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851. CASEY, Robert J. The Texas Border and Some Borderliners:
A Chronicle and a Guide. Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company,
[1950]. [4] 440 pp., frontispiece, photographs, photographic plates, endpaper
maps, back pocket containing 35 pp. booklet The Guide (list of current
area attractions). 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Spine a bit faded, minor
shelf wear, otherwise fine.
First edition, limited “Lone Star” issue (special leaf signed
by author tipped in). Adams, Burs I:73. Campbell, p. 171. Dykes, Kid
414. Guns 392: “Takes in some large territory and covers practically
all the outlaws in the Southwest, including those involved in the Lincoln County
War.” Herd 429. History of the Texas border, with emphasis on battles
and bad men (Sam Bass, Salt War, etc.); also some mention of King Ranch and
other ranching topics. The author opens his history with this 1910 quotation
by Joe Bailey of the Houston Post: “The Texas border is about a thousand
miles long, counting detours, and it’s just as wide as anybody who owns a cow
over there thinks it is.” $55.00
852. CASEY, Robert J. The Texas Border and Some Borderliners....
Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1950]. 440 pp., frontispiece,
photographs, photographic plates, endpaper maps, back pocket containing 35 pp.
booklet The Guide. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in very
fine d.j.
First trade edition. $40.00
853. CASTLEMAN, Harvey N. Sam Bass, the Train Robber: The
Life of Texas’ Most Popular Bandit. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications,
1944. 24 pp. 12mo, original white printed wrappers. Text browned due to the
cheap paper on which the pamphlet is printed, otherwise very fine, wrappers
very fresh.
First edition. Guns 396: “A fairly accurate account.”
This little biography indicates that disillusionment with his life as a cowboy
led Sam Bass to a life of crime. $30.00
854. CASTLEMAN, Harvey N. The Texas Rangers: The Story
of an Organization That Is Unique, Like Nothing Else in America. Girard,
Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1944. 24 pp. 12mo, original white printed
wrappers. Text browned due to the cheap paper on which the pamphlet is printed,
otherwise very fine, wrappers very fresh.
First edition. Guns 397. A brief hero-worship history
of the Rangers in which the author acknowledges his reliance on Walter Prescott
Webb. Cattle industry interest is in the material after the Civil War: McNelly’s
Rangers on the border chasing Mexican rustlers and the gringo rustlers disguised
as Mexicans (1875); recovery of a herd of cattle stolen by King Fisher (1876);
Ranger George W. Arrington’s routing of outlaws and cattle thieves in the first
Ranger station established in the Panhandle in the 1880s (cattleman Charles
Goodnight threatened to recruit a private army of his own since he did not trust
the Feds to protect Panhandle cattlemen against Native American and Anglo cattle
rustlers); Rangers in the Fence-Cutter Wars (1884). $20.00
855. CATES, Cliff D. Pioneer History of Wise County: From
Red Men to Railroads; Twenty Years of Intrepid History, Compiled under the Auspices
of the Wise County Settlers’ Association. Decatur, Texas [St. Louis: Nixon-Jones
Printing], 1907. 471 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, portraits, ads. 8vo,
original dark green cloth. Binding dull, hinges cracked and covers loose, first
few leaves detached and with marginal chipping.
First edition. CBC 4854. Dykes, Western High Spots,
p. 118 (“Ranger Reading”): “Local history that I can recommend for [its] readability.”
Herd 431: “Rare.” Howes C238. Rader 627. Tate, Indians of Texas
2358: “Includes numerous accounts of Indian raids in this North Texas county,
some as told by pioneer residents. Also includes a full chapter on the Delaware
Indians in Texas and Oklahoma.” Vandale 31. The section on “Cattle and Hogs
and Conditions” gives some early ranching history. Includes biographies and
family histories (many with photographs) of pioneer ranchers. Good coverage
of women. $475.00
856. CATHEY, Viola. Pancake Memories. [Copperas Cove:
Published by the author at Freeman Printing, 1977]. [6] 100 pp., frontispiece,
text illustrations (portraits, photographic illustrations, facsimiles). 8vo,
original beige printed wrappers. Fine, with related newsclippings laid in. Privately
printed and very scarce.
