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.
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.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. In the years between 1936 and 1943, some 300 murals (also sculptures and stone reliefs) were installed in federal buildings throughout the South.This examination, done with humor, perseption and a storyteller's sensibility.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Presents and describes toys, dolls, puppets, timepieces, tableware, cards, posters, and art featuring Mickey Mouse.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977. A Very Good Soft cover. Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area. The author traces.....
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Differing from the 1925 publication not only in its abbreviated method of presentation but in that it covers the entire field of the folk-song, not just ballads.The following data is included: the local title, the first line.....
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1943. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which.....
Akron, Penna: Applied Arts, 1961. Photography by Mel Horst. Soft cover. A photojournal of the way of life of the Amish told via photo and text.
Brattleboro, Vermont: Stephen Greene Press, [1965]. Illustrations by Carl Rose. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. All 600 of the Roadside Signs. A wonderful walk down memory lane about the old Burma Shave signs that made road trips fun.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922. First edition, First State (code G-W). Hardcover. Zane Grey is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.In this collection of stories and essays about the American.....
Dearborn, MI: Greenfield Village Print Shop, 1968. Stapled wraps. Greenfield Village, collection of nearly 100 historic buildings on a 200-acre site in Dearborn, southeastern Michigan, U.S. It was established in 1933 by industrialist Henry Ford, who relocated or reconstructed buildings there from throughout the United States. The village includes the.....
Hartford Conn: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897. James Lee Humfreville relates his hair-raising experiences among the numerous tribes which he came in contact with as a cavalryman in his 20 years of life among the Indians, beginning in the late 1850s, embracing the entire territory from the Saskatchewan River in.....
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."
Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1964. Revised Edition. A Good Hardcover. This text undertakes to sift out from the large body of folksong assembled by collectors the native American ballads, describe and group them. Sections are War Ballads; Cowboys and Pioneers; Lumberjacks and Shanty Men; Sailors; about Criminals and Outlaws; Murder.....
Little Rock, Ark: August House Pub Inc, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Soft cover. The Appalachians and the Ozarks may have more in common with each other than with all the flat land between them, and one of the best things they share is a rich folksong tradition. The mountain.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1928. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Later printing of the author's nostalgic Lost Cause novel about the adventures of two 10-year-old boys' adventures in Virginia during the Civil War, and a fair amount of Southern Black dialect.Ref: Blanck-Penrod, 89.
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1931. Illustrations by William H. Jackson. Experience the enchantment of a stunningly illustrated edition showcasing the timeless tales of Western pioneering, originally published in 1849. A classic of American frontier literature, this work immerses readers in the spirit of adventure and resilience that defined.....
Boston - London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Illustrations and Dust Jacket by Lynn Ward. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A series of short stories exploring vignettes of American history. '..adventuring into America, historically, geographically, biographically. It is fragmentary, but it blends into a whole. George Washington, and.....
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.....
New York: The Victoria Publishing Company, 1948. Stapled wraps. A classic piece of Americana published just after World War II.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Soft cover. 'A classic about the life and culture of eastern Kentucky.' [Library Lane]Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River Cutshin and Greasy creeks folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half a......
Kentucky: Pikeville College Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Soft Cover in Illustrated wraps. 'A classic about the life and culture of eastern Kentucky.' [Library Lane]Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River Cutshin and Greasy creeks folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of.....
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2001. Soft cover. Forty-one favorites: songs to rally the troops, ballads of sorrow, even some of hope and humor. Includes Marching Through Georgia, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Go Down, Moses, many others. Each song printed as a guitar solo.....
North Bennington, Vermont: Poly Two Press, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Drawing on the memories of three generations the author presents rural life in the northeast.