Western and Historical Americana

obl. 8" x 14" account book, brown cloth boards. Each page preprinted with Wells, Fargo's information at top and 12 account lines below...

5.5" x 9" booklet, 8pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering Act of Incorporation of Wells, Fargo & Company over light cardstock cover. This...

earliest is Crested Butte, CO, May 10, 1886 on letterhead of Office of the Crested Butte and Aspen Stage and Express Co. and lists C.C. Pollard and F.

including: The David Wood Transportation Lines, Telluride, 1889, illustration of stage coach and four horses; F.H. Stockman, Wagon and Carriage Maker,

1p, 7.5" x 10", Concord, NH, 3 Apr. 1855. Shield embossed in upper left with trademark for J.S. & E.A. Abbot, Manufacturers of Coaches...

pair of leather gauntlets once worn by Pony Bob, or Robert H. Haslam, each thread-sewn with beadwork depicting a bald eagle grasping an olive branch i

lot of 3. First is Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express receipt, 8 Jan. 1867; for two 2 bars of bullion valued at Forty three Hundred and Firty seve...

both are approx. 2.5" x 4". One pass for 1894 for Gen. Mgr. of Williamsport & N? Branch RR Co. Other for 1896, for superintendent of N...

5.5" x 8.5", on California State Telegraph Company form. Sent 31 Aug. 1864 from John Green, Atchison, KS to H. S. Rumfield, Assistant Trea...

lot of 4. Earliest is 2pp, Wichita, KS, 27 July 1881. In this barely literate note John Keeran is writing to John Dorsey inquiring about who has the c

including: first Pacific Stage and Express Co., with monochrome image of stage and 4 horses; second has Overland via Los Angeles U.S. Mail on the side

5.75 x 7.5" unmounted platinum photograph, the scene identified in the negative, with Booth Photo. A fine photograph, capturing miners in the a...

lot of 2, including a Jackson photograph with his Denver, Colorado backmark, titled in the negative Burros Packed for the mts./ A Street Scene in Oura

three from the California and Oregon Stage Company/Line. Marysville to Sacramento dated 2 July 1866; Yreka to Marysville dated 21 Aug. 1866; and Marys

9.5 x 7.75" albumen print, mounted on larger cream board, with imprint of William Hall on verso, and manuscript title on recto: Landslide Helen...

anonymous albumen image, circa 1880. Engine, about a dozen ore cars and cars stacked with wood from the hills, presumably headed for the furnaces. T

1p, obl., 8.5 x 14", San Francisco, 10 Feb 1875. Waybill for 97 packages to be shipped from California to Yuma, AT for L. M. Jacobs & Co. o...

verso includes the imprint Photographic Tour From Minnesota to Montana, with Capt. Fisk's Expedition, 1866. Photographed and Published by Illing...

lot of 50 views, all arched-top albumen prints on yellow card stock Expeditions of 1871-1874, 1st Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler Corps of Engineers Commanding. C

lot of 48 images by F.J. Haynes, mounted on front and back of each page, app. 6.5" x 8.5", housed in a leather, small folio album with gil...