19th Century
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Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from one of the most acclaimed biographers–the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years.William Henry Seward was on… [more below]
- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1439121184
- 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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Antes: Stories from the Past, Rural Cuba, New Mexico 1769-1949
$24.95 Add to cartCuba, New Mexico, was first settled in 1769. Originally known as Nacimiento, it was located on the northwestern edge of the Spanish Colonial Empire. It was very isolated and the people who settled Cub
- Author: Cordova May, Esther V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0865348405
- Language: English
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Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History
$24.95 Add to cartKit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson’s own guardianship of hi
- Series: Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0826332978
- 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 Other Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartA lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women’s rights at a vital time in our national history.
The American women who worked for our country’s indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic wou- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0809016222
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- 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
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Forty Years on the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it.—American Historical Review
When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier “the odyssey of a nineteen
- Author: Stuart, Granville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803293208
- Language: English
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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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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
$24.95 Add to cartDugard’s spirited narrative animates a group of men whose force of character, professional skill and ability to think outside conventional limits revitalized the sclerotic arm.—Publishers Weekly
For f
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803228120
- Language: English
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Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
$18.00 Add to cart“Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side.”–Publishers Weekly
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most signi- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145698
- Language: English
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Badasses of the Old West: True Stories Of Outlaws On The Edge
$16.95 Add to cartTrue stories of outlaws on the edge. The worst (and best) of the robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West.
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0762754664
- Language: English
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Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
$12.95 Add to cartHearts West includes more than a dozen stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits. Accompanying the text are actual advertisements placed by both women seeking husbands and men seeking… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 076272756X
- Language: English
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Thus Fell Tecumseh
$26.95 Add to cart“Rumpsey-dumpsey, Rumpsey-dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh ” Did he really? Such was the slogan craftily used by Richard M. Johnson’s campaign strategists to win him the vice-presidency of the… [more below]
- Author: Kuron, Frank E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0615415229
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
