View in Taylor Peaks, Mont
by Schlechten, Albert
[Bozeman, MT]: A. Schlechten, 1911. Silver gelatin photograph [27 cm x 35 cm] / [10.5" x 13.75"]. Nicely tinted with strong contrasts. Title in the negative. View of Taylor Creek with Taylor Peaks in the background. Albert Schlechten (1876-1962) initially established a portrait photography studio with his brother but he spent most of his time and efforts on location and landscape photography. Shortly after his move to Montana in 1900, Albert purchased an 11x14 in. field camera and began... Read More
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Gallatin River, Mont
by Schlechten, Albert
[Bozeman, MT]: A. Schlechten, 1911. Silver gelatin photograph [28 cm x 36 cm] / [11" x 14"]. Nice condition with strong contrasts. Title in the negative. Manuscript note in pencil on the reverse: "Old original Road Over 'Sagebrush Point' South End." View of the Gallatin River. Albert Schlechten (1876-1962) initially established a portrait photography studio with his brother but he spent most of his time and efforts on location and landscape photography. Shortly after his move to Montana in... Read More
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The Leopard's Pa': A Handbook & Student Directory, 1968-1969
by East Salt Lake City High School
Salt Lake City: Student Association of East High School, 1968. 112pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Spiral bound printed covers. A handful of manuscript notes and scribbles, lacks pages 105/106 and 107/108 otherwise very good. Handbook and directory printed for students that contains a brief history of the school (traditions, mascot, emblems, colors, etc.) which is followed by a directory. Presumed rare. "The Handbook is a key to the interesting phases of school life which give every student opportunity to... Read More
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Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
by Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. First Edition. 408pp. Quarto [26 cm] Rust cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of... Read More
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Alaska Days. With an account of the trip from Chicago to Seattle and return
by Scott, Erastus Howard
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1923. First Edition. 106pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Publisher's dark blue buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Better than very good. Slight discoloring to front board near hinge. Travel narrative that details a rail trip taken in 1923 from Chicago to Vancouver, then by automobile to Seattle and then by ship to Alaska, by various modes of transportation through Alaska and then the return. Work covers the entire trip and is... Read More
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Days of Delusion: A Strange Bit of History
by Sears, Clara Endicott
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. 264pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with silver stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. In this work the author chronicles the intense religious hysteria of the Millerite movement in New England during the years 1843 and 1844. Based on first-hand accounts as well as personal recollections and letters from elderly individuals who had lived through the movement during their youth. Sears uses these accounts to... Read More
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Manual Hebrew Grammar for the Use of Beginners
by Seixas, Joshua
Salt Lake City: Sunstone Foundation, 1981. Facsimile Edition. xxiii+119pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Burgundy buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine. Work opens with a lengthy introduction by Dr. Louis C. Zucker. This work was the manual that Joseph Smith and other early Church leaders used during the winter of 1835-1836, as they devoted much of their attention to the formal study of Hebrew, under a competent scholar, Joshua Seixas. Prior to working with... Read More
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'The Rivals'
by [Senior Class, Helena High School
[Helena, MT], 1899. Broadside [25 cm x 15 cm] / [10" x 6"] printed in black ink on pink paper. Near fine. 'The Rivals, A Popular Comedy by Sheridan. Presented by the Senior Class of Helena High School. Monday Ev'ng, May 1. Electric Hall. Admission, 50 and 25 cts.' Broadside for a high school production of Sheridan's 'The Rivals.'.
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Beaverhead Recreation Area
by [Forest Service]
Beaverhead National Forest, MT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1942. Map [23 cm x 31 cm] on a single sheet [25.5 cm x 35 cm] printed in black, red, and green ink. Vertical fold at center - two horizontal folds. About very good. Inset map [7 cm x 7 cm] at the upper right corner showing the greater area. Nice map of this area of southern Montana and western Idaho with Dillon, Montana at the center. Map locates... Read More
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Narrative of the March of Co. A., Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return. May 6 to October 3, 1858
by Seville, William P.
