Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

By Cragen, Dorothy Clora. Hardcover, indexed, 211 pages including photographs and illustrations. Pioneer Publishing Company, 1975. Tells the story of

Lot of 2. 1) Ranchos of the Sunset. The Story of Long Beach. Bank publication of Security Trust and Savings Bank. Includes photographs of historical L

Lot of 2, including 1) Rancho La Brea, Stock, Chester; 2) Metropolitan water District of Southern Cal, History & 1st Annual Report, Weymouth, F....

1) Pioneer of the Mojave, The Life and Times of Aaron G. Lane by Thompson, Richard and Kathryn; 2) The Mentor, Lure of the Desert by Van Dyke, John C.

1) The Mojave Indians by Smith, Gerald A. Hardcover, 131 pages including many photographs, maps, and illustrations. 2) Quaternary Evolution of the Sen

By Peter B. Kyne - New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. First First edition. Illustrated by H. R. Ballinger. Gift inscription front fly, else near ...

By Peter B. Kyne. No dust jacket. 1929. City: Panamint State: California, Date: 1929 FHWAC#: 41463

Treasure Express, By Neill C. Wilson 1936 hard cover, based upon the stage coach days of the Wells Fargo. This book includes some smaller illustration

1). The San Francisco Story. Don C. Silverthorne. 1964. A historical booklet about San Francisco’s famous destinations and landmarks. 2). San Francis

Vol. LIX. Issued in December, 1907. Includes information on the San Francisco Mint. 60 plates of various geological significance including earthquake

By Gordon Young. 1939. City: State: California, Date: 1939 FHWAC#: 41516

By Corle, Edwin. Hardcover, indexed, 357 pages. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., 1941. The inside of the dust jacket notes that "Desert Country...

By Richard G. Lillard. 329 pages, indexed. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. City: State: California, Date: 1966 FHWAC#:

By Bliss Lomax, The World Publishing Company. City: State: California, Date: 1946 FHWAC#: 41447

By E.B. Waterhouse, Parker & Son Inc. City: State: California, Date: 1968 FHWAC#: 41479

By Hugh d'Autremont. City: State: California, Date: 1971 FHWAC#: 41496

Dates ranging from June 1952 to November 1953. Compiled into a hardcover book. Contains information on mining trails, gold finds and ghost towns as w

Lot of 5 includes: 1) California's Utopian Colonies by Hine, Robert V.; 2) The Story of California by White, Stewart Edward; 3) Motor Tales and ...

1) On Desert Trails, Reuss, Everett; 2) Exploring the Ghost Town Desert, Starry, Roberta Martin; 3) Desert Brew, Bower, B.M.; 4) San Bernardino and Sa

Lot of 24. Articles on Squaw Valley, El Dorado Gold, Skiing, Harold’s Club, 1960 Olympics, Gus Bundy, mountain lions, The Murder of Wild Horses, Bridg

By Stanley Wood - Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., Publishers, 1906. 340pp, illus. near fine. Sub-titled, "A Complete Tourist"s G...

1) Gems & Minerals. 2) "Fluorspar Deposts of Colorado" 3) "Triplite Crystals from Colorado". 4) "Distribution of Beryl...

By Benjamin F. Taylor. S.C. Griggs and Company. Eleventh Edition. City: Chicago State: Illinois, Date: 1883 FHWAC#: 4134

(1) NV Bureau of Mines. Geo and Mineral Deposits of bunkerville Mining Dist…Clark County. Mackay School of Mines, UNR 1965. (2) Rapakivi-Type Granites

By John G. Ellenbacker, published in Marysville, KS, 1938, 1st ed. 130 pp. photos, stiff paper wraps. From the library of John William Heaney and insc

6"x 9 1/4" Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. George Otis Smith, Director. A Reconnaissance of the Jarbidge, Contact, And...

Lot of 4. 1) Geological and Mineral deposits of Mineral County, NV. Donald Ross Univeristy of Nevada Reno. 1961. 2) Geological and Mineral deposits of

This is the statement of President George E. Learnard to the stockholders of the Nevada-Utah Mines & Smelters Corporation, consisting of 15 page...

Riley Grannan’s Last Adventure by Sam C. Dunham is the thrilling true story of what happens when a dead-beat gambler and a prospecting preacher team u

Nevada's Great Gold Camp. Reprint of 1908 book. Full of fabulous views of Rawhide, Nevada, including a fold-out panorama of the town. Very clea...

Agricultural Nevada by C.A. Norcross, paperback, 63pg. City: Reno State: Nevada, Date: FHWAC#: 49623

Lot of three, including: 1)The City of Trembling Leaves, by Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. Hardcover, 690 pages (Paher #337). Published by the Sun Dial Pr

Pete Sferrazza's wife, Leslie, does a show all, tell all in Playboy Magazine. Between Playboy and Brothels, Nevada does have a unique history! ...

Includes the Following: Writings on Nevada, 1963 Russell R. Elliott and Helen J. Poulton, Paperback, 156 pg; Nevada: “That the World May Know” A Great

By Zola Ross. Hardcover, 329 pages. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, Indianapolis & New York, 1950. The book is the "story of beautiful Judi...

Notes on Some Mining Districts in Eastern Nevada: Bulletin 648, 1916 by James M. Hill and the Unites States Geographical Survey, 213pg paperback.

A Kid on the Comstock by John Taylor Waldorf: Reminiscences of an Early Childhood. This 197pg hardcover novel is Almost New condition. It includes a d

1) 1947 reprint of the Big Bonanza by Dan De Quille. De Quille was the second most famous Nevada newspaperman (behind Mark Twain) during the Comstock

Bonanza Queen: A novel of Virginia City by Zola Ross, tells the story of Virginia City socialite Serena Courtelot. Her story is about the days of the

Written by Zola Ross. Published by Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. 358 pgs. No photos. No dust jacket. Paher #1697. Scarce to rare Comstock publication. C

Eilley Orrum: Queen of the Comstock by Swift Paine. Eilley Orrum was one of the most colorful people of the Comstock. Dubbed “The Queen of the Comstoc

Past All Dishonor by James M. Cain- 1947 book on the west and the silver boom. (James M. Cain, best known as the author of The Postman Always Rings Tw

Silver on the Washoe, 1961 by Irene Stone velvet paperback. City: Virginia City State: Nevada, Date: 1961 FHWAC#: 49627

By Sam Davis, 11pg paperback, Rare. Sam Davis writes about two investors in the Comstock Lode who played the San Francisco stock market in the 1870&...

The Saga of the Comstock Lode: Boom Days in Virginia City by George D. Lyman 1937 – A book on the classic history of the Comstock Lode in Virginia Cit

Comstock Mining and Miners: Monographs of the United States Geological Survey Volume IV by Elliot Lord and the United States Department of the Interio

If these booklets are hard to find, the Historical Society is harder! 1) Fall, 1978: Jewish history in Nevada, Matt Parrott gunsmith, history of Orr D

1) "The Wedge of Gold" was written by C. C. Goodwin, a long time editor of the Territorial Enterprise. First edition, 1893 novel. 2) "...

Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, 86th Congress, 1st Session. Hardcover, 73 pages with photographs. Published by the U.

Descriptive Geology of Nevada South of the Fortieth Parallel and Adjacent Portions of California, 1903 by Josiah Edward Spurr and the Unites States Ge