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2065. FURNAS, Robert W. Nebraska: Her Resources, and Advantages,
Advancements and Promises. New Orleans: E. A. Brandao & Co., 1885.
32 pp., tables. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Text browned and lightly
soiled, otherwise a good copy.
Early Nebraska guide and promotional, “prepared...by
Robert W. Furnas, State Commissioner for the World’s Industrial & Cotton
Centennial Exposition...1884-85.” Imprint differs from Graff 1466 and Herd 867
(“Rare”). $75.00
2066. FURNAS, Robert W. (ed.). Transactions and Reports of
the Nebraska State Historical Society, Vol. 1. Lincoln: State Journal
Co., 1885. 233 [1] pp. 8vo, original black cloth gilt. Moderate shelf wear,
otherwise fine.
First edition. Interesting articles on Nebraska history
include a piece on the first Anglo child born in Nebraska, the first women’s
suffrage movement in Nebraska, pioneer recollections, and biographies, including
several stockmen. $35.00
2067. FURNISS, Norman F. The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. viii [4] 311 pp., frontispiece portrait,
plates, map. 8vo, original dark grey cloth. Fine in lightly worn d.j.
First edition. Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany,
vol. 72. The primary focus is on conflicts between the U.S. government and Mormons,
but there are good sidelights on the early years of ranching in Utah. $75.00
2068. FURSTNOW SADDLERY COMPANY. Illustrated Catalogue and
Price List No. 27...Wholesale and Retail Saddlery, Montana Art Leather Work,
Fancy Bits and Spurs, Fine Saddles and Harness, Tents, Paulins, Slickers,
Horse Furnishing Goods. Miles City [St. Paul: McGill-Warner, after 1913].
147 pp., profusely illustrated (photographs and engravings of saddles and
other riding and ranging equipment). 8vo, original red pictorial wrappers.
Wraps with a few ink stains and water staining with bleed-through onto endpapers
and title, hinges strengthened with cloth tape. Related ephemera laid in.
Preserved in a maroon cloth box with red leather label. Uncommon ephemera.
First edition. This trade catalogue contains a wealth
of solid documentation on saddles and gear offered by the prominent Montana firm
of Al Furstnow, which specialized in rodeo and stock saddles, popular with working
cowboys, rodeo stars, and celebrity cowboys, such as Tom Mix. Today Furstnow
saddles and equipage are avidly collected.
Among the photographs is a portrait
of proprietor Al Furstnow. The date 1913 is mentioned in the catalogue, and Furstnow
moved to California about 1922. Miles City was a legendary cattle town in Eastern
Montana and “the end
of the cattle trail” for many longhorn cattle trails in the 1890s. $550.00
Item 2068
Item 2068
2069. GAGE, Jack. Tensleep and No Rest: A Historical Account
of the Range War of the Big Horns in Wyoming. Casper: Prairie Publishing
Company, [1958]. [6] 222 [4] pp., photographic plates, map, facsimiles. 8vo,
original red cloth gilt. Very fine in price-clipped d.j., chipped and worn
at edges.
First edition. Guns 792: “Account of the
war between the sheepmen and the cattlemen in Wyoming.” Not in Herd.
$65.00
What Life Has Taught Me
2070. GALLATIN, E. L. What Life Has Taught Me. Denver:
Jno. Frederic, [1900]. [2] 215 pp., photographic frontispiece portrait of author.
8vo, original black cloth. Upper hinge cracked, front flyleaf loose and wear
to edges, overall very good. Author’s signed, dated, and inscribed copy.
First edition. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the
Plains and the Rockies 175. Graff 1490. Howes G32. Howes Catalogue 53:068: “Privately
printed autobiography of a prominent Colorado pioneer, describing his trip across
the plains in 1860 to the Pikes Peak gold region, early Placerville and Denver,
criminals and vigilantes, the founding of Cheyenne and Laramie City, Wyoming,
etc. The Gallatin stockman’s saddle was in widespread use in the West,
all leading towns having warehouses for their distribution. This is the only
copy I have ever heard of.” Wilcox, p. 47: “Chiefly an account of
the author’s connection with the Colorado Co-operative Colony, Nucla, Colorado.” Wynar
1262.