Washington DC: Press of the Engineer School, 1912. Occasional Paper Number 48. 46pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light blue printed wrappers. Very good. Some minor overall fading to covers with some gentle discoloring to the corners. Short monograph written in a breezy style, describing an expedition of some seventy Army engineers and assistants, accompanied by eight mule drawn wagons and civilian teamsters. Their objective was to make a new road from the Platte River to the Green River, for the... Read More
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The Narrow Way
by Sheen, Isaac
Lamoni, IA: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1885. 8pp. Single uncut sheet folded twice [45 cm x 35 cm] Very good. Overall age toning and chipping to corners. Some splitting at folds. Short work on the essentialness of baptism by immersion. Printed by Herald House. This is the rarer Lamoni printing (instead of Plano), I can locate four institutional copies. Flake/Draper 7656.
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Who is John T. Clark
by Shewell, Harry
[Salt Lake City]: Distributed by P.A. Westman, 1935. First Edition. [8pp] Octavo [21 cm] Printed stapled wrappers. Very good. Signed by the publisher with his return address at the foot of the last page. Short biographical work on John Tanner Clark (1865-1932) who was an inventor and early proto-fundamentailst, who associated with Woolley, Musser, Broadbent and others, Clark claimed to be the 'One Mighty and Strong.' It is unusual that Clark himself was not a polygamist. Despite his evident... Read More
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Mormonism: The Story of A New Religious Tradition
by Shipps, Jan
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1985. First Edition. 211pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Fine/Fine. Nice copy of Shipp's well received first work on the LDS Church, that is still highly regarded. "This book tells the story of yet another assembly of saints whose history, I believe, is in many respects analogous to the history of those early Christians who thought at first that they had found the only... Read More
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Baja California Travel Series
by Dawson's Book Shop
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1992. First Editions. 51 volume set Duodecimos [22 cm] all bound in full cloth with the titles and volume numbers gilt stamped on the backstrips. All volumes very good or better. This important set of travel narratives provides a comprehensive historical record of the Baja California peninsula from the Spanish period to the 20th century. Published by the legendary southern California bookstore, Dawson's, the series was edited by Glen Dawson and Edwin Carpenter. This... Read More
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Old Oregon Trail
by Shope, Irvin
1948. Pictorial map [43 cm x 64 cm] / [17 " x 25"] printed in full color. Nice condition. Pictorial map of the United States west of the Missouri River that locates the Oregon Trail as well as the other overland routes, the Old Spanish Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Mormon Trail, Overland Stage, Pony Express and the routes of the Corps of Discovery and Fremont. Historic locations and events are noted. Legend at the upper right. Depiction of Fort... Read More
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California Welcomes You: The Official Souvenir Book of Al Malaikah Temple A.A.O.M.S. 1923 Imperial Council Meeting Pilgrimage to Washington D.C. June 4th to 8th
by Al Malaikah Temple [Shriners]
Los Angeles: Western Litho, 1923. [74]pp. Oblong quarto [23 cm x 30 cm] Color illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Los Angeles area view book that contain 67 full-page captioned views of attractions, sites, and city scenes. Work opens with a four page description of the Al Malaikah's Los Angeles Temple and their representatives. The Al Malaikah Temple is home to world famous Shrine Auditorium. This is followed by a seven page introduction touting the area's beauty, modernization, schools, and economic... Read More
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California Welcomes You: The Official Souvenir Book of Al Malaikah Temple A.A.O.M.S. 1919 Imperial Council Meeting Pilgrimage to Indianapolis, Indiana June 10th to 14th
by Silverwood, Francis B. "Daddy" [Shriners]
Los Angeles: Western Litho, 1919. [78]pp. Oblong quarto [23 cm x 30 cm] Yapp style color illustrated wrappers. Very good. Fore edge of wrappers bumped. Minor overall wear. Los Angeles area view book that contains 60 pages of captioned views of attractions, sites, and city scenes. Opening of work contains seven pages of introduction to the Los Angeles area that is interspersed with views. "We are a happy, prosperous people whose latch string is always out. The only... Read More
