Thomas Judge "Tex" Cooper (1876-1951), who age at 16 had many beatings by his father, a 7th day Adventist Preacher. He became a skilled cowboy and one of the major talents for the 101 ranch Wild West Shows. He traveled in Europe and the U.S. with Buffalo Bill and began..... More
Circa 189-?. a Very nice 10 x 8 1/2" photograph with cowboys leading herd. The landscape is unidentified but is like several Texas examples at the National Cowboy and Western Museum. The rounded W brand is difficult to identify since there have been over 20,000 cattle brands in the state..... More
November 28, 1948: Western Hall of Fame. Quarto. This was one of the greatest gatherings of the Western Stars of Screen and Music that planned a "Hoss Opera" which would create the Western Hall of Fame. They began planning in the home of Roy Rogers and Tim Spencer was named..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 950 copies. The present copy is # 479. 198 pages, illustrated with photographs. Whether it was a Kenai Moose Hunt or hunting big horn sheep, Russell Annabel brings color and excitement in a world of hunting that before World War..... More
Portland, Maine, Nd(ca.1885): Chisholm Brothers. First Edition. 5" x 6" Publisher's embossed red cloth binding with a gilt title "Cowboy Life" with image of cowboy on front cover. The last 3 leaves are detached but all 22 images are present. They include sepia photographs: Cowboy, Pitching Bronco, Hitting the Breeze..... More
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1886. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by Captain Jack. Portrait frontispiece, 181 pp. (6) pp. publisher's ads. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced. During the civil war he became Chief Scout for the 5th Cavalry under the command of Eugene A. Carr..... More
Santa Barbara; (1936): The Schauer Printing Studio. First Edition. Small Quarto. . No pagination. A very nice copy of a poetic lament on the passing of Will Rogers. The frontispiece of Will Rogers looking back is emblematic. Charles M. Russell and Joe De Yong had much in common. Both wound..... More
Norman, OK; (1968): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 300pp. illustrated by photographs. American history through the life of Ben Kemp. At twenty-one he was considered the best bronco buster in his part of Texas. In the 1880s he was with the Texas Rangers. The reader will also find..... More
Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1943. Limited Edition. Octavo. 73 pages, limited to 700 copies and the type melted. Illustrated by Tom Lea with designs by Carle Hertzog and an introduction by James Emmit McCauley. One of the most authentic accounts of the hard life of the cowboy in the 1880's..... More
(Lubbock, TX, 2007): Texas Tech University Press. First Edition. Quarto. 361p. index, bibliography, notes. Illustrated with photographic images. The ranching boom of the 1880s made the Texas Panhandle town of Tascosa known as 'the cowboy capital of the world." The author traces the town's rise in the 1880s as a...... More
Danville, Ill.(1968): The Interstate Printers. Octavo. Second Edition, 5th printing. 226 pages, index, illustrated. Farm Quarterly wrote: "he is an authority on cattle investments. His chapters ....on aspect of the business using government land, tax aspects, ranching as a business, market prices, etc." A book sought after for the philosophy..... More
Van Nuys, California: J.E. Reynolds, Bookseller, 1961. Octavo. J.E.Reynolds tells of his meeting with Ross Santee in Tucson. A very delightful tale as he asks Santee's permission to devote a catalog to him and he received a seven-page typed letter. After his study in the Chicago Art Institute, he spent..... More
Chico, California: Hurst & Yount, 1958. Limited Edition. Octavo. . 78 pages. Signed by W.H. Hutchinson and numbered 329 in a limited edition of 500 copies. Drawings by James Bodrero. Originally, this was part of a series in the Saturday Evening Post began on August 13, 1910. Although violence had..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 3-258(1) pages. What many consider the best Western fiction ever written is a plot rooted in the West that the author knew but was already undergoing change in the last decades of the 19th century. The plot deals with a robber who attempts..... More
Houston: Saddlerock Corporation, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 158 pages, 56 photographs, illustrations. Signed by L.N. Sikes and Bob Grey. Laid in is a photograph of L.N. Sikes taken by Bob Grey and signed on the back: "L.N. Sikes, DeQueen, Ark." Also laid in is a two page advance description of..... More
New York: The MacMillan Co, 1902. First Edition. Octavo. First printing in April. 504 pp., (6) pp. publisher's ads, illustrated by Arthur I. Keller, and dedicated to his very close friend Theodore Roosevelt. The story of a young cowboy known only as the Virginian, who travels through the Wyoming Territory..... More