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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, November 1955 - The Burlington Story
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Burlington Railroad - What Makes it Tick? - Feature illustrated article (Part 1); Winter on the Glory Road; The Cliffside Railroad Co.; Photo Section including a super night photo of a steam loco at work; Hot Rods a Vapeur - the French have a matchless approach to the intricacies of valve motion and compounding and inside steam passages - article with photos; The Black Cat Wreck, by James Daugherty; Color Budd car ad on back cover; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, October 1957 - True Story of Kate Shelley
66 pages. Features: Perlman's piggyback; Photo ad/portrait of Howard E. Simpson of GM Electro-motive division; News Photos; Formula for a Chant - photos of the 'chanting' V-16 2-stroke diesel engine; Be (Berea)Tower in Ohio - more than 50 trains converge on this 111-lever plant daily - excellent article and photos; Where Diesels Fear to tread - a steam loco replaces a deisel in 38" floodwaters in Louisiana - near the Red River; Would You Believe it? - news bits with photos; Flat Faces - a wonderful photo study of multiple cab-forward locomotives; "2-in-1" Engines - Austrian railroaders move iron ore up 7% grades using a rack and adhesion line; North of Lake Erie - many wonderful pages of photos of interurbans, etc. in southern Ontario; The True Story of Kate Shelley - the girl they stopped the trains for - an 1881 Iowa wreck and a 15-year-old girl - wonderful story and photos; Question of Survival - how can railroads survive?; Where Are We? - fun photo test; Trona Totes Trona - three Baldwins haul Trona on the Mojave Desert - article and photos; ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Short opening along cover fold which is loosening from bottom staple. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, September 1957 - Steam in the South
66 pages. Features: President for Re-Election - gorgeous photo of a Baldwin President at work; ; News Photos; 9035 Hoppers and a Hotshot - The Bessemer & Lake Erie - and ore hauler and more - article with photos; The Gainesviille Midland - a Georgia short line - great article with photos; Photo Section; INCREDIBLE - black and white photo centerfold shows three gorgeous electro-motives side-by-side at the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal; Great before and after photos of the Rutland, Vt. rail yard - 1874 and 1957; The Colorado Midland STory - Part II - excellent article with photos; Would You Believe it? - interesting news bits with photos; Pennsy's Pluperfect Pacifics; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April 1982 - Volume 42, Number 6
Features: Women in Railroading; Big (and small) Steam; news photos; Favourite Railroad photos of John W. Maxwell; The Yellowstone Story - 2 - From 'largest' to 'some of the largest'; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August 1972
Features: The Power of Amtrak - with table of locomotives and details; Penn Central route map; A Royal Blue Line Recall - sentimental story of a B & O passenger showcase; South Shore's Steel Standards - the speedsters were interurbans in name only; Centerfold black and white photo of hardy miners of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper, Co. and 5 of their locomotives; Story, table of locomotives and article re: Calumet and Hecla; Is Amtrak Legal? - the courts say yes; Only EMD and GE left? No - the diesels of the past live on, and require spare parts - long article and photos; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August, 1956
Features: Railroad News Photos; Tales of a Ten Wheeler - the biography of Northern Pacific 1356, a Baldwin 4-6-0 that served half a century of mountain railroading - amazing photos; Of Black Upholstery and Commanding Exhaust - Cessation of Virginian (VGN) passenger service provokes warm memories of orange cars, shoebox lunches, and Teddy Roosevelt regaling the riders with tales of San Juan Hill; Illustrated article on locomotive faces, with parts identified; Steam in Indian Summer - 3 - Little Railroads in faraway places; Super steam photo section, including centerfold of a P-4a in full stride (the 3713); The Story of a Pacific - the world's greatest - K.4.s - Super article with many excellent photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August, 1960
