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NORTH DAKOTA OPPORTUNITIES

1). (North Dakota) $OO Line. OPPORTUNITIES - NORTH DAKOTA. C. 1915. 30 panels. Picts., temperature and precipitation tables, information, etc. Vg cond.

$295.00

 LEE RUSSELL – DEPRESSION ERA REAL-ESTATE PHOTO

2). (California - Photo) A visually important silver print, depression era real-estate office photo, taken by photographer Lee Russell (1903-1986) on the Main Street of Central Valley, California. Taken in November of 1940, when Russell was working with the FSA...Farm Security Administration. Identified as such on the back. On the verso is Lee’s credit line, title and negative date, two collection stamps, additional notations and the Reproduced From the Collection of the Library of Congress stamp. 8 x 10 inches, printed 1970’s. Vg cond.

$495.00

ANACONDA COPPER MINING COMPANY – GREAT FALLS, MONTANA

3). (Montana) Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Mounted photo of the Central Safety Committee at the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Great Falls, Montana. The photo is dated April 1915 on the verso. Typed on identifying Anaconda Copper Mining Company stationary and adhered to the verso, the men are identified as the Safety Committee James O’Grady, (chairman), E.S. Bardwell, W.T. Burns, Peter Thill, W.H. Gunniss, Jame L. Price, F.J. Brule, Milo W. Krejci, J.C. Klepinger and A. T. Elliott.

The overall photo measures 10 x 12 inches with the actual photo being 6.75 x 8.5 inches. The photographer was the Great Falls Photo View Co. Great Falls, Montana.

Very slight left bottom corner chip to the photo. Overall in vg cond.

$275.00

NEGRO HISTORY AND NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS

4). (African Americana - California)) ANNUAL YEAR BOOK EDITION – 101 YEARS OF PROGRESS. Published by Negro Achievement League Inc. “One For All, All For One”. NEGRO HISTORY AND NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS Annual Achievement Award.

1964. Printed wraps. 100 pgs. Advertisements, photos. Numerous articles including an IN MEMORIAM to John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Lawrence Francis LaMar Also, a second article by Lawrence F. LaMar titled LOS ANGELES – THE NEGRO IMAGE. Other articles include KNOW YOUR NEGRO HISTORY, 22 SLAIN NEGROES VOTED SAINTHOOD, and WHY THE NEGRO DEMONSTRATES. Also a lengthy article by Howard N. Meyer titled “The Truth Shall Set Them Free” ENRICHED HISTORY FOR THE WHITE MAN. Included is information concerning various groups such as Theatrical Notes, The Old...The New In Police-Fire Personnel, Business – Financial, The News Media, Women in Politics, California Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, Entertainment, etc.

Not listed in OCLC. Minor wear consistent with age, overall in vg cond.

$1775

WAR OF 1812

5). (War of 1812) Babcock, Louis L. THE SIEGE OF FORT ERIE. The Peter Paul Book Co. 1899. 1st. 64 pgs. One folding plate of Fort Erie. Autographed presentation copy.



"The campaign of 1814 on the Niagara frontier fully determined that American citizens furnished the choicest materials for an army; that when well disciplined, instructed in the art of war, and led by brave and enterprising generals, they were fully able to meet on equal ground the best, English troops." Perkins. Vg cond.

$325.00

BELLE STARR – THE BANDIT QUEEN – A TUMULTUOUS LIFE

6). (Outlaws) Belle Starr. Mayra Maybelle Shirley, aka “the Bandit Queen”, born February 5, 1848 near Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri and killed in an unresolved murder on February 3, 1889 as she was riding home from a neighbors.

After she fell off her horse, she was shot again to make sure she was dead. Her death resulted from shotgun wounds to the back and neck and the shoulder and face. Legend says she was shot with her own double-barrel shotgun.

Myra Shirley received a classical education and learned piano, while graduating from Missouri's Carthage Female Academy, a private institution that her father had helped to found.

According to the book Belle Starr by Burton Rascoe (Random House, 1941), the "Shirleys were regarded as 'rather common,' because they had no slaves." While in school, Myra was "irregular in attendance" and was regarded as "rather wild" by teacher Mrs. Poole

Although she was an obscure figure outside Texas throughout most of her life, Belle’s story was picked up by dime novels and the National Police Gazette publisher Richard K. Fox, who made her name famous with his fictional novel Bella Starr, the Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James, published in 1889 (the year of her murder). This novel still is cited as a historical reference despite its artistic license and lack of historical accuracy. It was the first of many popular stories that used her name. Even the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner plus other newspapers across the country ran her obituary as she had become a celebrity.

