9 Books - U.S. History – The West

Plain Enemies: Best True Stories of the Frontier West by Bob Scott. 1995 Caxton Printers. Softcover, 314 pages, bw photos.  Good condition with light wear, clean pages, firm binding.

Tales of the Frontier: From Lewis and Clark to the Last Roundup. Selected and Retold by Everett Dick. Bison Books 1970, 10^th printing, Softcover, 390 pages, good condition.

Women of the West: Outlaws in Petticoats and Other Notorious Texas Women by Gail Drago and Ann Ruff. 1995 Republic of Texas Press. Softcover, 172 pages, bw photos, good condition.

Little Bighorn Remembered: The Untold Story of Custer’s Last Stand by Herman J. Viola. 1999 Times Books, possible book club edition. Oversized hardback w/dj, bw/color photos, 240 pages. Good condition.

The White Pass: Gateway to the Klondike by Roy Minter With a Foreward by Pierre Benton. 1988 University of Alaska Press. Signed by author (name only). Softcover, 394 pages, bw photos, fair to good condition.

Stagecoach and The American West by Philip L. Fradkin. 2002 Simon & Schuster. Ex-lib. Hardback w/dj, bw phtos, 250 pages.  Good condition.

The Western Hero in History and Legend by Kent Ladd Steckmesser. 1965 University of Oklahoma Press, First Edition. Hardback w/dj, 281 pages. Some lightwear to dj, otherwise in good condition.

Stories of Pioneer Life For Young Readers by Florence Bass. Copyright 1900 DC Heath & Co.  Hardback, illustrated front board, light brown cloth boards, heavily soiled with age and some wear with bumped corners, binding is good, former owner’s name in pencil.  136 pages plus 10 pages of advertisements, illustrated, pages are mostly clean but some have some fingerprints and pencil marks.

Chapt. 1: Our Land – Present & Past; Chapt. 2: The Coming of the White Man; Chapt 3: Marquette, Missionary; Chapt. 4: Hunters; Chapt. 5: Daniel Boone; Chapt: 6 Flat-Boats; Chapt. 7: Blockhouses and Forts, Chapt. 8: Down the Ohio-Marietta, Chapt 9: Story of Frances Slocum, Chapt: 10 Abraham Lincoln, Chapt. 11: An Old Settler’s Story; Chapt. 12: A Story of Early Times, Chapt. 13: Grandfather’s Story

Red Men on the Bighorn by Coe Hayne.  Contains The Story of Swift Eagle Based on Crow Legends as Told by Plenty Crows (Red Neck) To His Son Alvin.  Trailmaker’s Edition, The Judson Press, Seconding Printing October 1929.  Hardback w/orange boards, no dj, 123 pages, 14 (one-side only) pages of bw photos.  Pages are clean but yellowing, front blank end page and one illustration loose from binding, spine loose but rest of pages still firmly bound, end pages from dj glued inside front board and front end page; previous owner’s names written in ink and pencil on front end page, spine cocked and boards are faded and soiled with age and some threads are showing at top and bottom of spine and at corners.  Overall poor to fair condition, but still perfectly readable.

Chapt 1: A Vow to Kill the Sioux, Chapt 2: The Training of a Crow; Chapt 3: Swift Eagle; Chapt 4: Swift Eagle (cont’d); Chapt 5: Crow Agency; Chapt 6: Carlisle; Chapt 7: Fort Custer; Chapt 8: Big Timber; Chapt 9: The Cross on the Little Bighorn; Chapt 10: Red Neck Gets a New Name, Chapt 11: Chief Plenty Coups; Chapt 12: “My Brothers The Sioux”