Features: 10 pages of CPR's Tripleheader!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Is there no cure to what ails Katy? - why Missouri-Kansas-Texas got into trouble and what Dr. Deramus has prescribed - many photos and article; Steaming in the Rain - the Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad; Where 65 cars still make a train - B&O's crossing of the Alleghenies - the West End story - 1; What's Up with the U25B?; Push-Pulls for Profit - double-deck suburban passenger cars used by the Chicago & North Western Railway; Photo Section; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December, 1962
Features: How the Rails Won Back the Automobile Business - the story of one of the 180,000 new automobiles L&N delivered this year; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Great photo of a steam engine terminal at Ridgely, W.Va in 1952; Photo section; Why We Don't Electrify - a rebuttal to an article in April 1962 Trains; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1969
Features: Super Power Survives! - 14 pages of NKP 759; Exclusive - Viet Nam Rails, firsthand! - long article with many illustrations; Railroad News Photos; Southern's Computer records car locations; Daniel "Uncle Dan" Willard and his one of a kinds; Modesto & Empire Traction... diesel style - a short but solvent story by Ted Benson; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March, 1957
Features: Railroad News Photos; Photo salute to a General, No. 3; The Full Story of The Striped Beast - New Haven's electrified operations between New York and New Haven - long illustrated article; Southbound behind steam - the 2-8-2's of Winston-Salem Southbound - article with photos; Nice feature on the men behind the camera, and samples of their work; Steam in Indian Summer - David P. Morgan; Beware of Trains! - beyond the Atlantic there is witchcraft and magic in the railway for those with hearts to hear; and more. Date stamp on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March, 1960
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; C&IM Revisited (Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway) - since our last report in August 1955 Trains, just 11 hood units have replaced 26 steamers; Calling all Candidates - a preconvention memo to Adlai, Dick, Jack, Hubert, Lyndon, Pat, Soapy, Stu, Wayne, et al; Weekend with Steam - the magic numbers were 2613 and 2114; The SP&S Story - 1 - the Spokane, Portland & Seattle - fastest track in the Northwest; A photo glimpse of one of the world's great railways - British Railways; and more. Cover held by one staple. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: November 1964
Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The magazine of Railroading: October 1954 - Volume 14, Number 12
Features: The Camelback bows out; The David and Goliath story of Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Hell Gate Bridge - across the East River in New York City; Photo Section; When Steam ruled the Delaware & Hudson; My 34 years on a short line - George Baggett; Lady with a Past - a Colorado 10 wheeler has out-lived the Mallets and 4-8-4s of our time; Why Carnivals are moving by rail; and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The magazine of Railroading: September 1961 - Volume 21, Number 11
Features: Steam news photos; Mudhens and sport models - the story of America's most celebrated Mikados; 'Trains' goes around the world - Ka's in New Zealand; photo quiz; Impressions of the 5137 - an intimate photo study of a Canadian Pacific 2 - 8 - 2; West from Baghdad; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: September 1964
Features: Colorado photo contest winners; What's Our 'Best' Railroad?; Highballing B&O Duplex-Drive; Extra 4501 South; Europe - passenger car trends; Railroad News Photos; Pennsy juice news; Steam News Photos; Superb two-page photo of 'where the wheel meets the rail'; 86 mph behind a 4-4-4-4 - how B&O burned the ballast in 1937; A Tale of Two Tunnels - 1 - The story of the St. Clair and Detroit River Tunnels - includes great old diagrams of how to drill a tunnel; Extra 4501 South - a most unlikely train movement; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: September, 1960
