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  • F596 .F64 1973
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The cowboys, by the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by William H. Forbis. (2 copies: 1 in Golden Collection; 1 in Rees Collection) | Time-Life Books. | New York, Time-Life Books [1973] | 240 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm. | Cowboys -- West (U.S.)
  • F596 .G84
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Wild cow tales, by Ben K. Green. Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. | Green, Ben K. | New York, Knopf, 1969. | 306 p. illus. 22 cm. | Green, Ben K.;"Ranch life -- West (U.S.)";"Cowboys -- West (U.S.)"
  • F596 .H34
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The look of the old West. With illus. by Evelyn Curro. | Foster-Harris, William. | New York, Viking Press, 1955. | x, 316 p. illus. 28 cm. | West (U.S.);"Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)"
  • F596 .M12 1965
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
A stove-up cowboy's story. Introd. by John A. Lomax. Afterword by Carl Hertzog. Drawings by Tom Lea. | McCauley, James Emmit, 1873-1924. | Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press [1965, c1943] | xxii, 76 p. illus. 23 cm. | Cowboys.
  • F596 .S533 1966
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
A Texas cowboy, or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Charles A. Siringo with bibliographical study & introduction by J. Frank Dobie and drawings by Tom Lea. | Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928. | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1966], c1950. | xl, 198 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. 21 cm. | Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928.;"Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.";"Cowboys -- Texas -- Biography.";"Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.";"Texas -- Biography."
  • F596 .T53
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Twilight on the range recollections of a latterday cowboy. | Timmons, William, b. 1878. | Austin, University of Texas Press [1962] | 223 p. illus. 24 cm. | Cowboys.;"Ranch life."
  • F596 .T55
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The cowboy reader, edited by Lon Tinkle and Allen Maxwell. | Tinkle, Lon. | New York, Longmans, Green, 1959. | 307 p. illus. 24 cm. | Cowboys.;"Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)"
  • F596 .W3
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Cowboys and cattle country, by the editors of American heritage. | Ward, Don. | New York, American Heritage Pub. Co. book trade distribution by Meredith Press [c1961] | 153 p. illus. 27 cm. | Cowboys -- Juvenile literature.;"Cattle trade -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.";"Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature."
  • F596 .W4
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The greatest cattle drive. Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. (2 copies: 1 in Golden Collection; 1 in Rare Books) | Wellman, Paul Iselin, 1898-1966. | Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1964. | 185 p. illus. 22 cm. | Cattle trade -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.;"Cowboys -- Juvenile literature.";"Story, Nelson -- Juvenile literature."
  • F596 .W49 1990
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Cowboy folk humor : life and laughter in the American West / John O. West. | West, John O. | Little Rock : August House, 1990. | 215 p. : ill. 22 cm. | Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Humor.;"West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Humor."
  • F596 .W58
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The big ranch country. Illus. by Stephen D. Thorpe. | Williams, J. W. (Jesse Wallace), 1891-1977. | Wichita Falls, Tex., Terry Bros., Printers, 1954. | 307 p. illus., ports., maps. 24 cm. | Ranch life.;"Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.";"Cattle trade -- Texas."
  • F596.B64 B3
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Tom Bond bronc-buster, cow-poke, and trail driver. Illustrated by Delila Baird. | Baird, Josie. | Sweetwater, Texas, Printed by Watson-Focht Co. [c1960] | x, 135 p. illus. 22 cm. | Bond, J. T., 1866-1947.;"Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)";"Ranch life.";"Cowboys."
  • F596.C28 A3
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Lucky 7 a cowman's autobiography. Edited with an introd. and notes by Elton Miles illustrated by Lee Hart. | Carpenter, Will Tom, 1854-1933. | Austin, University of Texas Press [1957] | 119 p. illus. 22 cm. | Cattle trade -- West (U.S.);"Ranch life."
  • F596.C35 J3
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Miracle of the Chisholm Trail. | Jameson, Henry B. | [Abilene? Kansas] Tri-State Chisholm Trail Centennial Commission [1967] | 52 p. illus., map. 23 cm. | Chisholm Trail.;"Cattle trails -- Great Plains.";"Cattle trade -- West (U.S.)";"Abilene (Kan.) -- History."
  • F596.P64 A33
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
F-F-F-Frank Polk : an uncommonly Frank autobiography illustrated by Joe Beeler with a foreword by Slim Pickins. | Polk, Frank, 1908- | Flagstaff, [Ariz.] : Northland Press, c1978. | x, 123 p. : ill. 25 cm. | Polk, Frank, 1908-;"Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.";"West (U.S.) -- Biography."
