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Featured items that Old West Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2008.
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Ranching / Cattle
Pollock, J. M. The Unvarnished West Ranching As I Found It Gregory &
Son London (1911) 253 pages, frontis, illustrations, very slight
edge wear, light foxing on page edges. Extremely rare! The author
tells of his time in northwest Texas, cattle drive, stampede, bad
weather, etc. Rare! Merrill Aristocrats, Rader 2690, Howes 467, Herd 1814.
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Ranching / Cattle
Biggers, Don H. From Cattle Range to Cotton Patch A Series of
Historical Sketches Press of the Abilene Print Co. Abilene 1905 1st
ed. VG- 156 pages, illustrations, errata, original limp leatherette
covers, wear to edge and chipping to chip, tight solid copy housed in
a protective case. "A series of historical sketches dealing with the
industrial, social and commercial evolutions that have taken place in
Western Texas from the beginning of the buffalo slaughter to date of
first publication in 1904." Rare! Herd 258, Graff 297,Howes B439,
Merrill Aristocrat.
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Gunmen / Sporting
Carver, WM. F. Dr. Life of DR. WM. F. Carver of California Champion
Rifle Shot of the World. Being an Interesting and Truthful Story of
His Capture by the Indians When a Child and Romantic Life Among the
Savages for a Period of Sixteen Years to Which is Appended, Record of
His Remarkable Exhibitions of Skill With a Rifle Press of Rockwell
and Churchill Boston 1878 1st ed. wraps. Original pictorial wraps, G+
175 pages, front cover is heavily chipped, but title is intact,
chipping to spine and the bottom of the first few pages. Overall a
better than good copy of a very rare item, in clamshell case. Graff
623, Howes 215.
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Ranching / Cattle
Haley, Evetts J Charles Goodnight Cowman & Plainsman Houghton
Mifflin Company Boston 1936 1st edition, hard cover, VG+/VG- 485
pages, illustrations, index, wear to jacket edges, un-clipped, SIGNED
letter from author laid in. Rader 1730, Howes H36, Herd 960,
Six-Score 53, "The best biography of a cowman ever written.
Goodnight's career spanned the history of the development of West
Texas, from Indian fighting to oil wells."
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Western Military
Custer George A My Life On The Plains or Personal Experiences With
Indians, Sheldon and Co. N.Y. 1874 1st edition hard cover VG+ 256
pages, frontis, Illustrations. Original brown cloth with very bright
gilt buffalo and lettering on cover, spine is faded but lettering
still present, owner inscription, interior very clean, one of the
cleanest I've seen, nice collectable copy! Howes C981, Rader 1011 A
must for the Custer / western collector
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