PBA Galleries: Western Americana, with Gold Rushers, God-Fearers, Gunslingers, and Anglers., 847, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Promotional brochure for Eureka Villa in Los Angeles County, California

[Los Angeles] 1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
2 Carroll, John M.

Buffalo Soldiers West

[Ft. Collins, CO] [1971] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
3 Adney, Tappan

The Klondike Stampede

New York and London 1900 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
4

Archive of Klondike mining with photos, manuscripts, and records

c. 1898-1904 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 5,000.00
5 Broke, George

With Sack and Stock in Alaska

London 1891 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
6 Haskell, William B.

Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields. A Thrilling Narrative of Personal Experiences and Adventures... Life in the Gold Mines and Camps

Hartford 1898 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 225.00
7 Hitchcock, Mary E.

Two Women in the Klondike: The Story of a Journey to the Gold-Fields of Alaska

New York and London 1899 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.25
8 Ladue, Joseph

Klondyke Facts Being a Complete Guide Book to the Gold Regions of the Great Canadian Northwest Territories and Alaska

New York [1897] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
9 Ladue, Joseph

Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest Territories and Alaska

New York [1897] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 406.25
10 Murray, Alexander Hunter

Journal of the Yukon 1847-48

Ottawa 1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
11

Panoramic View of Denali, Alaska

c. 2000 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
12

Postcard album documenting the Yukon Gold Rush 1906-1908

1906-1908 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
13 Purdy, Anne

Dark Boundary

New York [1954] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
14

Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1867

Washington 1869 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
15 Rickard, T.A.

Through the Yukon and Alaska

San Francisco 1909 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
16 Spurr, Josiah Edward

Through The Yukon Gold Diggings. A Narrative of Personal Travel

Boston 1900 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
17 Turner, L. M. with Edward W. Nelson

Natural History of Alaska [with] Report Upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska Between the Years 1877 and 1881

Washington 1886-1887 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
18 Woollen, William Watson

The Inside Passage to Alaska: 1792-1920. With an account of the North Pacific Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cook Inlet...

Cleveland 1924 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
19 Amsden, Charles Avery

Navaho Weaving: Its Technic and History

Albuquerque 1949 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
20 Dutton, Clarence E.

Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District with Atlas

Washington 1882 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
21 Ganzhorn, Jack

Collection of twelve original typescripts that were turned into his autobiography, I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona

c. 1920-1959 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
22 Morgan, Dale L., ed.

The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, with explorations beyond the Continental Divide, recorded in the diaries and letters of William H. Ashley and his contempor

Denver 1964 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
23 Morgan, Dale, editor

The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia... 1822-1838

Denver 1964 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
24

Oakland: The Sensible Six

Pontiac, MI [c.1909] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
25 Vanaman, Elton W.

Manuscript diary of a transcontinental auto trip in 1921

1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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