19th Century
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Elizabeth Seton: American Saint
$36.95 Add to cartIn 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came
- Author: O’Donnell, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1501705784
- 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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Historic Tales of St. Louis
$23.99 Read moreThe Tales That Made St. Louis St. Louis may be known as the Gateway to the West, but its history holds many stories buried through time that show a different side. Discover which Hollywood leading man
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: Zeman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153281
- 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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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$19.00 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible caus- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250792517
- Language: English
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Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign
$35.00 Add to cartWhile Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-running siege in American history. During the summer … [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Thrasher, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907910
- 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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Abraham Lincoln and Mexico: A History of Courage, Intrigue and Unlikely Friendships
$21.95 Add to cartThis book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in
- Author: Hogan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 099695547X
- 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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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
$24.95 Add to cartBefore Hudson’s Bay Company domination, two companies attempted large-scale corporate trapping and vied to command Northwest fur trade. On one side were the North West Company’s Montreal entrepreneurs
- Author: Keith, H. Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0874223407
- Language: English
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
$24.95 Add to cartThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their
- Author: Schubert, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826323103
- 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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Historical Atlas of Arizona
$26.95 Add to cartThis Second Edition, updated from the 1980 census, reflects the new county boundaries, the continuing Hopi-Navajo land dispute, the changes in Indian populations and congressional districts, the growt
- Author: Walker, Henry P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 080612024X
- Language: English
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter
$21.95 Add to cartOn November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache w
- Series: Western Frontier Library #26
- Author: Horn, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806110449
- Language: English
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
$19.95 Add to cartGeorge Drouillard’s service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from ma… [more below]
- Author: Skarsten, M. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293097
- 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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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
$19.95 Add to cartHere, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden’s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. Th… [more below]
- Author: Merrill, Marlene Deahl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282893
- 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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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City
$39.99 Add to cartMost readers know Salem only for the city’s notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America’s first millionaire (still one of history’s 75 wealthiest
- Author: Booth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0312540388
- Language: English
