Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Astoria & Empire.

Ronda, James P., · 1990

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Lincoln & London, Univ of Nebraska Press, (1990). VG PB. Oregon history to 1859. First full length study of Astoria to appear since Washington Irving's Astoria in 1836. It moves. with a sweep and dimension that places the little post on the banks of the Columbia in the vortex ...

Dr. John McLoughlin: Master of Fort Vancouver, Father of Oregon.

Historic Site,Oregon City, Bert Webber, Editor, · 1994

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Medford. Oregon, Webb Research Group Pubs, (1994). VG PB. Covers everything that could be discovered about Mc Loughlin from his earlier days until the day he died. He got in trouble. with his British employers because he was a compassiionate man who did his best to help sick, ...

Tracking Down Oregon.

Friedman, Ralph, · 1979

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, (1979). 2nd printing. VG PB. Owner name front endpaper.

Oregon for the Curious.

Friedman, Ralph, · 1982

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Caldwell, ID, Caxton Printers, (1982). 6th prntg. VG PB. "Many folks coming through our area use your book as their Bible for traveling and seeing Oregon".

Conrad Kohrs: an autobiography.

Conrad Kohrs, · 1977

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

Poison, MT, Gull Printing, 1977. 2nd edition. VG PB. Front and back cover shows roundup scene of Conrad Kohrs ranch with 2900 steers and 100 horses. Includes National Park Service. US Dept of Interior National Historic Site brochure for the Grant-Kohrs Ranch. Bookseller price ...

The Amish of Canada.

Gingerich, Orland, · 1972

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Kitchener, ON, Herald Press, (1972). 2nd prntg. VG PB. Not only the old order but the whole of the Amish Mennonite settlements in Canada, including its more progressive counterpar. Canada opened its doors of hospitality to a quiet peaceful people deeply comitted to the princip...

Westward Expansion: a history of the American frontier.

Billington, Ray Allen and Martin Ridge, · 1982

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Macmillan, (1982). 5th edition. VG. Owner name front endpaper. Beautiful copy - White binding, blue lettering.

The Indians and the California Missions.

Lyngheim, Linda, · 1984

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Van Nuys, CA, Langtry Publications, (1984). 2nd prntg. VG lrg sz PB. Published especially for children about the California missions.

Trails Plowed Under - Stories of the Old West.

Russell, Charles M., · 1978

$43.00 (€39.01 | £32.55 | ¥6,867)

NY, Doubleday, (1978). 27th prntg. VG in VG D. Here is the cowboy in his heyday. Charles M. Russell has captured it forever In these stories and sketches of his. Introduction by Will Rogers. Near Fine copy in VG dj with slight edge wear.

The American Indian: special edition for young readers.

LaFarge, Oliver, · 1974

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Racine, WI, Golden Press/Western Pub Co, (1974). 2nd prntg. VG large size PB. Based on A Pictorial History of the Amereican Indian published by Crown Publishers copywright 1974. Slight Edge wear.

The Chippewas of Lake Superior.

Danziger, Edmund Jefferson, Jr., · 1990

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma, (1990). 1pb printing. VG lg sz PB. A solid blend of history, ethnology, and journalism that provides a sweeping account of over 300 years of Chippewa histor. history but does not end with the defeat of the Indians. The author brings the Chip...

American Indians of the Southwest.

Dutton, Bertha P., · 1985

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Albuquerque, NM, Univ of New Mexico Press, (1985). 3rd prntg. VG PB. History, contemporary cultural and social characteristics that set apart each Indian group in the Southwest. From their. evolution into contemporary Native Americans, the Indians of the American Southwest hav...

North American Indians: myths and legends series.

Spence, Lewis, · 1986

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,034)

NY, Avenel Books, (1986). 2nd prntg. Fine in Fine DJ. Before the arrival of the Europeans, more than 300 tribal groups lived iin the forests, mountains and plains of North. America. In countless tepeees across the wide expanse of the North American continent the Indian storyte...

The California Indians: a source books.

Heizer, R.F. and M.A Whipple, compiled and edited by, · 1971

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Berkeley, CA, Univ of California Press, (1971). 2nd ed revised. VG large size PB. New expanded edition of The California Indians is a more comprehensive and thus more useful book than the predecessor. The editors have combined former printings into a general survey of Californ...

The Native Americans: ethnology and backgrounds of the North American Indians.

Spencer, Robert F/ Jennings Jesse D, et al, · 1977

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harper & Row, (1977). Good HB. Provides perspective in time with the archeological backround followed by general data with detailed treament of selected. tribes within each culture province in straight forward ethnological terms of the Indians of North America. Underlining...

The Pequot-Mohican War.

Bonifanti, Leo, · 1971

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Wakefield, MA, Pride Publications, 1971. VG PB. The Pequot-Mohican War of 1637 is one of the most important chapters in the early history of New England.

The American Indian; past and preesent.

Nichols, Roger L., edited by, · 1986

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Knopf 1986, (1986). 3rd edition. VG LG SZ PB. To the European invaders of N. America the tribal people they encountered appeared to be savages, in many varieties: simple,. noble, degraded, or treacherous- but all were savages. This view enabled the whites who considered th...

The Cahuilla Indians.

James, Harry C., · 1985

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Riverside, CA, Malki Museum Press, (1985). Reprint. VG PB. Aaathor James has had a longtime relationship with the Cahiulla people. of their history and culture their ceremonial culture, and in the highly poetic and proabably cosmic folklore and support. and his thesis that the...

Arrest Sitting Bull.

Jones, Douglas C., (author of The Court Martial of George Armstrmg Custer), · 1977

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Scribner, (1977). 3rd prntg. VG in VG Dj. Striking color picture of Sittin Bull on front of dj. Owner blind stamp front endpaper.

The Book of the West: an epic of America's wild frontier- and the men who created its legends.

Chilton, Charles, preface by Prof. Oscar Cargill, · 1962

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Bobbs Merill, (1962). 1st ed ss. VG in G dj with some taping, colored map on endpapers. Of all the regions of the world none has been the subjeect of so much sustained excitement as the country between the Mississ. and the Pccific Coast. What was it like in real life? Here...