[WESTWARD EXPANSION]. A large group of works related to Westward expansion and exploration.

FIDLER, Isaac. Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners and Emigration in the United States and Canada. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. Original cloth (spine lacking, stains, heavy wear). Provenance: Mercantile LIbrary Co., Philadelphia (bookplate, embossed stamp to boards). -- BRYANT, Edwin. What I Saw in California. New York and Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Company and Geo. S. Appleton, 1849. Fourth edition. Original morocco (lacking both boards). Howes B-903. With appendix added to this edition. -- GODDARD, Frederick B. Where to Emigrate and Why. Homes and Fortunes in the Boundless West and the Sunny South. Philadelphia, etc.: The Peoples Publishing Company, 1869. Original illustrated brick cloth gilt (minor wear to extremities). Sabin 27633. -- ARMSTRONG, Moses K. The Early Empire Builders of the Great West. St. Paul, MN: E.W. Porter, 1901. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. -- ALLEN, Paul. Stirring Adventures “Up The Missouri” with Lewis and Clarke. Akron, OH: The Superior Printing Company, 1915. Original cloth. -- LAUT, Agnes. The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1926. Original illustrated red cloth gilt. Howes L-143. -- NIDA, William L. Following the Frontier Stories of the Westward Movement. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929. Original illustrated cloth (recased, original cloth laid down). -- ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Original brown cloth (repairs at spine caps and corners). -- DICK, Everett. The Sod-House Frontier 1854-1890. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. Original illustrated oatmeal cloth. Howes D-315. -- LETELLIER, Louis D. Louis Dace Letellier: Adventures on the Upper Missouri. Williston, ND: Fort Union Association, 2002. Original leatherette boards gilt. -- ODER, Naomi Buckley. Glencoe Stage Run: The Daughter of a Pioneer Family Takes Us On an Imaginary Stage Coach Trip Back to the 1880's. [North Dakota?]: N.p., n.d. Original wrappers. -- Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo, condition generally fine except where noted.

CUSTER, Elizabeth B. (1842-1933). Following the Guidon. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. 8vo. Frontispiece. (Minor toning.) Original illustrated green cloth gilt (slightly leaned, minor wear to extremities). Provenance: H.W. Davison, 2nd lieutenant, 4th cavalry; Camp Lockett Post Library. (stamps to title page).

[With:] BOYD, James P. (1835-1910). Recent Indian Wars, Under the Lead of Sitting Bull, And Other Chiefs; with a Full Account of the Messiah Craze, and Ghost Dances. N.p.: Publisher’s Union, 1891. 8vo. Illustrated. (Toning.) Original oxblood cloth gilt (rebacked, original cloth laid down, some residue). FIRST EDITION. [With:] Second copy. (Lacking frontispiece and endpapers). Original oxblood cloth (hinge nearly broken, heavy wear).

[With:] BEEDE, Aaron McGaggey (1859-1934). Sitting Bull-Custer. Bismarck, ND: Bismarck Tribune Co., 1913. Tall 8vo. Frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. (Toned.) Original limp leather gilt (repairs to edges and spine); modern black cloth clamshell. FIRST EDITION poem about the Battle of Little Big Horn from the perspective of the Native Americans. [With:] Second copy. Modern green calf flexible boards gilt.

[Also with:] VAN DE WATER, Frederic F. Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1934. 8vo. Illustrated. Original blud cloth gilt; original illustrated dust jacket (short marginal tears and chipping, creasing, spine sunned). -- SABIN, Edwin L. On the Plains with Custer. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913. 8vo. Color lithograph frontispiece. Original illustrated tan cloth (soil, repairs to spine caps). Sixth impression. -- CUSTER, Elizabeth B. (1842-1933). "Boots and Saddles" Or Life in Dakota with General Custer. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1913. 8vo. Illustrated Original illustrated blue cloth gilt (wear to extremities). Later edition. -- WAGNER, Glendolin Damon. Old Neutriment. Boston: Ruth Hill, 1934. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original red cloth gilt; fragments of dust jacket laid in. FIRST EDITION biography of Custer's orderly. Howes W-5.

SCHELL, James Peery. In the Ojibway Country: A Story of Early missions on the Minnesota Frontier. Walhalla, ND: Chas. H. Lee, 1911. 8vo. Illustrated. (Very minor toning, occasional offsetting). Contemporary half red Morocco gilt (rubbing at joings and corners). FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 15 August 1912.

[With:] CRAWFORD, Lewis F. Rekindling Camp Fires: The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca). Bismarck, ND: Capital Book Co., 1926. 8vo. Plates. Original blue cloth; original illustrated printed dust jacket (chipping at extremities). FIRST EDITION. -- DODGE, Richard Irving. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years’ Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West. Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1884. Later edition. -- BURDICK, Usher L. Tales from Buffalo Land The story of George “W” Newton (Old-time Buffalo Hunter of Dakota and Montana). Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, 1939. 8vo. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. -- EASTMAN, Charles A. (1858-1939). Indian Boyhood. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. 1904. 8vo. Illustrations by E.L. Blumenschein. Original red cloth with photographic pastedown. Provenance: Brookfield Library (bookplate). Later edition. -- PAGE, Jesse. David Brainerd the Apostle to the North American Indians. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., [ca 1892]. 8vo. Illustrated. (Soiling.) Original illustrated red cloth (soiling, some stains, possibly recased with original cloth laid down). -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, condition generally very good except where noted.

CRAWFORD, Jack Wallace (1847-1917). The Poet Scout. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886. Illustrated and gilt publisher's cloth. Later edition. INSCRIBED BY CRAWFORD. -- CODY, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” (1846-1917). Story of the Wild West and Camp-Fire Chats. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1888. Profusely illustrated, chromolithographic frontispiece. Publisher's illustrated cloth. -- [POST, Charles Clement]. Ten Years a Cowboy. Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1888. Later edition. Howes P-500. -- CUSTER, Elizabeth B. (1842-1933). Tenting on the Plains Or Gen’l Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. Illustrated publisher's cloth. Later edition. -- WETMORE, Helen Cody (1850-1911) and Zane GREY (1872-1939). Last of the Great Scouts (Buffalo Bill). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1899. Reprint edition. Howes W-297. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, condition generally fine.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota

This lot is located in Cincinnati.