On November 1, 1866, in Collin County, Texas, Belle married James C. Reed (Jim Reed) He was a member of Quantrill’s Raiders and rode with the Younger and James brothers. They had a daughter Rosie Lee, aka known as Pearl Starr. Reed was later killed in Paris, Texas in 1874.

In 1880, she married the Cherokee man Sam Starr and settled with the Starr family in the Indian Territory as he was listed on the Cherokee roles and thus she being non-Indian could also live in the territory. They built a log cabin at Younger’s Bend, on the Canadian River in Indian Territory. Now she began to be well adept as she learned ways of organizing, planning, and fencing for the rustlers, horse thieves, and bootleggers, as well as harboring them from the law. Belle's illegal enterprises proved lucrative enough for her to employ bribery to free her colleagues from the law whenever they were caught.

In 1882, Belle and Sam were charged with horse theft. The arrest warrant was served by Deputy U.S. Marshal Lemuel Marks. The pair were tried before "The Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the prosecutor was United States Attorney W.H.H. Clayton. She was found guilty and served nine months at the Detroit House of Corrections in Detroit, Michigan. Belle proved to be a model prisoner and, during her time in jail, she won the respect of the prison matron. In contrast, Sam was incorrigible and assigned to hard labor. In a contradictory account after her arrest by the Marshal, "Belle proved to be a loud and unruly prisoner."

In 1886, she eluded conviction on another theft charge, but, on December 17, Sam Starr was involved in a gunfight with his cousin, law officer Frank West. Both men were killed, and Belle's life as an “outlaw queen”—and what had been the happiest relationship of her life—abruptly ended with her husband's death.

She married a third time, around 1887, to a Creek Indian named Jim July, who took the name Jim July Starr, He was 15 years her junior. The marriage was out of convenience as it allowed Bell to retain her land at Younger’s Bend after Sam Starr’s death.

Burton Rascoe writes in his 1941 book BELLE STARR; THE BANDIT QUEEN, that she was a “consort to bootleggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves and outlaws.”

Belle had two children. Her son Eddie Reed in 1889 was convicted for horse theft and receiving stolen property. He was sentenced by Judge Parker and spent time in a Columbus, Ohio prison. Belle’s daughter, Rossie Reed (aka Pearl Starr) was a prostitute and madam at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Eventually she raised enough money to get Eddie a presidential pardon in 1893. Eddie became a deputy in Fort Smith and killed two outlaw brothers named Crittenden in 1895. He himself was killed in Gibb’s Saloon, Claremore, Oklahoma on December 15, 1896. Pearl operated several bordellos in Van Buren and Fort Smith, Arkansas, from the 1890s to World War I. She died in 1925 in Arizona

Cabinet Card Smith Bros. Halstead Kansas. Circa late 1880’s. Height 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) Width 4.25 inches (10.75 cm).



Interestingly, Belle is shown here with her holstered Schofield ivory handle pistol. She usually wore two Schofield pistols and was buried with them. However, one year after her burial somebody dug up her grave and stole the pistols. This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful and iconic images of Belle Starr and her husband.

Sources: Burton Rascoe – BELLE STARR; THE BANDIT QUEEN

Wild West History Association

Wikipedia

$8595.00

 CABINET CARD OF A COWBOY

7). (Kansas) Cowboy studio photo by O.H. Talbott while he was in Paola, Kansas between 1895-1897. Prior to this O.H. Talbot was in Girard Kansas and in 1900 he moved to Eldorado Springs, Missouri. By 1910 he had left photography and was listed as a farmer in Potosi, Linn Cty., Kansas. Prior to that he had filed on June 5, 1908 for a patent on a photographic-plate holder. However, he is best known for his studio works and historic portraits in Paola, Kansas.

Talbot, Paola, Kansas imprint on front of card. A full advertisement for his Photographie Studio on verso. 4 1/4 x 6 ½ inches. Vg cond. Great contrast.

