Text by Keith Wheeler (18 results)

leather_bound. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. Illustrated (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Clean, tight and Neat. Five star seller - Buy with confidence. Illustrated (illustrator).

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Illustrated (illustrator).

leather_bound. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. Illustrated (illustrator).

Faux Leather. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Padded faux leather, paist down cover, "A busy pioneer town". Tips are sharp, cover is fine. Interior is unmarked and fine, 240pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Tooled leatherette covered boards with an oval paste down of a train coming through a forest with a river. Gold lettering at the spine. Book pages are clean with no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. This book is in excellent condition with a sturdy embossed hardcover. The cover features a striking pictorial inlay, and the binding is tight. There are no signs of wear or damage, and the pages are clean and unmarked. No dust jacket is present, as issued. no dust jacket, embossed hardcover with pictorial inlay.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Previous owners signature otherwise as new. See my selection of Time Life Old West books on ABE. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Firmly bound, decorated embossed artificial leather brown boards, colour paper illustration on the front.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Firmly bound, embossed, decorated brown artificial leather boards. Some light foxing on top page edges. illustrated throughout with black and white photographic and drawing plates (illustrator).

Hardcover Ingrained Leathered Hardcover Ed. Railroad, Wilderness, Pioneer, This Vol. contains such chapters as A work of visionaries-or of fools' Barons of the Western roads. Working on the railroad. The ride to California, The men who made the trains go and A gaudy rail-borne harvest. All so masterly put by Keith Wheeler. (240 Pgs.) Near VVG. Ingrained Leathered Hardcover with Chicago, Burlington & Northern Frontispiece photo taken in 1888.…

Beautifully embossed leather with pictorial pastedown! - " The Old West series, published by Time-Life Books, is pretty consistently good. This work, in my mind, is a kind of pair with the work on the Canadians' Old West. Brutal weather; challenging environment. But the human spirit ends up triumphing. Once the Americans purchased Alaska from the Russians, there was little sense of what had been acquired. The volume, at the outset, notes (Page 6): "Americans, even with a century of westward expansion under their belts, found it hard at first to comprehend the large chunk of wilderness they bought from Russia in 1867."-Real pluses for this volume--and others include: terrific photographs of the era, maps, and sidebar discussions on intriguing aspects of Alaska, and so on. One can get a sense of the context by these add ons.-The Russians began establishing a foothold in Alaska in the mid to later 1700s. By the early decades of the 1800s, American traders has begun doing business with the intrepid settlers. Sitka was the first settlement of significance. Fur trading was the key economic activity at the outset. In 1790, Alexander Baranov became the lead person in the Russian colony--and he was the right person for the job. This chapter lays out his methods and his efforts to build the Russian presence. As the 19th century moved on, Russia had more and more financial difficulties. After the Civil War, the United States--with Secretary of State William Seward aggressively moving the initiative--purchased Alaska from the Russians. "Seward's Folly" eventually became attractive--with gold in the late 1800s as a key point.-The book goes on to consider American governance and the development of the economy. There is ample discussion of efforts to explore the interior of the massive territory. The work concludes with Alaska acquiring home rule, when William Howard Taft signed the bill.".…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

leather_bound. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Illustrated (illustrator).

Jun 01, 1978. Condition: Gebraucht - Sehr gut. leichte Gebrauchsspuren am Einband. Seiten sehr gut erhalten.