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Orchard, Imbert: Producer
Skeena - River of the Clouds : A Transcript from the 'People in Landscape' Series
41 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The story of the Skeena River in the days of the Indian freight canoes and the sternwheelers. Voices: Mrs. Constance Cox, Captain Joe Gardner; Mrs. Bert Glassey; Mrs. Veroca Godfrey; Chief Jeffrey Johnson; Mrs. Kathy Johnson; Mrs. Flora Martin; John Morison; Wiggs O'Neill; Mrs. Vicky Simms; Martin Starrett; Mrs. Grace Stephens; Miss B. Willscroft." - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian National Railways Magazine, July, 1935, Vol. XXI, No. 7
34 pages. Stories: Commuters by the Million - in London; The Snake Indian went Wild - operating trains up and down the centre of a rapidly-flowing river bed near Devona;Letters of a Sea Cadet - the second of a series of letters written by a cadet in the Canadian National Steamship service to his chum, a railroad man in Canada; The Railways and Development in Canada; Telegraphy - Past and Present; Through Canada's Provinces; Out of the Night (a story); 'Rotten Bologna Sausage' - recollections of a veteran of the Northwest Rebellion; Grand Trunk Agents in Session; the '84-mile Bridges - Car ferries on Lake Michigan; With the staff across Canada; Woman's Section; and much more. Please note that 3"x 4" clipping has been removed from page 34. Great 'Ford V8' ad inside back cover. Above-average wear but still intact. A great keepsake from the glory days of rail transportation in Canada. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Trains - The Magazine of Railoading: August 1971, Volume 31 Number 10
58 pages. Features: Many great photos; Mr. Young's X - the dream that died; All Railroads are living in glass houses; Over high trestles, into ocean mists - the last steam train leaves the Nanaimo River Camp of MacMillan Bloedel Limited on Vancouver Island; Voyaging Coast to Coast on an iron ocean. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December 1983
Feature: Colour news photos; Southern (CNO&TP) Class AS-11 USRA 0-8-0 No. 6030 (Brooks 1918), alias 'Dolly'; Rio Grande empties its Silver chest; The Grandest Railway terminal in America - in Philadelphia - a long and extensively illustrated article; The case of the California K4; Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Trains and Travel: February 1954, Volume 14, Number 4
Features: What an airport manager thinks of railraoding; Pennsy's new juice jacks; new photos; The GG-I's and the P5a's: on an uneasy throne?; Meet Harry Congdon, Railroad Vice-President; Photo entitle: 336, 250 pounds of tractive effort; an old whistle-listener takes the president of the Canadian National to task for the noises his diesels make; Little Pacifics in Canada... before the diesel showed up; Chilling stories from old-timers of the Current River Railroad; and more. Averge wear. Small date stamp upon front cover. Book
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Multiple Contributors
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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Multiple Contributors
Trains - The magazine of Railroading: April 1957 - Volume 17, Number 6
Features: 15 pages of mountain railroading!; Naotaka Hirota's Album; Narrow Gauge vs. the Great Blizzard of 1957; News Photos; From Altoona to the Allegheny River; Riding the head end of No. 32; 84 years go by on Fulton Street; The ghosts of Sam Vauclain's compounds and of boyhood vacations hung near the Jersey beaches as a handful of dirty high-wheelers recalled famous exploits and purely personal memories; Average wear. One inch stain to upper right corner of most pages; less than $50 buys an 1800 mile rail swing through the middle west guaranteed to please the most discriminating enthusiast; and more. Faint date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The magazine of Railroading: December 1982 - Volume 43, Number 2
Features: Yuletide on the Santa Fe Trail; Last ride to Leadville; Dixieland in search of sun; the lady and the Pennsy; Yellow dog extra; News photos; New River Trains; and more. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
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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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 35: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) April 17th, 1915
Front cover portrait of Lieutenant-General W.P. Pulteney, K.C.B., D.S.O. The clash of Slav and Prussian Brilliantly Described. Centerfold illustrates how "The Cossacks harried Hindenberg in his attempt to take Warsaw." Photos and illustrations include: Retreat of the Kaiser's Troops in East Prussia; Russian soldiers breaking ice on a Polish river; The German advance on Warsaw; The 'Lava' method of attack used by the Cossack army; and more. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 40: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) May 22nd, 1915