In correspondence with Western Historian and Consultant Brian Lebel he wrote “The cowboy, and I will say cowboy because he does not appear to be a traveler which 95% of these studio images are, he stands like he is authentic and he seems to have a confidence about him. He is dressed in his finest given away by the tie and button collar. In his "wrapped" loop holster it appears to be an ivory handled Colt Single Action Army revolver (made starting in 1873 to present) on a well made cartridge belt. The small "Suicide Special" spur trigger revolver stuck into one of the loops feels like an added photographers prop which was common. It appears to be an Iver Johnson made revolver although many companies made similar guns. He is holding in his left hand a Colt 1860 Army revolver, .44 caliber, it is well used with the ejector lever wrapped at the front to keep it in place. The saddle is a classic trail saddle from popular in the 1880's and sold for many years after. It is a good quality saddle with full Sam Stagg double rigging and riveted skirts. Because it is lightweight and riveted it appears to be a catalog saddle (Montgomery Ward / Sears / etc.) but there is what appears to be a faint makers mark on the center of the fender so it could be saddle maker made. On the pommel of the saddle is an early style flap holster which I am sure is for the Colt 1860, that would make sense. The one thing that throws it off is the simple driving bit on the bridle. You do not normally see those being used for riding horses but of course finances could dictate that. It is always hard to tell if these are photographers props because they all used them but looks pretty real to me except for the spur trigger….”

Source: Western Historian and Consultant Brian Lebel.

$1195.00  

 DEADWOOD DAILY PIONEER

8). DEADWOOD DAILY PIONEER. Black Hills, (South Dakota) July 24, 1889. Vol. 12 – No. 318. The Pioneer Pub. Co. – W.B. Bonham, Manager. A rare newspaper from the famous wild West town of Deadwood known for the likes of “Wild Bill” Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Sam Bass and his gang, Lame Johnny and Al Swearingen, the “Prince of Rotten Row” who operated the famous Gem Theater. Then there was Jack McCall who become Deadwood’s most infamous murderer after killing Wild Bill Hickok. While not an outlaw, Calamity Jane is buried on Mount Moriah in Deadwood. Deadwood was a lawless gold rush town that in its hay-day attracted some of the Old West’s most legendary outlaws, and gunslingers. Wonderful advertisements with illustrations. Articles include 1. UNJUST DISCRIMINATION by the F.E. & M.V. R.R. against Deadwood; 2. RAILROADS TO DEADWOOD and 3. GETTING READY FOR WAR: The liquor men are getting ready to enter the campaign against the prohibitionists. One 2 inch closed tear, overall a fine copy of a scarce wild west town’s newspaper.

$675.00

JIM CHERRY, or JIM SHEPHERD or GOLD TOOTH JACK or TEXAS JACK LYONS WERE ALL ALIAS’S FOR ONE HORSE THIEF...THE KING OF HORSE THIEVES

DOC MIDDLETON...THE FAMED NEBRASKA OUTLAW.

9). Carson, John. DOC MIDDLETON...THE UNWICKEDEST OUTLAW. The Press of the Territorian. Number 9 of a Series of Western Americana. 1^st. 1966. 39 pgs. Wraps, frontis. Vg cond.

He stole his first horse at the age of 14 in 1865. A crime spree had begun and by the years of 1877-1879 Doc Middleton and his band of horse thieves known as “pony-boys” “stole perhaps thousands of horses, transporting them south as far as Texas where ‘contact’ men were waiting to take the stolen stock off their hands, a good profit to both…”

In 1877 David V. Middleton (Doc) stole thirty-five horses from William Henry Harrison Llewellyn of Cheyenne, Wyoming. By May of 1879 Llewellyn was commissioned a Special Agent of the Department of Justice whose sole purpose in life was to arrest Doc Middleton. “Doc’s livestock business had become so profitable that no less than three hundred ranchers in Wyoming and Nebraska declared him a predatory animal. Ten of the richest put up a total one thousand dollars, no small amount in those days. It was not until then that a small army of officers began to rid the back trails trying to smoke out the elusive doctor.” Doc liked horse better than trains and “owned” thousands of them during his brief career as a “livestock dealer.” llewellyn said there were ranchers and businessmen all over Nebraska and northern Kansas who had no objections to turning a fast buck by handling Doc’s hot horses. He had to have an outlet… no range in the country was large enough to pasture all the horseflesh that passed through his busy loop.” Between 1879 – 1883 Middleton did do prison time for grand larceny.

In 1884 Doc was operating a saloon in Gordon, Nebraska where he was briefly the deputy sheriff. This was followed in 1897 when he became the city marshal of Edgemont, South Dakota. Then in 1900 Doc turns up operating a saloon in Gordon, Nebraska and Ardmore, South Dakota where he was also the town marshal.

In 1913 he moved to Orin Junction, Wyoming where he opened a saloon and was arrested for dispensing liquor illegally. He plead guilty and was ordered to “pay a fine of one hundred fifty dollars and the costs of the prosecution.” Doc. “the man who had had thousands of dollars worth of stolen horses pass through his hands, was “remanded to the custody of the sheriff until said fine is fully paid or until he is otherwise legally discharged.” “Sheriff Peyton laconically reported that ‘ after his arrest and while he was in jail there, he took erysipelas and died in the pest house.” He was 62 when he died on December 27, 1913.

With this comes a typed letter from the arresting sheriff, A.W. Peyton, on the stationary of the Office of Sheriff Converse County, Douglas, Wyoming . It states:

Office of Sheriff Converse County

Douglas, Wyoming

A.W. Peyton, Sheriff

Douglas, Wyo, May 12^th, 28

A.E. Sheldon

Lincoln, Neb.

Dear Sirs,

Your letter received, and am sorry I have been slow answering but I was called out of town and have just gotten back.

I happened to be sheriff here at the time of Doc Middletons death, on the 29^th of November, 1913.

On the fifth day of Nov. I arrested him in Orin Junction Wyo.. For operating a blind pig. After his arrest and while he was still in jail here, he took erysipelas and died at the pest house. His two closest sons were with him at the time and allowed him to be buried in the Potters field.

I have no idea where you could get a picture of him unless it would be around Ardmore S.D. but I think it very doubtful that he ever had one taken

I am afraid that my information is very meager, but I hope it will be of some use to you.

Yours very truly

(signed) A.W. Peyton

Douglas Wyo.

$385.00

THE WAR: A SLAVE UNION OR A FREE....

10). (Civil War) Conway, Hon. martin F. THE WAR: A SLAVE UNION OR A FREE. SPEECH OF HON. MARTIN F. CONWAY, OF KANSAS, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1861. E.D. Baker. 1861. 1st. pp. 79-112. Wraps missing, but they would have read "Look At The Last Page of This Cover. No. 28. Serial Price, 10 Cents. The Pulpit and Rostrum No. 28.' Light ex-lib stamp, minor staining, overall in vg cond.

$65.00

DAVY CROCKET’S MOTTO. “BE SURE YOU’RE RIGHT, THEN GO AHEAD”

11). (Sheet Music) DAVY CROCKET’S MOTTO. “BE SURE YOU’RE RIGHT, THEN GO AHEAD”. Sam. Booth (composer). Chas. Schultz (music). Pub. by Sherman and Hyde. San Francisco. 139 Kearny Street, San Francisco. Nd. c. 1870-1876. 2 pgs plus insert. Fold mostly separated, minor expected wear, overall in vg cond.

The Sherman & Hyde Piano Company was a part of the most successful music retailer on the West Coast. In about 1870, Leander S. Sherman purchased a large music retail store in San Francisco from a gentleman by the name of A. A. Rosenberg. Mr. Sherman was joined shortly thereafter by F. A. Hyde, forming “The Sherman & Hyde Company”. During the early years, the firm was primarily a retailer and distributor of sheet music and musical instruments, including pianos and organs. In 1876, E. C. Clay joined the firm and the name of the firm was changed to “Sherman & Clay Company”.

$575.00

SCARCE GIEBENHAIN BROTHERS BREWERY DAY-BOOK – FIRST PRIZE AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION IN 1904

12). (California Brewery Day-Book) Day-Book for Fred Giebenhain (Giebenhain Brothers) brewery which was located in Placerville, California. Entries dating from January 1893 to September 1902 (pgs. 1-427) and pages 429-500 being a record of labor and material costs expenses.

Fred Giebenhain is famous for initially arriving in El Dorado County in 1852 and mining gold at Mud Springs followed by opening a bakery in Gold Hill. In 1857 he bought out the Mountain Brewery where he brewed the Mountain Steam Beer that won first prize at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. When Frederick died in 1875 the business moved on to his sons who brewed Mountain Steam Beer which operated until prohibition in 1918.

