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MT. GOTHIC TOMES AND RELIQUARY is an intriguing mixture of Rare Books, Western Americana, First Edition Literature. We have been in the business of "re-discovering" scarce Western Americana and First Edition Literature for over twenty-six years. During that time, we have taken pride in helping public institutions and private collectors alike improve and expand their specialized archives. We can do the same for you. We are always interested in purchasing excellent books, F. Scott Fitzgerald first editions, literary and scientific first editions; maps, original photographs, documents and Western Americana. We are also willing to travel, so do not hesitate contacting us first. Superb items are always worth the effort. How to purchase: mtgothic69@rocketmail.com or call (970) 349-7079 and reserve what you'd like to add to your collection.
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____________________________________________________ Peterson, Guy L. Peterson, Nancy M. WESTERN
RIVER COLLECTION. Illustrated
by Asa Battles. #030 of 500.
Three Volumes. 1) PEOPLE
OF THE TROUBLED WATER: A Pettem, Silvia. RED
ROCKS TO RICHES: Gold Mining in Phillips County
Colorado
Historical Society. THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Printed
and bound by Holyoke Enterprise Printing Co.: Holyoke, Phipps, Lawrence C., Jr. FORTY YEARS OF THE ARAPAHOE HUNT. Including a Quarter Century of the Arapahoe Hunt by W.W. Grant. Privately printed. Unnumbered limited edition. Original red cloth binding; 112 pages; gold print on cover and spine. Fine condition, no dust jacket. Price: $35.00 Piercy, Frederick. ROUTE
FROM LIVERPOOL TO Pohanka, Brian C., editor. NELSON A. MILES: A Documentary Biography of His Military Career, 1861 – 1903. In collaboration with John M. Carroll. Foreword by Robert M. Utley. The Arthur H. Clark Company: Glendale, California, 1985, 1st edition. Original blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 327 pages; illustrated. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Price: $75.00 Powell, J.W. SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION, 1880 – ‘81. Powell, J.W. THIRD
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION, 1881 – ‘82. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. Original
olive cloth binding with gold embossing on cover and spine; 606 pages; complete
with all plates and illustrations. Notes
on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts. On
Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs. Omaha
Sociology. Navajo Weavers.
Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections obtained made
during the field season of 1881, by W.H. Holmes.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections obtained from the Pueblos of New
Mexico and Propst, Nell Brown. FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: A History of the South Platte Trail. Foreword by James Terrell King. Pruett Publishing Company: Boulder, Colorado, 1979, 1st edition. Original brown hardback binding with gold print on spine; 244 pages; illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Price: $85.00 Prosser, Glenn. THE
SAGA OF Raynor, David E., compiler, and Susman, Graham. HISTORY OF COLUMBINE LODGE NO. 147, A.F.&A.M., 1916 – 1960. Privately printed, 1960, 1st edition. Original blue hardback binding; gold print on cover and spine; 131 pages; illustrated. Near fine condition, no dust jacket. Price: $75.00 Repplier, F.O. AS
A TOWN GROWS: The Schools of Boulder, Colorado
in the Pageant of the Years 1860 – 1959.
Published June 1959, by School District No., Rickel, Wesley Kellogg, editor.
ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN TREES: A
Compilation of Biographies by The Memorial Tree Planting Committee of
the Risley, James H. HOW
IT GREW: A History of the Pueblo Public Schools.
The Rittenhouse, Jack D. THE
Roberts, Helen H. BASKETRY
OF THE SAN CARLOS
APACHE INDIANS. Reprint of
the 1929 edition by The Rio Grande Press, Inc.: Robertson, Rockwell, Rogers, James Grafton. THE GOLDENROD LODE: A Frontier Drama in Verse. Written for The Cactus Club of Denver, by James Grafton Rogers and performed by The Club in its outdoor theatre in the Rocky Mountains, September 4, 1920. Printed for The Cactus Club, Denver: 1920. 1st printing. Original tan hardcover binding with printed label tipped on front cover; 50 pages. Near fine condition. Price: $50.00 Ross, Alexander. THE
FUR HUNTERS OF THE FAR WEST. Edited
by Kenneth A. Spaulding. Ross, Marvin C., editor.
GEORGE CATLIN: Episodes from Life
Among the Indians and Last Rambles.
