United States - 19th Century
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
$27.00 Add to cartWritten as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the m… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Essential Histories
- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: August 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1107608589
- Language: English
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$29.95 Add to cartProspectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, o
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120843
- Language: English
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
$25.99 Add to cartAbsorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.–Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingle- Author: Lane, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0805089225
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle
$24.95 Add to cartOn The Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer
- Author: Alumbaugh, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068695
- Language: English
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Wanted! Wanted Posters of the Old West: Stories Behind the Crimes
$19.95 Add to cartThis rare collection of wanted posters from the American West is an historical treasure. In addition to the more than 150 reward notices and wanted posters collected by Sheriff Moe during his tenure a… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 156037263X
- Language: English
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American West
$21.00 Add to cartRenowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates th… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684804417
- Language: English
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The Longhorns
$16.95 Add to cartThe Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass,
- Series: J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 01 1980
- ISBN10: 029274627X
- Language: English
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
$29.95 Add to cartCombining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formativ… [more below]
- Author: Roediger, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1839768304
- Language: English
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Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frountier, 1790-1810
$16.95 Add to cartA decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the… [more below]
- Series: Texas A & M Southwestern Studies (Paperback) #4
- Author: Flores, Dan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 19 1985
- ISBN10: 1585440167
- Language: English
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
$32.00 Add to cartThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the co
- Series: Asian America
- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1503609243
- Language: English
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Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
$29.95 Read moreIn the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and o… [more below]
- Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 080616154X
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
$26.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and Dean of the School of Arts, Scien… [more below]
- Author: Umfleet, Lerae Sikes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0865265011
- Language: English
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Lynching at Port Jervis
$18.00 Add to cartAn account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.
On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black ma- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867134
- Language: English
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In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
$18.95 Add to cartIn the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet–and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093587
- Language: English
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail
$12.95 Add to cartIt Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable, little known events that happened along the trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. From Rufus K. Por… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0762725796
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
$20.00 Add to cartThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftly and for a time became a highly controversial subjec… [more below]
- Author: Walters, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141905
- Language: English
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
$24.95 Add to cartAfter immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown… [more below]
- Author: Hightower, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160705
- Language: English
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters
$26.95 Add to cartIn this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects–in his “gallery” –biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Sto
- Author: Cunningham, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0806128372
- Language: English
