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Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This SCARCE 488 pp. indexed book is great Americana, containig the first discussion of the Wild Bill Hickock- McCanles tragedy. It gives a good history of Jefferson County, in the Nebraska / Kansas territory before statehood, and the last 120 pages are filled with biographical sketches of the pioneers. Bound-in folded map included. Clean inside other than a prior owner's bookplate just inside the front board. Very slight insect damage to 2 edges of the front board. Otherwise presents nicely, and is a "must-have" for historians and genealogists alike. Photos upon request.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Dawson, Charles. PIONEER TALES OF THE OREGON TRAIL. Crane & Company. Topeka, Kansas. 1912., 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book size about 6 by 9 inches with some 488 pages. Bound in tan cloth with brown lettering and decoration. Frontis of the author, numerous photos, drawings and maps (One fold-out) throughout. A famous and scrupulously researched account of happenings in Jefferson County, Nebraska and along the Oregon Trail. Much authentic information about Indian deprivations and outlaw doings. Ramon Adams lists this book as Number 570 in his bibliography 'Six-Guns and Saddle Leather'; Wright Howes in his bibliography of Americana, 'Usiana', lists this as Number D-150. Covers with moderate to heavy wear most noticeable at the spine bottom; front hinge cracked; shaken; title page separated along spine edge for one half. A well worn book with an OK interior. GOOD- Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: The Book Scot, mansfield, MO, U.S.A.
DAWSON, CHARLES.. Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County.. Crane & Co., 1912.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth, very good copy. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 45. Guns 570: "Scarce." "This book is one of the first in which the author tried to publish a correct account of the Hickok-McCanles trouble and to show 'the wide variance between the truth and fictions as told by Emerson Hough' (Story of the Outlaw, also available in this catalog, item H87)." He was also the first to claim that Wild Bill shot McCanles from behind a curtain and ambushed Woods and Gordon from an unseen shelter." Graff 1025. Howes D150 "aa".
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.