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The Westerners Brand Book #15 (1978)

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.

You can read a copy of Brand Book #15 Here:

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.

You can read a copy of Brand Book #14 Here:

Geronimo’s Mysterious Surrender – Dan L. Thrapp
The Wild Stallion, Comments on his Natural History – Anthony Amaral
God’s Cowboy, Some Notes on Father Eusebio Kino, S.J. – John Upton Terrell
The Dodge City Buffalo Hunters – Earle R. Forrest
Bernard J.D. Irwin, M.D. and the Congressional Medal of Honor – Harvey Starr
E.A. Burbank: Painter of Indians, 1858-1949 – Thomas S. McNeill
From Missionaries to Marines, Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores – Don Meadows
The Abandoned Stake Line – E.I. Edwards
Western Broadsides – Edwin H. Carpenter
General Ely S. Parker, First Indian Commissioner of Indian Affairs – Iron Eyes Cody
The Pearl and the Rose, Hardy Flower of the Territorial Prison – John M. Jeffrey
M.H. Sherman: A Pioneer Developer of the Southwest – W.O. Hendricks
Negative Reports on Oregon, W.H. Ashley, W.P. Hunt, and J.S. Green – Clifford M. Drury

500 copies were printed.

You can read a copy of Brand Book #13 Here:

The Old West is Gone – George Koenig
Deserted Diggings – Ardis Manly Walker
Railroads of Arizona – David F. Myrick
California’s Gold Rush Churches – Clifford M. Drury
Death Valley’s Neglected Hero – E.I. Edwards
Mountain Men as Explorers – LeRoy R. Hafen
Edward S. Curtis: Photographer-Historian – Homer H. Boelter (with Lonnie Hull)
From Coso to Carricart – Sewell “Pop” Lofnick
Valley of the Two Stumps – Bert Olson
Thousand-tongued Destroyer: Fire! – Newton Baird
Hell’s Belles – Ron Miller
Literary Evolution of the “Wild West” in Germany – H.J. Stammel and Friedrich Gassman
The Life and Times of M.R. Harrington – Marie Harrington
Following Fremont’s Fifth Expedition – Walt Wheelock