Photo Album of an Automobile Tour of the West in 1927 by a Group of Women

1927. Softcover. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing 94 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and 6 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip out west, starting in or near Indiana. Photographs include stops in Kansas, New Mexico (Native Americans at Santa Domingo and a Zuni Reservation near Gallup), Colorado (Pike's Peak), Arizona (Grand Canyon), California (Yosemite and San Francisco), Oregon, Washington, Idaho (Gold Hunter Mine), Montana (Missoula Auto Camp), many photos of Yellowstone, Wyoming, and South Dakota. A few of the photographs at the end of the album, dated the same summer, are of Chicago and Niagara Falls. A number of the photographs are now loose from the album. The photographers/travelers are a group of 4 or 5 young women in what must have been something of a daring adventure at the time. Two photos show them repairing flats, and several show them with people they meet along the way. Fading to some of the photographs but most are not too bad. Very Good .

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Book number: 020860

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Automobile Tour, Photograph Album, Illustrated Books, Travel, Yellowstone, Native Americans Western Americana Automobile Tour Photograph Album Native Americans

[CALIFORNIA & PACIFIC NORTHWEST] HOYT, Mrs. Francis and HINES, H. K

Manuscript Letter with a Copy of Missionary History of the Pacific Northwest, Containing the Wonderful Story of Jason Lee, with Sketches of Many of His Co-Laborers All Illustrating Life on the Plains and in the Mountains in Pioneer Days

Portland, OR and San Francisco, H. K. Hines and J. D. Hammond, 1850 and (1899). First Edition. Letter. A closely-written 4-page letter on one sheet of paper (15-1/2" x 9-7/8") folded in half and written on all 4 pages of neat script in black ink with another 2 pages of content overwritten vertically in red ink. Written by the wife of the Rev. Francis S. Hoyt, a Methodist minister, previously of the New Jersey Conference, and first president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, to her parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. Writing from Salem on 10 December 1850, Mrs. Hoyt describes their steamer trip from the Isthmus of Panama, north along the Pacific Coast (with stops at Acapulco, Mexico, and San Diego, Monterey, and San Francisco, California) and on to their new home. She notes that the steamer she was on was the first to "bear the news of the admission of California as a State" to the people of San Francisco. A sign was draped from the side of the ship announcing the news as it sailed along the bay front, firing a 100-gun salute from its cannon, the noise upsetting Mrs. Hoyt. She vividly describes the city, with its summer dust and winter mud, its rich gambling houses and houses of ill repute, and the many miners down from the hills to "lose all they have earned, and are obliged to go back to the mines again." She describes the gambling houses: "the rooms are fitted up beautifully with large mirrors and paintings, and every thing to look pretty and then an orchestra of fine music that plays all the time.. Frank looked into one for a little time, and said he never saw such piles of money as was there." She did not note if the good reverend checked out the brothels. On one page of the letter, she has drawn a small map showing their route from the Pacific to Portland and on to Salem. Her husband's life as an educator in Salem is reported in the book that comes with the letter, beginning on page 431, which mentions that the steamer reached Oregon in late October, 1850, "landing at Portland, then a rustic hamlet of some twenty or thirty habitations, and a few places of business." The book is INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "To Rowland Abram Waltz/Very Truly Yours/H. K. Hines/Portland OR/June 21st 1901." In addition it is inscribed "Dr. F. S. Hoyt/with compliments of/Mr. & Mrs. Sam Gill/Portland Oregon/June 26-/1911." A fascinating letter with first-hand glimpses of life in early San Francisco and Oregon. The letter in Near Fine condition with normal folds from mailing; the writing in red ink a little difficult to read but legible. The book is Very Good with some edgewear .

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Book number: 020857

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Oregon, California, San Francisco, Americana California San Francisco Western Americana Oregon

[CALIFORNIA] (FRIEND, Herve)

Picturesque Los Angeles County, California. Illustrative and Descriptive

Chicago, American Photogravure Co. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 12") in broken publisher's gilt-decorated leather-backed cloth; 16 pages of text and 65 full-page photogravure plates with tissue guards. From the unidentified author's preface: "To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in Los Angeles County .. we have taken the choicest (views) from varied subjects .. to familiarize the tourist and resident with localities as will excite and interest in them." Photographer Herve Friend was one of the most skilled landscape photographers working in the United States at the time. Images include the San Gabriel Canyon and the San Gabriel Mountains, Santa Monica, Arroyo Seco, Long Beach, and Catalina Harbor. Spine perished, front cover and endpaper detached; contents Fine Cowan (III) page 397.

