Price: $975 Group of four illustrations on an oblong quarto sheet, entitled Sundry Amusements in the Mines. Lithographed and published by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Each image measures 3 3/8 by 4 3/4 inches; the sheet measuring by 8 3/8 by10 3/4 inches. The first image, A Sunday’s Amusements, shows two miners washing their … [ Read More ]
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California Gold Rush
Price: $750 A stock certificate for the Tuolumne Country Water Company, 6 ¼ by 9 ¾ inches, Columbia, [California], September 26, 1862. With a fine vignette of miners working a sluice and a cradle, typical of the California Gold Rush. The one-share certificate is signed by President P.J. Gibbs and Secretary Joseph Pownall. Water was … [ Read More ]
Clark, William
Price: $12,500 American explorer. Letter Signed, William Clark, two pages, quarto, Superintendency of Indian Affairs, St. Louis, September 27, 1832. To Col. Ira Cottle, regarding Cotle’s claim against the Fox Tribe for 30 cattle stolen in 1816. While the War Department had rejected Cottle’s claim, Clark writes: “Believing your claim to be strictly just, I … [ Read More ]
Cody, William F.
Price: $1,750 William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill. American showman; creator of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Double Signature, “W.F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill’, 1898” on a sheet of paper measuring 6 3/8 inches wide by 3 ¼ inches high.
Crockett, Davy
Price; $15,000 Frontiersman, defender of the Alamo, congressman from Tennessee, archetypal hero of the early United States. Free Frank, Signed, “Free / David Crockett,” on the address panel, with a red circular stamp, Washn City / February 17 [1829] in the upper left, and a red stamped FREE on the right, next to Crockett’s written … [ Read More ]
Custer, George Armstrong
Price: $12,500 Union general in the Civil War and Indian fighter; killed at the battle of Little Big Horn. Autograph Letter Signed, G.A. Custer, full page, quarto, West Point Barracks, [New York], September 20, 1857. As a cadet of the U.S. Military Academy, to Cha[rle]s C. Wil[l]son. “In my conversation with you on the cars … [ Read More ]
Custer, George Armstrong
Price: $17,500 Union general in the Civil War and Indian fighter; killed at the battle of Little Big Horn. Autograph Document Signed, G.A. Custer, one page, oblong octavo, Boonsboro, Maryland, July 10, 1863. In pencil. “Recd from William Miller (2) two tons of hay for the war of the United States.” Appointed Brigadier General on … [ Read More ]
Garrett, Patrick Floyd
Price: $3,750 Frontier lawman; killed Billy the Kid. Partly printed Check Signed and filled in by him, in pencil, Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 8, 1900. Drawn on the account of George D. Bowman & Son, Bankers, and made payable to Henry [Haas] in the amount of $5. This item is associated with these categories … [ Read More ]
Garrett, Patrick Floyd
Price: $8,750 Frontier lawman; killed Billy the Kid. Arrest Warrant Signed, “Pat F Garrett / Sheriff of Lincoln County,” July 24, 1882, octavo. The warrant is for the arrest of Ed L. House who is accused of “willfully and maliciously” killing one Juan Chavis of Pino on July 20, 1882. The Warrant, written by Frank … [ Read More ]
Geronimo
Price: $17,500 American Apache chieftain; led sensational campaign against the whites in the southwest; captured by General Crook; later escaped. Signature, in bold pencil, on a sheet of paper measuring 3 1/2 inches wide by 2 inches high. Framed (with taupe outer and cream inner mats, in walnut and antiqued gold frame) dimensions 10 1/4 … [ Read More ]
Geronimo
Price: $37,500 American Apache chieftain; led sensational campaign against the whites in the southwest; captured by General Crook; later escaped. An extremely rare matte photograph taken by A.B. Canady of Altoona, Kansas, 1907, of the Indian and his wife, with his bold Signature across the top. Geronimo is pictured with his ninth wife, Azul, who … [ Read More ]
Greeley, Horace
Price: $1,750 American journalist and political leader. Autograph Quotation Signed, two lines from Milton on an octavo sheet, New York, December 15, 1863. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” This item is associated with these categories in our inventory: Civil War Literature – American Western Americana
Greeley, Horace
Price: $1,750 American journalist and political leader. Autograph Quotation Signed, one page, octavo, Rochester [New York], October 15, 1866. “There is no safety, no real peace, but in universal justice and Impartial Freedom” Fine condition. This item is associated with these categories in our inventory: Americana Western Americana
James, Frank
Price: $9,500 Desperado; robbed banks and trains together with his brother Jesse. Autograph Letter Signed, Ben, one half page, at the conclusion of a five and a half page letter from his friend, Mrs. Sam Gilkey, octavo, Gallatin, Missouri, July 7, [1883]. To his wife, Annie James. With original envelope. The name Ben was an … [ Read More ]
Lewis and Clark
Price: $27,500 American explorers who led the Expedition (“Voyage of Discovery”) of 1804. A portion of an Autograph Letter written by Meriwether Lewis, Signed in the text , Capt Lewis, circa 1801, and an Autograph Document Signed by William Clark, 1815, framed together as an ensemble. During the late 1790’s Meriwether Lewis was in the … [ Read More ]
Oregon
Price: $7,500 A VERY EARLY AND IMPORTANT EFFORT TO ATTRACT AND ENCOURAGE THE SETTLEMENT OF OREGON The American Society for Encouraging a Settlement of the Oregon Territory. Document Signed, by the president and secretary of the Society, two pages, oblong quarto, [1831], with the paper and wax seal of the Society. The document is headed … [ Read More ]
Oregon
Price: $7,500 A VERY EARLY AND IMPORTANT EFFORT TO ATTRACT AND ENCOURAGE THE SETTLEMENT OF OREGON The American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of Oregon Territory. Document Signed, by the president and secretary of the Society, two pages, large oblong quarto, with the paper and wax seal of the Society. The document is headed Oregon Settlement Stock, … [ Read More ]
Sutter, John A
Price: $17,500 Pioneer in California; founded colony on site of what is now Sacramento; gold was discovered on his property (1848), after which he became bankrupt, as his workmen deserted him, his sheep and cattle were stolen, and his land occupied by squatters. Document Signed, J.A. Sutter, three pages, quarto, June 1849. Sutter grants Archibald … [ Read More ]
Tapis, Father Esteban
Price: $8,750 Presidente of the missions in Alta California from 1803 to 1812. Autograph Letter Signed, one half page, small quarto, Mission of Santa Barbara, November 14, 1804. To Jose Dario Rouset. Father Tapis discusses new regulation which pertain to the use of Holy Oil in the Mass and requests that the mission be allowed … [ Read More ]
Voyageurs
Price: $2,750 A Partly Printed Contract in which Louis Rocquebrune is engaged by the firm McTavish, McGillivray & Co. and their associates, John Ogilvy and Thomas Thain, “to make the journey both to and from Fort William on the River Kaministiguia; pass through Michilimakinac and go to the Rain Lake, if he is so required … [ Read More ]
Young, Brigham
Price: $8,750 American Mormon leader; directed and superintended the mass migration of the Mormons to Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah; first governor of the Territory of Utah. A partly printed fifty-cent Mormon currency note, issued to N.K. Whitney and Signed by Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Thomas Bullock. Measuring 3 * inches wide … [ Read More ]