19th Century
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Spr- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250178169
- Language: English
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The Atlas of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America’s bloodiest war with unparallel… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 151075640X
- Language: English
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero
$23.99 Add to cartThe “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. … [more below]
- Author: Canellos, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501188216
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
$22.00 Add to cartThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army so- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385479662
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History
$14.95 Add to cartWhen the Civil War ended black men left in large numbers to find a way to make a living in the Old West. They were hard working, industrious men who were determined to carve out a life for themselves … [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0762760710
- Language: English
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
$19.99 Add to cartA “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice t… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1476793387
- Language: English
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
$19.99 Add to cartDrawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060955864
- Language: English
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dana, Richard Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 17, 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390081
- Language: English
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Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond
$28.95 Read moreScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to Midwestern History
- Author: Anderson, Timothy G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0821425277
- Language: English
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Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
$20.00 Add to cartThe explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier.
Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Tex- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250887372
- Language: English
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The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians
$29.95 Add to cartThe Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States’ policy to force native populatio… [more below]- Author: Stockwell, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1594162581
- Language: English
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Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
$34.95 Add to cartBetween 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs–individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Co… [more below]
- Author: Anschutz, Philip F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0990550206
- Language: English
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Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
$21.00 Add to cartJohn Bainbridge, Jr.’s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.
L- Author: Bainbridge, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1250905710
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
$26.95 Add to cartThis beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, … [more below]
- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0520285638
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President–And Why It Failed
$19.99 Add to cartBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250805899
- Language: English
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Experiencing Olmsted: The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted’s North American Landscapes
$50.00 Read more200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America
Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nine- Author: The Cultural Landscape Foundation
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643260367
- Language: English
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
$17.99 Add to cartCuster’s ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military’s most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how di… [more below]
- Author: Welch, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329399
- Language: English