Front cover portrait of Lieutenant-General Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, C.B. The Russian Stand on the Five Rivers and the Battle of the Carpathians; Photos and illlustrations include: Germany's Christmas Day Air Raid on London; Bird's-eye view of Cuxhaven Harbour, at the mouth of the River Elbe; Full-page photographic portrait of Lieut.-General W.P. Pulteney, K.C.B., D.S.O., Commanding Third Army Corps; Austrian General Steger Steiner and staff in Galicia; 28-ton Austrian seige gun which fires a thousand pound projectile; and more. Covers secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 54: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) August 28th, 1915
Cover portrait of General Sir Archibald Hunter, G.C.B., D.S.O.. German Life in the first year of the war. The work of the Red Cross. Photos and Illustrations: 5 photo one-page montage of 'how officer-prisoners fared at Friedberg; 4 photos of everyday life of British POWs in Germany; One-page portrait of General Sir Ian Hamilton, commanding the Expeditionary Forces in the Dardanelles; Centerfold presents two photos of French engineers convoying war horses across a French river; Germans hand over their valuable gold, etc.; collection of domestic copper; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 121: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) December 9th, 1916
Cover portrait of General Mangin - Commander of the French troops that recaptured Fort Douaumont. The great Somme offensive - French attack and German counter-attack north of the river. Page 7 features 3 photos of gargantuan French rail-mounted guns. Photos of giant captured German periscope. Aerial photo of French troops in action arriving at Vermandovillers. Covers secured by tape. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Please note: photogravure is not included. Book
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Emo Historical Committee
The River of Time: A History of Emo
321 pages. Map endpapers. Many archival black and white illustrations. "Emo is located on the north side of the Rainy River opposite Indus, Minnesota, some 22 miles west of Fort Frances." - from page ix. Discreet gift greetings inside front board else unmarked. Moderate wear to book. Binding tight and square. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is missing a few chips and now preserved in a Brodart cover. Shortreed family news clipping from 1986 laid inside back board. Sound copy overall. Book
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Stacey, E. C.: Editor, The Beaverlodge and District Historical Association
Beaverlodge to the Rockies Plus Second Volume Supplement (ISBN 0919213200)
576 pages plus 348 pages in supplement. "This historical record is a compilation by the residents of the district in their own terms and encompassing their own interests." Covers the communities of Albright, Appleton, Beaverlodge, Bush Lake, Elmworth, Gimle, Halcourt, Hayfield, Hazelmere, Hinton Trail, Lower Beaverlodge, Mountain Trail, Rio Grande, Two Rivers, and West End. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely set in handsome red cloth adorned with brilliant gilt lettering and decorations. Book
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Shimizu, Yon
The Exiles: An Archival History of the World War II Japanese Road Camps in British Columbia and Ontario
609 pages. Index. References. "Primarily told through first hand reports written by men to 'The New Canadian', a Japanese-Canadian newspaper, letters which the censors reported to the authorities, and other correspondence of the government authorities who were responsible for them." - from back cover. Extensively documents this most painful of times for Canadians of Japanese ancestry. Clean, tight and unmarked. An important and uncommon reference. Book
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Author Not Stated
Salmon: The Drive to Survive on the Taku River - 26 Minute VHS Video Tape in Case
26 Minute VHS video tape in case. "The Taku River Tlingits, the non-native commercial fishery, and the Federal Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) have very different views toward the controversial issue of fishing management. This thorough documentary explores the many aspects that must be considered." - from front cover. Undated but appears to be circa 1990s. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Sphere Magazine - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: April 7, 1945
Features: Horrific opening photo of the ruins of Wesel bears the caption 'German cities are being pulverised to dust; photos of the British jet plane, the Gloster-Whittle; photos of the crossing of the River Rhine; Photos and details of Hitler's Berhof at Berchtesgaden; Photos of the capture of Mandalay; photos from Iwo Jima; The capture of Wesel; New equipment for use against Germans and 'Japs'; Pictures from Russia; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Duff, Wilson; Newcombe, Dr. C.F.