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Book number: 018628

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Americana, Illustrated Books, California, Los Angeles Photogravures Americana Los Angeles Illustrated Books

GREENHOW, Robert

The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of North America...

Boston, Little & Brown, 1845. Second Edition. Wraps. Blue wraps, complete with half-title page; [20] 492 pages. Graff 1652; Howes G-389; New Howes G-386 "b": "Leading contemporary authority, well documented"; Sabin 28362. The important edition with Greenhow's answer to Falconer's Strictures. The large (22-3/4" x 25-1/2" plus margins) folding map has a light stain in the upper right corner, two small cuts in the ocean off Alaska, and a 13" closed tear through the Pacific Ocean stopping off the coast of San Francisco. Text block in three sections; map Very Good despite the long tear. Rare in original binding .

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Book number: 004976

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Maps, Northwest, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Russia Western Americana Russia Oregon Maps

IVES, Joseph

Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858...

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding maps, 1 profile, and many wood engravings in this, the desirable Senate issue. Farquhar 21: "one of the most desirable books in the Colorado River field, for it is the first that deals specifically with the river itself"; Flake 4287; Goetzmann, pp.379-394; Larned 412; Howes I-92; New Howes I-94 "c"; Paher 952; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375; Wheat(947), (948); Wallace, The Great Reconnaissance, p.175: "This is the most reliable and entertaining narrative of all the official reports by topographical engineers on Western explorations." Ives, commissioned to determine the navigability of the Colorado, was the first white man to explore much of its course, and this is the first government publication on the exploration of the Colorado River. Eminently readable with fine illustrations. The 8 color plates of Native Americans are outstanding. Lacks the views of Canebrake Canon and Camp Colorado Plateau, which seem never to have been bound in, as well as the two additional maps in the Geological section, which seem more often than not to not be present. Pencil signature of G. P. Sewall on the title page, likely the Cayuga, N.Y. Presbyterian minister in the 1870s. A few of the plates have a dampstain in the corner which on occasion enters the image. Very Good .

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Book number: 013003

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Travel, Illustrated Books, Colorado River, Western Americana, Native Americans, Exploration, Rivers, Indians Native Americans Illustrated Books Western Americana Exploration

McGLASHAN, C. F.

History of the Donner Party

Sacramento, H. S. Crocker, 1885. Fifth Edition. Wraps. Bound in stitched plain wraps of heavier, darker paper with the rear leaf blank and the front recto blank with the frontispiece of Donner Lake on the verso. Octavo, 261 pages. Illustrated with plates. Zamorano 53; Graff 2610; Howes M-102; New Howes M-103 "b": "Best account of the most harrowing of all overland disasters." Signature of Abbie Thatcher on the recto of the frontispiece. Very Good .

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Book number: 001707

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Travel, Western Americana, California, Exploration, Cannibalism California Western Americana Exploration Cannibalism

PIERCE, Richard A. & WINSLOW, John H. (editors)

H.M. S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839. Being the Accounts of Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simpkinson and Captain Edward Belcher

(San Francisco), Book Club of California, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed decorated boards Accounts of two midshipmen's experiences in early California, including Simpkinson's previously unpublished account.and Belcher's surveying voyage on the Sulphur to Russian America (Alaska), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), San Francisco California and to Central America, originally published in 1843. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Illustrated with plates. Fine, with prospectus .

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Book number: 004449

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Fine Press, Americana, Illustrated Books, Nautical, Limited, California, Hawaii, Alaska, Western Americana Illustrated Books Western Americana Nautical Limited

SWEET, Alex E. & KNOX, J.Armoy

On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas, from the Gulf to the Rio Grande

Hartford, S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor." Later state of the Contents section and with all of the imprints noted by Jenkins on the title page except Cleveland & New York. Hinges neatly reinforced; early owner ink stamp on front blank. Light soiling to covers. Very Good and increasingly uncommon in this condition .

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Book number: 020035

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: 19th Century, American Humor, Western Americana, Travel, Texas Americana Western Americana Travel Humor