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The Westerners Brand Book #22 (2004)

John W. Robinson, Editor

The California Missions – Francis J. Weber
Death in a Comic Opera: the Alta California Rebellion Against Governor Manuel Victoria, 1831 – Patricia Adler-Ingram
Some Early Angelinos – Christie Bourdet
The Last Lynching in Los Angeles County: The Incident at Workman Mill – Paul R. Spitzzeri
The Sonora Road – John W. Robinson
The Pico House: Los Angeles’ First Grand Hotel – Robert W. Blew
Richard Garvey, 1838-1930 – Rosa M. Keehn
From Other Lands: Ethnic Angelinos Worth Knowing – Gloria Ricci Lothrop
Guardians of the Forest – Paul H. Rippens
The Legend of Thaddeus Lowe’s Cannon – Michael Patris
Sister Aimee and Fighting Bob: Religious Rivals in 1920s Los Angeles – Abraham Hoffman
From Footsteps to Flying Machines – Maggie Sharma
Municipal Auto Camps – Willis Osborne

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The Westerners Brand Book #21 (1999)

An Anthology of Articles that Appeared in The Branding Iron, 1948-1995

Msgr. Francis J. Weber, Editor

Western Words – Arthur Woodward (1948)
History and Other Damned Lies – Lee Shippey (1950)
Treasure Shipment – Henry Clifford (1951)
Names and Religions Among the Indians – Iron Eyes Cody (1951)
The Shooting of Warren Earp – Phil Rasch (1953)
El Jaraño . . . Granddaddy of Western Headgear – Bob Robertson (1954)
The Dominguez Family of Rancho San Pedro – Gladys Carson Burns (1955)
A Western Windy – Harry C. James (1955)
Pierre Theodore Sicard – Merrell Kitchen (1958)
“Al Alisal” The Place of Sycamores – Althea Warren (1959)
Dating of Mining Camps with Tin Cups and Old Bottles – Charles B. Hunt (1960)
The Mystery of Death Valley. How it was Named – E.I. Edwards (1962)
He Had to be Lucky – Rufus M. Choate (1962)
John B. Stetson – E. Hubbard (1963)
A Yankee Schoolmaster in California – Nicolas C. Polos (1963)
The Valley’s Versatile Vindex – Joseph E. Doctor (1964)
Gunwoman – Ray A. Gibson (1964)
Old Pauline Weaver – Ray Weaver (1965)
Echoes of Days Gone By – Don Meadows (1966)
The Literary Resurrection of J. Ross Browne – Horace Parker (1966)
A Relic of Gold Rush Days – Earle R. Forrest (1967)
The Pioneer Doctors and Medical Association – Harvey E. Starr (1968)
Who Was the First Borax King? – Archie D. Stevenot (1968)
Academic Braceros – Charles F. Outland (1969)
How the Western Indians Got their Horses – Ben S. Milliken (1969)
The Big White Steamer – Lester Glenn Arellanes (1971)
Lummis and Maynard Dixon – Dudley Gordon (1971)
What is Your Membership Worth? – Paul Galleher (1971)
A Funeral in the Queen of the Cow Towns – Albert Shumate (1972)
San Marino Rancho – Edwin H. Carpenter (1973)
Lansford Warren Hastings – Thomas F. Andrews (1973)
Old Indians – Harry W. Paige (1974)
Lincoln and the Indians – Harry Kelsey (1974)
Palomino Ponies . . . Saved and Restored – Thomas McNeill (1974)
The Soldier and the Padre – Ardis M. Walker (1975)
Iron Tail’s Phony Peace Medal – Al Hammond (1976)
Knight’s Foundary – Powell Greenland (1976)
Andres Pico Adobe – Marie Harrington (1976)
Earthquakes – Abraham Hoffman (1977)
The Traveling Libraries of California – Raymund F. Wood (1977)
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 Revisited – Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. (1977)
San Francisco – 1856 – Robert Weinstein (1977)
The Railroad Tramp – Donald Duke (1978)
March 10, 1933 – Maurice I. Hattem (1978)
Some Book Totin’ Westerners – Anna Marie Hager (1978)
Owners and Cattle Brands of the Rancho Santa Anita – Jack McCaskill (1979)
Tom Mix’s Bookplate. An American Era Revisited – David Kuhner (1979)
What Western Stagecoaches Were – Konrad F. Schreier, Jr. (1980)
Arthur H. Clark, Pioneer Publisher of Western History – Robert A. Clark (1981)
Fallen Angels in the Far West – Earl F. Nation (1981)
The Day Los Angeles was 100 Years Old – Esther Boulton Black (1981)
The Physical Setting of the Los Angeles Area – Richard F. Logan (1981)
Memories of Aimee – Ray Zeman (1982)
The Opening of the Hollywood Bowl – Nedira Sharma (1984)
The Old Ridge Route. Los Angeles to Bakersfield the Hard Way – John W. Robinson (1986)
From Victory to Vicissitude, Los Angeles in 1946 – Kenneth Pauley (1986)
Beale’s Cut – Jack Moore (1986)
The History of Thoroughbred Racing in California – Victoria Ward (1987)
The Los Angeles City Archives – Robert Freeman (1987)
The Tehachapi Train Wreck of 1883 – Wade F. Kittell (1987)
From Torrent to Trickle: The Changing Waters of the Los Angeles River – John W. Byram (1987)
Tin Lizzie. The Little Machine that Won the West – Bill Miller (1988)
The Oak Autograph Album – Francis J. Weber (1988)
Mojave Memories – John Southworth (1988)
Grand Central Air Terminal, 1922-1959 – Sky King (1988)
The Bells of El Camino Real – Don Snyder (1989)
Point Conception Lighthouse – Don Pflueger (1989)
The Far Side of the Ice Pond and Beyond – Willis Blenkinsop (1990)
Life in Los Angeles during the Civil War – William C. Johnston (1991)
Hugo Reid and the Southern California Indians Revisited – Ronald C. Woolsey (1991)
William Godfrey, Early California Photographer – Frank Q. Newton, Jr. (1992)
Joe De Young – Siegfried G. Demke (1992)
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains. Chief Joseph: Leader of His People – Jerome R. Selmer (1993)
Physicians in Hispanic California – Robert J. Moes (1994)
Wells Fargo’s Greatest Embarrassment – Todd Peterson (1995)

