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
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