United States - 19th Century
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Osborne Russell’s Journal of a Trapper:: Edited from the Original Manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale
$21.95 Add to cart“Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish t
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Russell, Osborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: October 01 1965
- ISBN10: 0803251661
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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Yosemite Stage Driver: The Life and Times of George Monroe and His Family
$19.99 Add to cartOne glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reveals a family’s epic journey from the Antebellum South
- Author: Bopp, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988162001
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America’s most colorful and exciting story–the opening of the Far West.
Men to Match My M- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: March 15 1987
- ISBN10: 042510544X
- Language: English
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
$27.95 Add to cartHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed,
- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0813945100
- Language: English
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Stories of the Old West
$24.95 Add to cartSaddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin’ helpin’ of tales of America’s frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawm
- Author: Price, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493066412
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives, Volume 1: Helen Mar Kimball
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the most controversial facets of Latter-day Saint history is Joseph Smith’s practice of Celestial plural marriage. However, behind the controversy lies the oft-untold inspiring history of real
- Series: Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives #1
- Author: Stoddard, L. Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1637523416
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
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Standing at the Grave: A Family’s journey from the Grand Duchy of Posen to the Prairies of North Dakota
$18.99 Add to cartWeeks before the birth of Queen Victoria, Anna Christina Schmidt was born to a German settler on the estate of a Polish noble. Unlike the Queen, the only remaining visible proof of her life is a depre
- Author: Heyn, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 196025085X
- Language: English
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Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene’s book are from North Central New York living along the Erie Canal in small, isolated rural
- Author: Keene, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0998850837
- Language: English
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The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception: The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
$44.95 Read morePerhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interf
- Author: Drez, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 080715931X
- Language: English
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
$22.00 Add to cart“WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED.”
The Pony Express is one of the mo
–California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860- Author: Corbett, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0767906934
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age: A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the
$28.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading…
From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. Its pr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: November 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160305
- Language: English
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Texian Macabre
$26.95 Add to cartMandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly–but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged “harsh epithets” with David James Jones, a … [more below]
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1933337567
- Language: English
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Digging Up the Truth and Other Big Bay Stories
$19.95 Add to cartKnown for its spectacular Northern Lights and scads of wilderness for adventure, Big Bay is a tiny town in a remote part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Although it’s literally at the end of the road a
- Author: Bowers, Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218103125
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
$18.95 Add to cartThe wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west–about 2,160 m… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #3
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803272871
- Language: English
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the TCU-Texas Book Award for Best Book on Texas
On New Year’s Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nom- Author: Zesch, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0312317891
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
