Lapham, William B.

The History of the Town of Bethel Maine; a Facsimile of the 1891 Edition with a New Historical Essay by Stanley Russell Howe

(Augusta Me.), New England History Press in collaboration with the Bethel Historical Society, 1981. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxxi, (i), 738, index; fillustrated with forty-six portraits and fifteen views including Lot Plan; gilt lettered blue cloth, in a dust jacket. Oxford County Maine Town History. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 15068

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Maine; Town History; New England; Bethel New Englandiana

Letts, Noah Harris and Thomas Allen Banning, Edited by Paul M. Angle

Pioneers, Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1972. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 290 including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a Seven additional plates including maps and other line drawings; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Two previously unpublished account of pioneer life in Illinois & the Midwest. Very good .

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Book number: 19027

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Lakeside Classic

Lukas, J. Anthony

Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America

(New York), Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 875, (iv), index, photo credits; map, photographs; blue cloth and paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. "THE" book on the Big Bill Haywood trial and the Wooblies in the Western Mining Districts. A chronicle of the rise of Unions, class warfare, and violence in the no longer Wild West. A brilliant piece of history. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17771

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Social History Mining

Lummis, Charles F.

General Crook and the Apache Wars; Edited by Turbese Lummis Fiske, Foreword by Dudley Gordon

Flagstaff, Northland Publishing, 1966. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xix, (i), 148; illustrations by Don Percival; black cloth, gilt, and yellow boards. Lummis was the LA Times correspondent with the army chasing the Apaches. Very good .

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Book number: 13641

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Apaches; Indians; Native Americans; Texas; Southwest; General Crook; Us Cavalry; New Mexico; Geronimo; Western Americana

Mackowski, Chris and Kristopher D. White

The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson

Gettysburg, Thomas Publications, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Octavo, pp. (x), 102; photographs, maps; original pictorial paper wrappers. Very good. Jackson's impacted Lee's Army not just emotionally but also tactically. He had proved himself a great asset in the early days of the War. Very Good .

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Book number: 12248

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; Stonewall Jackson; Thomas J. Jackson; CIVIL War CIVIL War

(Macleod, Anna Mary). Selected and edited by T. M.

The Washington Randolphs and Their Friends; Extracts from the Diary of a Lady of Old Virginia

Lynchburg, J. P. Bell Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (1-7)-8-189; green cloth, gilt; Very good. Historical fiction of the early days in the Old Dominion. Very Good .

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Book number: 12428

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; the South; Historical Fiction; Virginia Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Manning, Richard

One Round River, the Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; ix, (iii), 222, index; two maps; blue cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Modern gold mining in Montana and the threat posed to a storied western river. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17889

Catalogue: Western Americana

Marshall, James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum

From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush, Memoirs of James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum Who Grew Up with California; Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1993. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lviii, 389, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, plus two maps and thirty-eight additional illustrations; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. California in 49!. Very good .

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Book number: 19193

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Mining

Massachusetts Historical Society, (Robbins, Chandler)

Report of a Committee Appointed by the Massachusetts Historical Society on Exchanges of Prisoners During the American Revolutionary War. Presented Dec. 19, 1861

Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1861. First Edition. Wraps. octavo; pp; 26; Original printed wrappers; rear wrapper detached but present; otherwise very good. Jared Sparks and Edward Everett were members of the Committee. Good + .

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Book number: 15118

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Pows; American Revolution; Colonial & Revolutionary Period

McConkey, Harriet Bishop. Edited by Dale L. Morgan

Dakota War Whoop; Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1965. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 391 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece and four additional plates, map; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Laid-in is a compliments of the season card from Gaylord Donnelley of The Lakeside Press. Edited by Dale L. Morgan and consists of a personal narrative of the Sioux uprising of 1862 in Minnesota. It was first published in 1863. A personal narrative of the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota during the Civil War. Howes M-58. Very good .

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Book number: 19022

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Lakeside Classic Native Americans

McCracken, Harold

George Catlin and the Old Frontier

New York, The Dial Press, 1959. First trade edition. Hardcover. First trade edition after a limited edition. Quarto. Black cloth and red boards. 216pp. with index. Illustrated. Thirty-five color plates including frontispiece plus numerous black and white plates. Very good. Cover has a few light faded streaks. Very Good .

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Book number: 11827

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; Native Americans; Indians; Frontier America; American West; Westermn Americana

McNamara, Robert S.

Blundering Into History; Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear Age

New York, Pantheon, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (4), 5-212, (i), index, author bio; black cloth and black paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. Secretary of Defense under Kennedy, McNamara was a major player in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 14224

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: World History; Cold War; Kennedy; Krushchev; Politics & Politicians

Mitchell, Don

Living Upcountry, a Pilgrim's Progress

Dublin, Yankee Books, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 192; gray cloth, blue boards, lettered in blue in a dust jacket. A "Flatlander" becomes a Vermont farmer. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 15469

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Vermont; Vermontiana; Rural America; New England; Lake Champlain; Vermontiana

Mohr, Nicolaus

Excursion Through America

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1973. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxxvi, 398, including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece & forty additional plates and a folding map; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Edited by Ray Allen Billington. Translated by La Vern J. Rippley with Klaus Lanzinger. Very good .

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Book number: 19169

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Lakeside Press; Lakeside Classic;

Mollenhoff, Clark R.

Game Plan for Disaster, an Ombudsman's Report on the Nixon Years

New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (11), 12-384, index; black cloth and red boards lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. Mollenhoff was Special Counsel To The President, brought on board because Nixon wanted a transparent Presidency. Within weeks he saw the power struggle among Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell. Another "Insider's" look at the Nixon White House. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14180

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Richard Nixon; Presidents; Elections; Watergate; Viet Nam; Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency