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        Bluffing Texas Style

        Bluffing Texas Style

        The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins

        by Michael Vinson

        How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con-man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.
         

        What Is a Western?

        What Is a Western?

        Region, Genre, Imagination

        by Josh Garrett-Davis

        Foreword by Patricia Nelson Limerick

        There’s “western,” and then there’s “Western”—and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination. Part cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books, music, and other cultural texts brings a fresh perspective to long-studied topics.

        The Directory for Confessors, 1585

        The Directory for Confessors, 1585

        Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain

        Edited and translated by Stafford Poole

        Contributions by John F. Schwaller

        Rendered in clear prose and illuminated with helpful introductory chapters by Poole and John F. Schwaller, extensive annotations, and a glossary of terms, this volume offers unparalleled insights into life and thought in sixteenth-century New Spain.
         

        Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

        Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

        by Jim Garry

        The mix of arms carried by the expedition extended beyond rifles and muskets to include pistols, knives, espontoons, a cannon, and blunderbusses. Each chapter focuses on one of the major types of weapons and weaves accounts from the expedition journals with the author’s knowledge gained from field-testing the muskets and rifles he describes.

        Edward Eberstadt & Sons

        Edward Eberstadt & Sons

        Rare Booksellers of Western Americana

        by Michael Vinson

        Foreword by William Reese

        From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family’s business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.

        The Manuscript Hunter

        The Manuscript Hunter

        Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859

        by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg

        Edited and translated by Katia Sainson

        Coupled with Sainson’s thoughtful introduction and annotations, these captivating, accessible accounts reveal Brasseur de Bourbourg’s true accomplishments and offer an unrivaled view of the birth of Mesoamerican studies in the nineteenth century.

        Portrait of Route 66

        Portrait of Route 66

        Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

        by T. Lindsay Baker

        Foreword by Joe Sonderman

        This book will interest historians of art and design as well as the worldwide audiences of Route 66 aficionados and postcard collectors. For its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

        Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification

        Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification

        A Guide

        by Daniel M. Sivilich

        Foreword by David Gerald Orr

        Introduction by Douglas D. Scott

        Contributions by Henry M. Miller

        Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks—and answers—a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site: Was it fired? What did it hit? What type of gun is it associated with? Has it been chewed, and if so, by whom or what? Was it hammered into gaming pieces?

        Idea of a New General History of North America

        Idea of a New General History of North America

        An Account of Colonial Native Mexico

        by Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci

        Translated by Stafford Poole

        Foreword by Susan Schroeder

        The volume, completed in 1746 and written almost entirely from memory, is presented here in English for the first time, along with the Catálogo, Boturini’s annotated enumeration of the works he had gathered in New Spain.

        The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

        The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

        by Ronald R. Switzer

        On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968.

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