Stone Clubs from the Skeena River Area *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
12 pages. Bibliography. Thirty black and white illustrations of clubs. Inscribed and signed 'Wilson' atop first page. "Among the notes and photographs which the Provincial Museum acquired with the Newcombe Collection in 1961 was a small bundle marked 'Tsimshian stone batons.' It contained materials which Dr. Newcombe had assembled, with the intention of publishing an article, on a remarkable series of more than 35 carved stone clubs found together in a cache at an old village-site on the Bulkley Canyon near Hazelton in the upper Skeena area in 1898." - from page 1. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Langlois, W.J; et al: Editors
Sound Heritage Volume III Number 3
35 pages. "The feature article of this issue is about Steveston, a Japanese-Canadian fishing community on the Fraser River" - from page 1. Hard cover library binding with usual markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: September, 1969
Features: Special Feature - Apache Vengeance - The savage murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and deputy Hunkydory Holmes; Jesse (James), Frank and Cole; Gold-Filled Safe of Knight's Ferry - it floated down the Stanislaus River!; Terror on a Train - The "Harvest Excursion"; Massacre by White Men - The Tragedy of the Nueces; Tombstone 'Typos'; San Augustine Ranch House; Hobo, the horse that never quit; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: May, 1971
Features: A test of courage - Sitting Bull, last Sioux to lay down his gun; Last of the horseback outlaws - 'Arkansas Tom' Daugherty; Old Pete's (Pete Peterson's) Lost gold mine; Horse king of the northwest - Charlie Newell - Goldendale, Washington; Ghosts of the Rio Puerco; Motion Picture Vignettes; Murder at Rincon - Amasa Barton killed by the Navajos; High-Wheeling to Denver - bicycles were a status symbol in 1889; A Search for Home; Wes Cates - A Lawman's life in pictures; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: July, 1971
Features: Last rig to Battle Mountain - the last family to take the Humboldt Trail by covered wagon, led by Sherman Wilhelm, makes one of Nevada's richest gold strikes; Motion Picture Vignettes - Neal Hart; Clues to Frontier Treasure; Over-kill in Apache land - Camp Grant Massacre; Last rails across North America - Building the Grand Trunk; A hundred miles of lonely river - the Missouri River; Toughest school in the county - Oklahoma; Stars over Chloride, New Mexico; "My God, My Hero, My Ideal" - Joaquin Miller; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: May, 1972
Features: The ghosts of Inyo; Matadors walked the streets of Gillette! - Bull Fighting in Colorado; "We Must Kill" - medicine men near the Yukon River wanted to get rid of gold seekers; Colonel Tim McCoy - 30 years under crossed sabers; Up in the La Sals - A basin so rich 'you can run trees through the sawmill and the sawdust will assay at better than $10 a ton"; Life is just a chance you have to take; Lost Cabin Creek Mines (Dawson County, Montana); Amos Chapman, Scout - the hero of the Buffalo Wallow fight; Timberline Kate - Kate Knowlton at Monte Cristo; A Day at the Greene House - a youth confronts a Mexican mob; Cump Sherman out west - William T. Sherman was never able to take San Francisco... He was disoriented in the Bay City, unable to understand the mystique of gold; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: September, 1972
Features: Alaska Bound - Kenneth Gideon, a young mining engineer, heads for Crow Creek, Alaska; Double Hanging at Lincoln - a daughter writes of her father's murder and of its traumatic aftermath; Slate Mountain's Golden Tunnel - is really a golden tomb; Bully of the Town - Denton, Texas; A Trek to the Gold Fields; When Horse Trading was a Profession; Henry Wickenburg's Old Colt - brief glory with the Vulture Mine, then disillusionment; Tame the Wild River - Major Frank McLaughlin and what he did to the Feather River; Horsehead Crossing; The Stolen Claim; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: November, 1972
Features: Massacre! - in the 1850s, California's Indians were treated with heartless brutality; Gold of the Coquihalla River in British Columbia; Warrior's Witches - a display of temper earned an Indian girl a bad reputation; Fair Play Meant a Hanging - to the Fairplay 105; Sequoyah Houston fell to Cherokee Bill; Kit; Living on Borrowed Time - Horatio Larned saved the life of Porcupine... and thereby saved his own; Readin', 'Ritin', and Retribution - ; $110 per sack!; Northwest Trade Gun - the Indian's magic smoke pole; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: November 1973 *BADMAN-LAWMAN SPECIAL*
Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Old West Magazine - Summer 1966
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Baikie, Wallace
Rolling with the Times
193 pages. "A collection of stories which recall the history of the Piercy Clan from the late 1800's to the present, and recounts episodes of his life in early logging in British Columbia, from 'gypo logger' to his successful ventures as a contractor and independent logger. This is a special piece of history of our country, focussing on a small part of Vancouver Island." - from back cover. With the exception of some ink markings to page 57, book is clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Nice copy of this important compilation of Vancouver Island history. Book
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Mierendorf, Robert R.