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The Westerners Brand Book #20 (1997)

Rancho Days in Southern California – An Anthology with New Perspectives

Kenneth Pauley, Editor

Baja California and the Earliest Ranchos at La Frontera – Walk Wheelock
The Mission Ranchos – Msgr. Francis J. Weber
Rancho Tujunga, A Mexican Land Grant, 1840 – Viola Carlson
Rancho Boca de Santa Monica – Ernest Marquez
Horses, Roosters, Bears and Bulls: Work and Sport in Pastoral California – Abraham Hoffman
Rowland and Workman’s Rancho La Puente – Donald H. Pflueger
Rancho San Jacinto Viejo and the Estudillo Family – John W. Robinson
Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara ó La Colonia – Powell Greenland
The San Bernardino Rancho: A Story Less Simple – Larry Burgess
Rancho Cañon de Santa Ana – Gordon Morris Bakken
Rancho Calleguas – Robert W. Blew
The British Ranchero, the Scotch Paisano and the Indian Wife – Sheldon Jackson
The Rancho in Two Worlds: Don Abel Stearns and the Los Alamitos Rancho – Ronald C. Woolsey
William G. Dana and Rancho Nipomo – Thomas R. Tefft
Triumph Over Controversy: the Survival of Rancho El Tejon – Raymund F. Wood
Richard Gird: Man of Many Frontiers – Developer of Rancho Santa Ana del Chino – Gloria Ricci Lothrop

500 copies were printed.

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

Issued simultaneously by the Arthur H. Clark Company as volume 19 in their “Frontier Military Series.”

Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor

400 copies were printed.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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The Westerners Brand Book #13 (1969)

William F. Kimes, Editor

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.

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The Westerners Brand Book #12 (1966)

George Koenig, Editor

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

500 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #11 (1964)

The California Deserts:

Their people, their History, and their Legends

Russ Leadabrand, Editor

The Ghost Towns of Inyo – Nell Murbarger
Red Rock Canyon – Richard C. Bailey
Early Man in the California Desert – Gerald A. Smith
Photographer of the Desert – Russ Leadabrand
Portfolio of Desert Area Photographs by Burton Frasher
A Historian’s Search for Sackett’s Lost Wells – Horace Parker
Forgotten Army Forts of the Mojave – L. Burr Belden
The Desert Was Our Beat – Randall Henderson
Slavers in the Mojave – Paul Bailey
King of the Desert Freighters – Remi Nadeau
War on the Colorado River – John Upton Terrell
The Mystery of Death Valley’s Lost Wagon Train – E.I. Edwards

525 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #10 (1963)

