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RR Auction: The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz

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Auction Name The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz Total Sales (USD) 1,180,922.00
Auction Date May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #742 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 158
Sold Lots 96.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 60.76% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 62 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6088

Westward Expansion Archive (12,000+ Pages): The Papers of Judge Thomas Hartley Crawford — The Most Significant Unpublished Chronicle of Indian Removal and the Westward Expansion of the United States

N/A Not Available USD 343,750.00
6054 Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull Rare and Historic Document Signed - His 1885 Contract to Appear in the "Buffalo Bill Wild West Show"

1885 Not Available USD 168,213.00
6030 Otho Ernest Michaelis

George A. Custer: 1876 Little Bighorn Campaign Archive of Capt. Otho Michaelis - (29) Letters: "All admire Custer's dash, spirit, courage—and only criticize his judgement so far as Indians are concerned"

1876 Not Available USD 78,993.00
6122 James B. Hickok

Wild Bill Hickok Autograph Letter Signed - An Excessively Rare Old West Autograph, Signed Four Times!

1858 Not Available USD 69,595.00
6049 John B. Neagle

Red Jacket Original 19th-Century Oil Painting by John Neagle

N/A Not Available USD 55,999.00
6121 W. B. Masterson

Bat Masterson Document Signed as Dodge City Sheriff - Subpoena for the Appearance of a Witness

1879 Not Available USD 40,528.00
6036 C. Mayer

[George A. Custer] Battle of the Little Bighorn Hand-Drawn and Annotated Map by Casper Mayer, Troop G, 1st Cavalry

1888 Not Available USD 38,246.00
6037 Josiah Chance

Josiah Chance Autograph Letter Signed on the Battle of the Little Bighorn - 23-Page Firsthand Account, Rife with Remarks on George A. Custer's Bravery: "He made a noble stand, 'and fought his last battle'"

1876 Not Available USD 37,293.00
6092 Daniel Boone (1734–1820); John Harvie (1742–1807)

Daniel Boone Document Signed, Transferring Surveyed Lands on the Virginia Frontier

1781 Not Available USD 31,394.00
6112 Wyatt S. Earp

Wyatt Earp Autograph Endorsement Signed as Constable of Lamar, Missouri - His First Job in Law Enforcement

1870 Not Available USD 25,931.00
6032 G. A. Custer

George A. Custer Signed Carte-de-Visite Photograph by Alexander Gardner

N/A Not Available USD 21,670.00
6113 Wyatt S. Earp; Virgil Earp; James Earp; T. J. Drum; A. O. Wallace; Ed Masterson

Wyatt and Virgil Earp Archive: Signed Leasing Contract and Autograph Bill to the City of Tombstone

1881 Not Available USD 18,755.00
6029 Gen. Custer

George A. Custer Autograph Manuscript Signed, Preparing His Defense While Facing Court-Martial at Fort Leavenworth for Shooting Deserters: "He must be taught that he cannot come out here & do as he pleases"

circa September 1867 Not Available USD 15,889.00
6027

George A. Custer Signed Photograph of a Prize Elk from the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873

1873 Not Available USD 13,800.00
6005

Andrew Jackson Letter Signed on the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson - The Creek Nation Cedes 23 Million Acres in Land

1814 Not Available USD 11,519.00
6041 C. Carson

Kit Carson Document Signed - Report of Persons and Articles Employed and Hired at Fort Garland (1867)

1867 Not Available USD 11,503.00
6028 G. A. Custer

George A. Custer Autograph Letter Signed on the Limitless Possibilities of the American West, Urging a Young Man to "to locate West of the Missouri"

1871 Not Available USD 11,354.00
6004

Andrew Jackson Rare Presidential Endorsement Signature - Approving the Sale of Creek Nation Lands

1834 Not Available USD 11,075.00
6001

James Monroe Endorsement Signature as President-Elect, Approving a Construction Contract for the Cumberland Road ("United States Western Road") - America's First Federally Funded Highway

1817 Not Available USD 10,125.00
6120 W. B. Masterson; May Robson

Bat Masterson Signature - Rare Autograph of the Dodge City Icon

1907 Not Available USD 10,078.00
6020 P. D. Morris

Montana Gold Rush: P. D. Morris Archive of (10) Autograph Letters Signed - A Civil War Deserter's Letters Home from the Montana Gold Fields: "There is gold in this country"

1864; 1865 Not Available USD 8,813.00
6017 P. J. Norton

Gold Rush: P. J. Norton Collection of (21) Handwritten Letters on Mining Life in California, 1851-1863

1851; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1860; 1863 Not Available USD 8,043.00
6146 Frank James

Frank James Original Sketch, Sent to His Wife from Jail: "Kissing Through the 'Bars'"

N/A Not Available USD 7,871.00
6045 Edward S. Curtis

Edward S. Curtis Original Goldtone Photograph - 'The Vanishing Race - Navaho' (early 20th-Century)

1904 Not Available USD 7,321.00
6003 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed on the 1805 Cherokee Treaty, Suggesting "marking trees as far as the late purchase from the Cherokees extends, to be in readiness to enter the land as soon as Congress ratifies the treaty"

1805 Not Available USD 6,875.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.