Accolades for Mountain Steam Beer included:

PLACERVILLE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT - May 29, 1897: “Henry Giebenhain and Steve Weymouth departed last Wednesday for Lake Valley with a four-horse load of the celebrated Mountain Brewery Beer. The boys up there evidently know when they drink a good article, and are going to have it under any circumstances.”

PLACERVILLE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT - June 5, 1897. “The Mountain Brewery boys are selling all the beer they can make. The article gives such good satisfaction that it is almost impossible for them to fill orders received from all over the county.”

Many of the Giebenhain employees are listed (p. 429-500) with payments and disbursements made to each. Among them were Bill Dugan (pg. 434) who was paid $15.00 per month. Steve Weymouth (p. 436) was paid $50.00 per month and Tom Willman (p. 451) was paid $1.75 per day.

In 1902, the Giebenhain brewery was featured in the United States Health Bulletin as “The proper beer to drink and the purest and best beer from the Giebenhain Brewery of Placerville, California. Our staff of physicians have found this beer yields the greatest tonic strength so much desired to assist digestion and that it keeps down the temperature thus preventing sunstroke and establishes proper perspiration which promotes mental and physical activity, thus counterbalancing the effect of summer heat.” Dr. Amos Gray M.D. (New York Health Bulletin).

The Day-Book is 8 x 12 1/2 inches, leather tips and wear consistent with age. There are 500 pgs with the majority being filled with information.

Source: El Dorado County Visitors Authority

Ricky’s Historical Tidbits

$995.00

HARTVILLE, WYOMING PHOTOGRAPH

13). (Wyoming) Hartville. Photo of Hartville, Wyoming with a footnote that the one home in the right foreground "my father was building - year 1898".

In the 2020 census Hartville, Platte County, Wyoming had a population of 52 people. However, among those 52 people is the oldest business in the state...Miners and Stockmen's Steakhouse & Spirits. The town is also one of the last remnants of the Old Fort Laramie Trading Post.

Hartville was a copper mining town established in 1884. Named after Major

(Brevet Lt. Col.) Verling K. Hart. At one time it had over a dozen saloons, an opera house, gaming halls, coffee houses, school. However by 1887 the copper mining rush had ended and the miners moved on to mine onyx and iron.

Backboard is 10 x 8 inches and the mounted photo is 7 x 5 inches. Expected smudges on backing board but the photo is in vg cond.

$595.00

PHOTOS OF THE C. H. HYER BOOT COMPANY

14). (Kansas) Hyer, Charles. In 1875 Charles Hyer and Sons established the Hyer Boot Company in Olathe, Kansas. By the early 1900’s Hyer had become America’s largest handmade boot manufacturer. They were the 1^st to introduce the pointed toe, high slanted heal and the high scallop. Billy The Kid along with Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Cody, Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt, Loretta Lynn and Marilyn Monroe all wore Hyer boots. By 1919 the company was selling 15,000 pairs of boots per year. The last Hyer boots were made in the 1980’s closing due to fiscal problems. However, the brand was relaunched in 2022 and now sold nationwide by over 300 retailers.

Photo 1: Photo of interior of the Hyer. Back mount 10 x 8 inches - photo 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches. at bottom right corner of the photo is printed No. 261. Cowboy handmade boot factory, Olathe, Kans. Great contrast and in vg condition. C. 1900

Photo 2: Photo taken outside of the Hyer Olathe Cow Boy Boots store of the Hyer employees. Back mount is 12 x 10 inches with actual photo being 7 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches. Photo is signed Roberds at bottom right. Half way up the right side is a very faint crease in the photo probably from when it was mounted. Great contrast and in vg cond.

$575.00 (Pair)

FOUR JOHNSON COUNTY, WYOMING COURT DOCUMENTS

15). (Wyoming - Johnson County) 1. The STATE OF WYOMING, Plaintiff, vs. Phil Cohn, Defendant SUPENA On the part of State.