Features: The Diesel-Hydraulic Dilemma; Railroad News Photos; Informed opinion on those German Diesel-Hydraulics; Dieselization with a Difference - reasons for British Railways' Extraordinary Diversity of Diesels - many great photos; Pittsburgh - minus the Pennsy - busy rails of the Beehive State - Northern Utah; Great 4-panel centerfold ad for the GE U25B; Helper Man out of M&K - The West End Story - 2; Photo Section; Two super photos of bulldog snouts; Wreck of 97 Revisited - September 27, 1903, Danville, Va.; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Popular Magazine of Railroading, April 1951 - Cover Photo of Bessemer & Lake Erie 2-10-4 No. 634
58 pages. Features: Built by American Car & Foundry (A.C.F.) - a photo story; Official Guide - presents hundreds of pages of timetables; The Diesel's Big Year - in 1950 steam was on the way out, but the gas turbine was a new opponent to diesel; Photo Section - includes centerfold photo of a Santa Fe eastbound freight near Kingman, Az; Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern - uncommon interurban in Iowa - article, photos and map of the "Crandic Route"; Astra Domes in the Northwest - article with photos; The Stewart Special - awesome article and photos of rail action in the Korean War; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Popular Magazine of Railroading, December 1950 - The Hiawatha Story
66 pages. Features: The Nation's Crossroads - stand at Chicago's 21st St. Tower and you'll see trains from Canada, the Gulf, and both coasts - great article and photos; Asa Packer's Railroad - Coal means so much to the Lehigh Valley Railroad that even its crack passenger train is known as the Black Diamond - long article with full-page map and many photos; The Hiawatha Story - How the first engine to carry the Indian totem came to be, as recalled by a C.H. Bilty, a Milwaukee Road man who helped create it; Photo Section; The Atlantic & Danville (A&D) - photos, map and article; Early Days in Oregon - at the turn of the century the Union Pacific had its eye on a group of little roads which held the key to the Puget Sound gateway - map, photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Popular Magazine of Railroading, February 1951 - Cover Photo of Soo Line Train 8 Near Rapid River, Michigan
58 pages. Features: The Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad on Hawaii - article with photos; The Rail Detector Car Identifies Faulty Rails - article with photos; Staten Island Rapid Transit - a B&O Subsidiary - article with photos and map; Photo Section including wonderful centerfold photo of a Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 on a curve west of Cumberland, Md.; Behind the Statistical Nightmares of the Pennsylvania Railroad's first 100 years - a story of a transport colossus - article with photos; Riding the "Dixie Line" NC&StL from Nashville to Atlanta; Photos of immense locomotives in the process of being scrapped; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Popular Magazine of Railroading, March 1951 - Cover Photo of the Clinchfield 4-6-6-4 No. 651, Class #-1, Near Marion, N.C.
58 pages. Features: Florida Woodburners - Lumber railroads still use scrap-burning locomotives - article and many great photos; Today's Monon - the story of what the new president has done since the CI&L came out of receivership - article with photos; The Busy Beeliners - After several months trial in actual service, it appears the Budd-built RDC-1 has a solid rail future - photos with article; Photo Section includes dramatic centerfold photo of the Cumberland-Pittsburgh line at the top of the hill at Sand Patch Tunnel; Night ride on the El Capitan - board Santa Fe's biggest money-maker in Kansas City and ride to Chicago - article with photos; The Evolution of Railroad - fascinating article with great historic illustrations; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains and Travel: July 1953: Volume 13, Number 9
Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
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Trains Magazine, July 1941, Vol. 1, No. 9
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, June 1944, Vol. 4, No. 8
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC West Side Freight Line - a photo story on the only all-rail freight route into Manhattan; Haunted Roundhouse - Hudson River roundhouse is a memory of the past; Recent 4-8-4's - specifications; Water Holes for Iron Horses - from L&N Magazine; The Man in the Tower; D&RGW in Eagle River Canyon - super centerfold photo; Uruapan Express; Two Early Trains - old-time photos; Great Britain's Garratt Locomotives; Women Railroaders. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, March 1944, Vol. 4, No. 5 *Chicago Union Station*