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Problems Women Solved: Being the Story of the Woman's Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition What vision, enthusiasm, work and cooperation accomplished
by Simpson, Anna Pratt
San Francisco: The Woman's Board [John Henry Nash], 1916. First Edition. 191+[111]pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over brown boards with a printed paper label on the backstrip. Very good. 191 pages of text are followed by 111 tipped-in identified portraits of the Woman's Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Printed at the press of the Blair-Murdock Company under the direction of John Henry Nash. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a renowned fine printer who spent the majority... Read More
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London Correspondence Inward from Sir George Simpson, 1841-42
by Simpson, George. Edited by Glyndwr Williams
Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Record Company, 1973. First Edition. 212pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. A few small pieces of tape on the reverse of the jacket. Publications of Hudson's Bay Record Society Volume XXIX. All fold-outs present. "The volume prints in full the letters (but not the enclosures) Simpson sent, during his journey, to the Governor and Committee in their corprorate capacity as the London Committee, to Sir... Read More
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Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859
by Simpson, James Hervey
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1876. First Edition. 518pp. Quarto [30.5 cm] In the original 3/4 leather over matching dark brown boards with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Marbled pastedowns and endsheets. Complete with all plates and the large map. Good only. Front hinge split. Bookplates on the front pastedown. Shelving number faded on the backstrip. In 1859, U.S. Army topographical engineer Captain James H. Simpson explored the Great Basin of Utah, mapping a direct,300-mile wagon route from... Read More
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Sun Valley from Baldy Mtn. Ski Lift
by [Skiing]
1950. Real Photo Post Card [14 cm x 9 cm] Undivided back. Fine. Image shows the silhouette of a person waving from the chairlift. Sun Valley is famous the world over and one of America's premier ski areas and one of its first destination resorts. Built in 1936 by the Union Pacific Railroad, Sun Valley is located in the Northern Rockies region of south-central Idaho and is open year-round.
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Test Your Limits
by Camel 1984 Speed Skiing
Winston Salem, NC: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 1984. Color poster [84 cm x 61 cm] / [33" x 24"] Some chipping to extremities with minor losses. Lightly worn poster for the event at Mammoth, California - March 7th to the 10th in Spring of 1984. These events were downhill bombs, where racers would try and break 200 km an hour. "At one time speed skiing was an experience available only to an elite group of daring skiers who... Read More
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Literary Utah
by Slanting Rain Graphic Design [Bissland, R.P. 'Bob']
Logan, UT: [Herald Printing], 1990. Poster [68 cm x 54 cm] / [26.75" x 21.5"] printed in color and in a plain black frame [70 cm x 57 cm] /[27.5" x 22.5"] 'A' condition. Colors are bright. This has not been examined out of the frame. Bob Bissland designed poster featuring a map of Utah with portraits of twelve notable Utah writers superimposed over. Printed to the left and right of the map is a list of 118 local... Read More
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The Rainbow Route: An Illustrated History of the Silverton Railroad - The Silverton Northern Railroad - and The Silverton, Gladstone & Northerly Railroad
by Sloan, Robert E. and Carl A. Skowronski
Denver: Sundance Limited, 1975. First Edition. 416pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 gold cloth over pictorial boards. Better than very good. Nice illustrated history of the 'Rainbow Route.' The Silverton Railroad was one of four narrow gauge lines operating out of Silverton during its heyday. The main feeder route was the Denver & Rio Grande's Silverton Branch out to Durango. The Silverton Branch arrived in Silverton in early July 1882. The three other roads - the Silverton Railroad, the Silverton... Read More
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