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Benjamin S Harrison. Fortune Favors the Brave: The Life and Times of Horace Bell, Pioneer California. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1953.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Foreword by Richard G. Cleland. 16 pp. photographs and illustrations. Biography of Major Horace Bell (1830-1918) The dust-jacket is worn with pieces missing. This is the biography of Major Horace Bell, author of Reminiscences of a Ranger and On the Old West Coast.Harrison has followed Bell's youth in Indiana through his perilous Gold Rush trip to California; driving a pack train in wild mining country, fighting as a filibuster in Nicaragua, adventures in Mexico; escape from death when riding as a scout for the Federal Army in Louisiana and his eventful life in Los Angeles, where he started the "Porcupine," newspaper and kept the town going in the 1880s, See Adams: Six-Guns, No. 937

Seller: Cat House Books LLC, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.

Harrison, Benjamin S.. Fortune Favors the Brave. The Life and Times of Horace Bell, Pioneer Californian. First Edition. Dust Jacket. 1953. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1953.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition. Fine in near very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Harrison, Benjamin S.. Fortune Favors the Brave: The Life and Times of Horace Bell Pioneer Californian. Los Angeles Ward Ritchie Press 1953., 1953.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: Fine in partially darkened dust jacket. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.

Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Harrison, Benjamin S.. Fortune Favors The Brave / The Life And Times Of Horace Bell, Pioneer Californian. Ward Ritchie Press; Los Angeles; 1953/1953, 1953.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: ; 307 pp.; DJ; F/VG; Major Horace Bell was an early California lawman and active in political events. This biography includes his gold rush crossing, action in Nicaragua as a filibuster and army scout in the Civil War. The jacket is soiled. . Six-Guns=937 Rocq=2955. [kwA_ (Ca) / california calif. sacramento san francisco sf s.f. los angeles oakland yuba city mendocino berkeley stanford carmel san jose san joaquin san diego humboldt alcatraz coalinga carmel catalina / ]

Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.