  • F598 .A79
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Forts of the Upper Missouri [by] Robert G. Athearn. | Athearn, Robert G. | Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1967] | xi, 339 p. map (on lining papers) 24 cm. | Missouri River.;"Fortification -- Missouri River."
  • F655 .C92 1885
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Boots and saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer, by Elizabeth B. Custer. With portrait and map. | Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933. | New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885. | 312 p. front. (port.) map. 20 cm. | Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876.;"United States. Army -- Military life.";"Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory."
  • F686 .D7 1960
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Wild, woolly & wicked the history of the Kansas cow towns and the Texas cattle trade. | Drago, Harry Sinclair, 1888-1979. | New York C. N. Potter [1960] | 354 p. 22 cm. | Cattle trade -- Kansas.;"Cattle trade -- Texas.";"Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas.";"Cities and towns -- Kansas."
  • F689.D64 V4
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Queen of cowtowns: Dodge City, the wickedest little city in America, 1872-1886. | Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957. | New York, Harper [1952] | 285 p. illus. 22 cm. | Dodge City (Kan.) -- History.;"Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas."
  • F694 .G58
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Then came oil, the story of the last frontier, by C. B. Glasscock. | Glasscock, Carl B. (Carl Burgess), b. 1884. | Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill company [1938] | 349 p. front., plates, ports. 23 cm. | Oklahoma -- History.;"Petroleum industry and trade -- Oklahoma.";"Petroleum industry and trade -- Indian Territory.";"Indian Territory -- History.";"Indians of North America -- Oklahoma."
  • F694 .N95 1942
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Carbine & lance the story of old Fort Sill, by Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Nye. | Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant, 1898-1970. | Norman, University of Oklahoma press, 1942. | xix, 345 [l] p. front., plates, ports., maps, plan, facsim. 24 cm. | Fort Sill (Okla.);"Indians of North America -- Wars.";"Indians of North America -- Government relations.";"Kiowa Indians.";"Comanche Indians."
  • F698 .S48
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Heck Thomas, frontier marshal the story of a real gunfighter. | Shirley, Glenn. | Philadelphia, Chilton Co., Book Division [1962] | 231 p. 22 cm. | Thomas, Heck, 1850-1912.;"Crime -- Oklahoma.";"Peace officers -- Oklahoma."
  • F702.T4 H574
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Panhandle pioneer : Henry C. Hitch, his ranch, and his family by Donald E. Green. | Green, Donald Edward, 1936- | Norman : Published for the Oklahoma Heritage Association by the University of Oklahoma Press, c1979. | xvii, 294 p. : ill. 22 cm. | Hitch, Henry Charles, 1884-1921.;"Ranch life -- Oklahoma -- Texas County.";"Texas County (Okla.) -- Biography.";"Pioneers -- Oklahoma -- Texas County -- Biography."
  • F704.F74 B7 1970
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Marion T. Brown: letters from Fort Sill, 1886-1887. Edited by C. Richard King. | Brown, Marion T., 1857-1939. | Austin, Encino Press, 1970. | xiv, 80 p. illus., ports. 24 cm. | Fort Sill (Okla.);"Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma."
  • F722 .F75
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Aspects of the American West : three essays by Joe B. Frantz foreword by W. Eugene Hollon. | Frantz, Joe Bertram, 1917- | College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1976. | 82 p. 23 cm. | Yellowstone National Park.;"West (U.S.) -- History.";"Government spending policy -- West (U.S.)";"West, The -- History.";"United States Western states, 1870-1970 Lectures, speeches"
  • F761 .M557
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The banditti of the plains or, The cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming in 1892: the crowning infamy of the ages. With a foreword by William H. Kittrell. | Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn), 1839-1917. | Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1954] | L, 195 p. illus., ports., map. 20 cm. | Wyoming -- History.;"Cattle trade -- Wyoming.";"Criminals -- Wyoming."
  • F776 .D67
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The new Eldorado: the story of Colorado's gold and silver rushes. | Dorset, Phyllis Flanders. | [New York] Macmillan [1970] | viii, 434 p. illus., 7 maps, ports. 25 cm. | Colorado -- History.;"Gold mines and mining -- Colorado.";"Silver mines and mining -- Colorado."
