“Out Where the West Begins”—Edition Limited to 25 Copies
876. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other
Small Songs of a Big Country. N.p., n.d. [title verso: Copyright 1916/by
Arthur Chapman/Press of Carson-Harper/Denver, Colorado]. 15 pp. 12mo, original
grey printed wrappers. Very fine; interesting association copy. Laid in is an
undated one-page manuscript letter written and signed in pencil by J. Harry
Carson, (managing editor of the Railroad Red Book Monthly), to George
L. Beam, Passenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad sending
Beam this copy of Chapman’s book and stating that the book was printed in an
edition of only 25 copies (“I have a couple of copies over printed—the edition
was only 25.... I really have no right to send out these books, but it is more
or less a family affair”). Carson’s letter is written on the printed stationery
of the Railroad Red Book Monthly.
First edition (the title poem “Out Where the West Begins”
first appeared in print on December 3, 1911, in “Center Shots,” the column that
Chapman wrote for the Denver Republican); limited edition (25
copies printed, according to J. Harry Carson’s letter laid in the book—see previous
paragraph). Carson-Harper (the printer of Chapman’s book) published the Railroad
Red Book Monthly (1884-1925), which contained timetables and other
material pertinent to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and Western Pacific
Railway. Campbell, p. 225. Fourteen poems about cowboys and the West by Arthur
Chapman (1873-1935), poet-journalist, including his Western classic, “Out Where
the West Begins.” Legend has it that with only ten minutes left before the deadline
for submitting copy for his column, Chapman glanced at some wire news about
the Western states governors bickering over where the West began—the Alleghenies,
the Mississippi, or someplace else. Chapman solved his problem by dashing off
“Out Where the West Begins.” He promptly forgot his jingle and was astounded
at the warm national reception his little poem received. Chapman began his newspaper
career on the Chicago Daily News in 1895 and joined the Denver Republican
three years later. In 1913 he became managing editor of the Denver Times,
and subsequently relocated to New York. Chapman was considered “a crack newspaperman,”
but the magazine articles and books he wrote brought him national recognition.
He returned to Colorado several times to gather information on a Colorado history
he planned to write.
This slender wrapper-bound book is quite scarce. RLIN locates only
a microfilm copy, without date on title (as in the present copy). OCLC gives
six locations (unable to determine if the date 1916 is on the title or not).
The earliest date for Chapman’s book title Out Where the West Begins
is Denver, 1916. The poem was very popular. OCLC lists over a dozen printings
with this poem named in the title. Other printed versions of the poem include
a large illustrated postcard and a version set to music for chorus. $250.00
877. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Small Songs of a Big Country. [Denver: Carson-Harper, 1916]. Another copy. Very fine. $165.00
878. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other
Western Verses. Boston, New York & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company
& Riverside Press, 1917. ix [3] 90 [4] pp., photographic endpapers. 12mo,
original half brown cloth over grey boards. Binding lightly worn and with mild
marginal browning and one small spot on upper cover, internally fine, in lightly
worn d.j. (price-clipped). Author’s signed presentation copy to noted writer
William MacLeod Raine (to whom Chapman dedicated his book The Pony Express:
“In recognition of their large share in making this book: To Will and Mrs. Raine
in whose friendship the Chapmans have always rejoiced. Arthur Chapman, Denver,
March, 1917.”
First edition. This work contains over fifty verses, including
“Out Where the West Begins,” “The Dude Ranch,” “The Cowboys and the Tempter,”
“A Cowboy’s Musings,” “The Herder’s Reverie,” “Border Riders,” “The Range Pirates,”
“The Ostrich-Punching of Arroyo Al,” “Before the Gringo Came,” etc.
