Keepsakes

The Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners publishes occasional offerings on a wide range of subjects. Our Keepsakes typically appear as small-format booklets of greater length than our quarterly Branding Iron, but of many fewer pages than our much longer Brand Books.

 Our Los Angeles Corral Keepsakes are listed here:

Keepsake 56 2022
Hoffman, Abraham
Boot Hill Anthology
[Alan Griffin, Editor].
Los Angeles Corral, Westerners International

Keepsake 55 2021
Turner, Gary, Ed.
75th Anniversary Cowboy and Cowgirl Poetry.
Los Angeles Corral, Westerners International

Keepsake 54 2021
Dillon, Brian Dervin
Early Chapters in Southern California History.
A Special Publication for the 75th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Corral, Westerners International.

Keepsake 53 2021
Hoffman, Abraham
An Actor’s Life: William S. Hart, 1864-1946.
Arkaz Vardanyan, Editor.
A Special Publication for the 75th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Corral, Westerners International.

Keepsake 52 2021
Weber, Msgr. Francis J.
The Ten Most Important California Mission Books.
A Special Publication for the 75th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Corral, Westerners International.

Keepsake 51 2020
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy Poetry and Limericks.
Keepsake 51: Corona Virus Edition.
Westerners International, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 50 2019
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy & Cowgirl Poetry 2019.
Westerners International, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 49
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy & Cowgirl Poetry 2018.
Westerners International, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 48 2018
Hoffman, Abraham
Los Angeles and the Owens Valley: Essays on a Century-Long Water Dispute.
Westerners International, Los Angeles Corral.
[Available through amazon.com].

Keepsake 47 2017
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy Poetry 2017.
Westerners International, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 46 2017
Mathes, W. Michael
Indian Warfare In Baja California, 1533-1857.
Edited, with a Preface, by Brian Dervin Dillon and Matthew A. Boxt. Foreword by Msgr. Francis J. Weber.
Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners.
[Available through amazon.com]

Keepsake 45 2017
Brigandi, Phil
A Five-Foot Shelf of Westerners: Prominent Historians of the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners.
Keepsake 45, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 44 2016
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy Poetry.
Keepsake 44 , Los Angeles Corral.
[Unnumbered. No page numbers, no title page, no editorial attribution Jim Macklin assigned it No. 44 in 2019].

Keepsake 43 2016
Hoffman, Abraham
Where the Sun Never Shines: Essays in Southern
California History. Los Angeles, CA.
[Unnumbered. Mentions of the Los Angeles Corral and the word “Keepsake” are on the final page, but not on the title page nor the copyright page. Jim Macklin assigned it No. 43 in 2019].
[Available through amazon.com]

Keepsake 42 2017
Selmer, John
70th Anniversary Keepsake, Sheriffs of the Los Angeles Corral,
1946-2016. [Unnumbered, Assigned No. 42 by Jim Macklin in 2019].

Keepsake 41 2015
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy Poetry.
Keepsake 41, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 40 2014
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy Poetry.
Keepsake 40, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 39 2013
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Civil War Sequicentennial Poetry.
Keepsake 39, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 38 2012
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Cowboy Poetry.
Keepsake 38, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 37 2012
Brigandi, Phil, Ed.
The Death Valley Chuck-Walla.
Keepsake 37, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 36
Turner, Gary, Ed.
2011 Cowboy Poetry.
Keepsake 36, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 35
Turner, Gary, Ed.
2008 Fandango Californio, 2008, Cowboy Poetry and Limericks, II.
Keepsake 35, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 34 2007
Turner, Gary, Ed.
Fandango Californio, 2007, Cowboy Poetry and Limericks.
Keepsake 34, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 33 2003
Hoffman, Abraham
And the Horse You Rode in On: Essays in Western History.
Westerners International, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 32 2001
Blew, Robert W., Ed.
Last Nuggets from the California Gold Rush 1849.
Keepsake 32, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 31(B) 1999
Blew, Robert W.
A Grand Score: Brand Books 1-20. A Guide to the Contents and Authors of the First Twenty Brand Books issued by the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners. Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.
[Blew did not exercise due diligence, so he repeated the number used by Art Clark four years earlier.].

Keepsake 31(A) 1995
Clark, Arthur
Directory of Monthly Meetings and Meetings Speakers.
Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake “30” 1992
Nunis, Doyce B.
The Life of Tom Horn Revisited. [116 pp.].
The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.
[No specific identification as a Keepsake. Two different, conflicting, addresses are provided for the Los Angeles Corral on the same page. Brigandi’s typed list assigns it No. 30].

Keepsake 29 1988
Taylor, Elmer E.
George Sanders Bickerstaff, 1893-1954: ”Painter of Pictures.” [Hardcover].
The Los Angeles Westerners.

Keepsake 28 1988
Anonymous
Fandango Californiano, Casa del Rancho Los Cerritos.
Single page, folded cardstock menu with brief historical sketch, for annual Fandango, June 11, 1988,
Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners.

