Western Americana Books for Sale or Trade

Current as of September 22, 2021

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Morris, Richard B., ed.

Encyclopedia of American History, Revised and Enlarged

American History

840 pp. Hardcover. Harper & Row. 1961

Like new. Dust jacket chipped; ripped at head back ¾ inch.

$5.00

Chatterton, Fenimore C.

Yesterday’s Wyoming the intimate memoirs of Fenimore Chatterton, Territorial Citizen, Governor and Statesman, An Autobiography

Autobiography

133 pp. Hardcover. Powder River Publishers & Booksellers. 1957

Very good. Dust jacket:  Yellowed, 2” rip spine tail, ½” & ¾” rip spine head. Book clean & tight

$60.00

Hertzler, Arthur E.

Horse and Buggy Doctor

Biography

322 pp.  Paper. Bison Book.  1970

New. Book plate F. F. E.

$6.50

Miller, Max and Fred Mazzulla

Holladay Street: One hundred years of Denver’s secret history.

Colorado

224 pp. Paperback. Ballantine Books. A Comstock Edition. 1971.

Front cover ripping away from text 2” at tail. Lower front and back cover corners bent .

$3.00

Whithorn, Doris, comp.

Bicentennial Tapestry of the Yellowstone Conference

Methodism in Montana & Wyoming

211 pp. Hardcover.  Livingston Enterprise. 1984

Ex-Library.  Otherwise very good.

$10.00

Stands In Timber, John / Margot Liberty

Cheyenne Memories

Native Americans

330 pp. Soft cover. Yale University Press. 1972

Very good. Ex-library. Laminate covered.

$5.00

Mattison, Ray H.

Army Post on the Northern Plains, 1865-1885

Nebraska

27 pp. Softcover. Courier Press.

Stapled in center.  Very good

$6.00

Knight, Dave

Franklin County, Nebraska

Nebraska

140 pp. Paperback.  Earth Eyes Travel Guides. 2012

New

$18.00

Butcher, Solomon D.

Pioneer History of Custer County, Nebraska with Which is Combined Sod Houses of the Great American Plains

Nebraska

403+ pp. Hardcover.  Purcell Inc.  1976 (Third printing)

Good.  With DJ.  Tight, clean text.

$25.00

Talbot, Vivian Linford

David E. Jackson:  Field Captain of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade

Rocky Mtn. West

138 pp. Paper.  Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum. 1996.

Very good.  4 pin-pricks on the front cover.

$14.50

Peters, Harriet, Dave Stirling and Dick Rome

Infamous Dude Dictionary, Rocky Mountainania

Rocky Mtn. West

Unpaged, Cardstock. Spiral-bound. W. H. Kistler Stationery Company. 1952

Very good.

$8.00

Leckie, William H.

Buffalo Soldiers:  A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the Wesst

West

290 pp. paperback University of Oklahoma Press. 1981 (Sixth printing)

Good.

$7.50

Mueller, Ellen Crago

Calamity Jane

West

24 pp.  Softcover. Stapled  1981

New.  Inscription inside cover.

$12.00

Moody, Ralph

Home Ranch

West

280 pp.  Hardcover. W. W. Norton & Co. 1956

First edition. Ex-library. Cover soiled. Corners worn.  Tight, clean , M block.  No DJ.

$25.00

Murphy, Dan

Oregon Trail, Voyage of Discovery: the Story Behind the Scenery

West

64 pp. Paper.  KC Publications. 1992

Very good.

$4.00

Fenwick, Robert W. (Red)

Red Fenwick’s West: Yesterday and today

West

262 pp. Hardcover. Sage Books. 1956

Very good. Dust jacket one 1” x 2” triangular rip on front head and small “U”-shaped rip on back.

$20.00

Crossen, Forest

Western Yesterdays, Mining Camp Doctor and other Stories.  Volume IV

West

93 pp. Paper. Paddock Publishing Inc. 1972

Very good. Signed by the author.  Adhesive left on cover by price tag.

$3.00

 

Acceptance of the Statue of Esther Morris Presented by the State of Wyoming. (Proceedings in the Congress and in the Rotunda, United States Capitol, April 6, 1960)

Women

46 pp. Hardcover. United States Printing Office, 1961

New

$14.00

Brown, Mabel

First Ladies of Wyoming, 1869-1990

Women

160 pp. Paperback. Wyoming Commission for Women. 1990

Very Good. Dedication from author on Title Page.  First signature loose.

