United States - 19th Century
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
$20.00 Add to cartRediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial River
Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal–it encapsulates a pivota- Author: Sheriff, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 809016052
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
$21.99 Add to cart“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0062079611
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #1
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272774
- Language: English
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Delaware from Railways to Freeways
$30.00 Add to cartDelaware from Railways to Freeways covers eye-opening information about the region and its residents from 1800 to 1907. Laying out a captivating journey through pictures and offering up little-known a
- Author: Tabler, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987000632
- Language: English
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history fo… [more below]- Author: Fried, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0553383485
- Language: English
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Across the Wide Missouri: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history
- Author: Devoto, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0395924979
- Language: English
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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
$30.00 Add to cartThe explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drur
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285836
- Language: English
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Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
$28.00 Add to cart“George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet’s most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you’ll never think of our first–in many ways our greatest–national park
- Author: Black, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1250023203
- Language: English
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Montana Mining Ghost Towns
$19.95 Add to cartNow in softcover Montana is home to many storied ghost towns, and few people get to see these remote places in person the way photographers Larry and Vivian Roland have. Here they share rich color ph… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1560377798
- Language: English
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
$21.00 Add to cart“One of the best history books I’ve read in the last few years.” –Chris Hayes
The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
A NEW- Author: Freeman, Joanne B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234581
- Language: English
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dyna
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0063118327
- Language: English
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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting…A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the west was still wild.” –George R.R. Martin
A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most drama- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982104295
- Language: English
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Sea Captains of Cape Cod: Each Town’s Contribution to Maritime History
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you call Cape Cod a man-made island or describe it as a geographic peninsula connected to the mainland by bridges, there is one non-debatable fact. Cape Cod is surrounded by water on all four
- Author: Pregot, Michael V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 162006877X
- Language: English
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
$28.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel W… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Howe, Daniel Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0195392434
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspape
$18.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not hea… [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744560
- Language: English
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science;846
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0874221072
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia–a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our cur
- Author: Meyer, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268566
- Language: English
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567122
- Language: English
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
