19th Century
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1831: Year of Eclipse
$20.00 Add to cart1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter wa
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0809041197
- Language: English
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Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
$34.00 Add to cartThe first president born after America’s independence ushers in a new era of democracy
Dive deep into the political life of the first president born after America’s independence. Martin Van Buren, ski- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0805069224
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
$18.00 Add to cartIlyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s … [more below]
- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 080214537X
- Language: English
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Wild Bunch Women
$12.95 Add to cartExplore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch outlaw gang.
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0762725850
- Language: English
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
$19.99 Add to cartOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee’s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln’s assassination just f
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060899689
- Language: English
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city’s soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and- Author: Wells, Jonathan Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030334
- Language: English
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Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age: A Captivating Guide to a Period in US History That Greatly Impacted American Civil Rights and an Era of Rapid Econo
$19.97 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Reconstruction Era: A Captivating Guide to a
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1637161700
- Language: English
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The Witchery of Archery
$24.99 Add to cartThe Witchery of Archery, by Maurice Thompson, was originally published in 1878 and is considered America’s classic treatise on the subject of archery. It can be compared to Izaak Walton’s legendary fi
- Author: Thompson, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0996799109
- Language: English
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Voices from the Trail of Tears
$19.95 Read moreDuring the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Rozema, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0895872714
- Language: English
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The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. Apostle to the Pimas
$8.95 Add to cart- Author: Bolton, Herbert Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 19 1982
- ISBN10: 0829400044
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days
$21.95 Add to cartOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher
- Author: Plain, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803235208
- Language: English
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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails
$20.00 Add to cartFrank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849 — between the era of… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0802140637
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of Idaho: True Stories Of The Gem State’s Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperadoes in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho… [more below]
- Series: Outlaw Tales
- Author: Stapilus, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0762772360
- Language: English
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
$21.95 Add to cartA global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption
When Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witne- Author: Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168628
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
$10.95 Read moreIn 1803, when the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France (for a scant $15 million), it doubled the size of the young country. Stretching north from New Orleans to the Canadian bor… [more below]
- Series: Dover Children’s Classics
- Author: Bakeless, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0486421597
- Language: English
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
$18.95 Read moreLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous lo
- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353656
- Language: English
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
$26.00 Add to cartThe little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk–a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.
While the Women’s- Author: Greenberg, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0804173443
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
