Original Walker price

[Crawdad1]

Just bought it Dog!!! Should be here June 2nd.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Crawdad1]

I now have 3 volumes of 'Classic of the Old West' the one I just bought 'Life Among The Apaches' and 'The Vigilantes of Montana'

Interesting about that was Henry Plummer another 'Shootist' who loved the '51 Navy Colt.

 

[Clayguy]

Crawdad, The book by CA Siringo. 15 years on the Hurricane Deck of a Cow Pony is interesting. CA Siringo was a famous Western Law Man as well. He ended up running an Ice Cream Parlor In San Francisco, Ca. So the legends say?


https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Cowboy...otated-ebook/dp/B06XP8CDJ7/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

Thanks for the tip! Just ordered on Amazon. Love these books!

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

As I recall? He said, the "Cow Outfits" did not allow them to carry loaded firearms. They had to be stored in the supply wagons. That makes sense. One shot and a 1,000 head of Long Horns would scatter to Hell and back.
He never mentioned shooting the old Colt. I am sure that he did. However the .45 Colt rounds were very expensive. They often only bought maybe 2 or 3 rounds at a time. Saloons accepted .45 Colt rounds for cash. A .45 round bought a shot of cheap whisky.
Towns on the Texas trails banned the carrying of sidearms. It seems it was a problem not about gun fights. It was more about drunken drovers shooting and wounding their own horses. They would typically just take their saddles and leave the animals for the town to clean up. Like today the taxpayers complained.
He did mention shooting an Eagle in a tree top. He used a .40 Caliber Cap & Ball rifle made in North Carolina. The real cowboys were young kids. They were often barefoot and ragged. This was hard gritty work following the Civil War.
This is not connected but and example. The history of the Johnson County War in Wyoming notes this. The hired Texas gun fighters were caught in a blizzard. They did not own boots. Their bare feet suffered frost bite. The "B" movies and real life may have been very different.

This is anecdotal and a recount of family history. I am not claiming it is historically correct. If you enjoy it accept it for what it is.

I have read of many places well into the 1950's selling ammo by the single round. Cigarettes were often sold singular also. Up until WW2 a lot of people just did not have cash money even in good times, let alone bad times. Life as stated above was very different in those days.

 

[daboyleroy]

I now have 3 volumes of 'Classic of the Old West' the one I just bought 'Life Among The Apaches' and 'The Vigilantes of Montana'

Interesting about that was Henry Plummer another 'Shootist' who loved the '51 Navy Colt.

Classics of the Old West: Time-Life Series
There are 31 titles in this series. The series was printed in two versions; Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition. The Standard Edition has faux-leather covers, plain white edges; the Deluxe Edition has real leather covers, gilt edges, integral ribbon bookmarks.
♠"Uncle Dick" Wootton, the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region - Dick Wootton
♠A Journey through Texas - Frederick Olmsted
♠A Texas Cow Boy - Charles A. Siringo
♠A Tour on the Prairies - Washington Irving
♠Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows - Margaret Irvin Carring
♠Adventures with Indians and game, or, Twenty years in the Rocky Mountains - William Alonzo Allen
♠Captivity of the Oatman girls - Royal B. Stratton
♠Death Valley in '49 - William Lewis Manly
♠Eldorado Vol I - Bayard Taylor
♠Eldorado Vol II - Bayard Taylor
♠Life Among the Apaches - John Carey Cermony
♠Life in the Far West - George Frederick Augus Ruxton
♠Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings - Alonzo Delano
♠Mountains and Molehills - Frank Marryat
♠My Sixty Years on the Plains - William Thomas Hamilton
♠On the Border with Crook - John Gregory Bourke
♠Ranch Life and the Hunting-trail - Theodore Roosevelt
♠Roughing It - Mark Twain
♠The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace - John C. Duval
♠The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid - Pat F. Garrett
♠The California and Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman
♠The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard - Joe De Barthe
♠The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill - Buffalo Bill
♠The Log of a Cowboy - Andy Adams
♠The Old Santa Fé Trail - Henry Inman
♠The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions - Rudolph Barnes Marcy
♠The Romance of the Colorado River - Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
♠The Vigilantes of Montana - Thomas Josiah Dimsdale
♠Vanished Arizona - Martha Summerhayes
♠Wah-to-yah, and the Taos trail, or, Prairie travel and scalp dances - Lewis Hector Gerrard
♠Wild Life in the Far West - James Hobbs

 

[Crawdad1]

Thanks daboyleroy!! As I only have 3 volumes all with the leather bond and gilded edges I guess I have some work ahead of me.

 

[daboyleroy]

Thanks daboyleroy!! As I only have 3 volumes all with the leather bond and gilded edges I guess I have some work ahead on me.

I started out with the leather and gold edges, bookmark ribbons.....now the grans have them

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

Ebay has 24 volumes for $148 with free shipping. Single volumes are between $5 and $10 including shipping.