Keepsake 27 1988
Koenig, George
Panamint City, the California Comstock.
[Cardstock folder with two reproduction inserts, one of the Panamint News for December 15, 1874, the other for March 4, 1875].
Keepsake No. 27, The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 26 1987
Dagosta, Andy
1987 Roster, Active Members, Honorary Members, Ranger Active and Associate Members.
[Poster, of all member’s names forming the “Old Joe” buffalo skull].
Keepsake No. 26, The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake 25 1987
Stevens, Errol Wayne, Ed.
Incidents of a Voyage to California, 1849: A Diary of Travel aboard the Bark Hersilia, and in Sacramento, 1850.
Foreword by Martin Ridge. [Hardcover].
Simultaneously published by the Western History Association, and The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake “24” 1985
Hager, Anna Marie and Everett Gordon Hager
An Index to the Brand Book, Volume 1, Numbers 1-5 (1947) and the Branding Iron, Numbers 1-153 (1948-1983) of the Westerners, Los Angeles Corral. [Hardcover].
The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.
[Identified on its copyright page as “Publication No. 161.” Bob Clark penciled “Keepsake #24” on his copy].

Keepsake 23 1986
Lehman, Anthony L.
Herschel Logan: Man of Many Careers.
The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.

Keepsake “22” 1978
Frey, W.
The Apaches of the Rio Grande, a Story of Indian Life.
Translated by Brita F. Mack, Introduction by Ray Allen Billington.
Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.
[Identified on its initial page as “Westerners KeepsakePublication No. 133.” Bob Clark penciled “Keepsake #22” on his copy].

Keepsake “21” 1977
Drury, Clifford M.
An Outline Guide to the Evening Program.
The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.
[Identified on its cover as “Keepsake Number 126,” this large single-page folio was folded in half and printed on all four sides. Bob Clark penciled “New #21” at its top].

Keepsake “20” 1972
Starr, Harvey E.
Colonel Charles Hoffmann, 1891-1971.
[16 pp.]. Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners.
[Identified on its cover as “Special Keepsake for 1972- Publication 104.” As with Keepsakes 20, 22, etc. Bob Clark penciled “New #20” on his copy].

Keepsake “19” 1971
Billington, Ray Allen
Don Meadows and the Westerners International: A Rebuttal.
[Single-page, double-sided, double column statement, undated. Not identified as a Keepsake or even as a Los Angeles Corral publication, Bob Clark’s penciled emendation at top reads: “Keepsake #19].

Keepsake “18” 1971
Coleman, William T., William T. Sherman and James O’ Meara
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856: Three Views.
Introduced and Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.
[1hardbound. Title page reads: “The Silver Anniversary Publication of The Los Angeles Westerners,” and back side reads: “Publication Number 103.” Bob Clark’s penciled annotation reads: LA Westerners Keepsake #18].

Keepsake “17” 1969
Anonymous
The Twenty-Third Psalm.
Illustrated by Sylvia G. M. Holland.
The Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners.
[A glued-in post-publication addendum page identifies this small pamphlet both as a “Keepsake” as as “Publication No. 95.” Bob Clark penciled “New # 17” on its cover].

Keepsake “16” 1969
Clifford, Henry H., Ed.
Coining Money at the San Francisco Branch Mint.
An Example of “California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets.”
[Identified as “A Special Keepsake of The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral. Keepsake for 1969, Publication No. 91. Identified on Art Clark’s handwritten list of Keepsake conversions as “New Number 16.”

Keepsake “15” 1968
Friswold, Carroll
Frontier Fighters and their Autograph Signatures.
[On the cover is written: “Los Angeles Corral, A Keepsake for 1968, Publication No. 87.” Unfortunately, the contemporary Branding Iron of June, 1968, was also given the “Publication Number of 87.” Bob Clark penciled “New #15” on his copy’s cover].

Keepsake “14” 1966
Clark, Arthur H.
A Score of Years and Fourscore Issues: An Index-Guide to the Branding Irons and Keepsake Issues 1947-1966, Los Angeles Corral of Westerners.
[Printed on the cover is: “Westerners Keepsake No. 81” but in Art Clark’s hand-written 1986 conversion table the designation is changed to “New # 14”].

Keepsake “13” 1966
Edwards, E. I.
Twelve Great Books: A guide to the Subject Matter and Authors of the First Twelve Brand Books issued by the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners.
Westerners, Los Angeles Corral.
[Hardbound. Originally identified as “Westerners Keepsake- Publication No. 80.” Bob Clark’s penciled note on the soft-cover version, however, indicates “New # 13”].

Keepsake “12” 1996
Bishop, L.C.
Labonte: Hunter, Free Trapper, Trail Blazer and Mountain Man of the Old West, 1825-1848.
Review of a Book by George Frederick Ruxton, titled [sic] “Life in the Far West,” published in 1848, dedicated to the Wyoming Pioneers by L.C. Bishop, President, Wyoming Pioneer Association, 1950. [Republished by Bill Upton as an unnumbered Keepsake for the L.A. Coral [sic] of the Westerners. Later designated “Keepsake 76A,” but with Bob Clark’s penciled designation “Keepsake #12”].

