United States - 19th Century
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Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
$18.00 Add to cartA wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).
On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed t- Series: McNally Editions
- Author: Shaplen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1946022918
- Language: English
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
$21.99 Read moreCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
“They could write like angels and scheme like demons.” So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson’s masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidenti- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743293177
- Language: English
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history–Madame Restell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women’s rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 030682681X
- Language: English
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The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of the “Legends of the Old West” podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology.
The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the dev- Author: Wimmer, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250843472
- Language: English
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Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
$30.00 Add to cartA pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history vi- Author: Olsson, Tore C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250287707
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$18.00 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.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$30.00 Add to cartA bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner’s rebellion–and the new definitive account.
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0809024373
- Language: English
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The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History
$20.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1855, the nation cast its eyes on the working-class port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. A ship named the Benjamin Franklin had steamed in from the West Indies harbor of St. Thom
- Author: Wagner, Lon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888244210
- Language: English
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author.
The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250852544
- Language: English
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The Prairie Traveler
$14.95 Read moreFilled with helpful information that was essential for safe travel west as well as a fascinating view of the strenuous life faced by prairie travelers before the era of the railroad.
- Author: Marcy, Randolph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1986
- ISBN10: 918222893
- Language: English
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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
$21.95 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the grim years of Southern reconstruction.
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0811770257
- Language: English
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The Lives of Mountain Men: A Fully Illustrated Guide to the History, Skills, and Lifestyle of the American Backwoodsmen and Frontiersmen
$19.99 Read moreDiscover the history of one of the most exciting eras in the history of the United States and some of its most fascinating characters . . . the mountain men
They were the first white men to penetra- Author: Harris, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1510760377
- Language: English
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Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900
$22.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.
- Author: Moody, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1608467554
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
$18.95 Add to cartOutlaws Tales of the Old West features fifty stories of rustlers and robbers, crimes of passion, and some of the wannabe outlaws who couldn’t quite pull it off, some of the most fascinating–and least… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023284
- Language: English
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890
$13.99 Add to cartA brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a uni- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1476743886
- Language: English
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman–and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social mov
- Author: Hirshman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268701
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Revolvers To Geronimo’s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them.
- Author: Herring, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762773499
- Language: English
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John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King
$26.60 Add to cartJohn Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in t
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791137
- Language: English
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Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail
$19.99 Add to cartResurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur trader and explorer who discovered the way West, chang… [more below]
- Author: McCartney, Laton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1476730032
- Language: English
