Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

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

Lot of 40. A true grab bag of ephemera. Includes: 13 billheads for J.D. Loomis, Cigars, West Suffield, Ct. (1880s); tow documents with adhesive revenu

Lot of 125. Earliest piece is tax receipt from 1863. Latest pieces are modern unused checks. Includes over 80 pictorial dividend checks for the Readin

Lot of 68 very early pieces. Most are from 1825. Includes: two receipts from the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, Bost

A petition ( no. 46819) for a patent from Martin Wanner for Improvements in refrigerating Liquids. A patent (no. 7621) granted to Martin Wanner of Yor

Two Hawaii items. 1) checkbook with stubs and five unused checks. Banking House of Bishop & Co., Honolulu, H.I. 1892. 2) Paschoal's Gray Lin...

Lot of 80. Includes: 3 Bank of Maui, Paia, Maui. T.H. illustrated drafts (1920-21); 4 Banking House of Bishop & Co., Honolulu, H.T. drafts (1916...

Lot of 3 certificates: two unissued by Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company and Maui Telephone Company, and an 1880 contract from the Hawaiian Bell Telepho

Large collection of checks from A. Rossi & Co., 1890s, (with revenue stamps), Loree & Frantz Hardward Co., 1898, (with revenue stamps), Bo...

Large lot of checks from 1910-1920 era in Boise Idaho. City: Boise State: Idaho, Date: FHWAC#: 25060

Boise City Saturday December 3, 1864 issue of the Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman and three billheads from 1867, 1869 and 1879. The newspaper is a four pag

3 1/2 x 6" diary of L. M. Miller, 795 CCC. Inside front cover reads: "Have made a few resolutions… Write home every Sunday if I get a lett...

Numbers 38, 45, 57, 98, and 103. Issued to Frederic Irwin, FM Eastman trustee, BS Eastman, GW Moore and Belle Curran. Between 5 and 320 shares. Signed

Newspaper pages: Boise City, Saturday, December 10, 1864. (14.5" x 12") 4 pp. Front page has ads for various businesses. Second and third ...

Lot of 59. Includes: 31 Bruneau State Bank checks, 1915-1916; and 28 checks for A.A. Getchell, Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector for Owyhee Count

Four mortgage bonds from the Waddington Gold & Silver Mining Company. All issued to trustee John P. Newkirk on August 1, 1867. Numbers 19, 30, 1...

Lot of 196 checks! Three different style checks for Asher A. Getchell, Drugs, Medicines and Sundries, Silver City, Idaho. 177 from Overland National

Facts and statistics concerning farming, stockraising, mining... and all other branches of business and labor... Published by the Union Pacific Railro

By Robert Edmund Strahorn. The Resources and Attractions of Idaho Territory . Facts Regarding Climate, Soil, Minerals, Agricultural and Grazing Lands,

Gorgeous map! 45.25" x 29" color. Revised and drawn by Charles J. Helm. Andrew B. Graham Co. Lithographers, Washington D.C. Department of ...

1908 real estate brochure proclaming "Untold wealth in Undeveloped Resources" in St. Anthony-Ashton Idaho. Also a 1927 Report to Stockhold...

1) 1881 Map Showing the Principal Rapids of Snake River Between Hungtington, Oregon and Seven Devils Landing, Idaho. U.S. Engineer Office, Portland, O

Lot of 145. Includes: 50 pay receipts from the Knights of the Pythias, Castle Hall of Silver City Lodge No. 25, 1925-26; 45 Bank of Kimberly checks, c

Letters, postal covers, California, Oregon & Idaho Stage Company ticket, Boise Nampa & Owyhee Railway ticket, post cards, bills of lading a...

Over 40 pieces of 19th century paper from various towns in Idaho. Summons, billheads, teachers certificates, Masonic forms, death certificates. C

Lot of eight - all unused. 1) JT Morgan * Co, Ketchum green check. 2) Sheet of two checks for JT Morgan & Co. of Ketchum. 3-6) Sheet of two chec...

Thirteen pieces of legal documents from 1860s Idaho Territory including a petition for divorce, summons, letters. Several with revenue stamps. Ci

GET WRITE UP FROM JOE! WILL NEED SPECIAL SPACE! City: State: Idaho, Date: 1863-1910's FHWAC#: 25172

An 1864 proposal to build a clay wagon road from Placer Bridge on the Powder River to Shaw's Ranch on the Boise Road. Plans to build an 1885 bri...

Hand-colored lithograph (23.25" H X 29.25" W) by Louis Kurz (1833-1921). The artwork depicts a hertd of buffalo drinking along a river. ...

Ledger of S. W. Biddersen, Chicago, 6460 Myrtle Ave. Alpha sorted pages showing customers debits and credits. A few pages look like child scribbling i

Lot of two insurance ledgers 1.) Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co. operating out of Clinton, ILL 2.) Royal Insurance Company. One of the volumes still

Showing progress and status of townsite surveys, under the direction of the United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory. Also shows railro

1902 map of the Oklahoma Territory prepared to go along with the Governor's report. Shows roads, Land Grant offices, Indian reservations, etc. C...

1) 1901 street map of McGee, Chickasaw Nation. Engraved by The Norris Peters Co, Photo-Litho., Washington, D. C. 17 x 23". Only map found on th...

1) Map of Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1890. Railroads, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Authorized by Congress. The Territory of Oklahoma was an orga

Measures 25" x 32." Dept of Interior, USGS. J.A. Williamson, Commissioner. Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore. Scale 1 inch=15 miles. H...

Rare pale green soft cover version. Descriptions of Scenery, Climate, Wild Productions, Capabilities of Soil, and Commercial Resources; interspersed w

This deed was issued to Isiah Walker July 8, 1857 for one share of ten lots in the new planned community of Wyandoot City, Kansas territory. On the r

Bayous and lakes identified: Shiftail, Dutch Johns, Soda, Marks, Silver. By Charles A Fuller. Follows the course of the Red River from Shreveport, Lou

This handbook was compiled by the Democratic State Executive Committee. "To the Committeemen and Correspondents: The State Executive Committee ...

Horace K. Turner Company, Boston. Green softcovers. 91 pages with index. "Reproductions suitable for School, College, Library and Home Decorati...

Lot of three Boston Almanacs. 1) 1849 w/ map of the Vicinity of Boston. S.N. Dickinson. Published by B.B. Mussey & Co. and Thomas Groom. Printed...

1) The Boston Almanac and Directory for 1874. Vol. 39. Sampson, Davenport, & Co. Indexes to contents and advertisers. The Boston business direct...

By John Ford. Fourth edition. 166 years old and in fabulous condition. 166 pages with another 16 pages of advertising. Map is 16 x 10 1/2". Ton...