“The State of Wyoming, County of Johnson, SS. To W.J. Hom (?), T.P. Hill, P.A. Gatchell, Albert Cullavau and Mrs W.H. Halland…..”November A.D. 1899. On the verso is written “State of Wyoming, County of Johnson. “I hereby certify that I received the within subpena on the 16^th day of November 1899 and served the same on W.J. Hom (?), Mrs. W.H. Halland, P.A. Gatchell, and Albert Cullavau on the 16^th day of November 1899 and on J.P. Hill on the 17^th day of November at 9 o’clock A.M. Said service was by reading the within to the above named parties.”

John __ Round

Special Deputy Sheriff

Johnson Co. WY

J.P. Hill was a prosecuting attorney.

W.J. Thom became a director of the First National Bank of Wyoming in 1888 which was at that time the 3^rd bank in the Territory of Wyoming. Later he would become its vice-president and than a state senator. He wrote an article titled EARLY DAYS IN BUFFALO ARE RETOLD. W.J. Thom Deals With Johnson County of 50 Years Ago in Interesting Article Prepared for Historical Society which was reprinted in The Sheridan Press, 24 December 1922.

1 pg. 7 x 8 ¼ inches, folded, vg cond.

2. The People of the State of Wyoming vs. Phil Cohn….

A BENCH WARRANT issued on Nov. 17, 1899 by J.M. Peterson, Clerk charging Phil Cohn “with the crime of Larceny of One head of meat catttle of the value of $5.00 & upward, ownership unknown. You are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest the above name Phil Cohn.” On the verso is written “State of Wyoming – County of Johnson. I have by Certify that I received the with in Bench Warrant on the 17 day of November, 1899 and I Served the Same by bringing The with in named Phil Cohn before the District Court of Johnson Co. on the 17 day of November 1899 in Johnson Co.”

____ ____ Lane Sheriff

Johnson Co.

Phil Cohn was sentenced for stealing livestock on Nov. 29, 1899 and thus became prisoner #465 in the Wyoming Penitentiary.

A little more than one year before, on May 8^th, 1898, at the age of 24 he had married 17 year old Letha A. Taylor.

1 page 7 x 8 ¼ inches, folded, vg cond.

3. STATE OF WYOMING, Plaintiff, VS. AL SMITH, Defendant On The Part of the State. “The State of Wyoming, County of Johnson, SS to L.A. Hall…. Verso reads State of Wyoming, Johnson County. “I certify that I received the within Subpoena on the 8^th day of April 1896 at 9 O’clock a.m. and served the same by reading to the within named L.A. Webb on the 8^th day of April 1896. O.A. Sproal, Sheriff By Thos. G. Smith, Deputy.

Al Smith and his brother George were cattle rustlers that worked out of their cabin which later became known as the headquarters of the famous Hole In The Wall. Al was involved in 1897 in the Hole In The Wall fight between “rustlers”, a U.S. Marshall and men from the CY ranch led by Bob Devine,the CY foreman.. Al fled on horseback with a bullet wound to his right hand which caused him to drop his gun. Interestingly enough years later the gun, a Colt single action Army 45 caliber revolver was found and now can be viewed at the Wyoming State Museum.

Single sheet, 7 x 8 ¼ inches, folded, vg cond.

4. IN JUSTICE COURT. H.J. . Purcell, JP – Johnson County CRIMINAL COMPLAINT. THE STATE OF WYOMING VS. Frank (?) Tims. WITNESSES D.V. Bayne. Filed this 14^th day of December 1894. H.J. Purcell – Justice of the Peace.

Verso: “….I, D.V. Bayne do solemnly swear that on or about the 3^rd day of December 1894, in the Vicinity of Crazy Woman Hill and Near the Muddy in the County of Johnson and State of Wyoming Frank (?) Tims did unlawfully, willfully and maliciously steel and take away the following described Goods and chattels from the wagon of Dr. Bayne 250 lbs Reliance Flour Value $12.50, 50 lbs Lard Value $10.00 10lbs Raisins Val $2.00 5 lbs Teas Val. $2.75, 2 Boxes Axle grease Val 40 cts 3 wagon ____ Val. 90 cts – 6 wagon spokes 2 ½ inch Val 90 cts 1 axe handle Val. 50 cts 2lb Climax Tobacco Val $1.10 1 Rod 5/8 Inch Iron Val $1.00 1 20 lb pail of AB Bremen Jelly Val $2.00. D.V. Bayne” contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of Wyoming.

