19th Century
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Six Weeks in Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity
$19.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the m
- Author: Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134313
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Harrison
$33.00 Add to cartThe president who served the shortest term–just a single month–but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America’s highest office
William Henry Harrison died ju- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0805091181
- Language: English
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
$19.99 Add to cartExtensively researched and vividly written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael D’Antonio, Hershey is the fascinating story of the unique American visionary Milton S. Hershey.The name Hershey… [more below]
- Author: D’Antonio, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 074326410X
- Language: English
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American West
$21.00 Add to cartRenowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates th… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684804417
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
$28.99 Add to cartIn this revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis re-creates the rich anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a young man who became a legend in his time and remains an enigma
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 17 2008
- ISBN10: 039333063X
- Language: English
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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
$33.99 Add to cartIncluding oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200,000 free black women in the 19th century.
- Author: Sterling, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0393316297
- Language: English
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The Longhorns
$16.95 Add to cartThe Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass,
- Series: J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 01 1980
- ISBN10: 029274627X
- Language: English
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
$29.95 Add to cartCombining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formativ… [more below]
- Author: Roediger, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1839768304
- Language: English
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Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors…finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie kni… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144991
- Language: English
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Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frountier, 1790-1810
$16.95 Add to cartA decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the… [more below]
- Series: Texas A & M Southwestern Studies (Paperback) #4
- Author: Flores, Dan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 19 1985
- ISBN10: 1585440167
- Language: English
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
$32.00 Add to cartThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the co
- Series: Asian America
- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1503609243
- Language: English
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Noto
$23.00 Add to cartAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrif… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 143914155X
- Language: English
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Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman Her Own Architect
$33.95 Add to cartThe trailblazing story of the life and career of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America’s first professional woman architect.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Hayes McAlonie, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 143849288X
- Language: English
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Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
$29.95 Read moreIn the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and o… [more below]
- Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 080616154X
- Language: English
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail
$16.95 Add to cartIt Happened on the Oregon Trail 2 takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Oregon Trail’s storied past. Including both famous tales, and fa… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0762772204
- Language: English
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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
$25.00 Add to cartAcclaim for Doc Holliday
“Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western ‘good-bad men’ to- Author: Roberts, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0470128224
- Language: English
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartBrilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.
Drawing upo- Author: Gabriel, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0316066125
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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The Old West’s Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists
$24.95 Add to cartThe Old West’s Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics o
- Author: Jameson, W. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493066625
- Language: English
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The Red Record
$6.99 Add to cartIda B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majority white criminal justice system. It’s crucial docume
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271032
- Language: English
