Western Americana to Auction at PBA Galleries

Western County Histories including the scarce Yolo county history from 1879, early California promotional pamphlets, Mormon material, and Zane Grey angling tales all feature in PBA Galleries' Western Americana with Gold Rushers, God-Fearers, Gunslingers and Anglers sale on September 25.

Highlights include:

• the scarce promotional brochure for Eureka Villa in Los Angeles County, California, which was founded in 1924 as a resort community for Black Americans as the brainchild of Sidney P. Dones, a Black real estate developer, actor, and film director
• Clarence Dutton’s two volume Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas, featuring panoramic images including chromolithography after Thomas Moran, and detailed color geologic maps
• a deluxe edition of J. Frank Dobie’s Apache Gold & Yaqui Silver illustrated by Tom Lea and signed by both
• a letter signed by the founder and leaders of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Joseph Smith III, William W. Blair, Henry A. Stebbins, and R.A. Salyards
• a Carleton Watkins albumen print of Yosemite’s Bridal Veil Falls
• the first edition of Carl Wheat’s Mapping the Transmississippi West...1540-1861

Other items going under the hammer include Paul Landacre’s California Hills and Other Wood Engravings, more than 30 Zamorano 80 selections, and various Zane Grey fishing titles including An American Angler in Australia inscribed to his friend and cameraman Gus Bagnard, and Adventures of a Deep Sea Angler which he may have ghostwritten.