Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 270p + 22 ills. Here a cultural historian explores the "myth" of the rodeo cowby in movies, television, folkore, literature, country music, and the visual arts. He then examines "the impact of this myth [on] the rodeo milieu--the commercialization of the..... 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

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

Colorado Springs: Western Horseman, 1948. First edition. Soft cover. Issues of September-October and November-December. Each 64p, many photos, line ills., and ads. Cover wear and soil; internally very good, clean, complete. Lee M. Rice on the T. Flynn Saddlery of Puebo, J. Frank Dobie on range horse Alacran, Nelson C...... 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

N.p. Privately Printed, [1954]. 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. for less..... 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

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

Denver: H.H. Tannen Co., n.d. [ca. 1912]. No stated edition. Accordion fold within pocket. Twenty postcard-sized views printed in color on long folding sheets, fastened within mailing envelope. The pictures show cowboys at ranch work, bulldogging, bronc riding, chicken running, horse breaking, and buffalo riding. Two cowgirls are pictured, “The..... More