About half the book is devoted to the Colorado Co-operative
Colony, and Gallatin’s involvement with it. The Colony was a direct descendant
of Brook Farm and continues in existence to this day as the Colorado Ditch Company,
named after its most celebrated public work. Much has been written on Gallatin,
one of the giants of the Plains style saddle, centered in the Cheyenne, Wyoming
area. See James R. Laird, The Cheyenne Saddle: A Study of Stock Saddles of
E. L. Gallatin, Frank A. Meanea and the Collins Brothers (Cheyenne: Frontier
Printing, Inc., 1983.). $1,250.00
Item 2070
Land & Water Laws of Mexico & California—1844
Signed by a Pioneer of Santa Barbara & Monterey
2071. GALVÁN [RIVERA], Mariano. Ordenanzas de tierras
y aguas, ó sea: formulario geométrico-judicial para la designacion,
establecimiento, mensura, amojonamiento y deslinde de las poblaciones y todas
suertes de tierras, sitios, caballerias y criaderos de ganados mayores y
menores y mercedes de aguas: Recopiladas a beneficio y obsequio de los pobladores,
ganaderos, labradores, dueños, arrendatarios y administradores de
haciendas, y toda clase de predios rústicos, de las muchas y dispersas
resoluciones dictadas sobre la materia, y vigentes hasta el dia en la república
Mexicana.... Segunda edicion, corregida y aumentada. Mexico: [Leandro
J. Valdes, 1844.] [2] iv, 3-184 pp., 2 lithographic plates, numerous text
illustrations (geometrical and technical), tables, plans. 8vo, full contemporary
mottled green and brown Mexican calf, spine gilt-decorated and with original
black gilt-lettered label. Light shelf wear (especially at edges and corners),
mild marginal staining to blank outer edge of leaves, overall a very good
to fine copy in a handsome nineteenth-century Mexican binding. From the library
of an important Franco-Mexican-Californian, signed on title by José María
Covarrubias, a Frenchman who became a Mexican citizen and came to California
in 1834 with the Híjar and Padrés Colony to be a schoolteacher
(see Bancroft, Pioneer Register, p. 110). Provenance: Miss Rosario
Curletti, who helped endow the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, the
oldest library in the State of California that still remains in the hands
of its founders, the Franciscans.
Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of a volume of vital
interest to both the pastoral era of the Spanish and Mexican ranchos of California
and the period after Anglo occupation (the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo intended
to respect all Mexican land titles as granted under these laws, but the Halleck
report of 1851 upheld the rights of U.S. settlers or squatters). Not in Palau.
Sabin 26466 (lists only the fourth and subsequent editions).
This work is a compilation of formulas, regulations, and laws
regarding land surveys, water rights, boundaries, and related matters. Land law
from the earliest years of Spanish occupation in America up to Mexico’s
colonization laws are analyzed, including those pertinent to California and Texas.
Colonization laws of interest for Coahuila y Tejas are included for the years
1824, 1828, 1834, and 1837. This would have been an essential volume for a settler
or rancher wishing to obtain a Mexican land grant.
This volume has exceptional association interest: Covarrubias
was adaptable, holding several key government posts in Monterey and Santa Barbara
both before and after the shift of power to the U.S. In the early 1840s Covarrubias
was busy arresting Anglo foreigners. At the time of this imprint, he served as
alcalde at Santa Barbara. By 1849 Covarrubias was a member of the California
constitutional convention and served with the first legislature (four times re-elected).