First edition. This history of the tiny farming and ranching
community of Pancake (Coryell County, Texas) includes a biography of John Russell
Pancake, namesake of the town. Pancake came to Texas in 1858 and purchased a
tract of 1,476 acres on the Hamilton-Coryell county line where he commenced
stockraising. Pancake was one of the first ranchers to fence his land, and by
the time of his death in 1888, he had increased his holdings to 8,000 acres,
making it one of the finest ranches in the area and the gathering point for
the ranchers of Coryell, Hamilton, and Bosque Counties. Pancake contracted with
northern cattle dealers and drove large herds to Kansas. Other ranches and their
owners are discussed. $45.00
857. The Cattleman 4:8. Fort Worth: Cattle Raisers
Association of Texas, January 1918. 55 [1] pp., illustrations, ads. 8vo, original
photographic wrappers. Spine chipping and a few old tape repairs, staples rusting,
wrappers lightly stained and foxed, internally fine.
First printing. Contains expected cattle content on tick
eradication, velvet beans as feed, “The Importance of Roughage,” Billie Whiteside
and his baby beeves, numerous ads (such as one for Mollie D. Abernathy &
Sons’ Swastika Ranch in Lubbock illustrating their swastika brand), etc. However,
the best article in this issue is Jason W. James’s “Over the Trail in 1858:
From Kansas to Utah with an Ox Train” in which James gives a firsthand account
of signing on with ex-Confederate General Joe O. Shelby to carry 6,000-7,000
pounds of freight in thirty wagons to Salt Lake City to supply General Harney’s
army to punish the Mormons for the Mountain Meadow Massacre. $35.00
858. The Cattleman 22:10. Fort Worth: Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association, March 1936. 112 pp., illustrations, ads. 4to, original
full-color pictorial wrappers with Texas Centennial theme evoking the evolution
of the cattle trade in Texas (six flags fly over of a map of Texas with an old
longhorn on one side of the map and a well-bred Hereford on the other). Fine.
First printing. Good content, including John M. Hendrix’s
“Bronk Busters Paid Top Wages” with Erwin E. Smith photographs at the LS Ranch
and Matador Land and Cattle Company. An article on “Scrappy Bovines” has a photo
by W. D. Smithers, and Denver cowboy W. W. Thompson’s article “A Day’s Work”
has a photo by Erwin E. Smith. C. L. Douglas’s “Cattle Kings of Texas” explains
how the King Ranch served as a buffer between the U.S. and Mexico.
$25.00
859. The Cattleman 30:4. Fort Worth: Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association, September 1943. 184 pp., illustrations, ads. 4to,
original photographic wrappers. Light edge wear and creasing to front wrapper,
otherwise fine.
First printing. Dobie, p. 132: “This monthly magazine of
the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association began in 1939 to issue,
for September, a horse number. It has published a vast amount of material both
scientific and popular on range horses.” This issue, the fifth annual Horse
issue, includes Frank Reeves’s “Cowboys and Their Horses,” Florence Fenley’s
“Cow Horse-Sense and Camp-Cow Doings,” Hazel Oatman Bowman’s “Mrs. W. C. Wallace:
Horsewoman of the Early Twentieth Century,” John M. Hendrix’s “Quanah Parker,
Chief of the Comanches, Rode a Palomino,” and much more. $20.00
860. The Cattleman 36:5. Fort Worth: Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association, October 1949. 144 pp., illustrations, ads. 4to,
original full-color pictorial wrappers with illustration by Tom Lea. Fine.
