19th Century
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Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
$31.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office
Andrew Johnson never expected to be pre- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0805069488
- Language: English
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Revised Edition
$34.95 Add to cartOn September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harves… [more below]
- Author: Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0803243111
- Language: English
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Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
$17.99 Read moreA New York Times bestselling author writes the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies, and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros.,… [more below]
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541762274
- Language: English
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The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartCollege football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billions in revenue for public schools and private compan
- Author: Bell, Andrew McIlwaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0807171204
- Language: English
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Hell Paso: Life and Death in the Old West’s Most Dangerous Town
$29.95 Add to cartSpanning a thirty-year period, from the late 1800s until the 1920s, Hell Paso is the true story of the desperate men and notorious women that made El Paso, Texas the Old West’s most dangerous town. Su… [more below]
- Author: Dolan, Samuel K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1493041509
- Language: English
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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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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
