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1 My Folks Came In A Covered Wagon A Treasury of Pioneer Stories Handed Down in the Families of Capper's Weekly Readers
1956 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good 
100 pages + index, illustrations, slight edge wear. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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2 Summering in Colorado
Denver Colorado Richards & Co. Publishers 1874 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ 
158 pages, frontis, photos, very slight edge wear, slipcase. Contains 14 original albumen photos mounted on J. Collier cards. Much on Colorado and vicinity, Boulder, Pike's Peak, etc. 
Price: 1500.00 USD
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3 The Zamorano Selection of Distinguished California Books Made by the Members of the Zamorano Club
Los Angeles CA The Zamorano Club 1945 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good 
66 pages, illustrations, slight edge wear to original plain jacket. 
Price: 225.00 USD
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4 (Fiske) A Visit To Texas Being the Journal of a Traveller Through Parts Most Interesting to American Settlers With Descriptions of Scenery, Habits, &c
N.Y. Goodrich & Wiley 1834 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good 
264 pages + tables, illustrations, Lacking map, rebound, scattered foxing, a few page edges repaired. Howes T145, Rader 357, Graff 1337, Jenkins Basic Texas Books 209, "One of the most important accounts of Texas during a critical period in its history. The author arrived in Brazoria Texas in March 1831 to inspect the country and check on the title to the lands he had purchased from Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. His visit was made just prior to the trip made by Mary Austin Holley. 
Price: 975.00 USD
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5 (Pecora, William) John Wesley Powell Soldier Explorer Scientist
Wash. Government Printing Office 1969 Original Wraps Fine 
23 pages, illustrations. Overview of Powell's career. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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6 (Read, J. A) Saddlebags, Jeremiah Journey to the Gold Diggins A Collotype Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1849 With an Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson
San Francisco Grabhorn Press 1950 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good 
63 pages, illustrations. 1 of 390 copies. Howes R92, Graff 3442, "An amusing series of caricatures recounting adventures on the way to California via Panama and return overland." 
Price: 125.00 USD
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7 Abert, J. W. Galvin, John. Western America in 1846-1847 The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J. W. Abert Who Mapped New Mexico for the United States Army
San Francisco John Howell Books 1956 First Thus Hard Cover Fine 
116 pages, fold-out maps, illustrations. Santa Fe Trail, Bent's Fort, overland travel, etc. Rittenhouse 1. 
Price: 110.00 USD
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8 Abert, J. W. Galvin, John. Western America in 1846-1847 The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J. W. Abert Who Mapped New Mexico for the United States Army
San Francisco John Howell Books 1956 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good+ 
116 pages + maps, frontis, illustrations. Albert was on Fremont's third expedition in 1845. Bent's Fort, fur trade, mountain men, overland travel, etc. 
Price: 95.00 USD
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9 Abert, James William, Galvin John Through The Country Of The Comanche Indians In The Fall Of The Year 1845 The Journal Of A U. S. Army Expedition Led By Lieutenant James W. Abert Of The Topographical Enginers Artist Extraordinary Whose Paintings Of Indians And Their Wild West
San Francisco John Howell 1970 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 
77 pages, maps, illustrations. Rittenhouse 1, "When Fremont was at Bent's Fort during his third expedition, he sent a detachment under Abert to examine the country south through Raton Pass and down the Canadian River. "LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 5000 copies 
Price: 75.00 USD
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10 Abert, James William, Galvin John Through The Country Of The Comanche Indians In The Fall Of The Year 1845 The Journal Of A U. S. Army Expedition Led By Lieutenant James W. Abert Of The Topographical Enginers Artist Extraordinary Whose Paintings Of Indians And Their Wild West
San Francisco John Howell 1970 First Thus Hard Cover Fine Very Good+ 
77 pages, maps, illustrations, un-read copy. Rittenhouse 1, "When Fremont was at Bent's Fort during his third expedition, he sent a detachment under Abert to examine the country south through Raton Pass and down the Canadian River. "LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 5000 copies 
Price: 75.00 USD
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11 Aken, David Pioneers Of The Black Hills or Gordon's Stockade Party Of 1874 A Thrilling Narrative Of Adventure, Hardships, Laughable Episodes And Startling Experiences, AS Graphically Told By David Aken, One Of The Party.
