Championship Rodeo program featuring radio and cowboy Western film star Gene Autry—“The Singing Cowboy.” The touring rodeo exhibition featured all manner of horse and trick..... Read More about Gene Autry Championship Rodeo, Hershey Sports Arena April 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, – Matinee...
An in-depth survey on the history of mining in the American West. Contents include: Mining frontier sites in California, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona..... Read More about The Mining Frontier. Theme XV, Westward Expansion and the Extension of the National Boundaries to...
An in-depth survey on the farmer’s role in the expansion in the American West, 1830-1898. Contents include: Beginnings of agriculture in Oregon; Farmers in California..... Read More about The Farmer’s Frontier. Theme XV, Westward Expansion and the Extension of the National...
Contents include: The Oregon and California Trail; The Mormon Trail; Southern and Southwestern Trails to California Gold Fields; Upper California Crossing, Nebraska; Fort Bridger; Sutter’s..... Read More about Overland Migrations West of the Mississippi. Theme XV, Westward Expansion and the Extension of...
Anthology of essays on the military experiences of African Americans from the days of the Spansih Conquistadors up to 1918. Includes examinations of four all-Black..... Read More about The Black Military Experience in the American West
C.1892 French chromolithographic poster for Le Pays de l’Or [The Golden or Promised Land], a comic operetta and spectacle set in America including the Western..... Read More about Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux
Full Howes: “As Consulting Engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad, Silas Seymour describes his trip with Jessie Williams, Government Director, and Gen. Dodge, in 1866..... Read More about Incidents of a trip through the Great Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains,...
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C.1930s travel brochure for Taos, New Mexico issued by The Don Fernando Hotel, named for late 17th and early 18th century Spanish Conquistador, Don Fernando..... Read More about TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title
1915 Photographic souvenir of an autobus tour of Colorado Springs and Manitou. The folding photo brochure contains two mounted photographs, one depicting a sweeping roadside..... Read More about Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou
Scarce to commerce, a questionable history of bison in Pennsylvania; those who hunted and killed them, those who hunted buffalo in the American West. The..... Read More about A Pennsylvania Bison Hunt Being the Results of an Investigation into the Causes and Period of the...
[Title continues:] From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Expedition Party Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist..... Read More about Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains under the Command of Major...
Very pleasing example of one of Dick & Fitzgerald’s 25¢ “Western Plays.” Crawford’s Claim is the tale of heroine Nugget Nell, a Western mining claim..... Read More about Crawford’s Claim or Nugget Nell, the Pet of Poker Flat. A Drama in Prologue and Three Acts
The Monica Mines Co. or Monica Gold Co. operated the Monica mine in Kirkland, Arizona Territory. Two items here directly relate to the company: an..... Read More about The Monica Mines Company; Gold Mining in Arizona Territory
Report issued by the National Mines Company on their gold and silver mining prospects in Colorado. The report argues the company-owned Ada Group of Gold..... Read More about Ca. 1910 Report of The Ada Group of Gold Mines in Virginia Mining District, Clear and Gilpin...
Letter from a Texas rancher, a scoundrel, and an officer at Fort Lyon, Colorado about sheep ranching and wool business in Texas. Charles Tripler Witherell..... Read More about 1877 Autograph Letter Signed by a Texas Rancher, Scoundrel, and Officer Charles T. Witherell, 1st...
Here is a ticket. It is an admission ticket to “Col. Pierce’s Lecture.” The ticket cost 25¢ and admitted a whole family. It is printed..... Read More about 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket likely for a lecture by John Harwood Pierce, frontier showman
Illustrated, four-page advertisement for Grizzly Adams, a western frontier-themed play: “No Shooting or Yelling Indians, But a Truthfully Depicted Idyl of American Life on the..... Read More about Goodrich & Thode’s Company…Idyl of American Life on the Borders of Civilization entitled...
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The Wild West has come to Dayton, Ohio! Trick riding, bull dogging, death dragging, buffalos, and trained horses. Professor Jesse Beery and his Beery Exhibitions..... Read More about Eleven Beery Western Show Exhibition Real Photo Post Cards