$80.00
879. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses. Boston, New York & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1917. Another copy. Author’s signed presentation copy incorporating some lines from his famous poem: “‘Where there’s more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying—That’s where the West begins.’ With the author’s compliments to Mr. A. J. Fynn. Arthur Chapman, Denver, Colorado, Dec. 15, 1917.” Light shelf wear, otherwise very fine in price-clipped d.j. (somewhat worn and chipped). $65.00
880. CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses. Boston, New York & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company & Riverside Press, 1917. Another copy, author’s signed presentation copy: “With the compliments of Arthur Chapman. Denver, March 12, 1917.” Very fine, without the d.j. $55.00
881. CHAPMAN, Arthur. The Pony Express: The Record of a
Romantic Adventure in Business. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1932. 319 pp., frontispiece, plates (mostly photographic), endpaper maps. 8vo,
original tan buckram. A few signatures opened carelessly, otherwise very fine
in fine d.j. illustrated by Will Crawford (the d.j. is scarce).
First edition. Dobie, p. 80: “Good reading and bibliography.”
Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Crawford 16). Guns 412:
“Scarce.” Howes C291. Saunders 2809. Wynar 6714. The book contains little on
ranching, but we include it here because of the excellent discussion of the
ponies and horsemanship of the daring riders. Furthermore, there is a fine description
and illustration (p. 86 et seq.) of the Pony Express saddle designed under the
direction of W. A. Cates, Pony Express rider. Chapman discusses how the Pony
Express saddle was a modified design of the regular stock saddle then in use
in the West, noting that the “California tree” was lighter than the heavy model
evolved from the vaquero saddle, which had been found most comfortable for man
and horse in roundup work and day-to-day riding on the range. In chapter 15
(“Youth in the Saddle”), Chapman maintains that the appeal of the West in the
Pony Express era, unlike the Gold Rush with its mad quest for treasure, was
adventure and the attraction of vocations like ranching, freighting, and staging
as an escape from the humdrum life in the East and Midwest. “These young adventurers
of the trail supplied the Pony Express with some of its best riders. Among the
half a dozen Overland ‘Pony’ riders whom I have chanced to know, every one,
at some time in his story, has brought out the fact that he had drifted west
in search of excitement. It was the same spirit that sent thousands of others
to the west, later on, to seek jobs as cowboys” (pp. 224-25). $100.00
882. CHAPMAN, Arthur. The Story of Colorado: Out Where
the West Begins. Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, [1924].
270 pp., color frontispiece of Spanish explorers in the Southwest by Will Crawford,
numerous plates, text illustrations (2 by Crawford), maps. 8vo, original blue
and green gilt-pictorial cloth. A desirable copy—fine, fresh, tight, and bright.
First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators
(Crawford 15). Herd 447. Wilcox, p. 23: “Intended as a textbook for the
schools of Colorado.” Wynar 18. Has a chapter on “Live Stock and Agricultural
Industries.” The preface includes Chapman’s poem “Out Where the West Begins.”
Pp. 182-84: “There is no way of estimating the number of cowboys who were in
Colorado when the cattle business in this state had reached its height in the
eighties, but there were many thousands...most of the available grazing lands
in the state were occupied by vast herds.... The cattle business began in a
small way in Colorado about the time it started in Texas, in the early sixties....
The buffalo were not yet out of the state before their range was shared by domestic
cattle, running with almost as great freedom as the wild animals and looked
after only twice a year, at the spring and fall round-ups.” $65.00
883. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. More Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Bennett Printing Company, 1961. 58
[1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original terracotta
cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j. illustrated by José Cisneros.
First edition, limited edition (300 copies). Dykes, Fifty
Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 43). Guns 414. Lowman, Printer
at the Pass 131A. Tularosa is in Otero County, New Mexico, just north of
El Paso. This volume includes a chapter on Three Rivers Ranch and the formation
of Otero County, which had been the part of Lincoln County where the stock war
occurred. Includes material on Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
$85.00
884. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. More Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Bennett Printing Company, 1961. 58
[1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red pictorial
wrappers by Cisneros. Very fine.
First edition, wrappers issue. Dykes, Fifty Great Western
Illustrators (Cisneros 44). Lowman, Printer at the Pass 131B.