$20.00

Anderson, Nancy F.

Lora Webb Nichols: Homesteader’s Daughter, Miner’s Bride

Women

296 pp. Paperback Caxton Printers. 1995

Very Good

$4.00

Dahlquist, Laura

“Meet Jim Bridger”  A brief history of Bridger and his trading house on Black’s Fork

Wyoming

38 pp. Softcover.  Gazette Press. 1951.  Fourth printing.

Stapled in center.  Very   good.

$10.00

Till, Michael J.

Along Wyoming’s Historic Highway 20

Wyoming

127 pp.  Softcover.  Arcadia Publishing.  2016

Like new.

$23.00

Starr, Eileen F.

Architecture in the Cowboy State, 1849-1940

Wyoming

199 pp. Paperback.  High Plains Press.  1992

Very good.  Dedication by author and photographer on title page.

$13.00

Patrick, Lucile Nichols

Best Little Town by a Dam Site Or Cody’s First 20 Years

Wyoming

178 pp. Hard-cover. Flintlock Publishing Co. 1969

Very, good. With dust jacket. D. J. ripped and repaired with Scotch tape; 1 inch by 1 ½ inch piece missing near lower spine.

$20.00

Edgar, Bob & Jack Turnell

Brand of a Legend

Wyoming

244 pp. Paperback.  Wolverine Gallery.  1987 (Second printing)

Good.  Upper spine worn.

$80.00

Buffalo’s Centennial Book Committee

Buffalo’s First Century

Wyoming

216 + index.  1984

Very good.  Edges slightly soiled.  Tight

$65.00

Fleishman, Martha & Carol Joy Justice

Bugs to Blizzards or An Army Wife at Fort D. A. Russell

Wyoming

111 pp. Soft cover. Wigwam Publishing Co. 1974

Very good. Cover creased at spine. Cover edged chipped. Book clean & tight.

$9.00

 

Calico Hill: Recalling the early years, good times and hardships of homesteaders, Laramie County, Wyoming

Wyoming

101 pp. Paper.  Jolly Dry Farmers/Pioneer Printing Co, reprint 2002

Stapled in center.  Very good.

$15.00

Bragg, Bill

Campbell County: The Slumbering Giant

Wyoming

20 pp. Softcover.  Holiday Inn, 1978

Stapled in center.  Very good.

$12.00

Wyoming Retired Teachers

Children—Chalkdust—Cowboys

Wyoming

80 pp. Soft cover. Modern Printing Co. 1976

 

$16.00

Spring, Agnes Wright, ed.

Collected Writings and Addresses of William Chapin Deming, Vol. IV

Wyoming

393 pp. Hardcover. Arthur H. Clark Co. 1947

Good.  Text tight and clean.  Pages foxed.

$30.00

Cook, Joseph W.

Diary and Letters of the Reverend Joseph W. Cook

Wyoming

137 pp. Hardcover.

[Denver Bookbinding Company]

Fine. This is a reprint.

$15.00

Hall, Charles “Pat”

Documents of Wyoming Heritage

Wyoming

142 pp. Hardcover. Oversize. Wyoming Bicentennial Commission. 1976

Very good. Spots near tail on edge opposite spine.

$35.00

Bard, Floyd C. as told to Agnes Wright Spring

Dude Wrangler: Hunter: Line Rider

Wyoming

100 pp. Hardcover. Sage Books. 1964.

Very good.  Dust cover very good.

$20.00

Amsler, Melba, et. al.

Facts and Fantasy of Uinta County’s Past

Wyoming

49 pp. Paper, spiral bound. 1987

Small spill on cover, otherwise like new.

$10.00

Wheeler, Denice

Feminine Frontier:  Wyoming Women, 1850-1900

Wyoming

313 pp.  Hardcover.  1987 

Edge wear.  Corners worn.

$20.00

Hieb, David L.

Fort Laramie National Monument, Wyoming

Wyoming

43 pp. Soft cover. National Park Service. 1961

Very good. P. O. name inside front cover.

$5.00

Wasden, David J.

From Beaver to Oil:  A Century in the Development of Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin

Wyoming

350 pp. Hardcover. Pioneer Printing and Stationery Co. 1973

Very good.  Signed by author.  P. O. name inside FFE.

$125.00

Gage, J. R.

Geography of Wyoming

Wyoming

134 pp.  Hardcover.  The Mills Company.  1940 

Jr. Hi. Text book.  Covers soiled. Corners and edges worn.  Text block tight and clean.  Hinges a little loose.