Sworn to before me and signed in my presence this 14^th day of December A>D> 1894. H.J. Purcell – Justice of the peace. Johnson County.

1 sheet 8 ¼ x 11 inches, triple folded, vg cond.

Sources: Wyoming State Archives. Wyoming Penitentiary Inmate Records

First National Bank of Wyoming

Wyoming State Museum

Thom, Early Days in Buffalo Are Retold…

$595.00

RENT INVESTIGATION. CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO. 1943

16). (New Mexico) RENT INVESTIGATION. CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO. 1943. As of February 1, 1943, rent control in Clovis, New Mexico, was governed by the federal Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, which aimed to stabilize prices and prevent wartime inflation. The Office of Price Administration (OPA) designated areas near defense plants—such as the nearby Cannon Air Force Base—to have maximum rent ceilings, often freezing them at earlier 1941-1942 levels. The Emergency Price Control Act (1942) authorized the OPA to set "fair and equitable" maximum rent regulations to stop housing cost spikes during World War II. Violators could face criminal penalties, including fines up to $1,000 and six months in prison.

This card-covered manuscript of 68 pages and 83 photos illustrates, many times in detail, the terrible living conditions in Clovis, New Mexico. The preface of the manuscript, written by John E. Lawler, the Associate Legal Investigator – OPA in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 10, 1943 states “These pictures were taken during an investigation and Compliance Drive in June and July, 1943….Most landlords in Clovis do not believe in O.P.A. or Rent Control. They have expressed themselves as being opposed to it and have organized to fight it….The properties described herein are few in number, but they represent a cross-section of the whole city. It is admitted that some of these are ‘worst examples’, but worst examples are so numerous that they almost set a pattern for the town.” Numerous housing buildings are pictured including outhouses all being shared by many families.

Examples:

1. The property, called Spanish Apartments, located at First and Edwards Street’s is described as “The building is a long tin covered one, containing 12, 2-room apartments which can be rented as 24 – 1 room units. General construction is very poor, furnishing are scant, mostly old second hand stuff. No electricity and gas connections. One outhouse with shower is used by fourteen families, No sewage connection to house, tenants throw dishwater etc., in the yard…..Tax valuation $32.00 each lot or total $64.00. No improvements declared. Total monthly income averages $110.00.”

2. Johnson’s Camp and Grocery - 7^th and West Sts. Clovis, New Mexico. “The owner of this property has persistently refused to register with the Area Rent Office. The rents for the cabins are very low - $5.00 to $6.00 per week---but investigation disclosed that he owns three other rent house on which the rent has been increased since March 1, 1942, and that he has a habit of evicting tenants without due process of the law. He simply opens the door of the cabin with a pass-key, during the tenants absence, and piles all the furniture and belongings on the side-walk.”

An informative study of the rental crisis in Clovis, New Mexico in 1942-43.

Condition consistent with age...overall in vg cond.

$795.00

THE REVIVAL IS COMING!

17). (Arizona - Hopi Indians) Starring, F.W. ACROSS THE PAINTED DESERT. Board of Missionary Cooperation of the Northern Baptist Convention. 1927. 13 pgs. Pict. Wraps. Photos. A rare pamphlet having to do with the Hopi Indians with information on Hopi Weddings, The Mud Fight, Skyscraper Apartments, Mal Hombre, Naming a Baby, The Preacher’s Interpreters, Medicine Man’s Confession, The Testimony of Siventewa and The Imminent Revival.

“The Woman’s Home Mission Society has every reason to be happy because of its investment here, and to be proud of its heroic representatives in Hopi Land. The revival is coming. It seems to be near at hand. Hopi men and women in sickness and sorrow have felt the touch of the Lord Jesus Christ. In waywardness and crime they have heard His loving reproof. In the twilight of uncertainty they have caught a faint gleam in the direction of Calvary. Many, very many are secretly convinced that they are wrong, dangerously and painfully wrong. The hand of the Savior has been gently laid upon the impressionable younger generations, and it may be soon that “a little child shall lead them.” the Hopi people, into the enfolding grace of God.”

Small paper remnant on rear wrapper indicating removal from scrapbook. Overall in vg cond. OCLC locates only one institutional copy.

$895.00

"I HAVE HAD SOME TOUGH RIDES IN MY DAY, BUT THAT WAS THE THOUGHEST I HAVE EVER MADE."

