19th Century
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Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
$12.95 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated by Remington, Roosevelt’s celebration of the Old West recounts his adventures in the Dakota Badlands of the 1880s, from roundups to Indian encounters to hunting bighorn sheep.
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- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0486473406
- Language: English
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
$34.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forg… [more below]
- Author: Bagley, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136391
- Language: English
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Invaded on All Sides: The War of 1812 and Michigan’s greatest battlefield engagements at Frenchtown and the River Raisin
$19.95 Add to cartFrom January 18 to January 23, 1813, Frenchtown, on the banks of the River Raisin, became a battleground where the military forces of the United States and Great Britain fought each other for control
- Author: Naveaux, Ralph James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1958363235
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Read moreWith nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a sing… [more below]
- Author: Clark, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 142621717X
- Language: English
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Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
$30.00 Read moreThe Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Ye- Author: Suri, Jeremi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541758544
- Language: English
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1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It’s Still wit
$33.00 Read moreVeteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces–or re-introduces–us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws su
- Author: Wiegand, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1610885805
- Language: English
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Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own
$17.95 Add to cartIn this remarkable and important book, Sarah Carter introduces us to some of Montana’s first women homesteaders through their journals and other writings. By shedding light on these determined ninetee… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1560374497
- Language: English
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Trammel’s Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North
$30.00 Add to cartTrammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas.
Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the
- Series: Red River Valley Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Te #5
- Author: Pinkerton, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1623497906
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Add to cartHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
$15.99 Add to cartSometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an “entertaining discussion of the various ways our … [more below]
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0358108454
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
$40.00 Read moreA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.
When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed
- Author: Vieweg, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630579
- Language: English
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “ri… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 031656480X
- Language: English
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American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuc… [more below]
- Author: Steinmetz, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1982107413
- Language: English
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
$19.99 Add to cartAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century–a “riveting…engrossing…’American Epic'” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the … [more below]
- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1501128698
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$29.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190053763
- Language: English
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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
$21.95 Add to cartJohn H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real
- Author: Tanner, Karen Holliday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133201
- Language: English
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Tom Horn in Life and Legend
$24.95 Add to cartSome of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, a
- Author: Ball, Larry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0806151757
- Language: English
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar
$21.99 Add to cartMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history–the story of the money men. Acclaimed histo
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330508
- Language: English
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
$19.95 Add to cartA landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West
The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did su- Series: Princeton Classics #117
- Author: Pomeranz, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217181
- Language: English
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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland
$25.00 Read more“An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders.” –H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot a… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0525434887
- Language: English