First printing. Includes “Kansas Grass Cattle” by Frank Reeves,
and an article on windmills, “Water from the Wind” by Joe M. Carmichael. $20.00
861. CAUGHEY, John Walton. Gold Is the Cornerstone.
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948. xvi, 321 pp.,
plates (from vintage prints, plus one by J. Goldsborough Bruff), vignettes by
W. R. Cameron. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Fine in fine d.j.
First edition. Dobie, p. 144. Rocq 15747. Mentions the undocumented
era of cattle and sheep drives into California catering to the miners (specifically
citing Isaac J. Wistar, one of the importers from Oregon) and the effect of
the Gold Rush on the rancheros of southern California. “The rancheros...accustomed
to raising cattle for hides and tallow, enjoyed a fabulous boom when a market
opened for beef. Few realized a dollar a pound, and not for long, but the price
leveled off at several times the figure of the hide-and-tallow days.... Sometimes
the rancheros staged their own drives.... Henry Miller did not become a Swift,
an Armour, or a Cudahy, but, with his abattoirs and outlets in San Francisco
and his ranches spread from the Mexico border into Nevada and Oregon, he was,
without exaggeration, the Cattle King” (pp. 209-10). $55.00
862. CAVE-BROWNE-CAVE, Genille. From Cowboy to Pulpit.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1926. 312 [8, ads] pp., frontispiece portrait,
photographic plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear and foxing
(especially adjacent to plates), generally very good. Rare in commerce.
First edition. Herd 442: “Chapters on ranching and
punching cows. Experiences of an Englishman who came to America and eventually
became a minister.” The English author (b. 1869), while still a green youth,
left home to join the circus and then signed on to be a sailor on a ship bound
for South Australia, where he went to work in a rabbit extermination camp. His
life changed forever when he met Mexican Joe, a famous entrepreneur of a Wild
West Show, and saw a cowboy for the first time. “Every minute I could spend
away from the regiment was spent with Mexican Joe and his lads from the far
Western ranches, and all my early ideas of the West, where I was to spend such
a big slice of my life, were gathered from the men I met there and talked to
at their work.... That definitely settled it—a cowboy’s life was the life for
me.” The author gives a splendid, entertaining description of ranch life and
how he gained respect by developing “the most uncanny skill with the lariat,
beating everybody on our own and neighboring ranches.” After a brief stint at
intercepting opium smugglers in Bombay, our hero’s cowboy adventures continued
in Texas, Colorado, Mexico, the Circle Dot Ranch, Utah, Wyoming, and New York
(where he acted in the movies and worked as a stand-in for cowgirl actresses,
wearing women’s clothing while filming dangerous stunt shots involving roping,
riding, and shooting). That New York gig brought an end to the author’s escapades.
A pretty Salvation Army lassie converted him and he became a minister, finally
returning to England, marrying, and becoming a respectable man of the cloth.
$600.00
Item 862
863. CAZNEAU, [Jane M. McManus Storms]. Eagle Pass; or,
Life on the Border by Mrs. William L. Cazneau (Cora Montgomery). Austin:
Pemberton Press, 1966. [10] 194 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original green cloth.
Very fine in fine d.j.
Limited edition (500 copies); facsimile of the first edition
(New York 1852), with added introduction and index. Graff 2873n. Hanna, Yale
Exhibit: “More than an account of life in Texas in the 1840s and 50s. It
is, in general, a plea for just and humanitarian treatment of all people, and,
in particular, a stinging indictment of the abominable treatment of the Indian
and the Black in America.” Howes C251n. Raines, p. 252n. Tate, Indians of
Texas 2466n: “Discusses the continuous Indian raids along the southern Texas
border during the early 1850s, and describes the Seminoles who had recently
settled along the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.” Wallace (Destiny and Glory,
chapter 12) states that the author “was the most adventurous of any American
woman on record and deserves far more than the oblivion which has been her fate.”
See The Handbook of Texas Online: Jane Maria Eliza McManus Cazneau. Notable
American Women I:315-16. An important record of life along the recently
acquired Rio Grande frontier by one of the first settlers of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Ranching content includes a description of the wretched working conditions of
vaqueros and peons on the vast haciendas in Mexico (as described by Severo Valdez,
a vaquero who had left Mexico to work as a ranch hand for Col. Henry Lawrence
Kinney in Corpus Christi); prospects for stockraising in Texas (“the prairies
swarm with fine cattle, and where cows may be had at seven or eight dollars
a head, and can rout out and take care of themselves the whole year”); cattle
rustling and horse thievery on the border by Mexicans and Native Americans.