Chert Procurement in the Upper Skagit River Valley of the Northern Cascade Range, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, Washington - Technical Report NPS/PNRNOCA/CRTR-93-001
Almost 200 pages. "Presents the results of an archaeological survey and text excavations at a prehistoric site, the Desolation Chert Quarry (45WH224), in the Ross Lake vicinity. The purpose of the test was to assess the significance of the quarry to the National Register of Historic Places." - from Abstract. Average wear. Usual library markings. Front hinge taped. Sound reference copy. Book
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The Arborfield History Book Committee
Echoes from the Past - a History of Arborfield (Saskatchewan) and District
450 pages. Index. Many dozens of black and white illustrations. "Our aim is to recall names and incidents of the past and by relating individual experiences to help you see the real history of our community." - from Preface. Topics include: Some well-known people; Our roll of honour; Moose Range; Addington; Jordan River; Vercheres; Connell Creek; Megan; Pembina; Arborfield; Hillworth; Moosedale; Berkley; Ravenhurst; Family histories; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, July 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Wise old man - tales from the Amazon remote jungle vastness; A Sailor on Horseback - the adventures of a young British Seaman who tries his luck ashore in the U.S. with a logging outfit in Arkansas... but must hitch-hike 1,200 miles to get there; A Grim Story of Dope-Running on the Egyptian Border; Lunch-time Tiger at a Pathan Village; The Castaways of the Dundonald - one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - great photos; Three firemen, tired of the food and work on their tramp steamer, jump ship in South America; Ghost Town Memories of the Western States of America; Across the Kalahari Desert in motorcar by the dried-up bed of the Kuruman River - nice photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, March 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Unknown New Zealand - misadventure leads to one of the most remarkable and difficult rescues in New Zealand annals; Saharan Adventure - A memorable camel journey right across the Sahara; Six Wild Sheep - experiences while capturing Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo - several photos; The Pirates of the 'Ethel' - An authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Slippery - a cat goes to sea; Oakhill's 'Souvenir' - Crocodile hunting on the Gregory River; The Tame Bandit - a Chinese achieves vengeance during the troubles in Malaya; Phases of Life from all over the world - Cockeye, ex-inspector, British South Africa Police; Guardians of the Mountains - the Warden's of Canada's western National Parks; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Vanished Trophy - a story for horse-lovers, the missing King George V International Jumping Championship Trophy; Saharan Adventure (continued) - fascinating account of a trip across the Sahara - Tuareg Tribesmen; Death in the Jungle - exploring the Rio Bobonaza for gold; Catching Wild Pigs Alive in Australia; Cyclone - a young seaman's description of his first experience of a circular storm; The Pay-Back - hunting a cattle-killing lion in Rhodesia; Kenai - deaf lead sled dog; The Big Fish - what happened to two young men night-fishing at the northern end of the Inner Sound of the island of Skye off the west coast of Scotland; Wealth in Bird's Nests - in search of the ingredient for the Chinese delicacy birds'-nest soup; and more. Chips from spine else unmarked with average wear. Back cover partially loose. Decent copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, February 1957, Australian Edition
Features: Abdullahi's Quest - treachery and death in the East Africa Protectorate; Battle of the Dragons - I Know and Island, Part VIII - monstrous flesh-eating dragons of Komodo; Savage Vengeance - Japanese Pearl Fishers and Australian Aborigines; Terror Takes Over - an instalment of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' in the French Guiana jungle; Timber Wolves of Beaver Lake - Alford Harrison waged a ceaseless war on the killer wolves of British Columbia; Fugitives Adrift - a stolen whaleboat in the Cook Islands; Kesobo's Warning - An Indian senses a message from his father 150 miles distant; Maneater of Sirni - a giant crocodile in the Ghandak River; Hunting the Drug Smugglers - Drug Traffickers in Singapore and the chandu scourge; The Dead Carried Gold - a tale from the Isle of Anglesey in 1859; Yafouba Magic - a tale from the Ivory Coast; and more. Chips from backstrip. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, May 1954, Australian Edition
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine - July 1953, Australian Edition
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, November 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - searching for a missing airplane several hundred mile s inside the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - a plane trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - the sheep farmers of Souther France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a terrifying experience related by well-known author G.E.G. Plant, F.R.G.S.; Black Frost - a striking story of the hard life of Newfoundland fishermen; When the Flood Came - the adventure of an English Farmer; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat, an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go tale from Tanganyika; These Men are Tough - Australian Cattle Men; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to open a West African river; and more. Average wear. Few chips from backstrip. Sound copy Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, October 1952
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
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Roth, George; Clack, William
Canadian Pacific's Electric Lines: Grand River Railway and the Lake Erie & Northern Railway
32 pages. Map, car rosters and many black and white archival photos. "The name Canadian Pacific Electric Lines is the unofficial title given to the small electric railways leased by Canadian Pacific in Southern Ontario in the early 1900s. These began in Waterloo County between Galt and Preston and the first line, the Galt and Preston Street Railway opened on July 26, 1894." - from page one. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Bit of sticker remnant atop front cover. Sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
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Howe, C.D.; White, J.H.
