19th Century
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations…. [more below]
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803295642
- 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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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars
$24.95 Add to cartUsing first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Native American rebellion that began in the mid-1800s.
Once They Moved Like The Wind is the epic story of t- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671885561
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$24.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
$29.95 Read moreThe rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Victorians invented the idea of- Author: Morus, Iwan Rhys
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362606
- Language: English
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Black Bart: Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California’s Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him
$12.95 Add to cartCalifornia Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the infamous stagecoach robber Black Bart. For over eight years the mysterious… [more below]
- Author: Hoeper, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1884995055
- 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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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- Language: English
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Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen of the Legendary West
$39.50 Add to cartTwo soldiers, scouts, and showmen who left a lasting legacy, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. Author Bill Markley offers a thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives in th
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 502
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493048422
- 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
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Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
$20.99 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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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
$23.99 Read moreDust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn’t want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Mrs Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153648
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy
$14.95 Add to cartThe Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation’s political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to coun
- Author: Babson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363790
- 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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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
$19.99 Add to cartFrank Lambert details America’s nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars.
The history of America’s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the pr- Author: Lambert, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0809028115
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