  • F786 .B28
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53. By John Russell Bartlett, United States Commissioner during that period ... (Vols. 1-2 in Golden Collection; vol. 1 in Rare Books) | Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886. | New York, London, D. Appleton & Company, 1854. | 2 v. fold. fronts., illus., plates, fold. map. 24 cm. | Texas -- Description and travel.;"New Mexico -- Description and travel.";"California -- Description and travel.";"Chihuahua (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel.";"Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel.";"United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico.";"Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States."
  • F786 .B694 1954
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The authentic life of Billy, the Kid, the noted desperado of the Southwest, whose deeds of daring and blood made his name a terror in New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico. With an introd. by J.C. Dykes. | Garrett, Pat F. (Pat Floyd), 1850-1908. | Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1954] | 156 p. illus. 20 cm. | Billy, the Kid.;"Crime -- Southwest, New."
  • F786 .B72
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Alias Billy the Kid ... I want to die a free man ... [By] C. L. Sonnichsen [and] William V. Morrison. | Sonnichsen, C. L. (Charles Leland), 1901- | Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1955. | xi, 136 p. illus., ports. 24 cm. | Billy, the Kid.;"Roberts, William Henry, 1859-1950."
  • F786 .C4457
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The Ponce de Leon land grant, by J. J. Bowden. | Bowden, J. J., 1927- | [El Paso, Texas Western Press, 1969] | 56 p. illus., maps. 23 cm. | El Chamizal (Mexico and Tex.)
  • F786 .D64 1931
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
On the open range, by J. Frank Dobie. Illustrated by Ben Carlton Mead. (3 copies, 1931 ed.: 2 in Golden Collection; 1 in Rare Books & 1 copy, 1940 ed. In Rare Books) | Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 | Dallas, Tex., The Southwest Press [c1931] | xii, 312 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 20 cm. | Southwest, New.;"Legends -- Southwest, New."
  • F786 .D85 1930b
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The Santa Fe trail / R.L. Duffus. | Duffus, R. L. (Robert Luther), 1888-1972. | New York : Tudor, c1930. | xi, 283 p. : ill., 1 map 24 cm. | Santa Fe National Historical Trail.;"Southwest, New -- History."
  • F786 .N65 1955b
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Great roundup the story of Texas and Southwestern cowmen. | Nordyke, Lewis. | New York, Morrow, 1955. | 288 p. illus. (part col.), maps, ports. 22 cm. | Cattle trade -- Southwest, New.;"Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.";"Ranch life."
  • F786 .P43a
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Texas and our Spanish Southwest. | Perrigo, Lynn Irwin. | Dallas, Banks Upshaw [c1960] | 402, 493-518 p. maps 24 cm. | Texas -- History.;"Southwest, Old -- History."
  • F786 .R6 1969
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The southwestern frontier, 1865-1881 a history of the coming of the settlers, Indian depredations and massacres, ranching activities, operations of white desperadoes and thieves, government protection, building of railways, and the disappearance of the frontier. | Rister, Carl Coke, 1889-1955. | New York, Russell & Russell [1969] | 336 p. illus., maps 23 cm. | Southwest, New -- History -- 1848-;"Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.";"Indians of North America -- Southwest, New.";"Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895.";"Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New.";"Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas."
  • F786 .R99 1968
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The old Santa Fe Trail a true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail in the sixties. | Ryus, William Henry, 1839- | Fort Davis, Tex., Frontier Book Co. 1968, c1915. | 159 p. illus. 23 cm. | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.);"Santa Fe National Historical Trail.";"Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)"
  • F786 .U45
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior, by William H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner. Vols. 1-2 in Golden Collection; vol. 2, part 2, nos. 1-4 in Rare Books) | United States. Department of the Interior. | Washington, C. Wendell, printer A. O. P. Nicholson, printer 1857-59. | 2 v. front., illus., plates (part col.) maps (part fold.) 30 x 23 cm. | United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico.;"Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States.";"Geology -- Southwest, New.";"Plants -- Southwest, New.";"Animals -- Southwest, New.";"Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)";"United States -- Discovery and exploration."
  • F787 .B34
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The great Southwest the story of a land and its people, by Elna Bakker and Richard G. Lillard. | Bakker, Elna S. | Palo Alto, Calif., American West Pub. Co. [1972] | 283 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm. | Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
  • F787 .V35
  • Collection: Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
  • Location: Gray & Jesse Golden Rare Books
The Southwest : South or West? By Frank E. Vandiver drawings by Jo Alys Downs. (2 copies: both in Golden Collection) | Vandiver, Frank Everson, 1925- | College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [1975] | 48 p. : ill. 23 cm. | Southwestern States -- Civilization.
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