19th Century
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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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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190213221
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) P
$27.99 Add to cartPringle’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt’s career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Pringle, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028026
- Language: English
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How the States Got Their Shapes
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas.” — Wall Street Journal
Why does Oklahoma have that panhan
- Author: Stein, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0061431397
- Language: English
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Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
$36.99 Add to cartA new understanding of how the West came to be
For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these hist- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 019762278X
- 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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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
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW” 2018
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