In 1843 Covarrubias applied for a 26,000-acre land grant in Santa Inéz
Valley, which was granted to him and his kinsman Joaquín Carrillo by the
last Mexican governor of California. Covarrubias hired Native American laborers
to work the property as a cattle ranch, the Castac (or Castaic Rancho), a portion
of which is now Fort Tejón, a California state historic park near the
Grapevine. $750.00
Item 2071
2072. GAMBRELL, J[ames] B[urton]. Ten Years in Texas [half-title]. [Dallas:
The Baptist Standard, 1909]. 313 pp., frontispiece portrait of author (photographic),
text illustrations (line drawings and cartoons). 8vo, original navy blue cloth
lettered in white and gilt. Slight shelf wear, light foxing to edges of book
block and endpapers, otherwise fine, with dealer’s ink stamp on front
free endpaper. Contemporary ink ownership signature. J. Frank Dobie’s
ownership inscription and signed comment on front free endpaper: “One
book I have not read thoroughly; I know it thoroughly however without
having read it.”
First edition of these articles first published in The
Baptist Standard. Campbell, p. 97: “Splendid account of early life
in Texas.” Reverend Gambrell (1840-1921), a prominent Baptist minister,
teacher, and editor, served as a scout for General Lee and fought in the Battle
of Gettysburg (see Handbook of Texas Online: James Bruton Gambrell). In
the chapter “Evangelizing the Far West,” the author describes the
annual Madera camp-meeting in the Davis Mountains which began because the ranches
of the region were widely separated by vast, uninhabited areas making it virtually
impossible for frontier families to worship with their neighbors and friends:
“Up in the deep canyon in these mountains is the spot
where the cowboys’ camp-meeting is held.... The mountain stream comes down
to supply water for cowman use, and an excellent place for baptizing.... The
cowboys were there in great force, manly, respectful and reverent. The great
ranch men and women were there with their full forces.... These ranch people
are great. The average person from the East must revise his judgment of the ranch
people.... They have cut out the rowdy and the scrub” (pp. 154-58). $50.00
2073. [GAMEL, Thomas W.]. The Life of Thomas W. Gamel. N.p.,
n.d. (ca. 1932). 32 pp. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. Other than light
marginal browning to text, fine.
First edition. Guns 793: “Rare. A little-known
book containing some material on the Mason County War and Scott Cooley.” Includes
an eyewitness account of “The Hoodoo War,” which occurred in Mason
County in 1872 after cattle belonging to German stock raisers were stolen or
killed. A mob took the accused rustlers from jail, and five men were hanged.
The Texas Rangers had to be called in, and not until after 1876 did the county
settle down to peace, law, and order. Gamel (b. 1846) came to Texas from Alabama
with his family in 1850 and settled in Mason County in 1860. He joined the Minute
Men during the Civil War and remained active in law enforcement. $200.00
2074. GANN, Walter. Tread of the Longhorns. San Antonio:
Naylor, [1949]. ix [1] 188 pp., illustrations by R. L. McCollister. 8vo, original
red cloth with black lettering. Fine copy in a slightly foxed and worn d.j.
Author’s signed and dated presentation copy to E. Bell and Joseph Emerson
Smith “...with best wishes and in gratitude for the privilege of knowing
such excellent people. November 27, 1952.”
First edition. Adams, Burs I:143: “Chapter
on the early cowtowns.” Dykes, Kid 299: “Gann [was] an old
cowboy turned peace-officer and Western novelist.” Guns 794: “Contains
a chapter on cattle thieves and range wars, including the Lincoln County and
Johnson County Wars.” Herd 870. History of the cattle trade, from
the coming of the Spanish to the time of publication. Foreword by William MacLeod
Raine. $50.00
2075. GANN, Walter. Tread of the Longhorns. San Antonio: Naylor, [1949]. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original orange cloth lettered in black. Cloth lightly wrinkled, front endpaper browned where review was laid in, otherwise very good in d.j. that is a little worn and chipped. Author’s signed and dated presentation copy to W. S. Broome: “To my friend..., an old time Texas cowhand from another.... Denver, Colorado.” Bookplate of Marie and Scott Broome. $40.00
2076. GANN, Walter. Tread of the Longhorns. San Antonio: Naylor, [1949]. Another copy. 8vo, original orange cloth lettered in black. Slight foxing to upper edge of text block and endpapers, otherwise fine in foxed, worn, smudged, and price-clipped d.j. J. Frank Dobie’s signed note on front free endpaper: “Walter Gann did better in putting his range knowledge into his one novel, The Trail Boss, which has no more plan than The Log of a Cowboy, and which is stuffed with episodes out of real range life. He does not know enough to write a history. J. Frank Dobie. Austin, Tx. Oct. 28, 1949.” $35.00
2077. GANN, Walter. Tread of the Longhorns. San Antonio: Naylor, [1949]. Another copy. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, internally fine in very good d.j. Signed by author. $35.00
2078. GANN, Walter. Tread of the Longhorns. San Antonio: Naylor, [1949]. Another copy. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in a somewhat tattered and chipped d.j. $25.00
2079. GANNON, Clell Goebel. Songs of the Bunch-Grass Acres. Boston:
[The Gorham Press for] Richard G. Badger, [1924]. 96 pp., photographic frontispiece,
text illustrations by author. 12mo, original grey pictorial boards lettered
and illustrated in black. Fragile binding moderately worn and chipped at spine,
otherwise a fine copy. Contemporary ink gift inscription and ink stamp on front
free endpaper.
