Chronological Period/1851-1899
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
$17.99 Add to cartThe award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey’s restaurants along the Santa Fe railway — and went on to shape the American Southwest
From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Ha- Author: Poling-Kempes, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 1994
- ISBN10: 1569249261
- Language: English
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A Land Remembered Goes To School, Teachers Guide Edition
$6.00 Add to cartAn elementary school teacher’s manual for using A Land Remembered to teach language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Educati
- Series: Land Remembered
- Author: Smith, Patrick D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: March 15 2001
- ISBN10: 1561642282
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
$18.99 Add to cartLearn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and “a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history’s most famous explorers…[with] infusio… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1451677588
- Language: English
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A History of the Civil War: The Conflict That Defined the United States
$12.99 Read moreIn this illustrated account of the bloodiest war fought on American soil, civil war expert Brooks Simpson recounts the events of the war from the opening salvo at Fort Sumter through the battlefields
- Series: Sirius Military History
- Author: Simpson, Brooks
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1398826146
- Language: English
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The Antietam Journal, Volume 4
$15.00 Add to cartVolume IV of The Antietam Journal contains articles about the Battle of South Mountain, George B. McClellan in the Maryland Campaign, command turnover in the Maryland Campaign, Sharpsburg’s civilians,
- Author: Pawlak, Kevin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218170684
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
$14.95 Add to cartDuring the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The intervie
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Tanner, Lynette Ater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0895876264
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics
$19.95 Add to cartThe only thorough treatment of Lincoln’s Indian policy during the Civil War and the corrupt “Indian System” of government aid that mainly benefited ambitious whites.
- Author: Nichols, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518756
- Language: English
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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865
$24.95 Add to cartThe year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought … [more below]
- Author: McDermott, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811738965
- Language: English
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Trotsky
$27.99 Add to cartTrotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twent
- Author: Geary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0809095084
- Language: English
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Gettysburg–The Second Day
$38.00 Add to cartThe second day’s fighting at Gettysburg–the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863–was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Pfanz, Harry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847305
- Language: English
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Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
$13.95 Add to cartThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spok… [more below]
- Author: Kip, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 151
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803277911
- Language: English
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Hardtack and Coffee Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life
$24.95 Add to cartIncludes six color plates of corps badges and more than 200 black and white illustrations
Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give- Author: Billings, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 413
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 080326111X
- Language: English
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The Wild Bunch at Robber’s Roost
$16.95 Add to cartRobbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by ca… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 080326089X
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
$21.99 Add to cartHandcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.
Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreakin- Author: Kalush, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0743272080
- Language: English
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Bound & Determined: A Visual History of Corsets, 1850-1960
$14.95 Add to cartThis revealing history of corsetry ranges from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries to show how simple laced bodices developed into corsets of cane, whalebone, and steel. Lavish illustrations inclu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Fashion
- Author: Seleshanko, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0486478920
- Language: English
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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
$23.00 Add to cartIt is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fie… [more below]
- Author: Kauffman, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375759743
- Language: English
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Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background and Tactical Use
$19.99 Add to cartCombines technical data on each American Civil War firearm and details of its actual use on the battlefield–with a guide to collecting and firing surviving relics and modern reproductions
The popular … [more below]- Author: Bilby, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814595
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$18.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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Border War Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to Civil War Sites on the Missouri/Kansas Border
$14.99 Add to cartThe Missouri/Kansas Border is full of sites where Civil War events occurred. Some of these locations are well-known, while others are just spots on the road where key events in the Civil War took plac… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1736463330
- Language: English
