Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

1) Hayden 1877 drainage map. 2) Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, 1900. 3) 1873 map of the coal openings and rail road sections along the eastern ba...

1) "Colorado Gem Trails." A complete guide - with maps, mileage logs, pictures. By Pearl. 1951. With dust jacket. Nice condition. 2) "...

The Department of the Missouri was a command echelon of the United States Army in the 19th century and a sub division of the Military Division of the

Number 4 for 5 shares to Mrs. A. E. Brooks in 1893. Signed by GM Nuak(?) and F. W. Clark. Incorporated in Colorado, but of Syracuse, New York. Green

1) "Around the Circle. One Thousand Miles through the Rocky Mountains. A journey comprising more beautiful and noted scenery than any trip of s...

Special Motor Vehicle Deputy Supervisor, No. 348. Copper center (historical coat of arms) with miners picks, on shield and "Nil Sine Numine&quo...

Booklet: "Candy Makers Manual for the Household. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 74 pages. Recipes and advertisements. Cover edges frayed. Also includes separat...

Before the description of the mines in Colorado is a small, but hand colored map of the wagon route from Atchison (St. Joseph), Missouri to Central Ci

Small, hardcover (red cloth, with gilt title and decorations, 6" x 5") accordion-fold booklet of 21 beautiful lithographs of city streets ...

Council journal of the legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado 6" x 9' 148 pages. Convened at Golden City, December 3D, 1866. C...

Huge lot of 219 pieces! Includes: 123 illustrated First National Bank of Denver (c.1925-30), two Denver Evening Post receipts from 1898, and a Longmon

Lot of 43. Stand-out piece is an illustrated brochure for the Banking House of J.B. Wheeler & Co. in Aspen. Printed on cardstock, measures 5.25&...

1) Plate from the First National Bank of Central City. Reduced size, so probably used in a book about Colorado currency. 2) First National Bank of Tri

Lot of 5. 1) Central City, Oct. 31st, 1866. Warren Hussey & Co. Bankers. H.B. Morse is writing himself a check for $110. Orange 2 cent IR adhesi...

1) Deposit certificate for Colorado National Bank, Denver. July 5, 1867. Fabulous vignette of early Denver. 5 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached. Cu

Lot of 7. 1) Four deposit receipts from the Colorado National Bank in Denver. All 1867. All with a fabulous vignette of early Denver. Three have adhes

23 unissued checks. Some pictorial. Later checks (post-1910) from: Ft. Collins, Denver, Ouray, Monte Vista, Burlington, Stratton, Flagler, Center, Ala

Yes, really! Three books featuring burros. 1) "Burros." A book shaped like a burro! H. H. Hammen. 1903. Two pictures on every page and eve...

Nine fantastic pieces. Many are dated and have illustrations of fire equipment. 1) Rough & Ready Running Team, Central City, July 3rd-5th, 1897....

1) Grand Junction Fire Department No. 1 celluloid pin for Dec. 31st, 1903 featuring photograph of the fire crew (seven men) plus their horse-drawn fir

Lot of 3: 1) Societa / Italiana / di / mutuo / soccorso / umberto / 10 / Rockvale, Col.; 2) Delegate / National Irrigation Congress / Eighteenth Natio

Lot of 6: Paonia, 1902; Paonia, 1903; Grand Junction; Mesa County Fair, 1909; Grand Junction 1910; Glenwood Springs 1903. City: State:

Lot of 8: Remember Denver 1899; Emry's Pionia, Colo.; Colorado Portland Cement Co.; Paonia Commercial Association; Be Kind One to Another ; Col...

Lot of 16 badges from the Colorado State Association of Elks; 1904,1916, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1927 all represented. City: State: Colorado

1) Green silk ribbon for the Cripple Creek Typographical Union for St. Patrick's Day, 1893. 8" x 2" with frayed edges. 2) An 1899 Crip...

Picture shows a tranquil farming scene under a majestic Mountain. Byers & St. Claire photographs can be found in the Denver Public Library, but ...

Lot of four. 1) The Canons of Colorado" from photographs by W. H. Jackson and printed and bound in Denver. Snap cover, Cabinet-type photographs...

1) "The Views that Made Colorado Famous. Colorado Springs and Vicinity". Published by The Williamson-Haffner Company Engravers & Print...

Letters, stage way-bill and a brochure for The Standard Folding Typewriter ($50) City: State: Colorado, Date: 1879 FHWAC#

Lot of two. Both are 12 1/2 x 10". 1) Gems of Colorado scenery. Photographic reproductions of the Most Prominent Scenes in the Rocky Mountains....

Six different pamphlets, including some very rare pieces. 1) Sketches of Incidents and Adventures in the West. Twenty-five Illustrations. Published by

Seal number 1109. Back of metal strip says 'bicycle." 1934. City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado, Date: FHWAC#:

1) "Admission of Colorado. Memorial of her Congressional Delegation. Washington D. C., January 29, 1866." To the Honorable Senate and Hous...

