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Philadelphia, PA: 1886 Very good condition. First Edition.

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EASTON, Robert, and Mackenzie Brown.

Tucson AZ:: University of Arizona,, (1961). Large 8vo, pp. 287. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated by Mac Schweitzer. Foreword by Jack Schaefer. A nice copy in slightly chipped dj. Second printing..

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" FOLLOWING THE DRUM:" A GLIMPSE OF FRONTIER LIFE.

Viele, Mrs. Egbert L.:

New York. 1858., 256pp. plus ads. Half title. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label. Very good. Mrs. Viele was the wife of an officer stationed in Texas during the annexation period. She gives an account of their experiences at frontier posts there, as well as a trip to Havana. WAGNER-CAMP 312a:1. HOWES V92..

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" Some themes of counter-subversion : an analysis of anti-masonic, anti-catholic, and anti-mormon literature" [article in The Mi

Davis, David Brion

New Orleans: Tulane University, 1960 Pp.205-224 (of 192p., entire issue), yapp-edged journal wraps a bit crimped, accession stamp, other mild signs of handling and age, a sound copy entirely clean within.

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" TWENTY YEARS IN HELL WITH THE BEEF TRUST." "FACTS, NOT FICTION."

Shiel, Roger R.:

Indianapolis, In.: 1909., 288pp. Cloth. Very good Expose of the beef industry. Roger Shiel was an important buyer of livestock. One of the scarcer titles in Louis Merrill's list of "Aristocrats of the Cow Country." MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. ADAMS HERD 2059..

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"'KING' BEN OUSTED" Front page headlines from the Detroit Times, Thursday November 10, 1927.

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One sheet (pp1-2 & 11-12 only), 22 x 17", folds, soil, age toning else vg. The House of David was a flourishing, Christian communal sect headquartered in Benton Harbor, MI in the early part of the 1900s, famous for its baseball teams, jazz bands & long beards (on the men). "King" Benjamin Purnell was accused of "crimes against girls" even though they all were supposed to be above such things. Also, ad for Hudson's, etc.

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". . . AND THEY LAID THEM TO REST IN THE LITTLE PLOT BESIDE THE PECOS." Final Report on the Relocation of Old Seven Rivers Cemet

Ferguson, Bobbie H.

Bureau of Reclamation: Denver Office., 1993 2 volumes. Photos, illustr, maps, 11 x 8.5, pict wraps, various paginations, minor edge wear and soil else a nice set of this scarce publication. With errata sheet. What the author found when she had to relocate a 19th century cemetery due to the construction of a dam.

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". . . OFFICER DOWN, CODE THREE."

Brooks, Pierce R.

Motorola Teleprograms: Schiller Park, IL, 1975 9.5 x 6.25, boards, 266 pp, bookplate, ink name, business card of former owner tipped in, front hinge cracked else ok in used dw. 8th printing (1979). TIPPED IN PRESENTATION CARD INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR IN 1982. Also, related clippings, etc. present.

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"... In Pursuit Of The American Dream"

Dotson, Bob

New: Atheneum, 1985 Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ has an old price sticker on the back.. First Edition.

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"17th Annual City Tournament of the Detroit Women's Bowling Association" (cover title).

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Red Mill Recreation: (Detroit)., March 15, 1941. Ads, oblong 6 x 9, stapled wraps, unpaged, covers lightly worn, back cover w/old ink stains, center-fold game sheet filled in else vg. Bowling ads, results of tournament games. Interesting.

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"19th Annual Boley Rodeo, May 26-27, 1979" [cover title]

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[Boley Chamber of Commerce: Boley, OK], 1979 Photos, ads, 10.25 x 7, stapled wraps, 68 pp, heavily worn, vertical crease, pp soiled and thumbed. Boley was founded by African Americans in 1904. SWAF.

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"2 More Women Called in Buckley Case" headline in The Detroit News, Sunday, March 15, 1931.

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Detroit, 1931. Photos, ads, 24 x 16, news section only, paper browned, one corner creased, edges torn else good. Jerry Buckley, a crusading radio broadcaster, was gunned down the night after the recall of Detroit's Mayor Bowles, a recall Buckley spearheaded. No one was ever convicted of the murder, but the suspects all had ties to organized crime.

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"21", Every Day Was New Year's Eve; Memoirs of a Saloon Keeper

KRIENDLER, H. Peter and Jeffers, H. Paul

Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1999 Illus. 8vo, purple cloth, d.w. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, (1999). Very good very good. First.

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"3rd Ave. Dominion Day, Prince Rupert, B.C."

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nd (c 1910). Real photo postcards showing center of town with large gathering. M'Rae (?). Postally unused, minor edge wear.

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"A CAREER OF CRIME". Special printing of the foreword to the facsimile reprinting of The Life of Sile Doty by Colburn.

Adams, Randolph G.

Alved of Detroit 1948. 8x5", 10pp, stapled wraps, covers rubbed and soiled. Prospectus for the Doty book, issued as a prospectus 2nd. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES.

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"A Hell Of A Place To Lose A Cow" An American Hitchhiking Odyssey

Brookes, Tim

Wash: National Geographic Society, 2000 Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; The dustjacket is price clipped.. First Printing.

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"A Personal Message from the Free Press Personal Shopping Service"

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Detroit 91922). 11 x 8.5", folds, pencil sums & notes on reverse. The Free Press offers the service of Miss Ellen Prentice to shop for you "picking out the things you see advertised that are desired, then just use one of the order forms…" Comes with two order forms, 13 x 8" each, both have folds & pencil notes on reverse. "Do not send in any money. It is not necessary, as most things can be sent C.O.D."

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"A Report on a Preliminary Archaeological Survey of Monroe County, Michigan," the whole issue of THE MICHIGAN ARCHAEOLOGIST, Vol

Brose, David S. and Patricia S. Essenpreis.

Ann Arbor, MI, 1973 Illustr, photos, 9 x 6, printed wraps, 182 pp, covers a little worn, spine sunned, contents a little toned else a nice copy.

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"A STUDY IN BLACK AND RED."

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np, nd Color illustr, 5.5 x 3.5, used (not postally), light wear, creasing and soiling. Illustr depicts two black children, one eating a slice of watermelon, the other one crying. The message on the back refers to a common friend and that her hair is "crimpy and looked about like the kinks on this little darkey."

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"A TEXAS SHERIFF": A VIVID AND ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS MURDER CASES AND FEUDS IN THE HISTORY OF EAST TEXA

Fuller, Henry C.:

Nacogdoches, Tx. 1931., [2],80pp. (this copy with duplicates of pp.49- 50 and 51-56) including illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers. Some chipping along spine. Minor browning to the pages, else very good. Contains a short biography of A.J. Spradley, Sheriff of Nacogdoches County for thirty years. Following that are chapters relating several of the famous cases Spradley dealt with: murder, family feuds, and bank robberies. Included are chapters on the slaying of the Hicks family, the murder of James Morgan Truitt by Bill Mitchell, the killings of Tom Collins and John Gray Foster, the Border-Wall-Broocks Feud, and the Longview Bank Robbery. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 784 ("Scarce"). RADER 1505..

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