The Bookshelf

Audubon's Birds of America

Arcturus Epic Classics

John James Audubon · Sirius · 2025

All 435 of Audubon's hand-coloured plates, first issued between 1827 and 1838, in a large-format collector's hardback.

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Best of Dick Idol's Whitetail World

Hunting the Four Periods of the Rut

Dick Idol · Safari Press · 1997

Idol covers buck activity from the time bucks shed their velvet in September until they drop their antlers in the winter.

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The Cherokee Trail

Louis L'Amour · Bantam · 1982

Widowed on the way to Colorado, Mary Breydon takes over a rundown stage station on the Cherokee Trail and makes it hold, with help from the gunman Temple Boone.

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Comanche Moon

Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1997

Second in the Lonesome Dove story, between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove: Gus and Call in their Ranger years, fighting across the Texas frontier.

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Dead Man's Walk

Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1995

Where the Lonesome Dove story begins: Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call as young Texas Rangers, learning to survive the frontier.

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Fishes

A Guide to Familiar American Species

Herbert S. Zim & Hurst H. Shoemaker · Golden Nature Guide · 1955

The pocket Golden Guide to the common fresh- and saltwater fishes of North America: 278 species, every one painted in full colour.

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Flint

Louis L'Amour · Bantam · 1960

A feared Eastern financier, dying, rides back to New Mexico to be alone, and ends up taking a rancher's side in a range war against a land swindler and his hired gun.

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Gamebirds

A Golden Guide

Herbert S. Zim & Alexander Sprunt · Western Publishing · 1961

The pocket Golden Guide to North American game birds, illustrated in colour throughout.

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Hondo

Louis L'Amour · Fawcett Gold Medal · 1953

Hondo Lane, a gunman who knows the Apache ways, and Angie Lowe, raising her son alone on a remote Arizona ranch, as the warrior Vittoro's people prepare to rise.

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The Last American Man

Elizabeth Gilbert · Riverhead Books · 2003

The true story of Eustace Conway, who left home at seventeen to live off the land in the Appalachian Mountains. A National Book Award finalist.

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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1985

Two retired Texas Rangers drive a cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana. Winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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The Modern Pointer

A. F. Hochwalt · Self-published, Dayton · 1917

Albert Frederick Hochwalt's book on the pointer, published by the author in 1917 and revised and enlarged in 1923.

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Pidgin to da Max

Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki & Ken Sakata · Bess Press · 1981

An illustrated, laugh-out-loud dictionary of Hawaiian Pidgin English — da kine, li'dat, and plenny more.

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Pointing Dogs, Volume One

The Continentals

Craig Koshyk · Dog Willing Publications · 2011

Craig Koshyk's guide to the versatile pointing breeds of Continental Europe, the history, development and current state of each, often called the bible of pointing dogs. This is the limited edition: 100 copies, 364 pages in linen with a gold-foil cover by Rob Niedzwiecki, signed and numbered by the author.

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Prince of Poachers

Part 1

Charles Beaty · B&N Publish · 2021

Charlie Beaty's own account of his solo outlaw hunts across Texas — the King and Kenedy Ranches among them — and the game wardens and ranch security who spent years trying to catch him.

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Reilly's Luck

Louis L'Amour · Bantam · 1970

Abandoned at four, Val Darrant is raised by Will Reilly — gambler, gentleman, self-taught scholar — across Western boomtowns and the cities of Europe, until the day Reilly's luck runs out.

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salt.

Nayyirah Waheed · Self-published · 2013

Short poems on identity, language, life in the diaspora, pain, healing, community and love.

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Streets of Laredo

Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1993

The sequel to Lonesome Dove: Captain Woodrow Call, now a bounty hunter, rides after a young bandit with Pea Eye Parker, one of the last of the Hat Creek outfit.

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Tenth Legion

Bible of Wild Turkey Hunting

Colonel Tom Kelly · Tom Kelly, Inc. · 2012

First published in 1973 and still the book turkey hunters hand each other: strategy and woodsmanship, told with a storyteller's wit.

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