United States - 19th Century
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The Great Platte River Road
$29.95 Add to cartThe Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America’s westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind o… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Mattes, Merrill J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0803281536
- Language: English
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Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
$13.95 Add to cartThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spok… [more below]
- Author: Kip, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 151
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803277911
- Language: English
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African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States
$29.99 Add to cartExplore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History
The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against t
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1647485258
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Purchase: A Captivating Guide to a Major Turning Point in the History of the United States of America
$23.99 Add to cartThe history of the Louisiana Purchase: The greatest land deal in history!
Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from Fr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168403
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95 Add to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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Crucible of Fire: Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service
$29.95 Add to cartCrucible of Fire is an eye-opening look at today’s fire service and a thorough examination of what firefighters, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens can do to protect their homes and communities from
- Author: Hensler, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976849
- Language: English
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cartHistorian and Constitution expert David O. Stewart recaps the landmark impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. “The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416547509
- Language: English
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost
$18.99 Read moreIn the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the
- Author: Manseau, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557065
- Language: English
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Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
$21.95 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING CREATIVE NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY
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1885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year-old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Tole
- Author: Metcalf McConnell, Miantae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0997877006
- Language: English
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The Last Blackrobe of Indiana and the Potawatomi Trail of Death
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the forgotten history of 1830s Indiana, John William McMullen unearths the true story of Benjamin Petit, a French Attorney turned missionary priest, and his mission to the Potawatomi People in th… [more below]
- Author: McMullen, John William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: July 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0982625561
- Language: English
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Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: By One of the Early Day Pioneers
$24.95 Add to cartPioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announ
- Author: McClintock, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0806131918
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
$38.99 Add to cart“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”–Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the Uni
- Author: Zimmermann, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528934
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