Lot of thirty-nine mostly governor';s reports. ! Starts with the Governor's Message delivered to the Territorial Legislature on Friday 5, 18...

1) "Election Laws Colorado Territory, Compiled by authority of the Tenth Legislative Assembly, convened on the fifth day of January, A. D. , 18...

1) "Triennial report of the Rt. Rev. George M. Randall, D. D. (1810-1873), Missionary Bishop of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming." Octobe...

Lot of two maps and six booklets. 1) Mr. Chaffee's report to Congress that Colorado should be made a state, c1874. 2) 1879 Presidential Executiv...

1) 30th Congress, Executive document #10 on January 12, 1866. Johnson is telling Congress he is rejecting the statehood of Colorado as it does not fal

Lot of five: The real gem is 1) Official Information. Colorado. “A statement of Facts prepared and published by authority of the Territorial Board of

Lot of three. 1) Three embossed printed illustrations from the booklet "American Views." Includes Pikes Peak, Dead Mens Gulch and Twin Lak...

1) "A Letter from the American: The American Live Stock & Loan Company Union Stock Yards, Denver Colorado. Beautiful pamphlet, made like an...

1) "Magazine of Western History Illustrated." 1890. An article on Canon City and how they raised the first Union Flag in the Rockies. &quo...

1-4) Map and booklets. 1903, 1909, 1911, 1915. Booklet contains railroads, creeks, lakes, mountains, counties, plateaus, rivers, etc. Considered a &...

1) 1875 Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Colorado. 40 pages of meetings, proceedings, laws and appendixes. Amazing condition. 2) 1879 version of the first

Lot of three. 1) Rocky Mountain Wild Flowers. On high quality archival property. ACTUALLY has Rocky Mountain wild flowers on each page. 12 identified

1) By laws of the Colorado Springs Post Number 22 of the Grand Army of the Republic. 1884. 2) Woman's Literary Club of Ward. 1900. List of bimon...

Lot of four. All of these soft-cover pamphlets were put out by the Colorado State Board of Immigration, which was created in 1909 "for the purp...

1) Colorado for the Tourist by the Union Pacific. 60 pages. 2) Souvenir of Colorado. 28 pages of photographs. 3) With Nature in Colorado. A brief resu

1) " Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado". Written by Enos A. Mills. Published by the United States Railroad Administration, National P...

1) Peach Belt Fruit Culture in Grass Valley, Colorado: Orchard Homes and How to Get Them". Published by Geo. O. Shafer & Co., Colonizers of...

Lot of twelve. 1-2) The Platte Canal cabinet card. Bates & Muhr photographers. Presented by the Grand Army of the Republic. 3) What appears to b...

A rare W. H. Jackson photo album. Hard green linen cover, with black and gold embossed design and gold type (faded) (7 3/8" x 5"). Actual ...

1) 36th congress, 1st session House of Representatives. Mis. Doc. No. 10. "Jefferson Territory, Letter from the Delegate Elect from the Propose...

1) Camping in the Rockies. A Guide to the Most Desirable Camping Places in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. To which have been added Vacation Estimates

1) "The Long Pull" by the Denver Chamber of Commerce. 1926. 32 pages. How Denver became a city. 2) "A Story of Western Life" as ...

RARE! …completed for the Kansas Pacific Railway. Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography. A wonderful combination of diary, travel guide, and...

The Sangre de Cristo Land Grant was conferred by Mexico to Beaubien and Lee in 1844 and was later patented by the U.S. Government in 1880 for just und

1) "Annual reports of the State Board of Health of Colorado." For the years 1879 and 1880. Includes map showing pollution to the water sup...

1) Book: "Colorado in Color and Song" by Frank S. Thayer. 50 pages with tissue inserts. 10.5" x 10". Photographic reproductions ...

1) "Colorado, Her Financial Needs. Cattlemen's Loan and Guaranty Co. An Analysis of Existing Conditions with Practical Remedial Suggestions...

1) Magazine, "Ranch Life in the Rockies (third edition) United States Land and Mining Laws, the Game and Fish Laws, State Map of Colorado"...

Want to take and early excursion into Colorado. Here is your ticket. The Grand Tour was a 24 day tour with first-class travel double berth railroad sl

These little books of poems, some text, lithographs, and photos are published by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. 1) "Rhymes of the Rockie...

J. B. Sturtevant, better known as Rocky Mountain Joe, collection. Part 1 is a photo album of 17 photos. They include Blanche Depay Sturtevant in her W

1) W.H. Walker of West Denver, photographer. West Denver. Canoe on Green Lake. 8 x 5". William H. Walker worked in Denver form 1887 - 1897 (Mau...

