Jennings, N. A.

A Texas Ranger; Edited by Ben Proctor

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1992. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxvii, (i), 355, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait and forty-three additional illustrations including a map; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Tough Hombres!. Very good .

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Book number: 19205

Catalogue: Western Americana

Kazeck, Melvin E.

North Dakota a Human and Economic Geography

Fargo ND, North Dakota Institute For Regional Studies, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 264, index; illustrated with maps, charts and black and white photographs; green cloth, spine lettered in terra-cotta in a pictorial unclipped dust jacket; jacket has some chipping at extremities. An important study. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18993

Catalogue: Western Americana

Kelly, Fanny

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians; Edited by Clark & Mary Lee Spence

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1990. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lviii, 367, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-seven additional illustrations including a map; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Traveling to Idaho with an emigrant train from her home in Kansas, the nineteen-year-old Mrs. Kelly was captured west of Ft. Laramie by a band of Oglalla Sioux on July 12, 1864, and was held prisoner until December 12 of that year. Very good .

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Book number: 19196

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Native Americans

King, Captain Charles

Trials of a Staff Officer

Philadelphia, L. R. Hammersly & Co, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 214, (vii), ads; green cloth, lettered in gilt, patterened end papers. King, a West Point graduate who served in the Indian Wars under George Crook, wrote and edited 60 novels and wrote several scripts for Buffalo Bill Cody's silent films. His military experience greatly influenced his writing. This book provides great insight into the life and times of an Indian Wars Period Frontier Officer. Light wear, else very good .

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Book number: 16734

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Fiction; Historical Fiction; Captain Charles King Fiction Militaria

King, Captain Charles

Waring's Peril

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 230, (vi), ads; decorated blue cloth, lettered in gilt, patterned end papers; Light wear, else very good. King, a West Point graduate who served in the Indian Wars under George Crook, wrote and edited 60 novels and wrote several scripts for Buffalo Bill Cody's silent films. His military experience greatly influenced his writing. This book provides great insight into the life and times of an Indian Wars Period Frontier Officer. Very good .

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Book number: 18967

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Fiction; Historical Fiction; Captain Charles King Fiction Militaria

Kraenzel, Carl Frederick

The Great Plains in Transition

Norman, University Of Oklahoma Press, 1955. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, 428, (i), index; seven tables, twenty-one figures; green cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 19162

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Mid-Western Americana

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

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

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

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;

Nixon, Oliver W.

How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon, a True Romance of Patriotic Heroism, Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom, with Sketches of Life on the Plains and Mountains in Pioneer Days; Introduction by Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus

Chicago, Star Publishing Company, 1896. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 339; eighteen black and white plates including an frontispiece and a map; green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, blue coated endpapers. "This little volume is not intended to be a history of Oregon missions or even a complete biography of Dr. Whitman. Its aim is simply to bring out, prominently, in a series of sketches, the heroism and Christian patriotism of the man who rendered great and distinguished service to his country, which has never been fully appreciated or recognized. Very good .

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Book number: 17440

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Native Americans

Petersen, William J.

Iowa - the Rivers of Her Valleys

Iowa City, Printed by the Torch Press for the State Historical Society of Iowa, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 381, (i), index, colophon; fourteen maps; gilt ruled red cloth with gilt decorated spine and cover titles, top edge stained red. Part of a Iowa Centenial History Series. A beautifully made book. The Big & Little Sioux, Des Mounes, Skunk, Cedar & Iowa Rivers and more!. Very good .

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Book number: 17764

Catalogue: Western Americana

Randolph, Edmund

Hell Among the Yearlings

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1978. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxvi, 406, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, plus seven additional illustrations; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Early 20th century Montana and the cattle business in the post open range times. Very good .

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Book number: 19183

Catalogue: Western Americana