44 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Chicago Union Station - Super 9-page photo-illustrated article; Do You Know Timetables?; $375 in Prizes!; Railroads of Massachusetts; Adventure in Mexico; Short Lines - a Photo Story; Gold Dust Twins - Southern Pacific Specs.; Anti-Horse-Bolter - B&O Steam Dummy disguised as street car to pacify skittish equines; The Man in the Tower - Frederick (Fred) D. Underwood. Average wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Soiling to front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
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True West Magazine, April 1969 *The Story of Zane Grey*
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1969
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1977
Features: Remembering Walt - Pat Coburn is interviewed about her late husband, the "King of the Pulps" - Walt Coburn; Uncle Billy Jacobs' Story - a runaway boy hires on with the Pecos Carter and his Panhandle Pool outfit; Buried Treasure in Squirrel Gulch - the Colt 45, once belonged to William Brocius Graham, the famous Curly Bill; In Quest of a Coquillard Wagon; The Evenin' I Met Cull Mims; Taking a head count - the census; Christening the Red Onion - northwest Colorado; Arkichita and a wicked Texas Cowboy - Indian tracker versus Army bully... and guess who won! - Fort Wadsworth; What became of Cambria, Wyoming?; The Mysterious Pinkerton - undercover work at its most dangerous; California's Killer Flood - the winter of 1861-62; Living with "Aunt Sam" James; A Tenderfoot's Dangerous Trip - Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1967
Features: Pirate's Cove, California - Drake's Golden Hinde; Bugler, Sound the Advance! - the Cavalry; Breezy Cox - Champion all-round cowboy; Best of the Pockethunters - Pike Bell; N.C. Wyeth - Painter of men in action!; The Bitter Trip Back - Nathaniel Wyeth and the Green River Rendezvous; Treasure in a Syrup Can - a metal detecting success story; Revenge - Montenegrin style - Taft, Montana; Cache of the Thundering Horses - the Organ Mountains, New Mexico; How a Great Lawman Died - Bill Tilghman, Cromwell, Oklahoma; Lost Gold of the Lavas, Idaho; Old Sharpy of Buzzard Roost Ranch - W.T. (Tom) Sharp of Malahite in the Huerfano Valley, Colorado; Bulldoggers!; Wild Old Days!; Terlingua Flapdoodle. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, February 1969
Features: The Injuns called him Medicine Man - Charles M. Russell, Painter; How Great Falls, Montana Began; Belle Starr's Killer Revealed; Roll Up and Roll Out - a logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; John Jennings' Diamond; Long Remember - Thomas H. Graham, murdered husband of Anne Melton Graham; The Adventure of a Buffalo Hunter - Seth Hathaway; The Mighty McClure - Jake McClure revolutionized calf roping; Elusive loot of Shell Canyon; Wild Old Days; Jail Break - farmer style; The Trap Didn't Spring on Butch Cassidy?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1972
Features: What was your name in the States? - the use of the alias; Gold Bars From the Barnard Express - a story from near Kamloops, British Columbia; Ishi - a most remarkable Indian; A Stranger Rode with the Posse - Bill Everheart of Grayson County, Texas; The Palm of a Three-Fingered Glove; Tragedy of the Moffat Road; The blood of a hundred men! - Tom Starr of Oklahoma; Livin' High and Layin' Low in the Toquimas - to try it, head to Manhattan, Nevada; The Best Darn Vacation I Ever Had! - When a Kansan drinks water from the Pecos he knows he's been somewhere!; Cantankerous a Man as Ever Lived - Amos Hill of Green River; Wild Old Days!; Old West Curiosa - photos; The "Trunkman" Mystery. Average wear. One inch opening at top of coverfold. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1978
Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine: August 1972
