United States - 19th Century
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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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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
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$30.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1250843219
- Language: English
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Astoria: Astor and Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an A
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062218301
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$28.00 Read more“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0399590862
- Language: English
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
$30.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washingto… [more below]
- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593543823
- Language: English
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
$33.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washingto… [more below]
- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593792629
- Language: English
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Cowboy American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
$40.00 Read moreMay your belly never grumble
May your heart never ache
May your horse never stumble
May your cinch never break–Cowboy blessing
A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West — a
- Author: Pruitt, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0228104491
- Language: English
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Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
$24.95 Add to cartWyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts
- Author: Davis, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0806142618
- Language: English
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
$20.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history.” —Los Angeles Times
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane’s Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119605
- Language: English
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Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
$28.99 Add to cartWhat could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling tim
- Author: Weisberg, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 039353152X
- Language: English
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Wilmington’s Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to mo
- Author: Zucchino, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148654
- Language: English
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller!
“Lively and absorbing. . .” — The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing.” –Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle
Three noted- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 198488011X
- Language: English
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian … [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 671792768
- Language: English
