Hake's Guide To Cowboy Character Collectibles

by Ted Hake

Description by OLDIES.com:

The time has come...to swing back in the saddle and take a fascinating, nostalgic ride through fifty years of popular cowboy hero memorabilia. Hake's Guide to Cowboy Character Collectibles describes, pictures, and prices more than 1,700 collectibles for 64 cowboy characters and television westerns.

Their names and deeds rolled across entertainment screens - Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Marshall Matt Dillon, Paladin, and a host of others - for two generations of viewers. Their appeal inspired collectibles ranging from timepieces to hair tonic to cap guns.

A brief history is provided for each character and TV western included here. A chronology of events pertaining to the Old West, plus a listing of TV cowboy series, makes this a thoroughly researched and thoroughly enjoyable book.

Ted Hake, founder and operator for nearly thirty years of Hake's Americana & Collectibles mail auction, has assembled an interesting summary of cowboy memorabilia. Hake's Guide to Cowboy Character Collectibles joins the list of Hake's price guides on such popular subjects as presidential campaign memorabilia, advertising, comic characters, and television collectibles.