$40.00
885. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. More Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Designed by Carl Hertzog for] Bennett Printing Company, 1966. 58
[1] pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original grey pictorial
wrappers by Cisneros. Mild edge wear to wraps, else fine, signed by author.
Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate.
Later printing. $20.00
886. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. [8] 69 [1] pp., illustrated
title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one
double-page). 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in d.j. by Cisneros.
Signed by author on front free endpaper, and author’s signed presentation note
on verso: “Best wishes to Mr. & Mrs. A. E. McClymonds—friends of the Camp
Charles’s. Bula Charles Alamogordo N.M. 2-27-1957.”
First edition, limited edition (100 copies bound in cloth).
Guns 415 (giving incorrect publication date of 1963). Dykes, Fifty
Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 42). Lowman, Printer at the Pass
82A: “The exceptionally fine title-page drawing (of a young Gene Rhodes on horseback)
and the illustrated map (repeated on the covers) are the work of José Cisneros.”
Chapters on Eugene Manlove Rhodes and the Apache Kid, noted rustler and outlaw.
Edited by Francis L. Fugate. $100.00
887. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. by Cisneros. Signed by author on verso of front free endpaper. $95.00
888. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo, [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. Another copy. Very fine in d.j. by Cisneros, with publisher’s announcement laid in (signed by Lola Charles and Carl Hertzog). $75.00
889. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. [8] 69 [1] pp., illustrated
title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one
double-page). 8vo, original terracotta pictorial wrappers by Cisneros. Slight
edge wear to fragile wraps, but overall fine, signed by author on verso of front
free endpaper.
First edition, wrappers issue. Lowman, Printer at the
Pass 82B. $45.00
890. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa. Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1953. Another copy. Wrappers detaching at staples. Paper fragment on inside upper wrapper. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate and pencil note on front free endpaper: “1st ed does not have footnote on pages 7 & 49”. $40.00
891. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1954. [8] 69 pp., illustrated
title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one
double-page). 8vo, original terracotta cloth, pale green King Ranch mesquite
endpapers. Light staining in gutters, otherwise very fine in d.j. by Cisneros
(second partial d.j. also present). Signed by artist Cisneros on title verso.
Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown and his pencil note
at back: “Logging train near Cloudcroft. The narrow gauge railroad.” Printed
slip regarding fourth printing laid in at rear.
Third printing, revised (footnotes added on pp. 7 and 49, colophon
at end removed). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 41n).
Lowman, Printer at the Pass 87A. From a personal communication with Al
Lowman: “It may very well be a unique copy that Carl cobbled together from left-over
scraps. It was the sort of thing he would do to bug bibliographers. If he thought
it might look appealing, he wouldn't hesitate to do it. And I remember having
seen that copy. Once the King Ranch book was finished, he was so intrigued with
the mesquite endpapers that he used them again in the so-called Colophon Edition
of Forty Years at El Paso—of which there were perhaps a hundred copies
only.” $40.00
892. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1954. Another copy, variant
endpapers (maize King Ranch mesquite endpapers). Light staining in gutters,
otherwise very fine in d.j. by Cisneros. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate
and ink note on inside flap of d.j.: “Later binding 1961.” Printed slip regarding
fourth printing laid in at rear.
Third printing, revised. $40.00
893. CHARLES, Mrs. Tom [Bula]. Tales of the Tularosa.
Alamogordo: [Carl Hertzog for Mrs. Tom Charles], 1954. [8] 69 pp., illustrated
title by Cisneros, text illustrations (photographic), maps by Cisneros (one
double-page). 8vo, original terracotta pictorial wrappers by Cisneros. Wrappers
detached and moderately worn. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate.
Third printing, wrappers issue. Lowman, Printer at the Pass
87B. $20.00
894. CHASE, Agnes. First Book of Grasses: The Structure
of Grasses Explained for Beginners. San Antonio: W. A. Silveus, 1937. xiii
[3] 125 pp., text illustrations. 12mo, original light green cloth. Binding spotted
and faded, text fine.
