United States - 19th Century
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Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
$17.00 Add to cartThe revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations–and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. – Dramatic re-telling … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1416539891
- Language: English
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City
$24.95 Add to cartDedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in Tucson
Tucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a city with its roots in Indian and Spanish colonial histo
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120428
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn
$21.95 Add to cartMari Sandoz’s beautifully written account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life–and lost it–reveals on every page the author’s intimate knowledge of her subject. The… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229118
- Language: English
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Walking Man: The Life and Times of a 19th Century Superstar Who Defied the Limits of Human Endurance
$18.49 Add to cartJames Kennovan was a rebellious youth who went to sea as a teenager and later walked the rugged streets of the Bowery as a New York City cop. Then, in 1849, he answered the siren’s call and sailed to
- Author: Cottrell, Steve F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1088194206
- Language: English
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (Revised)
$34.95 Add to cartConsidering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an eni
- Series: Southern Biography
- Author: Bauer, K. Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0807118516
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Meadows, Sammye J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2003
- ISBN10: 076452545X
- Language: English
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
$18.95 Add to cartNow in Paperback!
Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s beginnings and explores how the city was tainted from the start, its turbulent history setting a precedent for the dis- Author: Dickey, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0762787910
- Language: English
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The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
$24.99 Add to cartBetween the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life a… [more below]
- Author: Logan, Rayford W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306807580
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail: An American Saga
$28.99 Add to cartIn today’s world of jet airplanes and smooth highways, it is nearly impossible to imagine the hardships faced by the thousands of people who headed west along the great Oregon Trail. In this detailed … [more below]
- Author: Dary, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0195224000
- Language: English
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No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West
$31.58 Add to cartNo Place for a Woman explores the history of the fight for women’s rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportuni… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072412
- Language: English
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Underground Railroad: A Captivating Guide to the Routes, Places, and People that Helped Free African Americans During the Nineteenth Century
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Underground Railroad: A Captivating Gui
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637161344
- Language: English
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Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail
$21.95 Add to cartIn Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail, Susan Butruille artfully narrates the lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago. This twenty-fifth anniversary
- Author: Butruille, Susan G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1941890261
- Language: English
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Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century
$24.95 Add to cartSince its initial publication a decade ago, Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century has captivated readers with its unprecedented blend of serious history, fascinating images, and heartfe… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0967820448
- Language: English
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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865
$24.95 Add to cartThe year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought … [more below]
- Author: McDermott, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811738965
- Language: English
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American Transcendentalism
$27.00 Add to cartAmerican Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in t
- Author: Gura, Philip F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0809016443
- Language: English
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartArizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral dep
- Author: Sherman, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0806108436
- Language: English
