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1 Tschanz Rare Books Denver Book Fair List 24 Usual terms. Items Subject to prior sale. Call: Or to confirm availability. Domestic shipping: $10 International and overnight shipping billed at cost.

2 Ludlow Massacre and Colorado Coalfield War 1- Dold, Louis R. 29 Real Photo Postcards on the Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Coalfield War. [Trinidad, CO]: L.R. Dold Photo, RPPC [8.5 cm x 14 cm] all are very good or better with only four having contemporary ( )manuscript notes and postmarks from Trinidad, Colorado. All have detailed identifications in pencil, by noted Colorado post card collector, Charles A. Harbert. Lou Dold's excellent photographs show the places and people surrounding the Ludlow Massacre and the destruction that would take place in its wake, and would be featured in newspapers and periodicals around the world. "That winter Lou Dold had been making good money selling postcards of the strike. He sold them like newspapers just as soon as he made them." - Zeese Papanikolas 'Buried Unsung' p.185 The Ludlow Massacre was preceded by a strike of 1200 miners in September of 1913, who were striking against the unsafe and unjust treatment of John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The striking miner's were evicted from their company owned homes and soon relocated to a tent city north of Trinidad, that was erected by the United Mine Workers of America. Rhetoric and violence escalated between the striking miners and the mine companies and the (largely immigrant) strikebreaking miners that were brought in to replace them. Governor Ammons called in the Colorado National Guard to keep the peace, and they largely did, and in the spring of 1914, the Governor recalled most of CNG, but left one company behind that was supplemented by guards from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. On the morning of April 20, 1914, this militia lay siege to the tent city firing on the occupants and setting fire to their village. When the slaughter had subsided and the smoke cleared, nineteen were dead and the tent city was ashes. Over the following two weeks miners and sympathizers attacked and destroyed mines and mining equipment from Trinidad to Walsenburg, that became known as the Colorado Coalfield War. $4,700

3 Jemez & Taos 2- Sandahl, Gustaf. 4 photographs of the Jemez Pueblo and Santa Fe. [Colorado Springs, CO]: Gustaf Sandahl, November, Four unmounted black and white snapshots [10 cm x 13 cm]. Manuscript identification in pencil on the reverse of three of the images. Sandahl stamp on the reverse of one of the images. The images show: 1- Dancers in the plaza at Jemez; 2- A group of men sitting in the shade just off the Jemez Plaza; 3- The San Francisco de Asis church of Ranchos de Taos; 4- A posed group of four dancers in Taos. A nice collection of snapshots showing some of the people and buildings of the Taos area of northern New Mexico in the early 20th century. These images are from the collection of Ernie Bulow. $150

4 Boulder, Colorado View Book 3- Snow, Charles F. Souvenir of Early Boulder, Colo.. [Boulder]: (c.1918). 37 black and white photographs mounted on black paper and housed in a side sewn brown buckram album [21 cm x 15 cm] Near fine. Photographs of the Snow family engaged in outdoor activity in Boulder and the surrounding area, visiting a mine, driving dirt streets in pre-1920 automobiles. One photo taken on 14th Street where the Snow photography studio was ( th), also shows Curran Opera House and Jake Hartman grocery. Includes an excellent quality family photo and a photo of a school group. Charles Snow ( ) operated a photography studio in Boulder, Colorado for 56 years. He studied with Pirie MacDonald and went on to win more than 600 awards for his work. Snow served as President of both the American Society of Photographers and the Photographers Association of America. $500

5 Western Touring Photo Album 4- [Western Photo Album]. Kansas Family Touring the West. [1928]. [80pp] Oblong octavo [21.5 cm x 28 cm] String-bound brown boards, with 'Photographs' gilt on front board. 304 black and white snapshots [280: approx. 7 cm x 13 cm] [24: 4 cm x 7 cm - purchased identified shots - Kolb?] mounted to black card stock with manuscript identifications in blue ink, mostly in the upper margins of the images. Charming photograph album that contains three hundred plus images, documenting a (Beaver Kansas?) family's trip through the west. They travel to Salt Lake, Ogden, Cheyenne, Garden of the Gods, Cave of the Winds, Denver, Golden, Lookout, Garden City, Beaver, Cimarron, Albuquerque, Rio Grande River, Kingman, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon and Colorado River. A nice well-identified album. $450

