COVERED WAGON DAYS [SOLD]


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Oliver G. Swan
  • Subject: Southwest
  • Item # C3516L
  • Date Published: First Edition, hardback, color print on front, 1928
  • Size: 274 pages. Color Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover.
  • SOLD

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COVERED WAGON DAYS

By Oliver G. Swan

 

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1928

First Edition, hardback, color print on front, 1928, 274 pages.

Color Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover

 

CONTENTS

 

THE COWBOY

               Cattle-Trails of the Prairies by Charles Moreau Harger

               The Round-Up by Colonel Homer Wheeler

               Origin of the “Bowie Knife” by Edwin L. Sabin

               A Cattle Range at Night by E. A. Brininstool

               The Cattle Drive by Philip A. Rollins

               The Prairie Dog by General Randolph B. Marcy

               What the Cowboy Wore by Philip A. Rollins

               The Coming of the Rain by E. A. Brininstool

               The Rustlers of Bald Eagle Mountain by Francis Hill

               Desert Treasure by Edwin L. Sabin

 

THE BAD MAN

               Picturesque Road Agents of Early Days by John Lord

               Black Bart by John A. Henshall

               Early California Brigands by R. G. Rousseau

               The Men Who Tamed the Cow-Towns by Arthur Chapman

               The Pony Express by Owen Ernest Sonne

               The Pony Express by Charles Josef Cary

               Stage Robbers of the West by Charles Michelson

               Billy the Kid by Arthur Chapman

               The Story of the Overland Mail by R. F. Elwell

               Henry Plummer by Nathaniel P. Langford

               The Texas Rangers by James B. Gillett

               The Klondike Stampede by Edwin L. Sabin

 

THE HOMESTEADER

               “Camp” by Prentice Mulford

               The Iliad of Sandy Bar by Bret Harte

               The Bear by General Randolph B. March

               The Birch-Bark Canoe by Eugene McCarthy

               The Homesteader by Alvin T. Steinel

               The Kansas Emigrants by John Greenleaf Whittier

               The Deadly Alkali Desert by Mark Twain

               Jumping a Claim by Frank M. Vancil

               Frontier Forts and Their Soldier Occupants by Brevet Brigadier General George A. Forsyth

 

Condition: very good with wear to spine

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Oliver G. Swan
  • Subject: Southwest
  • Item # C3516L
  • Date Published: First Edition, hardback, color print on front, 1928
  • Size: 274 pages. Color Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover.
  • SOLD

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