First edition. Range verse by Great Plains author-artist
Gannon (1900-1962), who spent most of his life in North Dakota. Poems include “The
Law of Dakota,” “The Red River Valley,” “A Westerner’s
Prayer,” “The Coyote,” “The Girl from Montana,” “A
Song of the Badlands,” and “The Prairie Rose.” $50.00
Wayne Gard
2080. GARD, Wayne. Cattle Brands of Texas. [Dallas: First
National Bank], n.d. (ca. 1956). [36] pp., text illustrations and photographs
(some in color and/or full-page), brands. Oblong 12mo, original wrappers illustrating
several brands. Mint in original mailing envelope.
First printing. Herd 874: “Cattle brands
taken from Texas Cattle Brands edited by Gus Ford (1936).” Newsman
and historical writer Sanford Wayne Gard (1899-1986), a native of Illinois, received
his master’s degree from Northwestern University and studied at Columbia
University. After working as a wire editor for the AP at Chicago (1925-1925),
he became an editorial writer for the Chicago Daily and other newspapers,
including the Dallas Morning News. “Gard’s principal literary
interest was in the southwest, his subjects honestly researched and carefully
written, his prose revealing the courage, daring, and enterprise of Southwestern
pioneers, and preserving their place in the heroic phase of western expansion.
He died in Dallas” (Thrapp, Encyclopedia of Frontier History II,
pp. 534-535). $25.00
2081. GARD, Wayne. The Chisholm Trail. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, [1954]. xi [1] 296 pp., plates (mostly photographic), text
illustrations by Nick Eggenhofer, map. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine
copy in fine d.j. Signed by author.
First edition. Basic Texas Books 70: “Entertaining
and scholarly, this is the best book on the Chisholm Trail.... A large number
of fellow historians provided assistance, including J. Frank Dobie, Carl Coke
Rister, Edward Everett Dale, Ralph Bieber, and Ramon Adams. It would be difficult
to imagine a more solidly researched book.” Campbell, p. 192: “The
Chisholm Trail carried the greatest migration of domestic animals in world history,
helped Texas recover from poverty that followed the Civil War, spurred railroad
construction, and opened a vast new American export business. Actually the trail’s
beginning was near the southern tip of Texas and led through or passed San Antonio,
Austin, and Fort Worth, across the Indian Territory...and then into Kansas, where
the original terminus was Abilene.” Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books
about the Cattle Industry 37. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer
77); Western High Spots, p. 15 (“Western Movement: Its Literature”): “Tops
on the most important of the trails”; p. 78 (“A Range Man’s
Library”); p.103 (“The Texas Ranch Today”). Guns 797: “Has
material on many of the outlaws and gunmen of the trail-driving days.” Herd 875.