$50.00
864. CÉLIZ, Francisco. Diary of the Alarcón Expedition
into Texas, 1718-1719. Translated by Fritz Leo Hoffman. Los Angeles: Quivira
Society, 1935. [12] 124 pp., plates (mostly sepia-tone photographs), maps (one
foldout). 8vo, original white cloth over rose boards. Fine, mostly unopened,
in publisher’s original glassine dust wrapper (slightly tattered).
First edition, limited edition (#392 of 600 copies). Quivira
Society Publications 5. Basic Texas Books 29: “Records the founding of
the town of San Antonio and the mission of the Alamo.” Campbell, p. 173. Clark,
Old South I:13. Howes C254. Tate, Indians of Texas 1708: “A valuable
description of all the tribes contacted during a march from Mission San Juan
Bautista to Los Adaes, Louisiana. Researchers interested in the tribes, as well
as the mission system, should consult this highly descriptive source.” When
thinking of cattle drives and overland expeditions in the West, it is sometimes
overlooked that some of the most remarkable examples of this type of trail-blazing
occurred in the Spanish era. The purpose of the Alarcón expedition was to strengthen
and extend Spanish presence in Texas, to re-supply the missions already established
in East Texas, and to found new missions in the San Antonio-San Marcos area.
The party, consisting of 72 persons (with 10 families), marched and rode overland
with numerous tools and supplies and a large herd of domestic animals (numerous
cattle, 6 droves of mules, 548 horses, sheep, and chickens). In May 1718 at
what is probably present San Marcos, the party sighted a black Castilian bull
and realized that the animal tracks they had assumed to be bison were actually
those of the cattle that Alonso de León had left during his first trip to Texas
(1686). In September 1718, after constructing the villa of Béxar (destined to
become the most important town in Spanish Texas), Céliz records that Governor
Alarcón presented the village with sixty head of cattle; in January 1719, after
building San Antonio de Valero, additional cattle, sheep, and other livestock
were ordered to be supplied to the new mission. $275.00
865. CENDRARS, Blaise. Sutter’s Gold. Translated...by Henry
Longan Stuart. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1926. [14]
179 pp., woodcut designs by Harry Cimino. 8vo, original three-quarter black
cloth over gold boards in worn, price-clipped pictorial d.j. Light shelf wear,
moderate discoloration to covers, color frontispiece and decorated title detached,
interior bright and clean. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of W. V. Casey.
First edition. Dobie, p. 144. Rocq 6661. Author describes
mission livestock operations and Sutter’s grandiose ranch. $20.00
866. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Antonio and Its Beginnings:
Comprising the Four Numbers of the San Antonio Series with Appendix. San
Antonio: Artes Gráficas Printing Company, 1936. 99 pp., frontispiece, text illustrations
(some photographic), plans. 8vo, original brown pictorial wrappers. Text browned,
remains of bookplate inside back wrapper.
Second edition. CBC 304n. Rader 646. Tate, Indians of
Texas 1709. San Antonio history from 1691 to 1731. Includes information
on ranching at San José Mission in the late 1700s and statistics on mission
herds. $40.00
867. CHABOT, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio:
Genealogies of the Early Latin, Anglo-American, and German Families with Occasional
Biographies, Each Group Being Prefaced with a Brief Historical Sketch and Illustrations....
San Antonio: Privately Published [printed by Artes Gráficas], 1937. [10]
412 pp., frontispiece, plates (photogravures, including some after Gentilz paintings),
text illustrations. Thick 8vo, original brown textured cloth. Slight shelf wear,
otherwise very fine.
