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	1	Adams, Ramon F. SIX GUNS AND SADDLE LEATHER. Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen. Norman U. Ok. 1954 1st. Fine Very Good 426 pp., index. Dykes' Western High Spots-"First comprehensive bibliography of western gunmen and outlaws." Green-50 Best Books on Texas-"I think Six-Guns is the best because it more nearly approaches literature through its subject.....Six-Guns can be read for sheer enjoyment of itself." Price: 50.00 USD
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	2	Edwards, John N. SHELBY'S EXPEDITION TO MEXICO. Austin Steck Co. 1964 Cloth Fine Mylar 139 pp., map, plates (some in color), photos. Facsimile reprint. Story of Shelby's Missourians & others who fled to Mexico rather than surrender. They marched from Marshall to Eagle Pass, buried their flag in the Rio Grande, & went to Mexico. Price: 45.00 USD
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	3	Greene, A.C. TAKING HEART. N. Y. Simon & Schuster 1990 1st. Fine Fine 222 pp., index. The first person story of his heart transplant in 1988. Greene died in April of 2002. INSCRIBED by Greene. Price: 25.00 USD
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	4	Hafertepe, Kenneth A HISTORY OF ASHTON VILLA. A Family and Its House in Victorian Texas. Austin TSHA 1991 1st. Stiff Pict. Wrs. Fine 56 pp., photos. Early Galveston history. Price: 20.00 USD
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	5	Hallenbeck, Cleve. THE JOURNEY OF FRAY MARCOS DE NIZA. Dallas SMU 1949 1st. Fine Very Good 115 pp., illus. by J. Cisneros. D.j. chipped. Designed by Hertzog. Dobie p.39-"one of the most beautiful books in format published in America." Holman, A Hertzog Dozen-"This volume has one of the most beautiful and well-proportioned layouts ever achieved by any designer." de Niza was sent with Esteban to investigate the Seven Cities of Cibola. His narrative, largely discarded today, is interesting. Price: 150.00 USD
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	6	Hudson, Linda S. MISTRESS OF MANIFEST DESTINY. A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878 Austin T S H A 2001 1st. Fine Fine 305 pp., photos, map, index. INSCRIBED to Max Lale, past president of TSHA. The biography of a highly unconvential woman---mistress to Aaron Burr, land speculator in Texas, behind enemy lines in the Mexican War, promoting Mexican Revolution, & much more. May have coined the phrase-- Manifest Destiny. Price: 40.00 USD
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	7	Hutton, Harold. DOC MIDDLETON. Life & Legends of the Notorious Plains Outlaw. Chicago Sage 1974 1st. Near Fine Very Good 290 pp., photos, index. The most colorful outlaw in Nebraska. Adams 150-#79-first complete work on this notorious outlaw. Traces his ancestry from the early years and his career through Texas, Nebraska, & Wyoming to his death. Price: 50.00 USD
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	8	King, Grace; Sherwood N. McGuigan; & Glen Meachum FROM MUSKETS TO MOHAIR: The History of Fort Terrett Waco Texian 1992 1st. Cloth Fine 301 pp., many photos (some color), maps, index. Gift inscription on title. Complete history of little known frontier outpost in Sutton county which is now part of the ranch headquarters. Two parts: The Fort, The Terrett Ranch. Price: 100.00 USD
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	9	Kraenzel, Carl Frederick. THE GREAT PLAINS IN TRANSITION. Norman U. Of Ok. 1955 1st. Very Good Very Good 428 pp., tables & figures, index. D.j. top edge very chipped, worn. the social & cultural development of the Great Plains. Dykes Western High Spots p. 77; Adams- Herd #1286. SIGNED. Price: 35.00 USD
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	10	McCaffrey, James M., ed. "SURROUNDED BY DANGERS OF ALL KINDS. The Mexican War Letters of Lt. Theodore Laidley. Denton UNIV. OF N. TX. 1997 1st. Fine Fine 185 pp., index. Lt. Laidley landed at Veracruz in March 1847 & assisted in the battle. He commanded a field battery at Cerro Gordo and remained at Puebla to defend it. Later he went to Mexico City. Contains his letters home from 1845 to 1848. Price: 25.00 USD
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	11	Mullin, Robert N. THE BOYHOOD OF BILLY THE KID. El Paso TWP 1967 1st. Wrs. Fine 15 pp. of photos. Very scarce issue of Southwestern Studies (#17). (see 3557, 2915). Excellent work on Billy the Kid. Price: 45.00 USD
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	12	Nichols, Roger L. THE MISSOURI EXPEDITION 1818-1820. Journal of Surgeon John Gale... Norman U. Of Ok. 1969 1st. Fine Fine 145 pp., photos, maps, index. The first of three expeditions to open the Missouri and the West. The journal was kept by Surgeon Gale. First significant exploration after Lewis & Clark. Price: 35.00 USD
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	13	Parsons, Elsie Clews. TAOS TALES. N.Y. Kraus 1969 Cloth Fine No Jacket Fine reprint of 1940 first edition. Private lib. stamp of F.Stanley. Folklore tales of the Taos Indians. Vol. XXXIV of Memoirs of American Folk-Lore Society. Price: 35.00 USD
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	14	Rice, Josiah M. A CANNONEER IN NAVAJO COUNTRY. Journal of Private Josiah M. Rice, 1851. Denver Old West 1970 1st. Edition Fine Fine map, sketches, index. Journal of an expedition into Canon De Chelley & the establishment of Ft. Defiance. Rice was a cannoneer in Col. Edwin V. Sumner's 1851 show-of-strength against hostile Indians in newly acquired N.M. Announcement laid in. Price: 50.00 USD
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	15	Thomason, Lt. Col. John W. LONE STAR PREACHER. Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxiteles Swan, M.E. Church South, Sometime Capt., 5th Tx. Regt, Conf. N.Y. Scribners 1945 Good Very Good 296 pp., illus. by author. Boards soiled, browning inside covers. Dust jacket chipped, worn. Reprint edition. Price: 35.00 USD
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	16	Thorp, Raymond W. "WILD WEST" DOC CARVER. Spirit Gun of the West. London W. Foulsham & Co. 1957 1st. Eng. ed. Fine Fine illus., index. Originally pub. by Arthur H. Clark. Carver was a world champion marksman & the originator of the American Wild West Show. Plainsman, trapper, buffalo hunter, Medicine Chief of the Santee Sioux. Price: 55.00 USD
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	17	Tinker, Ben MEXICAN WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE. Austin U. Of Tx. 1978 1st. Fine Fine 131 pp., many fine illus. by Doris Tischler, maps. Fine work on the wildlife of the western range of the Sierra Madres in Norther Mexico and the deserts of Sonora & Baja California. Price: 25.00 USD
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	18	Westphall, Victor. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN NEW MEXICO 1854-1891. Albuquerque U. Of N.M. 1965 1st. edition Fine Near Fine 19 maps, index. A carefully documented analysis of the land disposal program in New Mexico involving fraud, claim jumping, & murder as well as honorable action & courage. Price: 65.00 USD
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	19	Willson, Roscoe G. NO PLACE FOR ANGELS. Stories of Old Arizona Days. Phoenix Arizona Republi 1958 1st. Printing Near Fine Good Illus. by Frank King. Gift inscription on fly. Willson's stories of every phase of pioneer life in Arizona. He was a columnist for the Arizona Republic, who came to Arizona in 1902, from 1947 until 1958. D.j. missing 1/3 of back portion. Price: 40.00 USD
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