United States - 19th Century
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Black Indian Slave Narratives
$17.95 Add to cartFew people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native American
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872986
- Language: English
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
$21.95 Add to cartThe Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0806137703
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
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“So Hard to Die”: A Physician and a Psychologist Explore the Mystery of Meriwether Lewis’s Death
$24.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis, commander of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the newly purchased Louisiana Territory from 1804-06, returned home from this perilous journey with every hope as well
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1737811413
- Language: English
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Old Jules (Third Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293240
- Language: English
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
$29.95 Add to cartFeatured in Wall Street Journal‘s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniv
2021 Marfield Prize Finalist- Author: Drabelle, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496220773
- Language: English
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World.
One of- Author: Gross, Robert a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859077
- Language: English
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$28.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery an
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Kemble, Frances A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0820307076
- Language: English
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
$14.99 Add to cart“A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation’s most influential state.” -Publishers Weekly
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banist
- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1681621053
- Language: English
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West
$20.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really we
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1439154252
- Language: English
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The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from the Sixteenth President of the United States
$15.00 Read moreThe Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes is a collection of the best quotes, speeches, and advice from one of the most influential and greatest president of all time.
Abraham Lincoln’s words have been a sou- Author: Hellstrom, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1578269709
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke Canoe
$54.99 Add to cartIn 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to Ne
- Author: Smith, Arthur L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218109103
- Language: English
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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
$24.95 Add to cartThe enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army,
- Author: Rickey, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806111135
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
$24.95 Add to cartFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803280394
- Language: English
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
$32.00 Add to cartCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our… [more below]
- Author: Rubenstein, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1982120258
- Language: English
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota’s Other Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War of 1862 draws on a wealth of written and visual materials by white and American Indian participants and observers showing both the sources of the Dakotas’ wrath and the terrible consequ… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0873513924
- Language: English
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
$19.00 Add to cart“A treasure of a book.”–David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the N- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004839
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny
$17.00 Add to cartNow in paperback with a new afterword…. Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 s- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0735213240
- Language: English
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Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartBlack, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explo… [more below]
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1571687866
- Language: English