Revised edition (first published in 1922). A study of the forage
that is the basis for the cattle industry. $20.00
895. CHASE, Doris. They Pushed Back the Forest. [Sacramento],
1959. 78 pp., text illustrations (mostly photographic), maps. 8vo, original
stiff blue pictorial wrappers. Very fine, signed by author.
First edition. The primary industries of Del Norte County,
in northern California, are lumber, tourism, and dairying. There is a description
DeMartin Ranch, particularly interesting for its account of bear depredations
on sheep herds. $30.00
896. CHASE, Edward L. The Big Book of Horses. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 1951. [26] pp., color illustrations by author. Folio,
original green pictorial boards. Head of spine torn (approximately 2.5 cm),
otherwise fine.
Children’s picture book of horses with brief explanatory text on
breeds and history. Double-page illustration of “Cutting Pony and the Quarter
Horse” showing a herding scene. $10.00
897. CHASE, J. Smeaton. California Desert Trails. With...an
Appendix of Plants. Also Hints on Desert Travelling. Boston & New York:
Houghton Mifflin Company, [1919]. [1, ad] xvi [2] 387 [1] pp., photographic
plates. 8vo, original olive pictorial cloth. Bookplate partially removed from
front pastedown, otherwise very fine.
First edition, early reprint (without date on title). Edwards,
Enduring Desert, p. 48: “One of the two outstanding books descriptive
of the Colorado Desert.... All phases of desert life and desert conditions are
ably covered.... Indispensable to any library, large or small, whether
for desert lover or desert stranger.” Flake 1259a. Rocq 16222. Description of
Warner’s Ranch, driving cattle by the desert route and use of Borego Springs,
challenges to livestock from desert climate and sparse, thorny forage, etc.
$50.00
898. CHATELLE, Miriam. For We Love Our Valley Home.
San Antonio: Naylor, [1948]. x, 114 [2, blank] [28, ads] pp., photographic plates,
illustrated ads. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine in fine d.j.
First edition. Not in CBC. Regional history of the
Rio Grande Valley in which Chatelle discusses early Spanish land grants. She
relates that prior to the Mexican-American War, longhorn cattle of the brasada
were gathered by vaqueros for hides and tallow, which were picked up by schooners
belonging to Boston merchants. A section on bandits discusses dispossessed Mexican
rancher Juan Nepomucena Cortinas and his raids. The nature of cattle raising
was quite relaxed in the Valley—most ranchers lived on the river bank with their
cattle running almost wild in the brush country along the river. Includes material
on Richard King, Mifflin Kenedy, and the King Ranch. Los Fresnos, the author’s
home town, receives special attention, beginning with the history of the 1791
Espíritu Santo Grant to José Salvador de la Garza and its 1846 division into
long narrow strips extending to the river, which allowed each landowner unrestricted
access to water for stock. The author discusses the 1918 cattle rustling and
how her family was forced to abandon their home in the wake of the violence.
$60.00
899. CHATTERTON, Fenimore C. Yesterday’s Wyoming: The Intimate
Memoirs of Fenimore Chatterton, Territorial Citizen, Governor, Builder. [Aurora,
Colorado]: Powder River Publishers & Booksellers, 1957. 133 pp., author’s
portrait tipped onto preliminary leaf, plates (photographic). 8vo, original
blue cloth. Very fine in very fine d.j.
First edition, limited edition (#415 of 1,000 copies).
Guns 416. Herd 452: “Has some material on the Wyoming cattle industry
and the Johnson County War.” $70.00
900. CHÁVEZ, Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families in
the Spanish Colonial Period.... Santa Fe: Historical Society of New Mexico,
1954. xvii [3] 339 [1] pp., facsimiles, text illustrations (some by José Cisneros).
Large 4to, original stiff wrappers printed in red and black with illustration
by Cisneros. Fine.
First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators
(Cisneros 45). A vast compendium of genealogical information on New Mexico spanning
the years from 1598 to 1821. Excellent coverage of land grants, biographies
of early ranchers and stockmen, occasional mention of livestock.
$165.00
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