Trails I Rode [Charles Russell, Western Americana]
Pasadena, CA: Trails End Publishing Co., Inc., 1947. Illustrated by Charles Russell. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Memories of Old Cowboy Days and of Charles Russell.
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Pasadena, CA: Trails End Publishing Co., Inc., 1947. Illustrated by Charles Russell. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Memories of Old Cowboy Days and of Charles Russell.
New York: Viking Press, 1958. Illustrated by Beatien Yazz. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Beatien Yazz [AKA Little No Shirt - Jimmy Toddy] was born on the Navajo Reservation. Yazz showed promise as an artist very early. At an early age, Yazz met the Lippencotts, traders at.....
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company / The Lakeside Press, 1994. Background Information:Lakeside Classics are the longest, continuously running series of Americana. Every year since 1903 their publisher, The Lakeside Press an imprint of R. R. Donnelley & Son, has produced these carefully bound books as Christmas gifts to.....
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1938. Designed as a school book contains information from many sources.
USA: Viking, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Follows the life of Walt Disney from his boyhood on a Missouri farm through his struggles as a young animator to his building of a motion picture and amusement park empire.
Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsbury Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
San Antonio. TX: The Naylor Company, First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A story of a cowboy who led a charmed life. A real-life telling of Indians, cattle, thieves, ranchers, gold mining, western justice and more.Ref: Adams/Herd 1312, "Has some information on ranching."
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. Soft cover. Long recognized as one of the richest repositories of folksong in the United States, the Central Blue Ridge has also been a prolific source of commercial recording, starting in 1923 with Henry Whitter's 'hillbilly' music and continuing into the 21st century. This reference work.....
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Will Rogers (1879-1935), was an American entertainer, radio personality, film actor, and writer who was famous for his pithy and homespun humor and social commentary. A popular raconteur touched Americans with his humor, newspaper columns.....
New York: Random House, [1939]. Illustrated by Bellamy Partridge. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A 1900 graduate of Hobart College, Edward Bellamy Partridge went on to study law, and for about a decade practiced law with his father, Civil War veteran and country lawyer Samuel Selden Partridge, in the.....
New York: W. R. C. Clark & Co., 1859. Second Printing. Christopher Houston Carson, known as "Kit Carson" (1809-1868), epitomized the spirit of the American frontier as a seasoned fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and Union Army general. Renowned in his lifetime through biographies and news articles, his adventures.....