Monthly publication devoted to the order of Elks. Two issues, June, 1906, 15 pp. and July, 1908, 35 pp. Both have illustrations on the covers of a man

Three promotional pieces about Pioneer Days in the Arkansas Valley, The South Platt Valley, and The Western Slope. Eighteen various towns mentioned, p

Number 4346 for $700. Signed by Joseph Patton(?) and Walter Davis. To the R. J. Waddell Investment Company of Ottawa, Kansas. Two small vignettes: eag

Jackson was active in Denver, Colorado from 1879-97 according to Carl Mautz. Image appears to be a view into a slot canyon with a river running throug

Eight editions of sixteen photographs by famous photographer William Henry Jackson of the canyons of Colorado. Seven foldouts and one bound. One foldo

1) " The Rocky Mountains Pictured by W. H. Jackson. Pictures of magnificent scenes in the rocky Mountains. the master-works of the world's ...

Biographies on Dacid Moffat, HC Hitchcock, C Tinkler, and AH Baer. The tunnel was created for the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company. It was 6.11

1) "In the Rocky Mountains with the Indian, Bear & Wolf". Compiled by William H. Crane; engraved and printed by the Smith-Brooks Print...

1) "Curious things from the Rocky Mountains" by H. H. Tammen (1856-1924), Denver Colorado. The catalog features products from Tammen's...

1) Department of Agriculture's "Artesian Wells upon the Great Plains." 1882, Washington D. C. 38 pages. Large very colorful map, 20 x ...

1) "Handbook of Colorado." Passenger Department of the Burlington Route (Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad). 56 pages. 5 x 4". Fol...

1) Prowers County Colorado: The Irrigation fairies Paying Tribute to the Prowers County Farmer. The Home of the Prosperous Farmer". This bookle...

Colorado Views c 1880's. Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway. Sixteen 2 x 5" photographs in panels. It is all in a box made to look lik...

1) "Elsie's Summer in the Rocky Mountains (Elsie's Trip in the Rocky Mountains". By Miss E. Davis. Printed by William R. Jenkins, ...

1) "Over the Loop to the Summit of Mount McClellan". Photographic views of magnificent scenery in the Rocky Mountains along the Lines of t...

1) "Heart of the Rockies in Colorado. In all of its Grandeur." The twenty-five views of the Rocky Mountains contained in this beautiful al...

A pamphlet produced by The Colorado and Southern Railway with 21 splendid photographs of trout fishing in Colorado. 7 x 5" With a brief essay o...

1) "Trouting in Colorado". by H. A. Johnson, General Freight and Passenger Agent, The Colorado & Southern Railway, Denver, Colorado, 1...

22 pages, 10 photographs with descriptions in each book. From the Arikarees to Longs Peak to Hallett Glacier to Mount Ypsion to Copeland Lake to Shelf

1) "Colorado Illuminated" 6' x 7". 42 Whimsical drawings showing 'Life in Colorado' Some fraying on cover. 2) "Co...

1) "Colorado" by The Detroit Photographic Company. 40 Pages. 13" x 10". with Descriptions. Cripple Creek, Georgetown and its Loo...

1) "The Fruit Belt of Mesa County, Western Colorado: An Authoritative Statement of the Resources and the Advantages and Opportunities it has to...

1) "Western Colorado issued by the Western Slope Congress of Colorado"; printed by Grand Junction "News" Book and Job Printers, ...

This cattle operation on the border of Wyoming and Colorado border. Number 64 to Miss Eleanor Dudgeon of Leo Grotes, Alpes Maritimes, France. Numbers

Gardner's Hartford city directory for 1839 to which is added a complete list of city officers, officers of the fire department, of the several c...

Lot of 23. From Canton: four First National Bank checks (1887-1888) with vignette of bank building and vignette of farmers; one of these checks has a

Railroad stations, towns, islands, lakes, points of local interest, telegraph stations, express companies, etc. 25 pages. Early! Rare! Map is in very

A scarce and quite exquisite homesteaders' guide to the Dakota Territory. Official Publication compiled by the Commissioner fo Immigration Under...

1) 1882 color Territory of Nevada map. Shows Indian Reservations. One tear, but otherwise is great shape. 25 x 32". 2) 1879 with proposed and a...

Four items from Dakota Territory including an issued mining stock. 1) Silver Coin Mining Company stock, Deadwood, Dakota, cert. #11 issued at Deadwood

Gales & Seaton, print. Domestic Exchange and Rates of Collection by Bank U.S. and Its Branches. Submitted by James K. Polk, Chairman of the Comm...

Deed for property in Washington D.C. between the Government of His Majesty the King of Italy by his Excellency Don Gelasio Caetani, Minister Plenipote

The Washington Directory Showing the Name, Occupation and Residence of Each Head of a family and person in business; the names of the Members of Congr

Hand colored portrait of an unknown man (matted w/ oval window. 17.5" H x 14" W) by Mathew Brady (c.1823-1896). Brady is often referred to...

Lot of three 1) Annual Report 1880 includes the following papers: 1) The Writings of James Smithson (founder of the Smithsonian), 2) Casts of Indian H