19th Century
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the TCU-Texas Book Award for Best Book on Texas
On New Year’s Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nom- Author: Zesch, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0312317891
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
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Rooster
$15.00 Add to cartThe True Story Behind True Grit
Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real “Rooster” Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself. Now, in this page-turning a
- Author: Cogburn, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0758274947
- Language: English
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Black Indian Slave Narratives
$17.95 Add to cartFew people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native American
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872986
- Language: English
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
$21.95 Add to cartThe Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0806137703
- Language: English
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Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist
$21.95 Add to cartThis first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilli
- Author: Taliaferro, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 080613495X
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
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“So Hard to Die”: A Physician and a Psychologist Explore the Mystery of Meriwether Lewis’s Death
$24.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis, commander of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the newly purchased Louisiana Territory from 1804-06, returned home from this perilous journey with every hope as well
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1737811413
- Language: English
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Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West
$16.95 Add to cartProstitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire–why they turned to prostitution, who they w… [more below]
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 219
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1560373571
- Language: English
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
$20.99 Add to cart“Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination.” —Chicago Sun-Times
On October 8, 1871–the s- Series: Wisconsin
- Author: Lutz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805072934
- Language: English
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Old Jules (Third Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293240
- Language: English
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Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die
$29.95 Add to cartIn Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die, Cheewa James, a direct descendent Modoc War hero Shkeitko, aka “Shacknasty Jim”, recounts the explosive and personal story of her ancestors in a richly documente
- Author: James, Cheewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0879612754
- Language: English
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
$29.95 Add to cartFeatured in Wall Street Journal‘s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniv
2021 Marfield Prize Finalist- Author: Drabelle, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496220773
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson
$18.99 Add to cartA timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a fresh reexamination of this charismatic figure in the context of A… [more below]
- Author: Brown, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1982191104
- Language: English
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So Far from God: The U. S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848
$26.95 Add to cartThe Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent
- Author: Eisenhower, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: February 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806132795
- Language: English
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
$23.00 Add to cartPresident James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 074329744X
- Language: English
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World.
One of- Author: Gross, Robert a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859077
- Language: English
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$28.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery an
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Kemble, Frances A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0820307076
- Language: English
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Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapahovolume 159
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons–bot
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #159
- Author: Coel, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120304
- Language: English