$25.00

Trachsel, Herman H. and Ralph M. Wade

Government and Administration of Wyoming. American Commonwealths Series.

Wyoming

381 pp. Hardcover. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1953

Very good.

$23.00

Hebard, Grace Raymond

Government of Wyoming:  The History, Constitution and 984Administration of Affairs, Fifth edition

Wyoming

286 pp. Hardcover.  Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co.  1914

Good.  Edge wear.  Corners worn.  Spine and hinges tight.

$24.00

Sandoval, Judith Hancock

Historic Ranches of Wyoming

Wyoming

97 pp. Paper.  Mountain States Lithographing Co.  1986

Very good+

$35.00

Jewell, Loretta

Homesteading the Prairie:  Carpenter, Wyoming

Wyoming

162 pp.  Paperback.  The Little Ol’ Print shop.  1968

Comb binding.  Cover and first page loose.  #85.  Water damage to back cover does not affect readability.

$20.00

Gage, Jack R.

Horse, The Buggy, The Doctor

Wyoming

42 pp. Soft cover. Stapled. Flintlock Publishing Co. 1968

Very good.

$6.00

Ellison, Robert Spurrier

Independence Rock:  The Great Record of the Desert

Wyoming

41 pp. Soft cover.  1930

Very good.  First copy from the press.  Signed by the printer and W. H. Jackson, Illustrator.

$45.00

Davis, Lynne & Meade

Jackson Hole from A to Z, Names, Places, Fact & Myths

Wyoming

100 pp. Soft cover. Comb bound. Pioneer Printing. 1979

Very good. Signed by author to previous owner.

$10.00

Alter, J. Cecil

Jim Bridger

Wyoming

358 pp.  Paperback. University of Oklahoma Press.  1982 (Sixth printing.)

Good

$12.50

 

Korein Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., Volume 2, 1996, Steve Smith, Potentate

Wyoming

44 pp. Hardcover. Campus Photo; Inter-state Studio

New

$10.00

Pence, Mary Lou

Laramie Story

Wyoming

42 pp.  Softcover.  1968

Stapled in center.  Very good.

$10.00

Roberts, Phil, ed.

More Buffalo Bones: Stories from Wyoming’s Past

Wyoming

64 pp. Soft cover. 1982

Very Good. Stapled

$7.50

Blair, Neal L., et. al.

Mule Deer of Wyoming

Wyoming

154 pp. Paper. Wyoming Game and Fish Department. 1985

New.  Dedicated by author.

$12.00

Rogers, W. P.

Oldtimer of the Jackson Hole Country:  A Story of Mountain Men for Men Only

Wyoming

62 pp. Hardcover. Warlick Press. 1964

Very good. Dust jacket very good.

$7.00

Ivey, Richard D.

Ophthalmology:  Cheyenne, Wyoming Physicians and Practices

Wyoming

67 pp. Loose pages.  2018 Updates

New

$5.00

Flynn, Shirley

Our Heritage, 100 Years at St. Mark’s, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1868-1968

Wyoming

143 pp. Hardcover. Pioneer Printing Co. 1968.

Fine. Ex-libris..  #354 of 1,000 copies. Signed by author.

$5.00

Amsler, Melba, et. al.

Our Railroad Heritage:  The Union Pacific in Wyoming

Wyoming

62 pp.  Paper, spiral bound. 

Lower edge slightly soiled. 

$10.00

Wright, Ora E. and Lenora S. Wright

Our Valley:  Eden Valley, Wyoming

Wyoming

290 pp. Paperback.  Gann Publishing, 1987

Very good.  Edges soiled.  Tight.  Spine not creased.

$30.00

Thompson, Martha

Pioneer Parade

Wyoming

80 pp. Paperback. Logan Printing Co. 1967

Soiled.  Back cover water damaged.  Last page stuck to back cover.  Lower corner of book folded.  Stapled in center.

$15.00

Bonar, John “Ace”

Pride, Power, Progress:  Wyoming’s First 100 Years

Wyoming

101 pp. Softcover.  Wyoming Historical Press.  1987

Good.  Cover soiled. Text tight and clean.

$14.00

Vanderpoel, Sally

S’More of It

Wyoming

184 pp. Paperback.  Endeavor Books.  2006

New.  Signed by author

$20.00

Jones, Walter R.