Features: Honor among horse thieves; Mystery tablet of the Big Bend - Hot Springs, Texas; The Troubled Life of a Bicyclienne - Annie Sylvester; Mason's Cattle Drives; Story of an Emigrant Boy - Fort Mason, Texas; Idaho's Last Indian Scare; Hard Luck Iron Mule - used for pulling wagons across the plains; The Girl Who Waited at Seaman's Rest - Tacoma, Washington, 1905; Dead Man's Well - Was Susan Hail its Victim?; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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True West Magazine: November 1983
Features: Wild Indians of the 20th Century; Ever been attacked by an angry range mare? Don Bell has; The High Price of Strawberries - His Crimes began with Theft and Ended with Murder - Patrick Coughlin in Utah; True West Party - a gala gathering in the west; Sacred White Buffalo - Used in Secret Indian Ceremonies; Sarah Winnemucca and the War in the West (Northern Paiutes); Buffalo Calf Road - Indian Heroine - She Fought to Save Cheyenne Way of Life - a heart-rending story of an Indian woman who fought Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn; Terror in Central Texas - 15 to 40 Indians overtook the Riggs family, killed John Riggs and his wife and scalped them and carried off their two little girls; Forgotten Frontier Food - Part I; William Cary - Artist/Adventurer; That Crazy Young Man and His Flying Machine - Lyman Gilmore flew nine months before the Wrights - one of the most bizarre episodes to emerge from California's northern mines! Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine: October 1971
Features: Breakthrough - in 1906 the Imperial Valley suffered one of the worst man-made disasters of all time; A Story That Never Got Written - Timberline, the old Wyoming cowboy; The Little Green Tents - Walt Mason, "Poet Laureate of Ameica"; The Last Powwow and the Nicholson Family; Wolf-Kill Treasure - making life tough for prospectors; Who was George Matics?; General Ranald S. Mackenzie - his insanity and death; Mementos of Notriety - imfamous weapons; Grass-grown streets in Sierra Nevada - Part V - Columbia, Chinese Camp, Coulterville, Bagby and Bear Valley; Remember 'Chip of the Flying U"? - the B.M. Bower Books are in demand again; Wild Old Days; Travelin' Lilght - Tom Lipps; Tall Wolf's Macabre Necklace. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Vanity Fair Magazine, August 1995 *Keanu Reeves Cover*
164 pages. Features: The Wild One - Keanu Reeves on Sex, Hollywood and Life on the Run; Blood and Death on the Front Lines of the Ebola-Virus Nightmare; Scenes from Carly Simon's Tortured Family Album; The Inside Story of Kevin Costner's Disaster-Prone "Waterworld"; The Chaos in Women's Tennis. Bob Woodward's other Writing Partner; Marylou Whitney's Turf War; Malibu East and Dominick Dunne on the O.J. Simpson Trial. Light to moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Vogue (U.S.), October 2008 *Rachel Weisz Cover Photo*
380 pages. Features: Rosey Chan and Cassie Yukawa; Elizabeth Peyton's first large-scale retrospective; The tailors and dressmakers behind the Paris haute couture; Full Tweed Ahead; Furry coats and jackets; Rachel Weisz - cover story; Valerie Jarrett; Soprano Renee Fleming; the work of Karl Lagerfeld; Lash mania is gripping the nation; new boots for fall. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Weekend Magazine, November 11 1978 (Canadian Newspaper Supplement)
28 pages. Features: Would you die for your country?; Dancer Ann Ditchburn - article with colour photo; Colour ad for the Eddie Bauer Snap-Jac; Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau - article with photos; Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales at age 30; The story of Hollywood - article with colour photos; A day in the life of Pierre Cardin; Mud and Blood - Passchendaele in WWI; Fighting for Peace - Canadian Peacekeepers (The Princess Pats) in Cyprus; Job Description of Windsor Mayor Bert Weeks - short article with photo; A Wonderful Time - A wonderful sampling of the collection of over 35,000 Canadian postcards owned by Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Weekend Picture Magazine - The Sunday Times, Victoria, British Columbia, May 30, 1953 - Queen Elizabeth Coronation Issue
