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Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, In California, including part of the Arkansas...

Washington, D.C: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. First edition, House issue, later printing (gatherings 2 & 9 with Senate issue running head). An acceptable copy of these important accounts of the southwest, made by Emory and Abert as part of Gen Kearny’s passage through what was then northern Mexico... Read More about Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, In...

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Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona.

Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1866. Arizona stated the exact rights of a woman in the Territory. During this session the legislature ratified an act outlining the rights of married women, consisting of thirty-three sections. Also passed during this session was the "Act To Incorporate the Mowry Silver Mine... Read More about Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of...

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The Crib 1912.

[ El Rancho Bonito, Arizona: Evans School], 1912. Miscellany of poetry and photographs of school life. Among the 17 students of the Evans School at El Rancho Burrito in this year were Louis Gordon Hamersley, Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, and Thomas Archer Morgan. Read More about The Crib 1912

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Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and Van Buren, Ark.

Van Buren, AR: Thayer Bros. Print, n.d., ca 1890s]. First edition. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas, … and to procure the stocking of the streams and..... Read More about Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and...

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A Certificate of Admission to Austin's Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints

El Ciudadano Estevan F. Austin, Empresario, Para Introducir Emigrados Estrangeros, En Las Colonias Que Le Tiene, Designadas El Supremo Gobierno...

San Felipe de Austin: : Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829. A Certificate of Admission to Austin's Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints. A rare imprint from the San Felipe de Austin press of Godwin Brown Cotten, an original certificate of admission to Austin's colony. "These grants were the... Read More about El Ciudadano Estevan F. Austin, Empresario, Para Introducir Emigrados Estrangeros, En Las...

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On the Border with Crook.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First edition. One of the most acclaimed works on the Indian wars, by an army officer and ethnologist who served on Crook's staff. "A truly great book, on both the Apaches and the Arizona frontier" - Dobie. Read More about On the Border with Crook

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Autograph Letter Signed ("James Smith"), declining an invitation to attend a performance of Shakespeare.

10 Austin Friars [London]: 29 April [n.y.]. A pair of letters from brother-humorists James Smith (1775-1839) and Horatio Smith (1779-1849), authors of the celebrated parody anthology "Rejected Addresses" (1812) which included imitations of Byron, Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Scott, et al, "undoubtedly the best known collection of parodies published in the... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("James Smith"), declining an invitation to attend a...

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Megalops. An Angler's Affair with Tarpon.

Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 2001. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 26 copies, signed by the author, with additional portfolio of 4 signed photographs. Lively, well written account of tarpon fishing from Key West and Texas to Belize and Venezuela. Read More about Megalops. An Angler's Affair with Tarpon

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Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain.

Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1965. From an edition limited to 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. A detailed study of the contributions made to the cartography of Sonora, Arizona, and California by the noted missionary, Eusebio Kino, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Read More about Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain

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Women of the Ku Klux Klan

Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Adopted by First Imperial Klonvocation at St. Louis, Missouri...

Little Rock, Arkansas: printed by M.G. Pugh and Company, [1927]. Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Two items from the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, which began in 1915 and took shape as a national organization perpetuated by a well-established beauracracy with codified recruiting techniques and forms. The... Read More about Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Adopted by First Imperial Klonvocation at...

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Group of three scenes along the Suwanee River.

[Southern Georgia or northern Florida: nd, ca. 1842-1843]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or... Read More about Group of three scenes along the Suwanee River

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[ORIGINAL INK DRAWING OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE].

[New Castle, Delaware: 1842]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or northern Florida, and two... Read More about [ORIGINAL INK DRAWING OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE]

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[TWO ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS OF MOUNT VERNON, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE].

[Mt. Vernon, Va: 1842]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or northern Florida, and two... Read More about [TWO ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS OF MOUNT VERNON, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE]

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Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months.

Boston: George R. Holbrook & Co, 1848. Twelfth Edition. The author, a clerk on a steamboat and then a Mexican War Volunteer, was captured by Canales' band of Guerillas and experienced a rigorous Captivity. He describes the wretched internal conditions, incidents of the War, his final escape and perilous return... Read More about Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months

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Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt.

July 9, 1938. "To Alfred Eisenstaedt / with admiration for his / art and appreciation for his / comradeship / Jonathan Daniels / Raleigh, N.C. July 9, 1938" Daniels was editor the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer. In 1938 he published his account of a ten-state tour of the South... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt

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The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the Commencement of the Revolution...

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. First edition, second issue. "The standard account of the financial history of the Texas Revolution, this book is much more interesting reading than the title suggests, mixing humor, anecdotes, and historical sidelights with statistics, finance, and fiscal theory ... Although the Texans did not... Read More about The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the...

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Inscribed, in Presentation Binding

Tales of Lonely Trails.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1922]. First edition, G-W (July 1922) on copyright page. Inscribed, in Presentation Binding. Tales of outdoor travel and hunting in the West: Colorado, Arizona, and California. Inscribed by the author on first blank, in his characteristic purple ink, "To Edna from Zane Gray Christmas 1923" Read More about Tales of Lonely Trails

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