Fort Davis Texas Frontier Book Co. Hard Cover Very Good - 
151 pages, illustrations, slight exterior soiling. Reprint of the 1920 1st edition, see Howes 93. Aken traveled to the Black Hills, after the Custer expedition of 1874. 
Price: 80.00 USD
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12 Albert, James W, John Galvin Through The Country Of The Comanche Indians In The Fall Of The Year 1845 The Journal Of A U.S. Army Expedition Led by Lieutenant James W. Albert of The Topographical Engineers
San Francisco John Howell 1970 Limited Hard Cover Very Good 
77 pages, maps, colored illustrations, Limited Edition. Albert was on Fremont's third expedition in 1845. Bent's Fort, fur trade, mountain men, overland travel, etc. 
Price: 100.00 USD
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13 Aldrich, Lorenzo, D. A Journal Of The Overland Route To California & The Gold Mines
CA. Dawson's Book Shop 1950 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good+ 
93 pages, fold-out map, bookplate. Graff 29, Wagner-Camp 194, Howes A109, "Reached San Diego via Santa Fe route, Tucson and the Gila early in Dec 1849; the first printed account , aside from Pattie, of a civilian journey through Arizona." 
Price: 100.00 USD
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14 Allen, A.J. Ten Years In Oregon Travels And Adventures Of Doctor E. White And Lady West Of The Rocky Mountains With Incidents of Two Sea Voyages Via Sandwich Islands Around Cape Horn Containing Also a Brief History of the Missions and Settlement of the Country…
Ithaca NY Mack Andrus & Co. Printers 1848 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good 
430 pages, original stamped cloth, gilt lettering and design on spine, minor edge wear. 2nd issue. Howes A131, "White, fervent Presbyterian missionary and political propagandist, describes his trip out, in 1842, and back, in 1845, as well as his part in the civic organization of Oregon." Graff 36, Mintz 8, "They started from Independence in May of 1842, in company with Medorem Crawford with L. W. Hastings joining later. Allen speaks of obtaining Thomas Fitzpatrick as guide at Ft. Laramie to take them to Ft. Hall." 
Price: 250.00 USD
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15 Allen, Eleanor Canvas Caravans Based on a Journal of Ester Belle McMillan Hanna, Who With Her Husband, Rev. Joseph A. Hanna Brought the Presbyterian Colony to Oregon in 1852
Portland, Oregon Binfords & Mort 1946 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good - 
125 pages, minor soiling to cover, owner stamp. Mintz 1852, "Ester and her husband made their journey motivated by the desire to establish a new base for their religion in the Northwest." 
Price: 50.00 USD
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16 Allsopp, Fred W. Albert Pike A Biography
Little Rock ARK Parke-Harper Company 1928 First Edition Hard Cover Fine 
369 pgs + index, illustrated, frontis, original blue cloth "He hunted and trapped game and fought Indians on the prairies of the West, was a Supreme Court Judge, served in the Mexican War, served in the Confederacy in the Civil War becoming a Brigadier General, fought a duel, etc." Rader 120, Rittenhouse 10 
Price: 100.00 USD
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17 Altrocchi, Julia Cooley Traces in Folklore and Furrow The Old California Trail
Caldwell ID The Caxton Printers 1945 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good 
327 pages, frontis, illustrations, map end-papers, minor wear to jacket. Herd 41, "Has a chapter on cowboys and Nevada ranches." Six-Guns 28, "Has some information on the killing of Jesse James by Bob Ford and some on other western outlaws." 
Price: 65.00 USD
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18 Alverson, Margaret, Blake Sixty Years Of California Song
CA. Sunset Publishing 1913 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ 
275 pages, illustrations, frontis, original pictorial cloth. Account of crossing the Isthmus of Panama in route to California, and life in California. 
Price: 95.00 USD
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19 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, and Lee Bidgood The First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region By the Virginians 1650-1674
Cleveland The Arthur Clark Company 1912 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good - 
275 pages, maps, illustrations, slight exterior wear, else Very good -, Howes 194aa 
Price: 250.00 USD
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20 Anderson, George L. Kansas West
San Marino, CA Golden West Books 1963 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+ 
268 pages, illustrations, frontis, INSCRIBED by the author. Much on the railroads and western expansions. 
Price: 85.00 USD
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