6 Large Signed Photograph of Aspen 5- Durrance, Dick. Aspen [Photograph]. (c.1960). Large black and white [34 cm x 27 cm] aerial photograph of Aspen, Colorado. On plain white mount [44 cm x 38 cm] that shows some minor smudging and discoloring. Signed by Durrance on the mount beneath the lower right corner of image. Photograph is in fine condition with nice contrasts. Dick Durrance ( ) was an alpine skiing legend who was instrumental in the western U.S. ski scene. First at Sun Valley where he designed and cut the first trail on Mt. Baldy (1939). He was one of the first general managers and ski school director at Alta (1941), where he trained the 503rd US Army Battalion paratroopers, to ski once they had landed. After his time at Alta, Durrance moved to Aspen, where he was named general manager (1947). Durrance was also an accomplished documentary film maker and photographer, which is on display in the nice image of Aspen, Colorado. $300

7 Bird s Eye of Fargo 6- Haynes, Frank Jay. Bird's Eye View of Fargo Dakota Fargo, D.T.: F. Jay Haynes, (c.1880). Small panorama albumen photograph [15.5 cm x 9 cm] on a yellow Haynes (stereoview) mount [18 cm x 10 cm] with Haynes 'Northern Pacific Views.' Very good. Age toning to mount and image with a scuff to the backstamp that effects the text. Extremities show some rubbing. Rare image of a Birdseye of Fargo drawn by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler ( ) The perspective is from the northeast looking southwest, with the tracks running through the city to the west. The circle on the left side is Island Park. Photographed by F.J. Haynes ( ) who was one of the most prolific of the West s early photographers. $500

8 Bird s Eye Salt Lake City 7- Gast, Augustus. Salt Lake City, 1887 [Bird's-Eye View]. [Salt Lake City]: S.W. Darke, Bird's-eye view [91 cm x 61 cm] Lined with tissue to repair some splitting at the folds with some minor infilling. This map was originally issued with S.W. Darke's Salt Lake City Illustrated. Lovely bird's-eye of Territorial Salt Lake City, from 4th south and Main looking north. Inset of Fort Douglas in the lower left corner and and inset of the Old Council Hall in the lower right corner. Moffat 214 $800

9 3 rd South & State 8- [Salt Lake City]. 3rd South and State Street. [Salt Lake City]: (c.1911). Albumen [10 cm x 12.5 cm] cabinet card on a plain dark gray mount [15 cm x 17.5 cm] Near fine. Ink notation on the reverse. Image shows a group of four men standing next to a horse drawn wagon that carries two teamsters. The men and wagon are posing in the intersection of3rd South and State Street facing south. Western Outfit Co. building is in the background and the Knutsford Hotel's covered walkways are shown on the right. Western Outfit moved to this building in The Knutsford became Auerbach's in 1912 and the sidewalk covers were traded for cloth awnings. Nice image of Salt Lake City. $175

10 Territorial Mercantile Ephemera 9- [Salt Lake Mercantile]. Taylor & Cutler Ephemera. [Salt Lake City]: (c. 1876). Manuscript listing of purchases by Hyrum and Mary Scott, on a house account. Two lined sheets of paper that have been pinned together for one sheet [50 cm x 21 cm] Taylor & Cutler letterhead and dated Oct. 21, 187(?). Purchases include: tea, flour, sugar, scissors, salt and socks. Manuscript letter requesting payment from Mary Scott. Single sheet [27 cm x 20.5 cm] on Taylor & Cutler letterhead and dated Feb. 17, manuscript lines. Taylor & Cutler were dealers in dry goods and groceries on east Main Street. "Messrs. Taylor and Cutler's reputation for reliability and honorable dealing is well known through the Territory, and the success which has attended their business is the best evidence of their popularity." - Salt Lake Herald (10/6/1874). $150

