The Westerners Brand Book #3 (1950)
Homer E. Boelter, Editor
Contents
- Sound Law from the Mother Lode – W.W. Robinson
- The Buckaroo – Bruce Kiskaddon
- The Days of Forty-Nine – Bruce Kiskaddon
- Black Bart, the PO8 – Loring Campbell
- Edward Borein – The Western Artist – Carl Schaefer Dentzel
- Sacramento Place Times, 1849-1851 – John B. Goodman III
- Twelve Mule-loads of Gold, 1898 – Major Brevoort
- California Flockways – Edward N. Wentworth
- Confederate Secret Societies in California – Arthur Woodward
- Trapper Trails to California – James F. Gardiner
- The West in Bronze – Homer Britzman
- Story of the Buffalo – P.E. McKillup
- The Killing of Ed Masterson – Earle R. Forrest
- The Cody Show in 1896 – A.R. VanNoy
- The Art of Western America – Don Louis Perceval
- Pioneering with Pinhole Camera – Thomas M. Wood
- Coosie of the Cow Camps – Ramon F. Adams
- A Note on N.A.M. Dudley – Philip J. Rasch
- Following the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark – Harry C. James
- Trial of Santana and Big Tree – Robert A. “Billy” Dodson
- Brands – Don Louis Perceval
600 copies were printed.
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The Westerners Brand Book #2 (1949)
Paul Galleher, Editor
Contents
- The Butterfield Overland Mail – Roscoe P. Conkling
- An Interpretation of California’s Golden Era – Rodman Paul
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – Carl Schaefer Dentzel
- Al Sieber, Chief of Apache Scouts – Frank A. Schilling
- Gun Toting in the Old West – Dwight Franklin
- Charles M. Russell – Homer E. Britzman
- Reprint Americana – Karl Yost
- In and Around Old Placerita Canyon – Bert H. Olson
- The Sun Clan of the Hopi – Ernest V. Sutton
- California and its Place Among the Wine Nations – Marcus Esketh Crahan
- Some Collectors of Western Americana – Glen Dawson
- Holy Smoke. A Dissertation on the Utah War – Paul Bailey
- Sgt. Neil Erickson and the Apaches – C.B. Benton
- Two Military Outposts in Arizona – Frank A. Schilling
- Up the Green River – Arthur Woodward
- The Bad Lands Cowboy – Merrell A. Kitchen
400 copies were printed.
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The Westerners Brand Book #1 (1948)
Homer Britzman, Editor
Contents
- Gun Fights and Lynchings in Early Los Angeles – J. Gregg Layne
- The Custer Fight – Ernest Sutton
- Billy the Kid – E.A. Brininstool
- Los Angeles, “City of Angels” – Percy L. Bonebrake
- Open Range Days in Old Wyoming – John K. Rollinson
- The Indian as a Seer – Clarence Ellsworth
- The Men of El Llano Estacado – Robert A. “Billy” Dodson
- Jeff Milton – Homer E. Britzman
- Jeff Milton “Takes In” San Francisco – Frank M. King
- Old Fort Bridger Days – Edgar M. Carter
- Stern Whacks at a Famous Westerner – Paul Galleher
- Colonel Kosterlitzky – Noah Beery, Jr.
- Notes on Some Artists in the Early West – Don Hill
- The Garra Revolt of 1851 – Arthur Woodward
- Cowboy Lingo – Ramon Adams
600 copies were printed.
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Brand Books
Since 1948, the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners has published 25 editions of The Brand Book, featuring articles and artwork by many leading Western historians and artists. Most of the Brand Books have only been issued in limited editions, primarily for our own membership, but they are also found in library collections throughout the West.
The contents of each issue of The Brand Book are listed below. Click the the title to view both the table of contents and front cover of each edition, respectively. All of our Brand Books before Brand Book 20 are available online to be read. In some cases, a few copies are still available for purchase. Please visit our contact us page to request ordering information or details regarding a specific edition.
The Westerners Brand Book #1 (1948)
Homer Britzman, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #2 (1949)
Paul Galleher, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #3 (1950)
Homer E. Boelter, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #4 (1951)
Paul Bailey, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #5 (1953)
Bert Olson, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #6 (1956)
Arthur H. Clark, Jr., Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #7 (1957)
W.W. Robinson, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #8 (1959)
Don Meadows, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #9 (1961)
Henry H. Clifford, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #10 (1963)
E. I. Edwards, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #11 (1964)
The California Deserts … their people, their history, and their legends
Russ Leadabrand, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #12 (1966)
George Koenig, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book # 13 (1969)
William F. Kimes, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #14 (1974)
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #15 (1978)
Anthony L. Lehman, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #16 (1982)
Raymund F. Wood, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #17 (1986)
Konrad F. Schreier, Jr., Editor
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
The Westerners Brand Book #19 (1996)
El Presidio de San Francisco, A History Under Spain and Mexico, 1776-1846
John Phillip Langellier and Daniel B. Rosen, Editors
Issued simultaneously by the Arthur H. Clark Company as volume 19 in their “Frontier Military Series.”
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #20 (1997)
Rancho Days in Southern California – An Anthology with New Perspectives
Kenneth Pauley, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #21 (1999)
An Anthology of Articles that Appeared in The Branding Iron, 1948-1995
Msgr. Francis J. Weber, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #22 (2004)
John W. Robinson, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #23 (2019)
Life, Leisure and Entertainment in the Old West
Joseph Cavallo, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #24 (2020)
Aloha, Amigos! The Richard H. Dillon Memorial Volume
Brian Dervin Dillon, Editor
The Westerners Brand Book #25 (2022)
Award Winning Cowboy Poetry, Historical Verse, and Rhapsodic Rhymes
Gary Turner and Tami Turner-Revel, Editors
The Westerners Brand Book #26 (2023)
Indians, Latinos, and Confederates, A Western Family: 1598-1973
Frank J. Brito, Editor
SPECIAL OUTING: An Exclusive Guided Tour of Mount Wilson Observatory
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SPECIAL OUTING
An Exclusive Guided Tour of Mount Wilson Observatory with Dave Jurasevich, Deputy Operations Manager
Saturday, August 17, 2013, 12:00 AM–3:00PM
The historic Mount Wilson Observatory is the birthplace of modern astronomy, with a breadth of fundamental discoveries ranging from solar research and stellar evolution to the very origins of the Universe itself that are unsurpassed at any other scientific facility on Earth. Come walk in the footsteps of the great astronomers of the 20th Century who worked at Mount Wilson and used what were then the largest telescopes in the world to unlock the fundamental secrets of the Universe.
Westerner attendees & their guests will:
… see where Edwin Hubble made his great cosmological discoveries,
… inspect in detail the 100” telescope, the instrument that discovered the expansion of the universe, … tour the 60” telescope and learn of its greatest discovery, locating our place in the Milky Way,
… visit the Monastery where the distinguished astronomers lived, ate, and worked,
… see George Ellery Hale’s private library collection and the study where Einstein lectured,
… witness how Mount Wilson solar astronomers study our Sun and unravel its many secrets
… tour the CHARA Array as it sharpens Mt. Wilson’s leading edge in astronomical research.
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