Resultados de búsqueda: The West from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1980. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Tells the story of the many contributions of the Engineers in the cause of westward expansion. 160pp.

New York: Bramhall House, 1950. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The story, in picture and text, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." 235pp.

New York: Vantage Press, 1972. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) small closed tear on dj. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0533001552 Buck Ziegler, the focal character and first-person speaker of this volume, is a nineteenth-century man living in a twentieth-century world. Buck's story is a richly detailed account of modern ranch life. 177pp.

Pullman, WA: Washington State Univ. Press, 1984. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0874220165 Great illustrations highlight the development of cities and towns in the Pacific Northwest during the era of pioneer settlement. 93pp.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. HC. very good+, brown cloth (hardcover). ISBN 0313245924 213pp.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1954. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. First published in 1932. 354pp.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1935. HC. good+, decorated orange cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. No dustjacket - as published? 108pp.

New York: Derrydale Books, 1990. HC. fine, pictorial boards (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 051702537X INDIANS, PIONEERS, COWBOYS, RAILROADERS, GUNFIGHTERS, SOLDIERS. 186pp.

Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company, 1969. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill., B&W maps. The story of military scouting in the United States from the time of the French and Indian Wars to jungle fighting in Vietnam, and of the men who "searched out the land," seeking information about the enemy under the most dangerous and difficult conditions. 192pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1956. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 368pp.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1982. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0517100797 First published in 1953. A survey of the original art of the period - sketches, water-colors, engravings, lithographs, oil-paintings, which have historical significance. Examines the historical relevance of the artists pictures and seeks to establish the authority of the illustrators, whether their work was based on personal experience, reminiscence, or pure imagination. 400pp.

Philadelphia, PA: Church Historical Society, 1950. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Stories of the Church on the western borders of our civilization from 1892 through 1943. 220pp.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Author shows that the facts of the Gold Rush are more intriguing than the fantasies. 209pp.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1955. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). over 1,000 B&W ill.. 511pp.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Combined history and travelogue. An Englishman's perceptive appraisal of America and Americans as well. 320pp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0806116900 Reflections on history, historians, and historical writing in the western states directed at the nonprofessional to whom history is at least a joy, and perhaps a passion. 120pp.

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1976. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). 11 B&W ill., 50 color plates. ISBN 088360051X City views which truly convey the look of the urban West when the region was young and every town could dream of a glorious future. 99pp.

Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing Co, 1994. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 1881019071 The six distinguished historians who provide perceptive essays on the Old West/New West battleground are: Carl Abbott, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Gerald Nash, Malcolm Rohrbough, Gerald Thompson, and Donald Worster, with an introduction by Gene M. Gressley. 199pp.

Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Co, 1969. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The Romance, Realism, and Life-styles of One Part of the American West." 199pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0393037231 An anthology of twenty-six personal essays by contemporary women writers. Ranging widely across the cultures and the regions of the West, these women relate stories of family and community, of race and gender, of commitment and displacement, of grief and repair, of spirituality and connection to the earth. 396pp.