First edition, trade issue (a limited edition of 25 autographed
copies came out at the same time). Basic Texas Books 222:IV: “Noteworthy
source book on early families and prominent Texans of the San Antonio region,
with extensive quotations of original documents. The volume has a research value
in many areas beyond the area of San Antonio.” Cumberland, United States–Mexican
Border, p. 112. Not in CBC. This work includes family histories of
the earliest Spanish ranchers in the San Antonio region, along with histories
of their grants. One of the illustrations is a 1778 list of cattle brands in
the Béxar Archives. Among the portraits is a handsome photogravure of Samuel
A. Maverick (1803-1870), noted early Texan and pioneer cattle and land baron.
“Maverick...left a small herd of cattle originally purchased in 1847 on Matagorda
Peninsula with slave caretakers. It was this herd that was allowed to wander
and gave rise to the term maverick, which denotes an unbranded calf. In 1854
Maverick and his two eldest sons rounded up the cattle and drove them to their
Conquista Ranch near the site of present Floresville before selling them in
1856. During the years between Maverick’s return to San Antonio and his death,
he expanded his West Texas landholdings, which in 1851 totaled almost 140,000
acres. By 1864 they had burgeoned to more than 278,000 acres, and at his death
they topped 300,000 acres.”—The Handbook of Texas Online: Samuel Augustus
Maverick. $410.00
868. CHAFFIN, Lorah B. Sons of the West: Biographical Account
of Early-Day Wyoming. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1941. 284 pp., photographic
plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in price-clipped d.j. with light
wear and chip at lower margin of front panel (approximately 1.3 x 5 cm). Signed
by author on front free endpaper, “Cordially Yours, Lorah B. Chaffin.” Above
author’s presentation is a contemporary gift inscription: “With Best Wishes
for the Christmas time and the coming year to Count and Countess Thorn(?) Rider
from their friends Mr. and Mrs. J. Gatchell.” Below author’s presentation is
a the ownership inscription of Edith W. Blunk of Denver dated in 1941.
First edition. Guns 403. Herd 443: “Chapters
on the cattle industry of Wyoming and touches upon the Johnson County War.”
Malone, Wyomingana, p. 17: “Bits of information about leaders in Wyoming
from early explorers to Senator O’Mahoney.... Livestock raising and rodeos.”
Smith 1604. $110.00
869. CHAFFIN, Lorah B. Sons of the West.... Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1941. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in very good d.j. (lightly worn and chipped; price-clipped). $80.00
870. CHALFANT, W. A. Death Valley, the Facts. Stanford,
London & Oxford: Stanford University Press, 1930. ix [1] 155 pp., photographic
plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original orange and black pictorial cloth. Lower
corners bumped, otherwise very fine.
First edition. Edwards, Desert Harvest 8: “Many great
and enduring books have been written of this desert; but, to me, there are two
of them that stand alone, distinctive and invulnerable. One of these is the
Manly; the other, Chalfant’s Death Valley”; Enduring Desert, pp.
45-46: “The recognized handbook of Death Valley and, as such, assembles a veritable
treasure-trove of informative material. Its content features the Valley’s geography,
history, climatology, water, plants, animals, geology, mining, borax, novelties,
perils, and man-made improvements. An essential item in any desert collection.”
Paher, Nevada 306. Rocq 2289. Furnace Creek Ranch is discussed and illustrated:
“The place would not be notable in a more favored region, but in widespread
desolation and below sea-level, it is unique. Its fertile loam responds generously
to cultivation.... A hundred acres of the ranch were fenced, and some forty
acres have been used for alfalfa raising. The hay, cut four times a year, was
fed to high-grade cattle, providing the beef supply for the one hundred and
twenty-five men working at Ryan and the two hundred and fifty at Death Valley
Junction” (p. 140). The author also mentions Steininger’s Ranch (later acquired
by the mysterious Walter Scott, sometime cowboy and champion rough rider in
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show) and San Francisquito Ranch. $40.00
871. CHALFANT, W. A. Outposts of Civilization. Boston:
Christopher Publishing House, [1928]. 193 pp. 8vo, original maroon ribbed cloth.
Fine.
First edition. Cowan, p. 112. Edwards, Enduring Desert,
p. 45: “Scarce, important, and a worthy addition to any desert collection.”