Keepsake “11” 1958
Conkling, Roscoe P.
Waterman Lily Ormsby II. His Hitherto Unpublished Portrait, and a sketch of the Sole Passenger on the First Butterfield Overland Mail to California as a Special Correspondent for the New York Herald.
[Six large foliopages, folded and stapled for 12 pages of text and illustrations, unpaginated, labeled on its back cover “Westerners Keerpsake- Publication 46, Los Angeles Corral. Bob Clark penciled “New # 11” on its front cover].

Keepsake “10” 1958
Gordon, Dudley
Charlie Lummis and Gene Rhodes: Discoverer and Discovered.
[Large folio sheet, folded over for 4 pages of text and illustration, unpaginated. Identified on its back cover as “Westerner’s Keepsake #43 Los Angeles Corral,” this slim offering was labeled “New # 10” by Bob Clark].

Keepsake “9” 1958
Clifford, Henry H.
Collecting California and the West.
[Four pages of text and illustrations, unpaginated. Reprinted from the Pasadena Junior League Community News, at bottom on the first page it is identified as “Publication No. 42, A Keepsake of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners.” Bob Clark’s penciled note at top reads “New #9”].

Keepsake “8” 1956
Anonymous
Wells, Fargo & Co’s Express, List of Offices, Agents, and Correspondents. 44-568. Corrected July 1st, 1880.
Single page, oversize, facsimile. At top of page is stamped “Keepsake 1956, No. 1” as an addendum to the original legend: “Keepsake of the LOS ANGELES CORRAL of the WESTERNERS” but the original distribution date of December, 1955, has been obliterated by an intentional overstrike. Bob Clark’s penciled note on the back reads: [#32a], indicating that if this Keepsake was later given the designation of “Publication 32” then this number duplicated that of the contemporary Branding Iron].

Keepsake “7” 1955
Reynolds, J.E.
Holiday Greetings.
[Narrow folder containing reprints of an 1886 Pico House advertisement and an 1883 Britten and Rey Mining Map of Inyo County. Undated, the cover states “A Keepsake. . . .Publication No. 28.” Bob Clark’s penciled notation reads “New #7” and, almost illegibly, “1955.”].
Los Angeles Corral, The Westerners.

Keepsake “6” 1954
Woodward, Arthur
Jim Waters.
[Laid out identically to chapters in the very earliest Brand Books, identified on back cover as a “Keepsake…of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners…Publication No. 23.” Undated, but if intercalated between Branding Iron No. 22 and 24, a date of late 1953 or early 1954 would result. Bob Clark penciled “New #6” on his copy].

Keepsake “5” 1953
Anonymous
Union—Extra. . .Custar [sic] Killed!
[Facsimile of Thursday, July 6, 1876 newspaper entry, “Printed by the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners as a Westerner Keepsake. Publication No. 19.” Bob Clark’s penciled note at top reads: “New #5.”

Keepsake “4” 1952
Dawson, Glen
The Daily Gazette and Commercial Advertiser.
Double-sided, oversized, single-page facsimile of a Denver newspaper for May 5, 1869. The legend on the back page reads: “Printed by the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners as a Westerners Keepsake. Publication No. 17, 1952. The same number, unfortunately, was also assigned to the March, 1953, Branding Iron. Bob Clark Penciled “New #4” on the Keepsake’s front sheet.

Keepsake 3 1949
Upham, Samuel C.
Ye Ancient Yuba Miner, of the Days of ’49.
[Facsimile of an 1878 8-page pamphlet, published in Philadelphia, PA. The title page reads: “Keepsake No. 3, Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners. Later, it was retroactively identified as “Publication No. 8”].

Keepsake 2 1949
Brininstool, E.A.
The Logic of Sitting Bull. [Single large, poster-sized sheet, folded down into a single landscape side, and four separate pages on the reverse. On the top of the front page is printed: “No. 2” in oversized, bold, text, followed by: “This piece is the second in a series of keepsakes issued from the Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners.” But it was also, apparently, retroactively labeled “Publication # 7” as well. In Art Clark’s hand-written list of Keepsakes, he assigns a date of 1949 to it.

Keepsake “1” 1948
Woodward, Arthur
The Old Side-Wheeler Senator.
[Single-sheet poster, reproducing the 1874 original, with text and illustrations on back. Simply identified as a “reprint…designed to replace the former BRANDING IRON. . .” which, of course, it did not, this strange offering was later assigned the identification of “Publication No. 6,” although nowhere is this to be found on the document. Bob Clark penciled “New Sequence #1” on his copy].
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Unnumbered “Keepsake” 1985
Demke, Siegfried
The Cattle Drives of Early California.
Prosperity Press, San Gabriel, CA.
[Nowhere in this 26-page pamphlet is it identified either as a “Keepsake” nor are the L.A. Westerners identified. A separate, business-card sized insert, dated October 1985, however, states that the pamphlet “is presented as a Keepsake to all members of the Los Angeles Corral by Siegfried Demke.”]
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Compiled by Brian Dervin Dillon, Ph.D.,
Los Angeles Corral Publication Committee,
with the Assistance of Jim Macklin and Bob Clark,
St. Valentine’s Day, 2021