19th Century
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota’s Other Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War of 1862 draws on a wealth of written and visual materials by white and American Indian participants and observers showing both the sources of the Dakotas’ wrath and the terrible consequ… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0873513924
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography
$21.95 Add to cartEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had brav
- Author: Vestal, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: March 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0803257201
- Language: English
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
$19.00 Add to cart“A treasure of a book.”–David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the N- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004839
- Language: English
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminat… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201894
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
$24.95 Add to cart“[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history.”—Atlantic Monthly
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of t
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803217870
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny
$17.00 Add to cartNow in paperback with a new afterword…. Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 s- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0735213240
- Language: English
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
$20.00 Add to cartWith the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life.
He wa- Author: Powers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0375714308
- Language: English
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A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains
$23.99 Add to cartJolie Anderson’s collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado’s plains and includes a look at some of the state’s early pioneers like the “59ers” who promoted the st… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, Jolie Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491955
- Language: English
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Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartBlack, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explo… [more below]
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1571687866
- Language: English
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival
$17.99 Add to cartIncredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.
The “mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements- Author: Brennan, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1510719040
- Language: English
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War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism
$34.99 Add to cartAmericans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movem… [more below]
- Author: Slack, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773030
- Language: English
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Bloody Bozeman
$20.00 Add to cartThe Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie J… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: June 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0878421521
- Language: English
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
$20.00 Add to cartRediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial River
Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal–it encapsulates a pivota- Author: Sheriff, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 809016052
- Language: English
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Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now
$29.95 Add to cartThe Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his “Last Stand”
- Author: Brust, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138343
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
$21.99 Add to cart“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0062079611
- Language: English
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Frozen to the Cabin Floor: The Biography of Baby Doe Tabor 1854-1935
$32.95 Add to cartForget everything you thought you knew about Mrs. Elizabeth Bonduel Tabor.
For over 80 years, historians and authors alike have filled dozens of books describing her as crazy or mad. They claim that Mr
- Author: Beach, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 26 2018
- ISBN10: 197720046X
- Language: English
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
$29.95 Add to cartWritten in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent
- Series: World of Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Simon, John Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0809314436
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #1
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272774
- Language: English
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Delaware from Railways to Freeways
$30.00 Add to cartDelaware from Railways to Freeways covers eye-opening information about the region and its residents from 1800 to 1907. Laying out a captivating journey through pictures and offering up little-known a
- Author: Tabler, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987000632
- Language: English
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Sins of My Brothers: Suffering an Uncivil War
$35.00 Add to cartSins of My Brothers is the historic account of a harrowing and gritty tale of survival, a true story fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence. The confluence of disastrous decisions result in hea
- Author: Perry, Phillip Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988975908
- Language: English