Guns 405. Howes C260. Paher, Nevada 308: “Vigilantes, early day
transportation, mining camps, Nevada-California boundary dispute, Knights of
the Road (Wells Fargo), millionaires and stock promotion excitement.” Rocq 15749.
The chapter on “The Bandits of California” discusses pre-Gold Rush banditti,
such as Andreas Armijo and Thomas Maria Carrillo, alleged leaders of cattle-rustling
and horse-stealing gangs. The author tells how the Gold Rush upset the balance
of power in California, revolutionizing the old ranchos in a single season (pp.
137-38, “The Bandits of California”): “There were few uses for the plains and
rolling hills other than as pastures for wild cattle, slaughtered for hides
and tallow, their carcasses left for the buzzards. Idyllic conditions no longer
held sway.... A few occasional days of toil at cattle round-ups no longer sufficed
to provide a living, and many who had so existed were ready to turn to banditry
as an easy alternative.... The term ‘Greaser,’ originally applied to the American
and English buyers of hides and tallow, became an opprobrious designation for
those of Spanish descent, native-born, Mexican, Chilean and Peruvian.” Chalfant
includes information on post-Gold Rush outlaws, including Texan John Irving
(his gang stole $15,000 in gold and 900 horses from a San Joaquin Valley rancho
in 1851) and much on Joaquin Murieta (“the grand duke of bandit ignobility”
whose chief business became stock rustling from ranches). $110.00
872. CHALFANT, W. A. The Story of Inyo. [Chicago]:
Published by the Author [at Hammond Press], 1922. xviii, 358 pp., foldout map,
errata on lower pastedown. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise
very fine. Bookplate of scholar Margaret Long on front pastedown; lower pastedown
with printed label of Paul Elder, noted San Francisco bookseller and proprietor
of the arts and crafts Tomoyé Press.
First edition. Cowan, p. 112. Edwards, Enduring Desert,
p. 45. Guns 406: “Scarce.” Herd 444: “Has a chapter on ‘The Coming
of the Stockmen.’” Howes C261: “Best history of the California region east of
the Sierras, the Owens Valley and Death Valley.” Paher, Nevada 309n (citing
the second edition): “Exploration, geological facts, desert camps, pioneer settlements,
Indian fights, bad men and transportation.” Rocq 2227. $110.00
873. CHALFANT, W. A. The Story of Inyo. [Chicago]: Published by the Author [at Hammond Press], 1922. Another copy. Binding worn and stained. $70.00
874. CHAMBERLAIN, Hiram. My Dear Henrietta: Hiram Chamberlain’s
Letters to His Daughter, 1846-1866. Kingsville: [Designed and printed by
W. Thomas Taylor for] King Ranch, Inc., 1993. 103 [3] pp., 4 plates (photographic).
8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Mint.
First edition, limited edition (400 copies). Handsomely printed
by W. Thomas Taylor; edited and annotated with introduction and commentary by
Bruce Cheeseman. Chamberlain’s daughter, Henrietta, married Richard King and
helped him to build his fledgling rancho on the banks of the Santa Gertrudis
Creek into a 614,000-acre ranching empire, which he bequeathed solely to her
upon his death. Under her management, the King Ranch prospered and grew. $140.00
875. CHAMBERLAIN, Newell D. The Call of Gold: True Tales
on the Gold Road to Yosemite. [Mariposa: Gazette Press, 1936]. xii [2] 183
pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), maps, facsimile. 8vo, original
tan cloth. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine in torn and chipped d.j. (price-clipped).
Ink inscription “Redmond” on blank flyleaf.
First edition. Guns 407. Rocq 5099. This book contains
peripheral information of interest for ranching history, particularly several
chapters on Frémont’s 44,000-acre Mariposa grant, which was challenged on the
basis that the grant was originally made to Alvarado for grazing and agricultural
purposes and thus did not convey mineral rights. Some mention is made of Frémont’s
successful bid for supplying several thousand head of cattle to the U.S. government.
$70.00
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