Trent Watershed Survey: A Reconnaissance
156 pages. Index. Excellent black and white photos. Nice colour map entitled "Forest Distribution in Trent River Watershed" (34"x36") stored in pocket inside back board. Also present is a colour map entitled "Crown Timber Lands 1912" which covers the same geography and measures 21"x20". Final item in pocket is a chart showing "Classification of Land, Trent Watershed, Ont. 1912". Gilt lettering upon backstrip and front board. Initials upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Binding sound. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Scientific American, May 1970, Volume 222 Number 5 - Sulfur
Features: Chemical and biological weapons; the surface of mars; the calefaction of a river; sulfur; intercellular communication; 'second sound' in solid helium; how we remember what we see; early views on forces between atoms. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Wilmeth, R.: Editor
Salvage Contributions: Prairie Provinces - National Museum of Man Mercury Series - Archaeological Survey of Canada, Paper No. 33
206 pages. Topics: The Stendall Site (C3-Wa-1) in the rural municipalilty of Wallace, Manitoba; A Salvage Survey of the Upper Highwood and Elbow River Basins and the Adjacent Upper Kananaskis Basin, Alberta; Preliminary Investigation in the St. Mary and Belly River Regions, 1973; Preliminary Description and Interpretation of the S.S. Burmis Site (DjPn-62) 1974; Chipman River Survey and Excavation, Black Lake; The Bakken-Wright Site - a multi-component bison kill in southwestern Saskatchewan. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Old West Magazine: Fall, 1983
Features: Bloodiest Miles on the Union Pacific - The Indians Nearly Stopped Construction of the Railroadi; Barney Riggs - Man of Violence - he was sent to prison for killing one man and turned loose for killing two!; Butch Cassidy Didn't Do It - The Winnemucca Bank Robbery; Black Widow of Kansas - Nellie Benthusen-Bailey-Reece; Frontier Heartbreak - the story of Darius Athorp and his wife, Harriet - separated forever; Muscatel and a Mule; Mustangs (wild horses) on the Gila River; Last of the Lednhi; Terror in the Night - Bald Knobbers; Sourdough from the Old West - with recipes; Masterton's Militia - a short career for Bat's Brother; Jim White - Boss Hunter; The Christmas Kiss. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Old West Magazine: Winter 1980
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Fall 1980
Features: Daniel - Potter Feud... a grim Arkansas frontier recollection of bloodletting whose beginning had no neutral witnesses; Beloved Cowboy, Ben Bird; D. Storms' High Mesa - there was a strange alliance between river refugees and a lawyer few people ever really understood (Stormsville); The Ancient Eel Trail; Mule Meat and Shoe Leather - travails on the 19th Kansas Cavalry; Seeking the Lost Adam; A Frontier Doctor - Part I; Deadwood, South Dakota; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter 1978
Features: Cord of Death - Bloody Bill Anderson tied 53 knots in his silken; Llano Estacado - the savage 'staked plains of West Texas and New Mexico; Not Even a Drink - train robbery at Dale Creek, Wyoming; Curly Bill Brocius - The Counterfeit Gunman of Tombstone; The Donner Strategy; Indian Bow and Arrow Making; I Smuggled Guns Across the Border - caught in the maelstrom of Mexican revolution, the plight of the Mormon colonists in Mexico was a harrowing experience; Eagle Mills, Nebraska; Murder on the Snake - New York Bar was an isolated river boat station until E.H. Cummings was brutally axed; Riding the High Country, by Patrick T. Tucker - Part I; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1978
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter, 1974
Features: Cowboy Strongman - Tom Tyler; Lost Lead/Silver Vein on New River; The Saga of Mike Devaney; Penalty for a Midnight Robbery; That Topographical Ghost - Horsehead Crossing; Three Quick Rifle Shots; What's the Use of Going On?; A Hobo's Christmas Eve; David Crockett's Unheroic Grandson; Old San Diego's Haunted House; The Shooting Above Goldman's Saloon; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Fall, 1974
Features: A Brief History of Early Days in North Texas and Indian Territory; Ghosts of the Copper Bells; God was with me; The Clearinghouse Mine; Old Boz - Yankee with a Gun; A Stagecoach Reunion; "I Rode for Gerlach"; The Dancing Countryman; River Rider; Old Morenci, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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