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
Houston; (1997): Beverly Publishing Co, First Edition. Octavo. Limited. 387pp. Illustrated by Edsel M. Cramer, Monique L. Jouannet and Jean-Claude Louis. The story of Old Black, a quarter horse and reigning world champion calf roping horse. His owner had become ill and gives the horse to Jim Bradley, a ten..... 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
Layton, UT; (1995): Gibbs Smith. First Edition. Quarto. 104p. Inscribed by the author and photographer. This work nominated for a Pulitzer Price has struck a chord with both the Western ranch owner and the ecologist. There is a balance that has been praised by major voices in both traditions. The..... More
Dallas; (1942): Banks, Upshaw. Octavo. 376p. Significant material on the great ranches in Texas. Photographs by Erwin E. Smith and others. The chapter on "protection men" tells the story of those who enforcers who were enemies of the cattle thieves. They generally didn't like to kill the rustlers but it..... More
Flagstaff; (1974): Northland Press. First Editions. Small Octavos. Limited to 1250 copies. The present set is The author's set and signed by him. Volume three is illustrated by Joe Beeler and he has drawn a bust of a horse and has signed it. The legendary Ben Green tells great stories..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. First printing346pp., This book continues the western epic of A B Gutherie Jr's critically acclaimed Big Sky series. The story of a young man's attempt at cattle ranching in the 1880s and running cattle from Oregon to Montana. A fine copy bound in..... More
Vail, Colorado: Diamond Trail Press, 2007. Limited Edition. Octavo. 90 pages. Limited to 100 copies. One of the finest autobiographies of a man devoted to the authentic world of the cowboy life. He has told accounts of his early life that people will recognize whether they were brought up in..... 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
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo. 189 pages. Foreword by William Lyon Phelps. One of the early classic collections of the life of the cowboy. These songs tale of both the loneliness and the togetherness. There is the lament of lost loves and the sweet memories of love affairs with Mexican..... 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
Elko, Nevada: Pearl Printing, 1994. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 325pp., illustrated with photographic images. The spectacular rise and fall of William Cornell Greene; Copper king, cattle baron and promoter extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District. By age 46, he had built a muti-million copper enterprise..... 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; (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
Np[Fort Worth, TX,] (2001): Bunkhouse Press. Limited Edfition. Octavo. Bookplate: Number 25 of 100 autographed collector's copies presented to Sharon and Joe Beeler, May 15, 2001. Additionally inscribed: "Joe and Sharon, Thanks for being my special friends. You have added greatly to my life. I love you. Joe Steagall, 5/15/2001..... More
(Apache, OK, 1999): Self Published. Limited Edition. Quarto. 181pp. #31 of 500 copies, signed by author on title page. An important study of Tombstone, Cochise County, and the gunfighters, lawmen, and outlaws. This provides residential records and registers, often with facsimiles of signatures, photographs and epitaphs. Bound in gray cloth..... More