The Westerners Brand Book #18 (1991)

The Bidwell-Bartleson Party.

1841 California Emigrant Adventure.

The Documents and Memoirs of Overland Pioneers

Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor

Contents

• A Journey to California, 1841: The Journal Account of John Bidwell
• California 1841: An Immigrant’s Recollections of a Trip Across the Plains – John Bidwell
• The First Emigrant Train to California – John Bidwell
• Statement of Historical Facts of California – Josiah Belden
• Letter of Josiah Belden to his Sister, Mrs. Eliza M. Bowers
• A Visit to California in Early Times – Col. J.B. Chiles
• Narrative of Nicholas “Cheyenne” Dawson: Overland to California in 1841
• Narrative of Charles Hopper, A California Pioneer of 1841
• The Two Diaries of James John
• The Recollections of Nancy Kelsey
• An 1856 Letter by James P. Springer
• The Recollections of Robert H. Thomas
• Extracts from Three Letters by Pierre Jean DeSmet to his Superior
• Narrative of the Rockies – Father Gregory Mengarini
• Historical Notes – Father Nicholas Point
• Narrative of a Tour from the State of Indiana to the Oregon Territory in the Years 1841-2 – Joseph Williams
• The 1841 Overland Caravan: A Census Summary
• Biographical Sketches of the 1841 California Overland Pioneers
• Miscellaneous Documents

400 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #17 (1986)

Konrad F. Schreier, Jr., Editor

Contents

• Before the Wheel – Indian Transportation B.C. – Richard W. Cunningham
• The Empty Quarter – Richard F. Logan
• The Far West Mail, 1849-1859 – Frank Q. Newton
• Commerce in the Far West – A Selection of Early Advertising
• Expresses: An American Enterprise – from Harper’s Magazine, 1875
• Charles Crocker to Collis P. Huntington, 1883 – with comment by David F. Myrick
• California: How to Get There and What to See – Charles Nordhoff (1872)
• The Development of Public Transportation in Los Angeles – Donald E. Torguson
• Interurbans and Land Values – Charles Alma Byers (1914)
• Testing California’s Highways, 1919-1923 – Abraham Hoffman
• A Chronological Perspective of the Far West – Konrad F. Schreier, Jr.

500 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #16 (1982)

Raymund F. Wood, Editor

Contents

• Sunbathing in Southern California: an Historical Overview – Jayne Bernard
• A Better Country in which to Settle: a Biographical Sketch of William Wolfskill – Willis Blenkinsop
• The Indians and General Scott – Iron Eyes Cody
• The Independence – 74: California’s Ship of the Line – Richard W. Cunningham
• A Portfolio of Paintings – Andy Dagosta
• Sixty Years of American Rodeo in England, 1887-1947 – Kristine Fredriksson
• California, the Name: New Materials and Slants – John P. Harrington
• Griffith Park’s Greatest Tragedy – Abraham Hoffman
• The Ordeal of General Wright: a Study of Secessionist Sentiment in California, 1861-1864 – John W. Robinson
• The Firm of Main & Winchester, Pioneer California Saddle Makers – Konrad F. Schreier, Jr.
• The Northwest Mounted Police: the Early Years – Harlan Thompson
• New Light on Peter Lebec – Walt Wheelock

500 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #15 (1978)

Anthony L. Lehman, Editor

Contents

• Does California Have a Spanish Heritage? – Richard F. Pourade
• Mara: The Desert Oasis of Twentynine Palms – Ronald Dean Miller
• The Day the Transcontinental Train Came to Los Angeles – Raymond F. Wood
• The Constitutional Convention of 1878-1879 – Kenneth M. Johnson
• Poor Tom Cover – Dan L. Thrapp
• Burt Procter: Westerners, Portrayer of People and Art – Allen Williett
• Of People and Art – Burt Procter
• Women and the Western Frontier: The Untold Saga of Three Southern California Heroines – Gloria Ricci Lothrop
• Railway to the Skies – John W. Robinson
• Sunkist’s Southland – Jo Beth Jacobs
• Fact and Fiction in the Owens Valley Water Controversy – Abraham Hoffman
• The Ning Po, A Fabled Chinese Junk in Southern California Waters, 1895 – Anna Marie and Everett G. Hager
• An Artist’s View of Los Angeles, 1895 to 1959 – Tom McNeill
• Frederick Jackson Turner in Southern California – Ray Allen Billington

1,000 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #14 (1974)

Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor

Contents

• Western History in 1776: Garces and Escalante in Arizona – Raymund F. Wood
• The Jesuit Mission to the Flathead Indians – Gloria Ricci Lothrop
• The Golden History of the Overland Emigrations – John D. Unruh, Jr.
• The Roots of Russell: Early Frontier Sketches of Charles Marion Russell – Carl S. Dentzel
• Johnathon D. Stevenson and the New York Volunteers – Paul W. Gates
• Big John Tretheway: A Day in the Life of a Western Miner – Otis E. Young, Jr. and Robert Lenon
• Anti-Japanese Activities in San Francisco, 1892-1893 – Donald T. Hata, Jr.
• With Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite – William F. Kimes
• Idah Meacham Strobridge: First Woman of Nevada Letters – Anthony Amaral
• The Legacy from Frontier Sports – W.H. Hutchinson

500 copies were printed.

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