E. I. Edwards, Editor

Forgotten Road to Gold – Harold & Lucile Weight
California Fleet 1849 – John B. Goodman III
Betwixt the Devil and the Deep – George Koenig
Deadman’s Island – Everett Gordon & Anna Marie Hager
The Captive Wars – Lynn R. Bailey
New Light on an Old Murder – W.W. Robinson
“Little White Chieftain” – Clarence Arthur Ellsworth – Iron Eyes Cody
To Arizona by Sea -1850-1877 – John Haskell Kemble
Juan Flores and the Manillas – Don Meadows
The Temecula Massacre – Horace Parker
Liliuokalani – The Island Queen – Earle R. Forrest
Burro Prospector – Fred Vaile
Lords and Tin – Raymond E. Lindgren
Desert Glimpses – Charles N. Rudkin

525 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #9 (1961)

Henry H. Clifford, Editor

Success in the Sun – Andrew F. Rolle
The Jerk Line Team – Irving Wills
A Frontier Sketchbook – Donald K. Adams
Fort Apache – Frank A. Schilling
Dr. William Speer – Earle R. Forrest
Steamboating on the Columbia – edited by Henry and Lucetta Clifford
Photography in the Great Southwest – Ruth I. Mahood
The Warner’s Ranch – Butterfield Station Puzzle – William Lawton Wright
Pioneer Gold Coinage in the West – Henry H. Clifford

550 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #8 (1959)

Don Meadows, Editor

The Final Saga of Our Horse Cavalry – Col. C.W. Hoffmann
Trail Herds – Robert A. (Billy) Dodson
A Dynasty of Western Outlaws. The Wild Riders of Missouri. Oklahoma Territory – Paul I. Wellman
’Frisco’s Celebrated Saloons – Richard H. Dillon
The Murder of Huston I. Chapman – Philip J. Rasch
Guns of Death Valley – James E. Serven
A Maynard Dixon Sketch Book – Don Louis Perceval
Dodge City’s Boot Hill – Earle R. Forrest
Westward by Handcart to Utah – Paul Bailey
Apikuni (James Willard Schultz) As I Knew Him – Harry C. James
Historical Sidelights on California Joe – Arthur Woodward
Astronomy in California – James S. Fassero

525 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #7 (1957)

W.W. Robinson, Editor

Horse of Another Color. Story of the Appaloosa Horse – W.H. Hutchinson
A Charles Russell Sketchbook
Ice Age Westerners – M.R. Harrington
Fremont at the Signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga – Dwight Franklin
Dora Hand, Dance Hall Singer of Old Dodge City – Earle R. Forrest
Attack on Castle James – Carl W. Breihan
Old Fort Union Stirs to Life – Harry C. James
Kootenai Brown, Squaw Man – Harlan Thompson
Prelude to the Lincoln County War. The Murder of John Henry Tunstall – Philip J. Rasch
California Lithographs: 19th Century Prints from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection – Warren R. Howell and Laura R. White
Saddle-Trees – Bob Robertson
Kearny: Solider of the West – Dwight L. Clarke
Only Known Copies of Emigrant Guides – Glen Dawson
The Doctor in Early Los Angeles – Harvey E. Starr
The Books of Oregon History – Webster A. Jones
Narrow Gauge Railroads of Colorado – Marion A. Speer
The Genesis of “Arizona Charlie” – Don Meadows
The Westerners, A Monograph History of All the Corrals and Posses – J.E. Reynolds
The Fabulous Greathouse Brothers – George E. Fullerton
Juana Maria, Sidelights on the Indian Occupation of San Nicholas Island – Arthur Woodward
Wife at Port Isabel: A Pioneer Woman’s Colorado River Letters – Frank S. Dolley

475 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #6 (1956)

Arthur H. Clark, Jr., Editor

An Exile on the Colorado – Robert Glass Cleland
Louis Akin, Artist of Old Arizona – Earle R. Forrest
A Man Named Antrim – Philip J. Rasch
California’s Fantastic Medical Profession – J.B. and C.M. Saunders
Gold Canyon, Birthplace of the Comstock – Bert Olson
Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin – Carey S. Bliss
Rancho Santa Anita – Percy L. Bonebrake
T.S. Harris – Muir Dawson
I Bought Buffalo Bones – M.I. McCreight
Lost Words – Arthur Woodward
Conditions in Baja California: The Indian Problem, 1824, Economic Problems, 1824 – Charles N. Rudkin
Adobe in California – Mark R. Harrington
Exit John Wesley Hardin – Robert R. Dykstra
A Ghost Town’s Strange Drama, The Story of Harrisburg, Arizona – Louis and Fullen Artrip
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