Montana & The West Auction

Pair of Hand Cuffs: 19th C.

Antique Dice Collection: 18 pieces made of bakelite, wood & ivory. 3 sets of 5, a pair and a single die. Red set of five is stamped J.L. Leather...

Gun Barrel Hide Scraper: 19th C. probably used by Northern Plains Indians to scrap buffalo hides.

Map: Montana Idaho & Wyoming. 1886. Multi colored. Double page 15” x 22.

Map: Dakota. 1870 Circa. Multicolored. 16” x 14. Repaired small tear.

Map: Johnson’s Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. 1865. Multi colored. Double page 17” x 23. Rare Montana map wth Edgerton Country. Extensi

Book: Spring, Agnes Wright. 70 years Cow Country, Seventy years Panaromic History of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association… Gillette, WY, 1942. 275 pp.

3 Pamphlets: a) Calamity Jane’s Diary and Letters. 1951. From the Library of artist J.K. Ralston. b) Range Murder: How the Red Sash Gang Dry Gulched D

Group of 3 Holladay Overland Mail & Express Co. pieces. Virginia City M.T. check, envelope & waybill with lithograph of 4 horse stagecoach w...

Group of 3 Holladay Overland Mail & Express Co. pieces. Two different deposit slips and a letterhead Exchange Advice Sheet. Ben Holiday’s Overla...

Photograph of M Troop of the 5th Cavalry, Rock Springs, WY. 9 ½” x 7 ½. Albumen print mounted on larger purple board with imprint of Johns...

Postcard Collection of Native American Indians. 273 cards of which 225 are turn of the century images covering tribes from the Montana Blackfeet to th

Calamity Jane Biography typed Manuscript entitled Beyond Lonely Camp Fires by Jean Hickock McCormick. 260 pp. with 2 photos apparently of McCormick. T

MT Territory Newspapers: The Dillon Tribune. Collection of Eleven 2 to 4 pp. illustrated papers. Various Dates 1883-1887. Very scarce. Good historic c

Collection of Eleven Dillon, MT. Territory Merchant Ledgers. 16pp. 1885 – 1892 mostly 1880’s.

The Old West of J.K. Ralston, 4 page colored brochure illustrated and hand signed by cowboy artist J.K. Ralston. 12 ½” x 9 ¼.

World Series Rodeo in Philadelphia & New York’s Madison Square Garden illustrated colored brochure. 1930. 8 pp. Panaromic photo of participants ...

Map: City of Butte indexed map., including Columbia Gardens and “Seeing Butte Cars”. R.R. Polk, 1909. Multi colored. 25” x 22 ¼”.

Map: National Highway Map of Montana. 1915 ca from Judge E.N. Harwood’s collection. 14” x 21”.

Archive of Judge E.N. Harwood memorabilia. 5 items, signed by Harwood. 1880’s – 1890. 1880’s Billings paper is scarce.

Map: The Black Hills of the Cheyenne. Map of the Explorations and Surveys made under the direction of Lt. Col. R.I.Dodge. 1875. 14” x 11”. This origin

Map: Montana Idaho and Wyoming,. F. Augustus Mitchell, 1881. Multi colored. 15 ¼” x 21 ¼.

Meagher, Thomas Francis. Rides Through Montana. 1867. Excerpt from Harper’s Magazine. 1st article written in Montana Territory. Illustrated by Peter T

C.M Russell quartet series of Just a Little Sunshine, Just a Little Rain, Just a Little Pleasure, & Just a Little Plain. Original color lithogra...

Brand Book of 1899 appendix. Helena, MT. 1899. 42 pp. Supplement was brought up in such form that it can be slipped within the covers of the regular b

Scarce 1867 Fort Sanders Dakota Territory (future Wyoming) Petition for a Post Sutter. Printed petitions are very unusual. Ft. Sanders established Jul

Zebulon Pike Letter to Congressmen Montgomery about Expedition Expenses. Incomplete, signed. Montgomery headed the committee considering reimbursement

Wyoming Territorial appointment for Deputy U.S. Marshall., for H. McGonigle and Felix Levesque, 9 July 1894. Signed by District of Wyoming Marshall J.

Two letters and pamphlet from Bill Hooker, Wyoming Pioneer, (1856-1938). He was a bull whacker who moved supplies to Fort Fetterman, Fort Laramie, &...

Archive of Letters related to Depredations by Wyoming Indians. Four letters with envelope in regard to a claim by St. Leger Beck for loss at the hands

Scarce group of Wyoming Territory checks from Maverick Bank, Fort Fetterman dated 1886-87.

Scarce group of Wyoming Territory Bank Drafts & Receipts. All from Cheyenne but one. 1883-86.

Wyoming Territory Bill of Sale for Horses penned by “Honest” John Sparks, 1 pp. recording sales of 30 horses to Wm. Smith, dated July 1880. Sparks (18

Two 1880’s Letters from a Wyoming Ranch Girl. Both on a illustrated Jack Creek Land and Cattle Company dated 1889 & 1893.

Rare of Wyoming Territory Bill signed by Pioneer John Hunton (1839-1928). 1 pp. One of the pioneer cattlemen of Wyoming. Hunton came to Ft. Laramie in

Haynes, F.J. Two original chromolithographs a Runner for Chief Ouray. 7 1/8” x 3 ¾. New Mexico Taos Pueblo. 4” x 7”.

Rinehart, Frank. Black Bird Chief. Photograph by Heyn Photo, Omaha. 1899. Published by Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. 12 ¼” x 9 ¼”. Tape repair.

Daran Site Artifacts. Contact period Iroquois settlement dating 1650-1675.

NECKLACE – 19th Century. Native American.

GLASS BEAD NECKLACE - 19th Century. Native America.

Buffalo bone arrow shaft tool, Mandan tribe, North Dakota

Buffalo bone squash knife, Mandan tribe, North Dakota

Buffalo bone flaker tool, Mandan tribe, North Dakota

Three Mandan/Arikara bone awls.1800’s or earlier.

Antique Dagger: Handle in bone, carved lion head. Hilt is brass with 2 lion heads. 7 ¼” long. Probably 19th C.

Antique Dagger: Handle is carved wood. 12 ¾” long. Probably 19th C.

Sheffield Bowie knife, ca. 1870’s, inscribed “Never draw me without reason, nor sheath me without honor”, sheathed

Bowie knife, pearl inlaid handle, no maker name, ca. 1870’s

Rare Manuscript Branding Book. Higbe, Colorado, 1895. Leather bound, 3.5” x 7. Inside cover is "John Nelson, Foreman," & on 1st page i...

Colorado Brand Book – Personal Copy of Murdo MacKenzie’s. Narrow 12 mo, red leather with gold gilt lettering Murdo MacKenzie, Trinidad, Co. 510 pp. o