201. Prairie Dust. New York: Phoenix Press. (1936).
First Edition. Western novel of a stagecoach robbery and a battle for a railroad right of way. Near Fine in lovely Near Fine example of the dustjacket, with wear along front flap edge. Item #14778
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202. The House of the Dawn. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co, 1914.
Hanson Booth dustjacket art and illustrations. A novel of Spanish Mexico. Uncommon in dustjacket. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at lower edge and top spine end. Item #34856
203. Told in the Hills [NATIVE AMERICAN INTEREST]. Chicago: Rand McNally and Co, (1905).
First Edition. Tom Gilbert dustjacket art. Montana set novel by this early Native American activist concerning tensions between settlers and the Native Americans which leads to the U. S. Cavalry involvement. The novel includes racial slurs and stereotyping, to the extent that the reader wonders what the author’s sympathies were, but in the end we see the Native Americans as real and complex human beings. Basis for the 1919 by Paramount Pictures film. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chip and closed tears, some clear tape mends at verso. Item #31227
![Told in the Hills [NATIVE AMERICAN INTEREST]. Marah Ellis RYAN](/pictures/medium/31227.jpg?v=1502405743)
204. Hill-bred Barton's Code. New York: Chelsea House, (1925).
First Edition. S.M. dustjacket art. Western about a man who fights to return injustice. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicked at spine ends and flap corners. Item #25255
205. The Locusts. New York: Farrar and Rinehart. 1943.
First Edition. Dustjacket design by George A. Picken. Novel of the western expansion and the invasion of locusts that plagued the settlers. Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket, with chip top panel, tiny nicks top spine end, small abrasion rear panel. Item #4943
206. Billy The Maverick. New York: Henry Holt and Co., (1934).
First Edition. Children's novel of a young boy's adventures on an Arizona ranch. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by the author at front free endpaper. "The author considers this / book the most distinguished / by awful make-up of / any yet published by a / reputable firm! / Evelyn Scott." Very Good but for extreme discoloration to covers from moisture exposure, in Good dustjacket with light stains at flap areas, some shallow chips. Item #23004
207. Billy The Maverick. New York: Henry Holt and Co., (1934).
First Edition. Children's novel of a young boy's adventures on an Arizona ranch. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #37837
208. Mystery Range. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928.
First Edition stated. Schwieder dustjacket art. "A nomad cowboy on a lonely ranch - a payroll robbery - and Brazo, accused of a crime he did not commit". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips. Item #23844
209. So Long, Sucker. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1941.
First Edition. Delano dustjacket art. Western adventure novel of "terror on the range around Bear Paw". Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, light stain at lower spine end, some shallow chips. Item #27383
210. A Son Of Arizona. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., (1931).
First Edition stated. Remington Schuyler dustjacket art. Western Adventure novel. Very Good in Very Good price clipped dustjacket with some shallow chips and closed tears, tiny chip at mid-spine. Item #35030
211. High Pockets. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., (1946).
First Edition. Rodeo riding western novel and murder mystery. Scarce McBride western title. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #10298
212. Dead Freight for Piute. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940.
First Edition. Western set in a boom town which “became the scene of a bloody feud when war broke out between two rival freighting companies.” Near Fine with ownership inscription and stamp to front pastedown and front free endpaper, darkened endpapers from paper stock, in a Very Good plus dustjacket with flap edges cracking, shallow loss to spine ends, spine creased, small stain to rear panel. Item #19934
213. Vengeance Valley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
First Edition. Fred Ludekens dustjacket art. Western novel of two sons of a Colorado cattle baron, one biological and the other adopted, who resent one another and fight for control of their father's cattle empire. Basis for the 1951 Metro Goldwyn Mayer film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Walker. Uncommon title. Near Fine in Good dustjacket with some light stains at flap edges and verso of panels, shallow loss at spine ends. Item #26642
