Search Results: "Uncle Dick" Wootton, the Pioneer Frontiersman O… by Howard Louis Conard

Long's College Book Company, 1950. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lakeside Press, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. A Fine copy.

Time-Life Books. 1980[1890]. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition. Leather binding with gilt titles, marbled endpapers and gilt to edges. Black & white illustrations. 472 pages. An account of the adventures and thrilling experiences of a noted American hunter, trapper, guide, scout, and Indian fighter. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback.

Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1980. Reissued. Tooled Binding. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 900 g;[2], VIII, 6-472,[2] pages, all edges gilt, gold coloured place marker ribbon, well bound in a dark brown binding which resembles leather, with gilt decoration to the spine and front panel. The only damage to the book is the previous owner's name written in ink opposite the half title page. The pagination is as I have given it. Uncle Dick Wootten had a life filled with adventures: in this book he tells about them all. But in the end what counts is not so much his adventures as the advice he gives. It is detailed accounts of how to trade with Indians, how to survive in a blizzard in the Rockies, how to keep wolves from eating your slain buffalo, we learn the margins that gave the insider like Wooton an edge in that earliest of great American enterprises, the winning of the West. -- from the editors Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1957. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. Edited with a historical Introduction by Milo Milton Quaife. Frontispiece portrait with five additional illustrations and a map. "Uncle Dick" was Richens Lacy Wootton (1816 - 1893), a mountain man and trapper who built a toll road through the Raton Pass in Colorado. This is a reprint of the 1890 first edition.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW.. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 55. B&W Illustrations. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (xxvii), 465 pp .

Ohio: Long's College Book Co., 1950. Book. Near VG Plus. Decorative Cloth. First Edition This Publisher. Book has modest wear and light soiling. First limited edition #448 of 500 copies..

W. E. Dibble, Publisher, 1890. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

E-363. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by W. E. Dibble and Co, Chicago, IL. 1890. 1890. Viii, 473 pgs. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Wootton made his first trip over the Santa Fe Trail in 1836 and spent years in the Far West. In 1856 he hauled government freight on the trail. In 1866 he secured a charter and built a toll road through Raton Pass, operating it until the railroad came in 1878. His account contains many tales and description of wagons, techniques, and personalities." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

First Edition. W. E. Dibble and Co, 1890. Good- condition. This copy has a worn cover, pages are starting to pull away from the spine, and pages show some aging, but still a readable copy.