11 Coal Country Deputy 10- [Lawmen]. ALS from Carbon County Deputy. [Winter Quarters, UT]: [1908]. ALS. Single lined sheet [22.5 cm x 14 cm] fourteen manuscript lines on one side. Near fine. This letter is a request for funds for work performed and witness fees. "Mar. 21st 1908 / Winter Quarters / Carbon Co. Utah / Mr. H.C. Smith / Co. Clerk / Dear Sir. / Please send me check when / this claim is allowed along / with my witness fees in the / case of State v.s. Logan of Feb at Price Court / House. From yours respectfully / Noah Potter/ Deputy Sheriff." $40

12 Manuscript Lectures on Foundations of Mormonism 11- [Manuscript Book]. "Mormonism". [Liverpool?]: (c.1890). [20pp]. Light blue sheets [21 cm x 14 cm] that are side-sewn. [Manuscript Book]. "Mormonism". [Liverpool?]: (c.1890). [28pp]. Light blue sheets [21 cm x 14 cm] that are side-sewn. Two works by the same author, a non-mormon (preacher?) that overall contain 35 manuscript pages on the visions and revelations of Joseph Smith, the translation of the Book of Mormon, and the founding of the LDS Church. By the author s descriptions, they likely reside in, or near, Liverpool. Surprisingly accurate, there is a little mudslinging and some editorial commentary, but by and large these manuscripts relate the story of the beginnings of the Mormon Church. It is unusual to see a largely accurate portrayal of Mormonism by a non-mormon, when the order of the day was vitiriol that was peddled by Mackey, Lamb, Beadle and others. This was likely composed for a public talk. I presume this work to be from the 1890s due to the author's referencing and quoting specific pages of the D&C. $3850

13 Definitive Work on MMM 12- Brooks, Juanita. The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, First Edition. 243pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Yellow cloth with the title in green on the front board and the backstrip. Near fine/fine. Minor rubbing to the corners of a price clipped jacket. Definitive work on the massacre that took place in southern Utah on September 11, According to Adams' Six Guns: "Contains much on John D.Lee and some material on Porter Rockwell." A nice copy. Scallawagiana 96. Adams Six Guns 287 $300

14 Stegner on Powell 13- Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition. 438pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/near fine. A few small pieces of tape on the reverse of the jacket at the upper corners. Point Sublime fold-out panorama present and in nice condition. Stegner's excellent biography of Powell, and his explorations of the Colorado River and the Colorado Plateau. "Stegner points out the significance of Powell's thinking and writing on the problems of settlement of the arid lands of the West. The problem overcoming the denial of reality by people like William Gilpin, Captain Samuel Adams, and several members of Congress is an important part of the book. Stegner highlights the political maneuvering that was necessary for Powell to move his ideas forward when he was working as head of both the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology. If you want to know John Wesley Powell, read this book." - Mike S. Ford. A nice copy of this classic work. Ford 65. Colberg A13 1.a $350

15 Hillerman Collection of Signed Firsts 14- [Hillerman, Tony]. Twenty signed first editions. New York and Albuquerque: Harper & Row, Harper Collins, University of New Mexico Press, First Edition. All of the novels of Tony Hillerman, with the exception of Blessing Way. All in very good or better condition in like jackets, with the majority in Fine/Fine condition. All signed and thirteen have original Ernest Franklin art in slipcases. Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) Listening Woman (1978) People Of Darkness (1980) The Dark Wind (1982) The Ghostway (1984) Skinwalkers (1986) [Ernest Franklin] A Thief of Time (1988) [Ernest Franklin] Talking God (1989) [Ernest Franklin] Coyote Waits (1990) [Ernest Franklin] Sacred Clowns (1993) [Ernest Franklin] The Fallen Man (1996) [Ernest Franklin] The First Eagle (1998) [Ernest Franklin] Hunting Badger (1999) [Ernest Franklin] The Wailing Wind (2002) [Ernest Franklin] The Sinister Pig (2003) [Ernest Franklin] Skeleton Man (2004) [Ernest Franklin] The Fly on the Wall (1971) Talking Mysteries (1991) [Ernest Franklin] Finding Moon (1995) [Ernest Franklin] Buster Mesquite (2001) A nearly complete collection of the highly entertaining a Leaphorn & Chee mysteries. A2-A12 Tony Hillerman ( ) was an award winning and critically acclaimed author, whose work was mostly set in his beloved adopted home of northern New Mexico and Arizona. $5,500

