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This book is the remarkable true story of Forrest Fenn’s life and of a hidden treasure, secreted somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
NOTE: The treasure has been found!
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Tales about a lifetime of living near the edge are related on these pages, and are presented with plainspoken words that don’t need underlining. From being shot down in Laos to meeting a prehistoric family, it’s all here in untainted color. Forrest admits to making his share of mistakes but whispers that, even at age 83, none have weakened his ardor for the chase.
278 pages, hard cover, including Thrill of the Chase map.
The collection, assembled over 50 years by noted art dealer Forrest Fenn and his father, contains never-before seen works of Plains and Southwest Indian Art. The objects include the largest collection extant of Kiowa and Comanche footwear and strike-a-light bags, 12,000 year-old cache of Clovis Man spear points, unique artifacts from long-abandoned San Lazaro Pueblo, and a large assemblage of plains and southwestern beaded and quilled objects. This book is a must for students of native American history and ethnology, for folk and primitive art collectors, and for any person interested in the dynamic and fascinating relationships of two cultures and races in friendship and confrontation.
Over 900 objects are illustrated in 264 color plates.
Hard cover
Indian children have been mothering dolls since long before the first histories about them were written. These dolls represent a peaceful element of Indian life, although many that now reside in private collections may have witnessed the fighting at Wounded Knee or the Custer debacle. How terrible! Others may have sat around and evening campfire in the arms of Lady Pretty Blanket or Julia Sun Goes Slow. How Romantic!
In this book the author looks inside the cultures that made these dolls and passed them down with loving care. He also has looked inside some of the dolls themselves and found clues to a way of life that are not noticeable to the casual observer. There has never been such a book as this. You will see.
65 Color Plates
35 B/W Images
147 Pages
Hard cover
Go to our Collection section to see photos and details of the American Indian Doll’s in this book.
If you love the lore and the lure of ancient places and things, this volume is dedicated to you. May the stories herein keep you forever asking and searching.
520 color plates, figures and drawings
326 pages
54,000 words
Hard cover
Printed in the USA.
Eric Sloane and Forrest Fenn wanted to build a covered bridge but their wives wouldn’t let them buy a river. It was a standing joke between them and a lingering fantasy. This book is not a biography of Eric Sloane; rather, it is almost a recorded conversation between two friends who shared a common interest and the love of simple things and simpler times. Eric was a gifted painter and writer, and Forrest was a grateful admirer who sold his work. Their friendship lasted only ten years, but they were very influential years. You will see.
111 Pages
146 Illustrations
64 Color Plates
4 Black and White Images
Hard cover
Printed in the USA.
This book is about Indians, as seen by an artist who was born sixteen years before General Custer was killed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The artist, Joseph Henry Sharp, watched and recorded a way of life long since faded form our view. He painted 212 portraits of Indians who fought against Custer, and for 60 years, he studied and painted the Pueblo Indians and landscapes of the Southwest, But most importantly, he left a rich legacy of stories, photographs and paintings which reveals the American Indian as he was.
Author, Forrest Fenn has revised and enlarged his biography of J. H. Sharp. This beautiful book features 206 new images - many of which are recently discovered paintings. A must for those who collect western art or history, Indian artifacts and vintage photographs.
355 Pages
175 Color Plates
132 B&W Images
Hard cover
Addendum of all known Sharp Paintings
Printed in the USA.
This book is about Indians, as seen by an artist who was born sixteen years before General Custer was killed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The artist, Joseph Henry Sharp, watched and recorded a way of life long since faded form our view.
He painted 212 portraits of Indians who fought against Custer, and for 60 years, he studied and painted the Pueblo Indians and landscapes of the Southwest, But most importantly, he left a rich legacy of stories, photographs and paintings which reveals the American Indian as he was.
This trade edition has been rare and out of print for many years. These are the last 15 copies from Forrest private library.
Printed in the USA.
Only once in several generations does an artist come along whose work so charms and titillates the human emotions as that of Nicolai Fechin. He was born in 1881, in the little Tartar village of Kasan, Russia, on the Volga, and grew up in the most difficult of times. A cholera epidemic took his parents, and the peasants rose against an oppressive Czarist government, yet through it all the young artist’s genius emerged under the school direction of the great Ilia Repin.
In 1923, Fechin, with his wife and daughter, immigrated to New York, where he became an “overnight celebrity.” The next year he started winning art awards, including the coveted Proctor Prize at the National Academy of Design.
But Fechin was restless, and his health was not good, which prompted him to move first to the drier climate of Taos, New Mexico, and then to California after an unfortunate divorce. For the next two decades he painted mostly pueblo Indians, Mexican peasants, and Spanish descendants of the sixteenth-century explorers who brought a new religion to America. He had found his niche.
But this book is more about Fechin the human than about his genius at the easel. It explores the depth of his personality, his loves, his successes, and, of course, his failings. It also provides a showcase for the photographs he made in Mexico in 1936 that so graphically portray the innocence and character of the village people who lived in a time when life was simple but hard. You will see that in their eyes.
These pages are full of words written in conversational language by a man who knew the intimacies of Nicolai Fechin, as told by his wife and friends. It is both a love story and a tragedy. You will see!
147 pages with 33 color plates and 68 of Fechin’s black and white photographs from travels in Mexico. Hardcover
Printed in the USA.
This 32 page book depicts the sketches and studies of African wildlife by William Robinson Leigh, resulting from two trips to Africa in the 1920’s.
This special limited edition book, is bound in goatskin, slip-cased in hand-wrought cloth, and complimented with end-papers marbled by hand.
Sorry this book is no longer available.
32 pages
48 drawings and sketches
Signed and numbered
Printed in the USA.
By Forrest Fenn
A new, revised edition of Forrest Fenn’s book, “Once Upon A While, Revised”. This revised third memoir showcases the original 39 mini-episodes in the life of Forrest Fenn, plus a new 40th story. Forrest corrected some text and included more of his stick-figure drawings that made readers chuckle in the original release. Stories from jumping off a terrifying bridge as a teenager, riding a fast horse through mountain passes and nearly everything else in-between is included in this beautiful new volume. Soft cover, 196 pages.