40 pages. Coverage of the coronation. Special coverage of Canadians at the Coronation; Nice colour ad for Kraft salad dressings; Coronation Extra - Story by O.P. Paterson; Art for the Great Day - Helen McKie is an authority on regalia; The Ceremony and its Meaning; Article on the Coronation candles made by a small shop in Mamaroneck, New York; Centerfold colour illustration of the Coronation Procession route; The Two (Queen) Elizabeths - part 3 of 3; Attractive full-page colour ad for Sheaffer's Snorkel pen - features hummingbird on dark background; Nipper cartoon by Dough Wright; Unexpected historical Coronation incidents; Full-page two-colour ad for BA and its Peerless motor oil; Elizabethan Cookery - The Gore Hotel in Kensington; N.H.L. Worried over Royal Reaction - Photos of the Queen and her husband at hockey games in Montreal and Toronto; This Duchess has Stamina - Mary, Duchess of Devonshire, Mistress of the Robes to the Queen; Half-page ad for M.G.M's fild "Young Bess"; Royalty as a Model, by Marcia Winn; Victoria Eighteen - story by Sholto Watt; Colour ad for Welch's Grape Juice on back cover; Super Coke ad on page 5 features boy eating burger. Average wear. Unmarked. Some chipping and short openings to bottom edges of some pages. A worthy copy of this special issue. Book
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Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine - Volume 13 Number 10 - October 1979
62 pages. Features: Around the corner and out of the way - some forgotten places with hidden treasures; Handcrafted Jewelry not that tough to do; locating collection sites; The mysteries of Hollister Peak; Hunting gemstones in New York - quartz, chrysoberyls, tourmaline, and diamonds; A bottle collector's heaven - Washington State; Trash and the treasure hunter; valuable dime found with low-priced detector; Don't give up - a story to encourage you; Mine hopping in Idaho; West Tennessee relic hunting - all civil war camps have not been worked out; Whiskey Run - a Pennsylvania ghost town; Time out to put on a hunt; Coin hunting in the world's greatest gold camp. Average wear. Book
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Western Wings - November - December / Christmas 1942: R.C.A.F. Sea Island (British Columbia)
52 pages. Features: Photo and "Aurevoir" by C.H. Greenway, Wing Commander, Commanding Officer; article by Chaplain F/L W.C. Daniel; The Philosopher and the Birds - A short Christmas Story; Ivan Ackery - A Master Showman, by LAC. S.R. Finkel; Station Adjutant Flight Lieutenant R.A. Kirkwood, by W01 K. Pugsley; Tops in Entertainment; Our First Station Dance; Sergeant John Chipman Kerr, V.C.; Film Cutting in One Uneasy Lesson, by Flying Officer Phillip Booth; Sports - considerable news of station sports activities; Phone interview with Lovely Susan Hawyard; Presentation of a Kittyhawk aircraft to the R.C.A.F.; Acceptance Testing of New Aircraft for the R.C.A.F., by W.L. Thomlinson, Squadron Leader; British Columbia Takes a Bow, by F/Sgt., D.J. Miller; Defence of the Airmen's Mess, by F/O H.J. Bird; Wonderful centerfold montage of photos with captions, and message from Commanding Officer; Army News; Women's Auxiliary to the Air Service; Nice photo ad for Harron Bros. Limited Funeral Home; Dozens of excellent vintage ads for Vancouver-area small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Tiny ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy of this vintage R.C.A.F. publication. Magazine
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Wild West - Volume 1, Number 1 June 1969
66 pages. Cowboy Issue. Features: Story of the Cowboy; Massacre at Bear River; Legend of the Lariat; The Day the West Went Fence Crazy; Cattleman's War Against the Gray Killer; The "Ten Gallon" Umbrella of the West; The Hired Killer; The American Bronco; Guns That Tamed the Western Frontier; The "Million Dollar" Jackass. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Wings April 1978 Volume 8 No. 2
Features: Did America enter WWII in 1938? The real story of Pre Lend-Lease French Hawk 75 Fighters; The search for speed - Part II of Howell Miller Designs; Miles & Atwood racer plans and drawings - the DH-4 "Flaming Coffins". Art: Curtiss P-36 Hawk at Wright Field; Miles & Atwood Racer 5-view; Miles & Atwood "Miss Tulsa" Special Profile and Cutaway Book
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Multiple Contributors
Wings August 1974 Volume 4 No. 4
Features: Birth of the B-17 - exclusive photo coverage of the prototype and YB-17s; The Razor's Edge - Anthony Fokker's D VIII; Would the XP-72 have been WWII's Finest Fighter? Concluding the Thunderbolt story. Art: Boeing Model 299 prototype arriving at Wright Field, 1935; Sextet of P-47 Thunderbold profiles including XP-47H and XP-47J. Tiny chip missing from lower corner of front cover. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Wings August 1977 Volume 7 No. 4
