19th Century
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
$22.95 Add to cartThis collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians’ experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians.
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0873512162
- Language: English
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
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Thomson’s Pulp Mill: Building the Champion Fibre Company at Canton, North Carolina: 1905 to 1908
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson’s pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and le
- Author: Jones, Carroll C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1945619678
- Language: English
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Standing at the Grave: A Family’s journey from the Grand Duchy of Posen to the Prairies of North Dakota
$18.99 Add to cartWeeks before the birth of Queen Victoria, Anna Christina Schmidt was born to a German settler on the estate of a Polish noble. Unlike the Queen, the only remaining visible proof of her life is a depre
- Author: Heyn, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 196025085X
- Language: English
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Oneida
$23.99 Add to cartA fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion–only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth
- Author: Wayland-Smith, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1250131863
- Language: English
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Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene’s book are from North Central New York living along the Erie Canal in small, isolated rural
- Author: Keene, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0998850837
- Language: English
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The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception: The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
$44.95 Read morePerhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interf
- Author: Drez, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 080715931X
- Language: English
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Land in Her Own Name
$21.95 Add to cartLand is often known by the names of past owners. “Emma’s Land,” “Gina’s quarter,” and “the Ingeborg Land” are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and
- Author: Lindgren, H. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806128860
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- Language: English
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
$22.00 Add to cart“WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED.”
The Pony Express is one of the mo
–California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860- Author: Corbett, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0767906934
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age: A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the
$28.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading…
From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. Its pr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: November 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160305
- Language: English
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Texian Macabre
$26.95 Add to cartMandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly–but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged “harsh epithets” with David James Jones, a … [more below]
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1933337567
- Language: English
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Digging Up the Truth and Other Big Bay Stories
$19.95 Add to cartKnown for its spectacular Northern Lights and scads of wilderness for adventure, Big Bay is a tiny town in a remote part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Although it’s literally at the end of the road a
- Author: Bowers, Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218103125
- Language: English
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Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association
“I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft a- Author: Milson, Andrew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262324
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
$18.95 Add to cartThe wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west–about 2,160 m… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #3
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803272871
- Language: English
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The Age of Revolution: 1749-1848
$20.00 Add to cartThis magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphorist… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772537
- Language: English
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
$18.95 Add to cartAfter the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued… [more below]
- Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355659
- Language: English
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
$19.95 Add to cartLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 163149113X
- Language: English
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The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Silbernagel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600235
- Language: English
