![Item #31715 Photographic Archive]. Banning Stagecoach Company](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31715.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698427631)
[Los Angeles/Catalina Island: n.d., mid-1920s]. Unpublished. Loose photos; some bound on stubs in imitation leather album. A total of 19 original and copy photographs documenting the stagecoaches that William Banning (Phineas's son) operated on Catalina Island, California. Some of the photos, and the vehicles, were presented by William to Los..... More
Abilene, TX: Hardin-Simmons University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 263p, several photos. Owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper and one page margin. Jacket is smudged; long narrow strip torn out of back panel. Memoirs of "Doc" Beazley, and his leadership of Hardin-Simmon University's popular six-horsewomen White Horse Team, which..... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Santa Ynez Valley Historical Society, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, many black-and-white photos. Presents the wide variety of vehicles in the historical society's collection, described as "one of the finest collections of horse-drawn vehicles and accessories to be found in the entire West." Can be sent..... More
Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, many old photos and other ills. History of the Badlands, its fur and cattle trade, Roosevelt's hunting and cattle ranching years there, his leadership in the conservation movement, and the establishment of the park. Little about the horses (as..... More
New York: Fless & Ridge Printing Co., 1898. Henckel, Charles. No stated edition. Soft cover (covers in color). 64p + several pages of ads, many photos and line ills. by Charles Henckel and others. Covers worn and stained; dogeared; one advertising page loose; corner of one page torn off and..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press for Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, 1980. Leigh, William Robinson. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, many ills., 30 color pls. Fwd. by Fred A. Myers. Authoritative study of the life and work of the artist-author of The Western Pony and other..... More
New York: Knopf, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 384p, many old photos and ills. Jacket spine faded. Comprehensive history of the ways of life in the various American cowboy cultures--Spanish roots, Californio, Texian, northern and open ranges, effect of the Civil War, trailing to railheads, end of open-range culture, bunkhouse and..... More
Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 429p, several line ills. No jacket (as issued?). Classic collection of 40 firsthand accounts about the range horse from the 19th-century on--"the most extensive and informative compilation on mustangs and mustangers ever printed." The texts are by a wide variety of writers--historians..... More
Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, several ills. Annotated checklist of books, magazines, and a few objects in this exhibition of a "sampling of the works that lie somewhere in the spectrum between fact and myth." Works by Andy Adams, Henry Allen, "Max Brand," Zane Grey..... More
![Item #31895 The Horse in the Southwest [in El Palacio, vol. 81, no. 3]. George Ewing](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31895.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707224168)
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, Fall 1975. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 44p, many photos and old ills. Eight articles by various writers on the dawn horse, the horse in rock art, the Spanish Barb, the herds of Onate, cruciform stirrups, colonial horse gear, coinage, and "the hazards of..... More
N.p. Privately Printed, [1954]. First edition. Hardcover. 43p + large folding tipped-in map. No jacket, as issued. Bookplate removed, so possibly ex-lib.? Anniversary publication of runs, lists of hounds and members, rules, etc., of this coyote-hunting club south of Denver, Colorado. Map is fine. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
Sonora, CA: Pony Express and Pioneer Trails Association, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, several ills., many ads. Browned but overall sturdy newsprint. Old printed mailing address. Monthly magazine devoted to distance riding, the Pony Express, early California, and other western topics. This issue focuses on the life and feats..... More
Manitou Springs, CO: Ute Iron Springs Photo. Gallery, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Hiestand, J.G. No stated edition. Unbound. Mounted original photo (cabinet card), printed in sepia. Mount is ca. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. The caption, hand-lettered within the negative, appears at the lower left. This put-upon and soulful burro is..... More
Las Vegas, NM: Hutchins, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 35p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos. First annual edition of this price list of over 650 western items that sold at auction in 1996 (High Noon, Engel, Payne, Old West Show, etc.). Divided into spurs, bits, saddles, chaps, saddlebags, cuffs, books and..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1936. James, Will. First edition, with Scribner "A" Hardcover. 312p, 45 full-page line ills. + color frontispiece, all by James. Lacks the jacket. Endpapers browned from binding glue, covers faded and scuffed, some marginal foxing and other page stains. "Scorpion, as the cowboy who started to break..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 271p, no ills. Covers dampstained and wrinkled, as shown. Ex-lending library. Occasional staining to the gutters, else Internally clean and complete. Western romance set in the Arizona desert, by an author more remembered today for his cowboy poetry. "Miss Percival, a pretty girl..... More
Ogdensburg, NY: Northern New York Publishing Company [printer], 1961. Remington, Frederic. "Limited edition" published for Canton's Remington Centennial Observance. Soft cover. 47p, many ills. + color ill. on cover. Recollections of Remington's early years in Canton, New York, taken from recollections, letters, diaries, etc. Most of the illustrations are photos..... More
New York: Will Roberts, n.d. [1950]. First edition. Hardcover (shaped boards), intact comb binding. 20p on card stock, many color ills. by Richard N. Osborne. The horse on the cover swivels on a grommet, so as to "make the bronco buck." Horse's ears are chipped off, cover edges rubbed, binding..... More
Palouse, WA: Nelson Pub. Co., 1995. Fourth edition (1st pub. 1992). Soft cover (plastic comb binding). 98p, no ills. Not a traditional bibliography, but a list of hundreds of "makers of cowboy leather: gun belts, chaps, holsters, saddles, saddlebags, scabbards, wrist cuffs" with summary information and references to where the..... More
Boston: No stated publisher, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, many photos and other ills. in local ads. Covers faded and worn as shown, but the colors are brighter than in the photo here. Front cover loosening. Ca. 8 x 11 inches. Internally clean, complete. Souvenir program for the 7th..... More
N.p. [Tucson]: Arizona Historical Society, N.d. [1980]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, several line ills. Published to accompany an exhibition of 17 Western saddles, with a description of each type but alas no illustrations of most of them. Spanish, Indian, Whitman, sidesaddle, McClellan, Grimsley dragoon, experimental Grimsley type (one..... More
![Item #31319 Roy Rogers' Trigger to the Rescue [cover title]. No named author](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31319.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676377270)
Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1950. Higgs, John. No stated edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). [24]p, many lively color ills. by John Higgs. Cozy-Corner Book 203 8-25. A family farm floods, and wonder horse Trigger drives its horses, chickens, and pigs to safety. In especially nice condition considering its age and..... More
Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Borein, Edward. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 76p, many ills. by Edward Borein, frontispiece in color. Jacket (with original $2.50 price) is smudged; a few closed tears at the edges. The jacket illustration repeats the frontispiece. Endpapers slightly soiled from handling; boards a little splayed as..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 153p, 18 ills. (old photos, ads). Endpaper map. Jacket chipped, rubbed. In the Stanford Transportation Series. History of the great Western stage lines run by Russell, Waddell, and Majors in the mid-19th century. "Theirs was a military freighting monopoly that developed..... More
Fort Worth, TX: Bunker Press, n.d. [1930s?]. Shope, Irvin. No stated edition. Soft cover (light handling wear and soil). 36p + 4 ills. by the author. Two upper margins lightly rubbed from where they were once stuck together. Promotional booklet issued with compliments of H.J. Justin & Sons, "makers of..... More