16 19 th Century Train Tourism in the West 15- [Winser, Henry J.]. The Great Northwest: A Guidebook and Itinerary for the use of Tourists and Travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad. St. Paul: Riley Brothers, First Edition. 370pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Tan cloth with the titles stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Map [41 cm x 81 cm] present in rear pocket and in near fine condition. Detailed guide book for the then, recently completed railroad that ran from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. Sections on each of the states the line passed through (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington). Illustrated throughout. "Now that the Northern Pacific Railroad is finished, the inviting regions of the Great Northwest, hitherto remote, are made easy of access. The tide of travel flows naturally with a strong current through this new and pleasant channel, and to pilot the wayfarer, this Guide Book has been written." - from the introduction. $200

17 Uncommon Quarto Croffutt s Guide 16- [Crofutt, George A.]. Crofutt's Trans- Continental Tourist, Containing a Full and Authentic Description of Over Five Hundred Cities, Towns, Villages, Stations, Government Forts and Camps, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers; Sulphur Soda, and Hot Springs; Scenery, Watering Places, Summer Resorts; Where to Look for and Hunt Buffalo, Antelope, Deer and Other Game; Trout Fishing, Etc., Etc. New York: Geo. A. Crofutt, Publisher, pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Green limp cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front panel. Very good. Rebacked with matching green. New gray endsheets and pastedowns. Complete with the five fold-outs 'Transcontinental Railroad Time Table'; 'Map of the Great Trans- Continental Railroad' [25 cm x 83 cm] (which is split at the first fold); 'Crofutt's New Map of Omaha and Council Bluffs, showing the New Railroad Bridge over the Missouri River, connecting the Two Cities' [32 cm x 40] ; 'Crofutt's New Map of Salt Lake City' [23 cm x 33 cm]; 'Yellowstone National Park' [23 cm x 23 cm]. Profusely illustrated travel guide for travels by train into the American West. Lengthy section on Utah and the Mormons. "The descriptions cover a scope of country over two thousand miles in length, and hundreds of miles in width; a vast empire as it were; a country that only a few years ago was almost wholly unexplored and unknown to the white race. But since the completion of the Pacific Railroad it has been occupied by over half a million people of the most adventurous, active, honest, and progressive white people that the world can produce." - preface Uncommon quarto size printing. Flake/Draper 2595a. Moffat 108. $250

18 Colorado Cowboys 17- [Colorado Cowboys]. Colorado Springs' First Annual Round-Up. August , Colorado Springs : Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, [4pp] Single sheet [23 cm x 30.5 cm] folded in half. General overall wear. "This is the first but not the last of Colorado Springs' Round-ups. It is the hope of the Chamber of Commerce that this gathering of men who represent the old and freer West, the men and women who dare the danger of bucking horses and plunging steers, in dedication of the broad free days of the plains, will form the beginning of the greatest annual round-up and Wild West festival in history. To this end no expense will be spared and no effort neglected to achieve success in a great and lasting ambition." I can locate a single institutional holding (Yale). Rare. $75

19 Utah Cowboys 18- [Utah Cowboys]. Official Program - Third Annual. Ute Stampede and Mid Summer Band Festival - Nephi, Utah July 8,9,10, [Nephi]: [Juab County - Ute Stampede], [70pp] Large octavo [25.5 cm] Orange printed wrappers. Fine. Besides the program and description of events, this booklet includes a history of Nephi, that runs over ten pages, and loads of great local advertising for businesses from Nephi to Salt Lake. The Ute Stampede celebrated its 83rd year in I am unable to locate an institutional copy of this work. Rare. $100