214. Argonaut Gold. Philadelphia: Macrea-Smith-Co. 1936.
First Edition. Paul Clowes dustjacket art. Wyoming set novel of gold exploration. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends. Item #39736
215. The Brand Stealer. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Co., 1942.
First Edition. Murder on the range by this Hubin listed author. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some shelf wear, cm chip to top front panel. Item #6266
216. Laramie Holds the Range. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.
Second Printing, one month after First. James Reynolds dustjacket art and illustrations. Western adventure novel of the "clash between cattlemen and rustlers of the Falling Wall range. The hero, who 'rides and shoots and speaks the truth,' is mixed up with the rustlers." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21222
217. Rodeo. New York: Greenberg: Publisher, (1935).
First Edition. Western genre novel of "cowboys and cowgirls, stunt riders, [and] circus performers". This copy nicely inscribed and signed by the author at front free endpaper- 'To Walter Johnson, not the Last Round up by any means'. Near Fine but for top spine end cloth chipped, in Very Good dustjacket, some soiling to panels, top spine end chipped. Item #15455
218. The Enchanted Country. New York: George H. Doran Co, [1923].
First Edition. Unusual crime themed novel missed by Hubin of a young English aristocrat who departs for the United States with the intent to become a 'western' outlaw. During a hold up on the Southern Pacific railroad, he encounters a lady in distress. This copy stamped 'sample copy' at rear jacket panel and top page edge. Very Good plus in Very Good dustjacket, few short closed tears and modest edge wear, top spine end chipped, chip at top rear panel and lower spine end, very light cup stain to front panel. Item #15724
219. Stories of a Western Town. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.
First Edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt lettering. Illustrated by A. B. Frost. This copy inscribed by Thanet at front free endpaper "Mary Kate Roberts - / from / The Author. Very Good, few page signatures slightly protruding at fore-edge, modest shelf wear. Item #16125
220. Showdown Creek. New York: Macmillan Co., 1955.
First Edition. Robert Todd dustjacket art. Western novel of a young man who has changed his troubled ways but whose past catches up with him. Fine in Near Fine-Fine dustjacket. Item #7109
221. Singing River. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939.
First Edition. Hubin listed mystery and western novel of "Sad Sontag and his pal Swede Harrigan, seeing the sights of San Francisco, get innocently mixed up in the murder of Dan Reynolds, the Sheep King." Near Fine but for several lending library date stamps at rear free endpaper, spots of paper residue to front pastedown, in Very Good dustjacket, verso of front jacket flap with three quarter sized abrasions from being glued to front pastedown, shallow chips to edges. Item #20337
222. The Great Divide. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1925).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Metro Goldwyn Picture. A western photoplay with great gambling dustjacket art. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23989
223. Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle [Signed and Inscribed]. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., (1914).
First Edition. Signed and Inscribed by author to front free endpaper. George W. Gage frontispiece. Episodic Western of a young, traveling cowboy who solves mysteries and falls in love with a fiercely independent rancher's daughter immersed in a love triangle. Near Fine, pencil markings to front free endpaper and cloth at rear board. Item #24238
![Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle [Signed and Inscribed]. Robert Alexander WASON](/pictures/medium/24238.jpg?v=1434450545)
224. Below Grass Roots. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. (1937).
First Edition. Second book in Frank Waters' Pikes Peak saga, set in turn-of-the-century Colorado Springs, a place prospering from the mining boom and a growing tourist interest. Dauntless Joseph Rogier, obsessed with the gold of the mountain enlists his son-in-law Jonathan Cable in his mining schemes. However, Cable leaves for Navajo country with his young son. Rogier continues to invest in his mines, no matter the cost. Waters is best known for his fiction and non-fiction dealing with the American Southwest. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nicking and mild wear to spine ends and flap corners. Item #22562
225. The Nightmare Riders. New York: Phoenix Press, (1940).
First Edition. Western novel, an old man leaves a young man the care of his ranch and his pretty granddaughter. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, light stain to lower rear panel. Item #26649
