United States - 19th Century
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
$22.00 Add to cartThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army so- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385479662
- Language: English
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
$19.99 Add to cartA “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice t… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1476793387
- Language: English
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
$19.99 Add to cartDrawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060955864
- Language: English
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Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
$20.00 Read moreThe explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier.
Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Tex- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250887372
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
$34.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forg… [more below]
- Author: Bagley, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136391
- Language: English
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1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It’s Still wit
$33.00 Read moreVeteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces–or re-introduces–us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws su
- Author: Wiegand, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1610885805
- Language: English
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “ri… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 031656480X
- Language: English
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar
$21.99 Add to cartMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history–the story of the money men. Acclaimed histo
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330508
- Language: English
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, reveal… [more below]
- Author: Feldman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0743242793
- Language: English
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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
$18.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant
Michael Punke’s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West th
- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 62970097
- Language: English
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The Captain, The Missionary, and the Bell: The Wreck of the Steamship Atlantic
$31.95 Add to cartThe Captain: Isaac “Kip” Dustan, a well-respected mariner whose adventures were frequently recounted in the mid-1800s New York newspapers…
The Missionary: Rev. Benjamin C.C. Parker of the Young Men’s
- Author: Larsson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1646703774
- Language: English
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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award
“Terrific.” -Timothy Egan, The New York Times
“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio- Author: Harden, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561684
- Language: English
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980303
- Language: English
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Bad Boys of the Black Hills: …and Some Wild Women, Too
$16.95 Add to cartThe lively romp details some of the Wild West’s most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and … [more below]
- Series: Bedside Reader
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560374357
- Language: English
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.
In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo.- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0525540547
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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Custer’s Fall: The Native American Side of the Story
$18.00 Add to cartThe true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn–told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer’s Last Stand.
The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American b- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0452010950
- Language: English
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
$19.99 Add to cart“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness W… [more below]
- Author: Knowlton, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1328470253
- Language: English