Much on women and the cowtowns. $100.00
2082. GARD, Wayne. The Chisholm Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1954]. Another copy. Fine in lightly worn and price-clipped d.j. $75.00
2083. GARD, Wayne. Fabulous Quarter Horse, Steel Dust: The
True Account of the Most Celebrated Texas Stallion. New York: Duell,
Sloan and Pearce, [1958]. 64 pp., illustrations by Nick Eggenhofer. 4to,
original terracotta pictorial cloth gilt. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise
fine in very fine d.j. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate.
First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer
78); Western High Spots, p. 83 (“A Range Man’s Library”): “Story
of one of the famous sires of this purely American breed so popular as cow horses.” Guns 798: “Has
some material on Sam Bass, mostly about his race horse, the Denton Mare.” $60.00
2084. GARD, Wayne. “The Fence-Cutters” in Southwestern
Historical Quarterly 51:1 (July 1947). Pp. 1-15. 8vo, original green
printed wrappers. Very fine.
First separate printing. Guns 876: “A
chapter from the author’s Frontier Justice read as a paper before
the Southwestern Historical Society. This reprint deals with the lawlessness
of wire cutting in the range country.” Herd 876 lists the separate
offprint. $30.00
2085. GARD, Wayne. Frontier Justice. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1949. xi [1] 324 pp., plates (many photographic), map. 8vo,
original terracotta cloth. Fine copy in slightly sun faded and lightly worn
d.j.
First edition. Campbell, p. 163: “Comprehensive
account of the broad lines of the development of justice in the West, of the
sudden and swiftly advancing steps in the process of civilizing the frontier.
There are chapters on Indian atrocities, early feuds, vigilantes, range wars,
cattle and sheep wars, strife with fence cutters, and the Johnson County War....
Well documented, handsomely illustrated, and readable.” Dobie, p. 103: “Useful
bibliography of range books.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #77.
Dykes, Kid 401. Guns 800: “Deals with...cattle rustlers,
such outlaws and gunmen as Sam Bass, Billy the Kid, the Earps, John Wesley Hardin,
Wild Bill Hickok, and Ben Thompson, and the Lincoln County and Johnson County
wars.” Herd 877. $65.00
2086. GARD, Wayne. Frontier Justice. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1949. xi [1] 324 pp., plates (many photographic), map. Endpapers
a bit dark, otherwise fine in lightly worn d.j. Carl Hertzog’s copy,
with his bookplate on front pastedown.
First edition, second printing, with correct d.j. (“second
large printing” on front flap). $35.00
2087. GARD, Wayne. The Great Buffalo Hunt. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1959. xii, 324, xii [2] pp., text illustrations and plates by Nick
Eggenhofer (one double-page). 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Very fine
copy in fine d.j. Signed by author.
First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Eggenhofer
79). Guns 801: “Has some mention of Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson,
William Tilghman, and John Poe.” Tate, Indians of Texas 3127: “Best-written
and most thorough account of Comanche and Kiowa warfare against the destructive
buffalo hunters during the entire 1870s including much detail on events after
the Red River War.” Gard explores the important role of buffalo extirpation
in opening the American West to cattlemen, farmers, and settlers. From 1871 to
the early 1880s buffalo numbers were reduced from an estimated 70 million to
less than 1,000; over 40 million were slaughtered in 1871 alone. $50.00
2088. GARD, Wayne. The Great Buffalo Hunt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Another copy. Not signed. Light shelf wear, otherwise a fine copy in lightly worn d.j. $35.00
2089. GARD, Wayne. Rawhide Texas. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, [1965]. xi [1] 236 pp., plates (mostly photographic). 8vo,
original orange cloth. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, otherwise
fine in d.j. (illustrated by Tom Lea). Rosengren of San Antonio book label
on lower pastedown.
First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Lea
158). Guns 802: “Tells about the lawmen and Texas Rangers.” Northouse, First
Printings of Texas Authors, p. 18. The people of Texas are portrayed in a
series of informal sketches depicting pioneer life on the Texas frontier and
illuminating the still-emerging Texas character. Social history with chapters
on Comanches, plantations, cattle, sheep, sodbusters, schools, newspapers, oil,
etc. $45.00
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