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Bishop, J. B., Ed. / THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S LETTERS TO
HIS CHILDREN, New York, 1919, cl, 240 pages, - 2 -, $ 35
Bimson, W. R. / LOUIS D. RICKETTS (1859 -1940):
Mining Engineer, Geologist, Banker, Industrialist, and Builder of America, New
York, 1949, pb, 32 pages, - 3 -, $ 15 [Publication of Newcomen Society of
England in North America fostering American - British traditions / ideas in Arts
& Sciences]
Bond, E. / PERCY BOWDEN, BORN TO BE A FRONTIER LAWMAN, Douglas, 1976, cl, 82
pages, - 3 -, $ 15 [Bisbee Deportation, Chasing Bootleggers, Wars Along the
Border, more...]
Campbell, M. and Hatton, H. / HERBERT H. DOW: Pioneer
in Creative Chemistry, New York, 1951, cl, 168 pages, - 3 -, $ 25
Conner, D. E. / JOSEPH REDDEFORD WALKER AND THE ARIZONA ADVENTURE, Edited by
D. J. Berthrong and O. Davenport, Norman, 1956, cl, 364 pages, - 3 -, $ 45
de la Garza, P. / THE STORY OF DOS CABEZAS, Tucson, 1995, cl, 202 pages, - 1
-, $ 30
Fairbanks, H. R. and Berkey, C. P. / LIFE AND LETTERS
OF R. A. F. PENROSE, JR., New York, 1952, cl, 765 pages, - 3 -, $ 25
Hammond, J. H. / THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HAYS HAMMOND illustrated with photographs, in two
volumes, 813 pages total, - 3 -, $ 55 [Engineer, Gold, Mexico, Africa,
Rhodesia, London, Russia, Grass Valley, Couer d’Alene, Guggenheim
Exploration Company, more....]
Makley, M. J. / THE INFAMOUS
KING OF THE COMSTOCK - WILLIAM SHARON AND THE GUIDED AGE IN THE WEST - A
Biography, Reno, 2006, cl, 291 pages, - 1 -, $ 33
Mason, B. / VICTOR MORITZ
GOLDSCHMIDT: FATHER OF MODERN GEOCHEMISTRY, The Geochemical Society SP 4, San
Antonio, 1992, cl, 184 pages, - 1 -, $ 40
Miller, D. A. / CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD, BUCKSKIN,
POET, SCOUT, AND SHOWMAN, Albuquerque, 1993, cl, 363 pages, - 1 -, $ 45
Noel, T. J. and Norman, C. M. / A PIKE’S PEAK PARTNERSHIP: The Penroses and the
Tutts, Boulder, 2000, pb, 264 pages, - 1 -, $ 25, on sale, $ 20
Older, F. / MR. AND MRS.
GEORGE HEARST: California Pioneer, Los Angeles, 1966, cl, 240 pages, - 3 -, $ 45
Pyne, S. J. / GROVE KARL GILBERT:
A GREAT ENGINE OF RESEARCH, Austin, 1980, cl, 306 pages, - 2 -, $ 18 [Gilbert
was an explorer, theoretician, experimentalist, and methodologist]
Roberts, R. J. / A PASSION
FOR GOLD: An Autobiography, Reno, 2002, cl, 232 pages, - 1 -, $ 30
Scamehorn, H. L. / ALBERT EUGENE REYNOLDS:
Colorado’s Mining King, Norman, 1995, 308 pages, cl, - 1 -, $ 15 [Covers the
life of a man destined to make a fortune thought to be as much as $60 million as
the owner of the Palmetto Mine near Lake City, the Virginius and Revenue Tunnel
near Ouray, the Cimarron Mine at Telluride, and the Commodore Mine at Creede,
eventually managing 600 claims on 6,000 acres of mineral land]
Shaler, N. S. / THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER with a supplementary memoir by his wife, with
illustrations, Boston, 1909, cl, 481 pages, - 3 -, $ 35
Smiles, S. / JOSIAH WEDGEWOOD
F.R.S., HIS PERSONAL HISTORY, London, 1894, cl, 304 pages, 14 page listing of
works by S. Smiles, - 3 -, $ 45 [Josiah Wedgewood was a Master Potter of
Staffordshire; this is the story of his life from birth, his family, his
appointment as the Queen’s Potter, Amputations of his right leg, more...]
Smith, D.A. / HENRY M. TELLER: Colorado’s Grand
Old Man, Boulder, 2002, cl, 252 pages, - 1 -, $ 30
Smith, D. A. / HORACE TABOR: His Life and the
Legend, Boulder, 1989, pb, 395 pages, - 1 -, $ 20
Sparks, B. / BOOT STRAPS: The Autobiography
of Tom M. Girdler, New York, 1944, cl, 471 pages, sun fading on spine, ovg, - 3 -, $ 25 [Republic
Steel]
Tyson, C. N., Thomas, J. N., and
Faulk, O. B. / THE McMAN: THE LIVES OF ROBERT M. McFARLIN AND JAMES A. CHAPMAN,
Norman, 1977, cl, 224 pages, - 2 -, $ 20 [They developed the largest independent
oil company in Oklahoma]
Waters, F. / MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES: Biography of
Winfield Scott Stratton, Croesus of Cripple Creek, Athens, 1972, 347 pages, - 1
-, $ 16
Winkler, J. K. / THE DuPONT
DYNASTY, Babson Park, 1935, cl, 342 pages, - 3 -, chip on front end-plate, ovg,
$ 25
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