Pacaritambo

THE ADOBE BOOK
by John F. O'Connor. B&W drawings & photos by Author. Condition:NEW 1973 Ancient City Press large softcover, 8th printing (c. 1990s). Content: This is literally everything you ever need to build an adobe home - well, ok, you need the land and the materials - but this book provides detailed schematics and how-to instructions for every aspect of building, including air condition, heating, plumbing, etc. Text of this book was used in a class I took in New Mexico back in the early 1990s - so that's why I assumed it was published about that time. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 15.49 + $ 3.19 media shipping.

IMAGES OF THE OLD WEST:
The Paintings of Mort Kunstler and The Text of Dee Brown
by Mort Kunstler and Dee Brown. Color artwork. Condition: UNREAD Very Good 1996 Park Lane Press (Random House) over-sized hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Interior clean & tight, but some shelfwear to bottom boards. DJ has large, thin chip bottom front edge & other edgewear. Beautiful full-page color artwork. Content: The paintings of Mort Kunstler illustrate the stories Dee Brown tells about Native Americans, gunfighters, mountain men, cowboys, and other inhabitants of the Old West. Questions encouraged. [1 copy available]
$ 18.50 + $3.59 media shipping.

ROPING: Trick and Fancy Rope Spinning
by Chester Byers. Foreword by Will Rogers. B&W photos & drawings. Condition: Gently pre-read 1988 Applewood Books small softcover with tiny edgewear and a light ring back cover. Interior clean & tight. Appears to have been rad to about page 6 and abandoned. Content: An instructive how-to book from the 1920s - 30s on trick and fancy rope spinning. Chapter1 - Principles of Rope Spinning; Chapter 2 - The Flat Loops; Chapter 3 - Vertical Loops; Chapter 4 - Jumping In and Out of a Loop While It Is Spinning; Chapter 5 - Stunts; Chapter 6 - History of Roping. Excellent, detailed drawings illustrate each chapter. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WESTERN HORSE: Advice and Training
by Dave Jones. Tons of B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1991 University of Oklahoma Press Trade Paperback, firth printing. Tiny, tiny nick to spine at front hinge. Interior clean & tight as befits a new book. Content: Advises aspiring trainers on the techniques and problems of buying, breeding, and handling horses from the first gentling and breaking through advanced training, roping, and cutting. [1 copy available]
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WESTERN WORDS: A Dictionary of the Old West
by the great Ramon F. Adams. Condition: NEW 1998 Hippocrene Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Western history books, novels, and movies (see TNT's "Purgatory" & Costner's "Open Range") are becoming more "accurate" with the language that was used during the great cowboy era of the US. This book will help you with that terminology. Ramon F. Adams was one of the great historians of this period. His "Burs Under the Saddle" and "More Burs Under the Saddle" should be mandatory reading for those studying this period in our history. Cute Review: "If yer looking fer a dog to kick cuz your friend got his neck streched by some pepper gut sheep dippers this book is fer you. If not then you probably don't have enough guts to make a string of ghost cord and you better look over your shoulder or someone will make wolves meat of you." Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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YOUNG MEN AND FIRE
by Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It). B&W maps with B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1994 University of Chicago Press Trade Paperback, 9th printing. Light edge wear. Interior clean & tight. Content: On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge--the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery of paratrooper-firefighters, many of them fresh veterans of World War II, had been anticipating it, and even looking forward to the chance to fight a great fire. Before the day ended thirteen of those smokejumpers lay dead, their charred remains evidence that something had gone terribly wrong. Norman Maclean gives a thorough account of the incident in language not meant for the squeamish: "Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times ... first, considerably ahead of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of strange gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes." After August 1949, he notes, the Forest Service came to recognize that not all fires need to be fought and that fire benefits most forest ecosystems. MacLean, who had been both a forester and a firefighter in his youth, left the manuscript of this monumental work unfinished at his own death in 1990, at the age of 88; he had spent 14 years writing it. [1 copy available]
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