18). (California - Kern County) Stone, Leila Opal. Important correspondence archive between two Californian historians from the years 1947-1950, relating to Kern County, California. Leila Opal Stone is attempting to track her grandparents’ trail through Central California at the end of the civil war. Thru that endeavor she communicates with Californian author Marcia Wynn Samuelson, the author of DESERT BONANZA. The archives becomes quite interesting as they communicate with first hand interviews with Mr. H. Guy Hughes and his wife, owners of the Granite Station Ranch.

Leila Opal Stone wants to ride the old ox roads and trails that her grandfather and family traveled as they migrated into California. On May 9, 1947 she writes to Mrs. Samuelson, “No, I am not writing a book; I am just very much interested in old roads of historical interest, particularly old roads over which my Great and Grandparents journeyed to and about California now, which begins with the start of their western journey by ox route, to El Monte, then to San Bernardino where my Mother was born in 1858. The year the Mormons pulled out.”

On May 27, 1948 she writes Mrs. Samuelson that her and H.G. Hughes “….did find the old freight-stage road, and got some good pictures along the way, for posterity. I doubt very much of anyone else will ever be interested in that early road of the late fifties and early sixties to hunt it out again, as we did, literally with our noses to the ground at times. It followed a long high ridge until it reached the summit, and that ridge, let me tell you, was about fifty yards wide most of the way, with a deep canyon on either side. Much big oak and knee-high grass for the first few miles, then more oak, chaparral and scrub pine, then cedar mixed with that mess, plus wind-fall, down timber, and young growth plus all of the debris and forest duff which has accumulated over these long ninety some-odd years. Our way was so completely blocked the last half mile, we dismounted, the men tied their horses while we rested, and they (the men) started out bent almost double to get thru the mess. They continued on the old road until they came out at the summit on the old ridge road south from the Ice House.”

In an excerpt from one of the letters from H. Guy Hughes letters to Miss Stone, he writes: This old road on our side of the mountain is really something in engineering. It left Glennville almost due south for a mile, or so and then turned almost due east, and so continued until it reached the summit a little north of Evans Flat and about eight miles south of the present highway (which was the old McFarland toll road). Four miles from Glennville it crossed Cedar Creek and started up the north side of Lumreau Creek, which empties into Cedar, just below this crossing. After about a mile and a half it really took off for the high country. I have ridden over this stretch horseback and couldn’t go straight on this old road comfortably. It was here that James Dunlap, a young man then, and dead these many years, saw a chance to do himself some good with a very fine yoke of oxen that he owned. He (Dunlap) carried the mail pony express from Visalia to the mines in 1858, but for not a very long period. You understand this road across Greenhorn was then and is now only a summertime affair. The snow gets very deep usually.”

“After the first jump up the road follows more or less the crest of a long, bald ridge, where it deviates it is built up with stone. Narrow, but the road bed is still there. Large pine trees grow in the center of it. “Ely” Lynn’s partner, sleeps on a hill top, overlooking our valley….”

In the end Stone would spend three years researching, corresponding with California librarians as well as “Old Timers near Bakersfield” to nail down the route her grandparents blazed across the valley. She writes “I have had some tough rides in my day, but that was the toughest I have ever made. We did find the old freight-stage road and got some good pictures along the way, for posterity...how those huge freights with their heavy loads and their sixteen head of mules or horses ever got around those turns is beyond me!

The archive contains 28 letters (55 pgs.) and 5 transmittal envelopes, of typescript correspondence. There are also the 43 captioned photos (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches) which Miss Stone took with here “Eastman 35” along the ride. An AUTOMOBILE ROAD MAP OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA is included.

The correspondence is in vg condition, the photos have great contrast, the maps is in rought shape.

Over all a fascinating batch of correspondence between two adventurous women, both ardent devotees to California history.

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MINNESOTA: ITS ADVANTAGES TO SETTLERS

19). (Minnesota) MINNESOTA: ITS ADVANTAGES TO SETTLERS, PUBLISHED BY THE STATE (title page)...A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF ITS HISTORY AND PROGRESS, CLIMATE, SOIL, AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURING FACILITIES...RAILROADS, HOMESTEAD... Job Printers and Bookbinder. 1867. 3rd. 44 pgs. Printed wraps, ads, tables, usual wear but overall in vg cond.

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