19th Century
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
$22.99 Add to cartNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey’s life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of con… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0195393090
- Language: English
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle
$24.95 Add to cartOn The Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer
- Author: Alumbaugh, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068695
- Language: English
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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
$21.00 Add to cartA “gripping,” (Booklist) “clear-eyed, and honest” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of Samuel Colt–the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (a.k.a. six-shooter)–which changed the US fore… [more below]
- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1501166395
- Language: English
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Wanted! Wanted Posters of the Old West: Stories Behind the Crimes
$19.95 Read moreThis rare collection of wanted posters from the American West is an historical treasure. In addition to the more than 150 reward notices and wanted posters collected by Sheriff Moe during his tenure a… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 156037263X
- Language: English
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Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai’i
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Wi… [more below]
- Author: Coffman, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361973
- Language: English
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York
$21.95 Add to cartA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sal
- Author: Grumet, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141638
- Language: English
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The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
$21.95 Add to cartUncovers new facts on the outlaw’s life and death
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid–whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh–led a fuller life than history o
- Author: Ernst, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0806141158
- Language: English
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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