Russell, Carl P. TRAPPER TRAILS TO THE SISK-KE-DEE. Reprint from Annals of Wyoming, Volume 17, No. 2, July 1945. 1st separate printing. Original printed wrappers. Pages 89 - 105. Printed by The Wyoming Labor Journal, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Two one-page maps. Inscribed by author. Very good plus condition. Price: $35.00 Russell, Virgil Y. INDIAN
ARTIFACTS. With Pen Sketches
by Stella L. Russell. Johnson
Publishing Company: Boulder, Sabin, Edwin L. WILD
MEN OF THE WILD WEST. Thomas
Y. Crowell Company: Sabin, Marion Savage. Sarchet, Fancher. MURDER
AND MIRTH: The Story of a Colorado
Trial Lawyer. Sage Books: Denver, Scamehorn, Howard L., editor and introduction.
THE BUCKEYE ROVERS IN THE GOLD
RUSH: An Edition of Two Diaries. Scamehorn, H. Lee. THE
COLORADO
FUEL AND IRON COMPANY, 1872 – 1903.
Pruett Publishing Company: Boulder, Schaefer, Lyle L. FAITH
TO MOVE MOUNTAINS: A History of the Colorado District of the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod from the earliest mission work, 1872 – 1968.
Published by The Colorado District, Lutheran Schaeffer, L.M. SKETCHES
OF TRAVELS IN SOUTH AMERICA, Schmitt, Martin F. and
Brown, Dee. FIGHTING
INDIANS OF THE WEST. Charles
Scribner’s Sons: Schoberlin, Melvin. ROADS
and Other Lines. The
Mogollon Press: Denver, Schoolland, John B. Schoolland, John B. A
PIONEER CHURCH, being a Reverently Realistic Account of the First Presbyterian
Church of Boulder, Colorado in its Total Pioneer Origin, 1872 – 1972.
Printed by the Johnson Publishing Company, Boulder, Schultz, Molly Marr. TENDERFOOT
SCHOOLMARM: An Autobography. Edited
and with an Introduction and Afterword by Eileen Schultz Tarcay.
Privately published, 1977, 1st printing.
Historical background: mountains of western Settle, Mary Lund and Raymond W. SADDLES AND SPURS: the Pony Express Saga. The Stackpole Company: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; 1955, 1st edition; The Telegraph Press. Original light tan covers; dust jacket; very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Previous owner’s inscription on half-title page. Several small nicks in dust jacket. Complete with illustrations. PRICE: $45.00 Sherman, Lt. William Tecumseh. THE CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS IN 1848. 1 of 450 copies. Frederick W. Beinecke: Christmas, 1964. Original red wrappers; unpaginated. Copies of letters. Near fine condition. Price: $35.00 Shinn, Charles Howard. MINING CAMPS: A Study in American Frontier Government. Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, 1st edition thus (original 1885). Original brown cloth binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 291 pages, plus index. Long inscription by neighbor referring to author and his personality (association copy). Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Price: $75.00 Shobert, Siringo, Charles A. RIATA
AND SPURS: the Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective.
With an Introduction by Gifford and Pinchot, and with illustrations.
Smith, Duane A. Smith, Duane. ROCKY
Smith, Duane A. and Wieler, Hank.
SECURE THE SHADOW: Lachlan
McLean, Smith, Duane A. SILVER
SAGA: The Story of Caribou, Colorado. Foreword by Robert G.
Athearn. Pruett Publishing Company: Boulder, Smith, Duane A. SONG
OF THE HAMMER AND DRILL: the Colorado
San Juans, 1860 – 1914. Spaulding, Kenneth A., editor.
ON THE Spence, Clark C. MINING
ENGINEERS & THE AMERICAN WEST: The Lace-Boot Brigade, 1849 – 1933.
Spencer, Elma Dill Russell.
GREEN RUSSELL AND GOLD.
Sketches and Maps by Ben Carlton Mead.
University
of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1966, 1st edition. History
of the Russells of Georgia and the Spencer, Lilian White.
PAGEANT OF COLORADO: An Epic Drama. Music by
Charles Wakefiled Cadman. Percy
Jewett Burrell, Master of the Pageant. Presented
by the People of Sprague, Marshall. ONE
HUNDRED PLUS: A Centennial Story of Colorado Springs. With illustrations and a
map. Colorado Springs Centennial,
Inc.: Spring, Agnes Wright. COLORADO
CHARLEY: Wil Bill’s Pard. Pruett
Press, Inc.: Spring, Agnes Wright, introduction.
TALES OF THE 04 RANCH:
Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887 – 1909.
Spring, Agnes Wright, foreword.
THEY CAME TO STAY: Longmont, Springer, Charles H. SOLDIERING
IN SIOUX COUNTRY: 1865. Edited
by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III. Illustrated
by John W. Hampton. Frontier
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