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American Guide. .
Ghost Towns of Colorado. American Guide Series. .
NY:
Hastings House
1947.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Dust jacket has rubs and edgewear. Story of the towns, of honest citizens & shady characters of all kinds who came with the 1859 gold rush. 59 photographs & prints in gravure reproductions. 114 numbered pages. Reddish brown tweed boards. Brown and pictorial dust jacket has rubs on front fold and light edgewear.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #3707]
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Arps, Louisa Ward. .
Denver in Slices. .
Denver:
Sage Books
1959.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Bits and slices of Denver history: lynching in 1868, city hall war of 1894, KKK in 1920s, etc. Almost 100 pictures, map and index. Dust jacket, with price intact, has slightly faded spine and a couple of tiny tears at top of spine.
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #14431]
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Athearn, Robert G. .
Westward the Briton. .
NY:
Scribners
1953.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
The American West described by English travelers between 1865-1900. Index, illustrations. Dust jacket has light fade of spine, small chips bottom of spine. .
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #5118]
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Axford, H. William. .
Gilpin County Gold: Peter McFarlane 1848-1929, Mining Entrepreneur in Central City, Colorado. .
Chicago:
Sage/Swallow
1976.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Price-clipped dust jacket has rubbing on spine, slightly dusty rear panel. Gold in 1860s Colorado mountains. Index, bibliography, illustrations. .
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #10857]
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Axford, H. William. .
Gilpin County Gold: Peter McFarlane 1848-1929, Mining Entrepreneur in Central City, Colorado. .
Chicago:
Sage/Swallow
1976.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Gold in 1860s Colorado mountains. Index, bibliography, illustrations. Dust jacket is price clipped and has quarter inch chip on rear panel.
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #14402]
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Bancroft, Caroline. .
Gulch of Gold: A History of Central City, Colorado. .
Denver:
Sage Books
(1958).
Hard Cover.
First edition.
The Colorado town where gold was discovered in 1859 up to it's summer resort status, before it became an area of casinos in the 1990s. Photes, maps, index. Small ink note on map front free endpaper says "Idaho Springs first was called Jackson's Diggings." Dust jacket has creases, edgewear, chips at bottom of spine and corners, tape repair of tear on inside of dj.
Very Good in Fair DJ
[Book #14403]
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Bard, Floyd C. as told to Agnes Wright Spring. .
Horse Wrangler: Sixty Years in the Saddle in Wyoming and Montana. .
Signed by authors.
Norman:
University of Oklahoma
1960.
Hard Cover.
First Edition.
Book is very nice and clean except for a small rub and a small brown dot on the front free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket has 1/2" tear on back panel and light edgewear. Signed by both Bard and Spring on the front free endpaper. 296 pages with index and photos. Bard was born in Wyoming in 1879.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #11694]
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Brinkerhoff, Zula C. .
The Spirit of Geronimo Returns. .
None:
Brinkerhoff
1973.
Hard Cover.
Very good+ in white pictorial boards with matching jacket. A self-published book on the struggles of the American Indian. Photos.
VG+ in Very Good DJ
[Book #10006]
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Brown, Robert L. .
Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies. .
Caldwell:
Caxton
1969.
Hard Cover.
Second printing.
401 pp, map endpapers, numerous b&w photos. Price clipped dust jacket has light wear at corners. .
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #8818]
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Chohlis, John. .
Prime, Choice and Baloney. .
Signed.
Hollywood:
Oxford Press
1955.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Dust jacket has 1-inch chip at spine top, tear, creases. Humorous selections from the Western Livestock Journal. Brief foreword by Bing Crosby. Inscribed by the author to Bill Van D on front free endpaper. Charlie Plumb illstrations + photos. Dust jacket front flap corners are clipped (price-clipped).
Near Fine in Good DJ
[Book #9211]
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Conard, Howard Louis. .
Uncle Dick Wootton. .
Chicago:
Lakeside Press / Donnelley
1957.
Hard Cover.
Llight spotting on top gilt edges. Publisher's card laid in. Biography of pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region. 465 pp, navy cloth, gilt titles, top edges gilt. No jacket as issued.
Near Fine
[Book #8519]
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Corle, Edwin. .
The Royal Highway (El Camino Real). .
NY:
Bobbs Merrill
1949.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
From San Francisco to Mexico, US highway 101, and the history of California along its route. Photos & index. SIGNED by author on half-title page. Price-clipped dust jacket has light wear & rubbing. Clean and unmarked.
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #3356]
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Danielson, Clarence L. & Ralph W. Danielson. .
