United States - 19th Century
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$27.99 Add to cartMaster historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author D- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003546
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsteris
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060590033
- Language: English
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Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879
$9.95 Add to cartAndrew Garcia left a manuscript on his death in 1942. The author acquired the manuscript and edited it to tell Garcia’s story of the 1877 war between the US government and the Nez Perce people, the en… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 409
- Publish Date: January 01 1967
- ISBN10: 0893012505
- Language: English
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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852: As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by Other Overland Travelers
$24.95 Add to cartWith numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives
- Author: Rau, Weldon Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0874222389
- Language: English
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Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
$35.99 Add to cartA master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America’s first “crime of the century”–from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial–and its aftermath.
In December 1832 a fa- Author: Dorsey, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0197633099
- Language: English
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
$24.95 Add to cartIn the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed
- Author: Brooks, Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15, 1991
- ISBN10: 0806123184
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
$19.99 Add to cart“Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese.” — Peter Cozzens, Wall Street Journal
WINN- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358331811
- Language: English
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Desperate Passage
$20.99 Add to cartIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year’s westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gat… [more below]
- Author: Rarick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195383311
- Language: English
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
$20.00 Add to cart“William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in th… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314522
- Language: English
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history–Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women’s rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826798
- Language: English
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Unfamiliar Fishes
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized
- Author: Vowell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 6, 2012
- ISBN10: 159448564X
- Language: English
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The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History
$32.00 Read moreEvoking the political intrigue of the Gilded Age, The Rough Rider and the Professor chronicles the extraordinary thirty-five-year friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabo… [more below]
- Author: Jurdem, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364412
- Language: English
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Son of the Old West
$28.00 Add to cartAn epic narrative of
the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective,
and chronicler Charlie SiringoNo figure in the Old West lived or
shaped its history more fully than Charlie- Author: Ward, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162088
- Language: English
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
$21.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately presi
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 445
- Publish Date: May 12, 1982
- ISBN10: 0671447548
- Language: English
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
$35.00 Read moreThe story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South–from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth i… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0525659455
- Language: English
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Riders of the Pony Express
$16.95 Add to cartPrior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 0803283059
- Language: English
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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
$32.50 Add to cartWith so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of t
- Author: Ayers, Edward L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393881261
- Language: English
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Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
$28.99 Read moreA vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh–and of the Native American alliance that fought westward expansion–from the New York Tim… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593133617
- Language: English
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West–“a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy” (The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1400031109
- Language: English
