a full tale of the "man who lived 15 lives." A lovely near fine copy bound in pictorial stiff paper wraps. More
College Station, TX: Creative Publishing Co., 1992. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 191pp. Extensively reasearched treatise on the identity and life of Mysterious Dave Mather, Assistant U. S. Marshall, Dodge City, in the company of Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. A rich history of violent times in the old west..... More
Dallas; (1936): The Turner Company. First Edition. Octavo. 173 pages. Along with James B. Gillett, Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 (Austin, 1921) and Albert Bigelow Paine, Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger (1909) These are the most important early books on the Texas feuds, Douglas deals first..... More
College Station, TX; (1988): Creative Publishing Co. Octavo. 2nd printing. 159pp. A revealing new account of the capture of Billy the Kid, using newspaper accounts, unpublished eyewitness interviews, and early published books by eyewitnesses. Period photographs, line drawings. Bibliography. Index. Bound in maroon cloth, spine lettering gilt, in pictorial dust..... More
College Station, TX: Creative Publishing Co., 1992. First Edition. Octavo. 224pp. A fascinating search for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, told from the perspective of family member of Harry Longabough, a patient researcher, along with forensic science. Illustrated with period photographs of the Wild Bunch gang and the places..... More
Lansing MI; (2003): Protar House. First Edition. Octavo. 181p. index. bibliography. notes, Photographs. Signed by the author limited to 200 copies (no 25 of 200). An important study on Curly Bill solving many problems based on a careful study of the documents. A fine copy bound in off white cloth..... More
Silver City, NM. (2000): High-Lonesome Books. First Edition. Octavo. signed by the author, 248pp., edited by Neil B. Carmony. The story of Wyatt Earp from his birth to his death as his friends and enemies knew him. The author researched newspaper accounts, court records and documents to present the frontiersman..... More
Bandera, Texas; (1951): Rose & Hunter. First Edition. Quarto. xi, 236 pages. Illustrated by Warren Hunter.This album contains photographs and short biographies of many gun-fighters connected in one way or another with the growth of the legend of Billy the Kid, John Selman, Pat Garrett, and many others. This copy..... More
Denton, TX,(2006): University of North Texas Press. First Edition. Octavo. 332p. index. bibliography. notes with a foreword by Rick Miller. Number four in the A.C. GreenThe most bitter feud in Texas history where Sheriff John Clark led a mob leading to the premeditated murder of rancher Timothy Williamson in 1875..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico; (1945): The Rydal Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies, [Howes, k-37] One of the Adams One-Fifty, Most Important Books on Western Outlaws and Lawmen. p.50 #87. Adams states this book is a very scholarly and a dependable source which can be used for material..... More
St. Cloud, MN: The North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., 1999. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 259pp. Signed by Author. What really happened at Northfield, Minnesota, when the James-Younger gang was thwarted and captured while attempting to rob the bank? The author's exhaustive research has..... More
(College Station, Tx (2001): Creative Publishing. First Edition. Large Octavo. Third Printing. Limited to 1000 copies. 320pp. illustrated Biography of one of the last gunfighters. Hardin killed his first man at age 15 and had his last at 42. He was the son of a Methodist preacher, was the premier..... More
Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Through the author's research, this is the first accurate Portrayal of the history of the outlaw Sam Bass.412pp., bound in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine bright copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
New York. (1929): A.L. Burt Co. Octavo. reprint. 286pp., (8)pp. The public loved the excitement of orgnized crime in the late 1920's and especially of the gangsster with machine gune and accompanied with his sexy gun moll as illustrated on the dust jacket cover. publlishers ads, bound in blue cloth..... More
(Pecos, TX 1983): Pioneer Book Publishers. Octavo. 130p. Signed by the author with introduction by Dale T. Schoenberger. illustrated by photographs. The best researched item on the legendary gunfighter who after his big gunfights slowly settled down to respectability. A near fine copy bound in pictorial paper covered boards... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. First Edition. 223pp. A running essay on Hickok as Man and Myth, illustrated facsimiles of documents and letters. Contains 160 plates, including purportedly all the known photographs of Wild Bill Hickok. Bibliography. Index. Bound in brown leather, with illustrated dust jacket... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1994. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 343pp. Detailed, colorful and newly researched biographies of fifty-four early California lawmen and desperadoes. Tough badmen, gutsy lawmen--more daring that the popularly celebrated frontiersmen of traditional western lore, men who were legends in their own time. Bound in brown cloth..... More
Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1999. First Edition. Octavo. 400pp. One of only 1008 copies printed. Signed and with the errata slip laid in. A reliable and well-written general history of Tombstone's discovery, development as a mining metropolis, and eventual decline before tourism brought a partial resurgence. Nice portraits..... More
New York; (1950): William Sloane Associates Publ. Octavo. 198pp. Text. Illustrated by Tom Lea, with an introduction by J. Frank Dobie and typography by Carl Hertzog. Siringo first book published in 1885 was so popular it was reprinted over ad over, more than a million copies of its various editions..... More