Basalt: Colorado Midland Town. .
Signed by Author.
Boulder:
Pruett
1965.
Hard Cover.
First Edition.
Signed by both authors and numbered 1499 out of 1500 copies. The Colorado town and the Colorado Midland railroad. 373 pages. Three maps in rear pocket. Hinge starting at last gathering of pages, but sturdy and tight. Dust jacket has tiny chip at corner, couple of 1/4" tears, and a few creases. Original price of book is on rear flap.
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #11402]
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Dobie, J. Frank. .
Out of the Old Rock. .
Boston:
Little, Brown
1972.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Small nick on bottom edge of front board. Dust jacket has corner wear, tiny tears). Stories of characters from the Southwest: cowboy, preacher, Tom Lea, folk singer, etc. 237 pp. .
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #8552]
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Dorset, Phyllis Flanders. .
The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes. .
NY:
Macmillan
1970.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
History Includes stories of Bat Masterson, Molly Brown, Baby Doe and H. A. W. Tabor. 434 pp, index, photos, map endpapers. Dust jacket has a half inch chip on rear panel edge & a half inch tear on front.
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #7024]
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Dorset, Phyllis Flanders. .
The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes. .
NY:
Macmillan
1970.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
History Includes stories of Bat Masterson, Molly Brown, Baby Doe and H. A. W. Tabor. 434 pp, index, photos, map endpapers. Dust jacket has 1/4" chip & light edgewear. Price on dust jacket flap is marked over.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #15357]
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Dunn, J. P. Jr. .
Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West 1815-1875. .
NY:
Archer House
1958.
Hard Cover.
Reprint.
Small erasure/abrasion on rear endpaper pastedown. Bright red dust jacket has some rubs and edgewear. Reprint of an 1886 work covering 60 years of merciless bloody conflict, "every major engagement ever fought in the West between white men and Indians." Bibliography (list of authorities) and index, with reproductions of the dozens of black-and-white illustrations from the original. Clean and unmarked.
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #9669]
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Durham, Michael S. .
Desert Between the Mountains. .
NY:
Henry Holt
1997.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
"Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869". 336 pages, index, bibliography.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #11995]
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Ellis, Erl H. .
The Gold Dredging Boats Around Breckenridge, Colorado. .
Signed, limited.
Boulder:
Johnson
1967.
Hard Cover.
Limited edition.
Signed limited edition, #846. 173 pages, index, fold out map. Many b/w photos and one color photo (same photos as on dj). Dust jacket has light edgewear. .
Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #12156]
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Ellis, Richard N. And Duane A. Smith. .
Colorado: A History in Photographs. .
Niwot:
University Press of Colorado
1991.
Hard Cover.
First edition, First printing.
Narrative and 250 b/w photographs of the people and places. 266 pp, index. .
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #9066]
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Fireman, Bert M. .
Arizona: Historic Land. .
NY:
Knopf
1982.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
The story of Arizona's three cultures---Indian, Spanish, Americans. Bibliographical essay, index. A few photos, maps. .
Near Fine in Near Fine DJ
[Book #8512]
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Flynn, Norma L. .
History of the Famous Mosquito Pass. .
1959.
Soft Cover.
Softcover booklet consists of pages 225 to 268 apparently reprinted from a Denver Brand Book. No publisher or place noted. Photos. First page in book is drawing of a prospector. This page has been clipped at the top corner. Half-inch tear at bottom of front wraps and a few brown spots on back of wraps.
Very Good
[Book #14734]
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Foster, Mark S. .
Henry M. Porter: Rocky Mountain Empire Builder. .
Niwot:
Univ. Press of Colorado
1991.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Biography of civic leader who helped shape Colorado's economy. 184 pp., index, photos. .
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #51]
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Gandy, Lewis Cass. .
The Tabors: A Footnote of Western History. .
NY:
Press of the Pioneers
1934.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Biography of Horace Tabor (1830-1899) the Colorado pioneer and mining magnate who gained and lost great wealth. 291 pages, index. photos & woodcut illustrations. Previous owner's name & address on front free endpaper, some tanning on front & rear pastedowns from the printer's binding glue. Lacks dust jacket.
Very Good
[Book #13064]
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Hafen, Ann Woodbury. .
Campfire Frontier: Historical Stories and Poems of the Old West. .
Denver:
Old West Publ.
1969.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Collection of stories and poems of real people and events. Baptiste Charbonneau, Zebulon Pike, Jim Pattie, Joe Meek, Chief Medicine Calf, Kit Carson, etc.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #4491]
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