ACROSS THE SIERRAS IN WINTER Softcover unpaginated, published by the California Historical Society in conjunction with Arthur Clark Co., 2001, and in fine condition.

Photographs from a century ago, documenting the trials and tribulations of clearing the way for the Southern Pacific Railroad to transverse the Sierras.

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THE EXPLORATION OF NORTH AMERICA - RONDA Softcovered, American Historical Association, 1992, 60 pages and in fine condition.

Contents:

Dreams of Exploration
China and the Kingdoms of Canada: Cartier and New France
The Great Entrada: Coronado and the Southwest
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Great Surveys of the American West
NASA and More Distant Frontier

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OLD ST. MARY'S AD 1854-1929 Softcovered, published by Paulist Fathers, San Francisco, circa 1930, unpaginated with photographs and text, wraps have minor edge defects, pages clean.

Insight into Catholicism in California and the infamous San Franciso Church.

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A PICTURE HISTORY OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION No Dust Jacket, bumped corners.

Photographic essay on the development of transportion in the United States from just before 1830 when the use of steam took hold, to the present.

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Circa: 1958
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing
Author: Roderick Craib  

GOOD LIFE IN HARD TIMES - FLAMM Paperback, written by Jerry Flamm, published by Chronical Books, 1978, 170 pages and in fine condition.

Author writes about 1920's and 1930's San Francisco with numerous photographs.

Neptune Park, The Ferry, San Francisco Seals Baseball Team, Rose Bowl, Chinatown, etc., are a few of the diversions mentioned that enabled those who lived during this time to become oblivious to the Great Depression and exisiting conditions across America.

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A HISTORY OF WESTERN AMERICAN ART - HASSRICK Biographies of artists whose painting were primarily of the American West with photographs of their work and include such legends as Russell, Remington, Catlin and O'Keefe. Western Art.

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Circa: 1987
Condition: VG+/VG+
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: Exeter Books
Author: Royal B. Hassrick  

THE CALIFORNIA STORY BOOK - OGDEN Tan and blue cloth boards with decoration - insigna of University of California.

Selected stories by former students of the University of California, including Frank Norris, which were published in major periodicals of the time, such as the Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, Century and Overland Monthly.

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Circa: 1909
Condition: VG
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: University of California
Author: Marguerite Odgen, Editor
Edition: 1  

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN - LA FARGE New York: Crown Publishers, 1956. Author, the foremost authority on the American Indian, details the history of the American Indian from the time the white man first landed to the present in 272 pages illustrated with b/w and color photographs and illustrations.

Dust Jacket has small closed tear on rear cover and minor edgewear,. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Circa: 1956
Condition: VG+/VG
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Author: Oilver La Farge  

SUSQUEHANNA HEARTLAND - SEITZ Hardcover with Dust Jacket - Susquehanna Heartland, by Ruth Hoover Seitz with photography by Blair Seitz, published by RB Books 1992, 120 pages, and in very good condition.

The main artery of the Susquehanna, Pennsylvania's greatest river, winds its way from Northumberland County to the Mason-Dixon Line.

The river and distinctive aspects of the counties it impacts flow through the descriptive text of the author and 170 photographs taken by her husband spanning a decade of experiencing southhcentral Pennsylvania.

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CONFEDERATE COURIER - HELEN JONES CAMPBELL Dust Jacket, price clipped, exhibits chipping to tail of spine and slight edgewear.

Detailed account of the trial of Johnny Surratt, co-conspirator in the attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln and bring him to Richmond in attempt to end the Civil War.

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Circa: 1964
Condition: VG/VG
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: St. Martin
Author: Helen Jones Campbell
Edition: 1  

THE DECLINE OF THE CALIFORNIANS - PITT Paperback, written by Leoanerd Pitt, published by University of California Press, 1998, 324 pages and in fine condition.

A study (few photographs) of Spanish-speaking Californians - a group that includes both native-born Californians, or Californios, and immigrants from Mexico.

Early chapters in California's ethnic history which details racism and tensions that are still present today.

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THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE - ROBERT MANSON MYERS New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Dust Jacket protected by mylar, red ink stamp IMPORTANT across lower edge.

Selection of letters of the Georgia plantation family of Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones written during 1860-1868 and detail how life actually was before, during and after the Civil War.. First Edition - Abridged. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Circa: 1984
Condition: F/F
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Author: Robert Manson Myers
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0300031300  

TO LANCASTER WITH LOVE - LESTZ Hardcover with Dust Jacket (minor edge defect) - To Lancaster With Love, by Gerald S. Lestz, published by Brookshire Publications 1992, 60 pages, and in very good condition.

This book seeks to portray some of this pleasant city's charm and the energies of its people from days of the earliest settlement in the 1700s onward.

Full page color views of the Central Market, City Hall, Old Main at Franklin and Marshall College, etc.

To Lancaster With Love includes:

The name of George Washington's hostess for tea, How LaFayette toasted the local ladies, What President Buchanan said to President Lincoln, How close Southern troops came to Lancaster, How the Woolworth chain got started, Where Mary Cassatt, famed artist, learned to drive horses, etc.

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FIGHTING INDIANS OF THE WEST - MARTIN F SCHMITT Bonanza Books, 1948. Bumped boards, Dust Jacket exhibits edgewear and minor closed tears as well as some rubbing,

Contains 362 pages with 270 photographs and illustrations describing the confrontations and battles between the Indians and United States beginning with Red Clouds attack on Fort Kearny in 1866 to Wounded Knee in 1890.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good +. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.


Circa: 1948
Condition: VG/G+
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: Bonanza Books
Author: Martin F. Schmitt and Dee Brown  

THE DIARY OF A FORTY-NINER - OSCAR LEWIS Dust Jacket edge flaps uneven, protected by mylar.

First published in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The Diary of a Forty-Niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.

Oscar Lewis has signed at the end of Introduction Pages.

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Circa: 1947
Condition: VG+/VG
Type: Hard Cover
Publisher: James Ladd Delkin
Author: Oscar Lewis  

ISLAND IN TIME - GILLIAM Paperback, written by Harold Gilliam, with photographs by Philip Hyde, published by The Sierra Club, 1962, 87 pages and in very good condition.

Photographic excursion into the Point Reyes Peninsula (black and white photographs)

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Nevada Magazine- 1964 CENTENNIAL ISSUE Publication by the Nevada Department of Highways and in very good condition.

Centennial Edition commemorating Nevada statehood in 1864 with photography and illustrations complementing the text throughout its 61 pages.

Articles include:

Avenue to the West-Down the Humboldt, Up the Carson-The Famed, The Dreaded Humboldt River...It Brought Thousands Across the Nevada Deserts to the Open West

Early Maps

Peter Skene Ogden

Captain Simpson of the United States Army

Alf Doten in Como - Being the Adventures of a Jack-of-All Trades Who Watched the Rise and Fall of a Nevada Mining Camp a Century Ago

From Longhorns to Herefords

A Scenic Whirl Through Nevada's Wonderful Seventeen

Who Remembers Pioneer

Early Photos from Nevada's 17 Counties

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Condition: Used