Sand Bar

Wyoming

227 pp. Hardcover. Natrona County Public Library Foundation.  2012

Ex-Library. New

$10o.00

Chisholm, James

South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm’s Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush

Wyoming

244 pp. Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press. 1960

Very good+. Dust jacket.

$9.00

Cook, Harold J.

Tales of the 04 Ranch:  Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887-1909

Wyoming

221 pp. Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press. 1968

Very Good

$15.00

Gage, Jack R.

Tensleep and No Rest, A Historical Account of the Range War of the Big Horns in Wyoming

Wyoming

222 pp. Prairie Publishing Company. 1958

Very good. P. O’s name on FFE.  Pages 7 and 15 corner turned down. Pages 1, 17 & 18 missing small piece of upper corner.

$40.00

Arnold, Bess and James L. Ehernberger

Union Pacific Depot:  An Elegant Legacy to Cheyenne

Wyoming

48 pp. Paper, stapled. 

Good. Small, sticky spill on back cover.

$20.00

Cook, Jeannie

Wiley’s Dream of Empire:  The Wiley Irrigation Project

Wyoming

114 pp. Soft cover.  Yellowstone Printing and Publishing. 1990

Very good.  P. O. name inside. Limited, Centennial edition, #622.

$20.00

Linford, Velma

Wyoming Frontier State

Wyoming

428 pp. Hardcover. Old West Publishing Co. 1947

Like new. Dust jacket chipped and ripped at head: 1 1/2 “ piece missing from rear and 2 small ¼ “ pieces at spine.

$22.00

Linford, Dee

Wyoming Stream Names:  A Bicentennial Publication

Wyoming

75 pp. Paperback.  Wyoming Game and Fish Department.  1975

Like new.

$10.00

Urbanek, Mae

Wyoming Wonderland

Wyoming

120 pp. Hardcover.  Sage Books. 1964

Ex-library.  Shelf wear.

$12.00

Compiled by workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wyoming

Wyoming, A Guide to its History, Highways, and People. 

Wyoming

490 pp. Hardcover. American Guide Series Oxford University Press. 1966

Very good.

$20.00

Junge, Mark

Wyoming, A Pictorial History

Wyoming

261 pp. Hardcover.  Donning Co., 1989

Very good.  Dust jacket ripped at top and bottom back about 1 inch.

$20.00

 

Wyoming,New the 75th Year

Wyoming

138 pp. Paper.  Wyoming 75th Anniversary Commission. 1965

Good to very good.  Cover bent at spine.  P. o. name on cover.

$8.50

Wyoming Recreation Commission

Wyoming:  A Guide to Historic Sites

Wyoming

327 pp. Paper.  Big Horn Publishers.  1976

Very good.

$6.50

Linford, Velma

Wyoming:  Frontier State

Wyoming

428 pp. Old West Publishing Co. 1947

Very Good.  Dust jacket chipped; ripped on back.

$25.00

 

Wyoming: A Guide to its History, Highways and People (Wyoming Writers’ Project)

Wyoming

490 pp. Oxford University Press. 1961

Very Good. Corners and spine ends worn. Dust jacket chipped and ripped at head of rear 1”

$20.00, Chris

Ewig, Rick, Linda G. Rollins

Wyoming’s Capitol

Wyoming

15 pp. Paper.  Wyoming State Press. 1987

Good

$15.00

Larson, T. A.

Wyoming’s War Years, 1941-1945

Wyoming

400 pp. Softcover. Wyoming Historical Foundation. 1993

Good.  Ex-library.  Dedicatory note from author.  Reprint edition. Text tight and clean.

$15.00

Brown, Mark H. &W. R. Felton

Before Barbed Wire: L. A. Huffman, Photographer on Horseback

Wyoming & Montana History

256 pp. Hardcover. Henry Holt & Co. 1956

Very good. Dust jacket: Chipped, inside corner snipped, ½” rip front head, ¾” rip front tail, 1” X ½” rip spine tail, 1” rip back tail.  Book clean & tight.

$28.00

Nelson, Dick J.

Old West and Custer’s Last Stand

Wyoming and Montana

17 pp. Paper. Steele Printing Co. 1958.

Very good. Stapled. Signed by author.  4/58.

$3.00

Schroll, Betty

Back Out the Happy Jack

Wyoming Fiction

162 pp. Paperback. Jelm Moutain Publications. 1991

New

$6.00

Schroll, Betty

Happy Jack West

Wyoming Fiction

291 pp. Paperback. Jelm Mountain Publishing. 1989

New

$38.00