Reprints of Collectibles, Californiana,
and Western Americana
available from Coyote Press
The following books are inexpensive facsimile reprints (most with velo binding) of early Californiana and Western Americana. Emphasis is on books which are hard to obtain because: 1) they were printed in limited editions, 2) have been out of print for fifty, a hundred years, or more, and 3) books which have become collectibles (i.e., overpriced). However, we can only reprint books when they are public domain, we have permission from the copyright holder, or the copyright has expired.
- Costello, J.A. The Siwash: Their Life, Legends and Tales--Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest. The cover includes "Indian History of the Northwest: Siwash." Seattle: The Calvert Company, 1895.
- Cutter, Donald C., ed. The Diary of Ensign Gabriel Moraga's Expedition of Discovery in the Sacramento Valley, 1808. Reprint of the Dawson edition of 1957.
- Eldredge, Zoeth S. The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco, and E.J. Molera, The Log of the San Carlos and Original Documents Translated and Annotated by E.J. Molera. The California Promotion Committee, San Francisco, 1909.
- Harrington, J.B. The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations.. Extremely rare work published by the Indian Rights Association of Philadelphia, 1887.
- Hughes, Elizabeth. The California of the Padres: or Footprints of Ancient Communism. San Francisco: I.N. Choyinski, 1875.
- Johnson, John Everett, Trans. Regulations for Governing the Province of the Californias Approved by His Majesty by Royal Order, dated October 24, 1781 [two volumes bound together, one English and one Spanish]. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1929.
- Lipps, Oscar H. The Case of the California Indians. Chemawa, Oregon: U.S. Indian School Print Shop, 1932. Written by the Superintendent of the Sacramento Indian Agency, this small work is intended "to again call attention to the great wrongs that a strong and powerful people have imposed upon the weak and defenseless first owners of the soil."
- Merriam, C. Hart. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910.
- Teggart, Frederick J., ed. The Anza Expedition of 1775-1776: Diary of Pedro Font. Academy of Pacific Coast History 3(1), 1913.
- Wagner, Henry R. The First American Vessel In California: Monterey in 1796. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. No. 20 in the publisher's "Early California Travel Series."
- Watson, Douglas. The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions Made to California. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934.
Chinook Jargon
- Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast. Victoria, B.C.: T.H. Hibben & Co. (1906). 42 pp. A most important work. There were at least 12 printings of this dictionary between 1875 and 1906.
- Long, Frederick J. Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: English-Chinook. Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Co., 1909.
- Shaw, George Combs. The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It: A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Language of the American Continent. Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, 1909.
- Thomas, Edward Harper. Chinook: A History and Dictionary of the Northwest Coast Trade Jargon. Portland: Metropolitan Press, 1935.
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