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The Nevada County Narrow Guage Railroad was the only railroad in the West
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"Whispering Smith: His Life & Misadventures" [2007]  by Allen P. Bristow Western author Bristow covers the legend, the conflicting facts, and the Hollywood versions of real-life railroad detective James L. Smith. Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [7/2007] for $16.47 publisher book page |
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"Whispering Smith" [1906] by Frank H. Spearman [1859-1937], illustrated by N.C. Wyeth Renegade railroad employees are wrecking and robbing the trains running thru the rugged Rocky Mountains, so the railroad sends in their best detective. Kessinger Publng pb [3/2005] for $28.08 Forge mass pb [9/99] out of print/used Buccaneer Books 9x5¾ hardcover [6/95] out of print/used |
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A railroad detective's friend is fired, and joins a gang of train robbers; Smith is assigned to bring the man to justice, and matters are complicated by a mutual attraction with the man's wife. Directed by Leslie Fenton; based on the Spearman novel; starring Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, William Demarest, Fay Holden, Murvyn Vye, Frank Faylen, John Eldredge, Ward Wood, J. Farrell MacDonald, Will Wright, Don Barclay, Eddy Waller, Ray Teal & Bob Kortman; WGA nomination for Best Western Script 1948 feature: Universal color DVD [6/2004] for $12.99 1948 feature: full credits at IMDb 1948 feature 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $15.81 1916 silent feature: full credits at IMDb 1926 silent feature starring H.B. Warner: full credits at IMDb 1961 TV series starring Audie Murphy: full credits at IMDb |
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John Wesley Hardin [1853-95]
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"The Lawless Breed" [Universal Jan 1953]
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"The Jicarilla Apache: A Portrait" [2006] by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller, photography by Nancy Hunter Warren Univ NM Press 10x8 pb [10/2006] for $19.77 Univ NM Press 10¼x8¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $29.70 "The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History" [1992] by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller BowArrow Publng 9x6 pb [1/2001] for $24.95 |
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"Tiller's Guide To Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations" [1996] Compiled by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller BowArrow Publng 11x9 hardcover [1/2006] out of print/used BowArrow Publng 11½x9 hardcover [8/96] out of print/used author's website |
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"Indians of The Southwest" [1997] by Karin Luisa Badt
Discovery Enterprises 7¾x5½ pb [3/97] out of print/used "Indians of The Northwest" [1998] by Rochelle Cashdan Discovery Enterprises 7¼x5¼ pb [9/98] for $7.95 "Indians of The Great Plains" [1998] by Kevin P. Supples Discovery Enterprises 7¼x5¼ pb [9/98] for $7.95 "Indians of the Northeast" [1997] by Karin Luisa Badt Discovery Enterprises 7¾x5¼ pb [3/97] out of print/used |
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"Devoto's West: History, Conservation & The Public Good" [2005] by Bernard Devoto, edited by Edward K. Muller Swallow Press pb [4/2005] for $12.89 Swallow Press hardcover [4/2005] for $44.95 |
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"Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of the Western Myth" [2004] Edited by Terry Beers "[This] book can be understood as nothing less than the re-invention and the re-imagining of the Western myth." — Los Angeles Times Book Review Heyday Books 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $19.95 |
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"The Quotable Cowboy" [2002] Edited by Kathy Etling Lyons Press 7¼x6 HB [10/2002] for $10.47 |
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"American Bison: A Natural History" [2002] by Dale F. Lott Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $20.97 |
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"Dictionary of The American West" [2001] by Winfred Blevins Sasquatch Press 9x6 pb [8/2001] for $13.96 |
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"Mythmakers of The West: Shaping America's Imagination" [2001] by John A. Murray Northland Publg 8¾x9¾ pb [6/2001] for $15.36 Northland Publg 9x10 hardcover [6/2001] for $28.00 |
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"The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto" [2001] by Wallace Stegner Univ of NE Press 9x6 pb [3/2001] for $15.72 |
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"Cowgirls: Women of The Wild West" [2000] by Elizabeth Clair Flood; photography by William Manns Zon Intl 11¾x9.4 hardcover [1/2000] for $45.00 |
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"The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Old West" [1999] by Mike Flanagan Alpha Books 9¼x7½ pb [7/99] out of print/used |
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"The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch & The Creation of The American West" [1999] by Michael Wallis St Martin hardcover [3/99] for $35.00 |
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"The Oxford History of The American West" [1998] Edited by Milner, O'Connor & Sandweiss Greenwood Publg 11¼x6.3 hardcover [10/98] for $42.00 |
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"The New Encyclopedia of The American West" [1998] Edited by Howard Roberts Lamar Yale Univ Press 11¼x9 hardcover [10/98] for $42.00 |
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"The Cowboy: Representations of Labor In An American Work Culture" [1995] by Blake Allmendinger Lightning Source 9½x6.3 hardcover [4/95] for $45.00 |
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"West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns" [1993] by Jane Tompkins Oxford Univ Press 8.6x5.4 pb [4/93] for $20.25 Oxford Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/99] out of print/used |
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"Cowboy Riding Country" [1982] by John L. Sinclair [1902-1993], illustrated by Edmond Delavy Memories of working on the range near Roswell, New Mexico and of cowboy life in Lincoln County up thru World War II. Univ NM Press harcover [1982] out of print/used |
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"Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters" [1979] by Bill O'Neal Univ of OK Press 9¼x6 pb [3/91] for $14.27 Univ of OK Press hardcover [6/79] out of stock/used |
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"Recollections of A Western Ranchman: New Mexico, 1883-1899" [1928] by Captain William French "Let me recommend [this] as the best Western book I have read... It is written in first hand, with humor and insight." – Eugene Manlove Rhodes [1869-1934] High Lonesome Books 8½x5½ pb [12/97] for $12.95 |
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