Features: 30 years and still not out! The story of the Canberra; Hellcat Nightfighters - WWII's best; "Gee Bee's" Q.E.D. - the Sky Conqueror; Boeing's PW-9. Art: Martin B-57 Canberras' Combat Canberras in Vietnam; Sarabia's "Sky Conqueror"; 5-view "Gee Bee" Q.E.D. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Wings December 1977 Volume 7 No. 6
Features: F6U-1 Pirate - Vought's First Jet - Color Profiles and Drawings; Flying the Boeing Clipper - Complete Operational History; Digging into Aviation's Archives - the Story of Huff-Daland. Art: Vought F6U-1 Pirate; Vought F6U Lineage Book
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Multiple Contributors
Wings June 1980 Volume 10 No. 3
Features: The real story of Lockheed's XP-58 "Chain Lightning"; Hitler's wonder weapon arsenal - exclusive pictures; Valiant - First of the V Bombers. Art: Lockheed XP-58; Vickers Valiant Mk1 Book
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Multiple Contributors
WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat), July / August 1985, Number 65 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
160 pages. Features: JENNY NORMAN comes alive - Jim Richardson builds a bugeye for himself; Pert Lowell and the Art of the Mast Hoop; VARUA - Soul of the Southern Sea - a tale of construction, reconstruction and new life; A Matter of Detail - the finer points of boatbuilding; A Story of Priorities - a realistic approach to restoration; My Brother Everett - The boatbuilder as artist, the artist as boatbuilder; Four great wooden boat regattas; A conversation with Dick Clarke - he keeps Lake Tahoe's classsics going strong; Bagging the GULL - Constant Camber goes Mono - Part II. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat), November / December 1984, Number 61 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
160 pages. Features: The Storys of Essex - a family shipbuilding tradition that spans three centuries; Brad Story - from shipbuilding to boatbuilding; The Light-Displacement Controversy - Farnham Butler's startling approach to practical yachts; The boats of Howard Blackburn, hero of Gloucester; Building the Kingfisher - Part I - a fast plywood single shell for the home builder; A RIVERKEEPER for the Hudson - high-performance patrol boat; The oldest boat from Fife still sails in Ireland; Harry Dring's Legacy - the ongoing preservation of ships; CHEROKEE - the several lives of a launch; Cold-Molded Overlay - How Bent Jesperson gets spectacular results. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
World War Investigator: Volume 1, No. 12, 1989
64 pages. Features: Massacre on Prebichl; Nakano School for Spies; Commandos in the Aegean; My Story - Mrs. Turner. Average wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors Including Margaret Atwood and many Others
Canada's Illustrated Heritage - Complete Set in 16 Volumes
Published in the late 1970s, this magnificently illustrated set brings to life the richness of our real Canadian past, in all its colour and vitality. "There are no fictional embellishments. Some of Canada's best authors have used sensitivity, imagination, and true literary skill to tell Canada's story as it really was. These are not academic textbooks, but a fascinating and accurate 'social history' that should appeal to everyone." - Professor J. Michael Bliss, University of Toronto. "Delivers a totally new and essential look at ourselves, with a broad down-to-realities approach." - Peter C. Newman. Includes the following volumes: The First Canadians, The Colonial Dream 1497-1760, Redcoats and Loyalists 1760-1815, Days of the Rebels 1815-1840, Pioneer Days 1840-1860, Dawn of the Nation 1860-1870, The Age of Innocence 1870-1880, Canada Moves Westward 1880-1890, The Naughty Nineties 1890-1900, Into the 20th Century 1900-1910, The Years of Agony 1910-1920, The Crazy Twenties 1920-1930, The Hungry Thirties 1930-1940, A Time of Heroes 1940-1950, The Booming Fifites 1950-1960, The Years of Progress 1960-1970. Moderate to average wear. Unmarked with the exception of the last volume which bears a few library markings. Binding of the 1930-1940 volume is taped at title page. Binding of the 1900-1910 volume is weak at title page. A quality copy of this magnificent set. Book
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