Chronological Period/1851-1899
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Banner in the Sky: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$15.99 Add to cartA timeless outdoor adventure story, winner of a Newbery Honor, that will appeal to fans of Hatchet and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.
Josef Matt, the only man to ever try to conquer th
- Author: Ullman, James Ramsey
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 1988
- ISBN10: 64470482
- Language: English
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The South Was Right
$14.99 Add to cartNapoleon defined history as “fiction agreed upon”. It’s written by victors and often one-sided. This book tells a story from the other side. It shakes the foundation of everything you’ve been taught a
- Author: Steel, Samuel Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1396321853
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
$21.95 Read moreThe Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with month
- Author: Wilson, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1643439057
- Language: English
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Les Fleurs Du Mal: Bilingual Edition
$19.95 Read moreThe bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire’s masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard.
Charles- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0879234628
- Language: English
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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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Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
$26.00 Add to cartStephen Kinzer’s Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments — not always to its own
- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082409
- 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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Across Five Aprils
$9.99 Add to cartThe Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton–a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.
In 1861, America is- Author: Hunt, Irene
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0425102416
- Language: English
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Ride the Devil’s Herd: Wyatt Earp’s Epic Battle Against the West’s Biggest Outlaw Gang
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award by the Wild West History Association
A ripsnortin’ ramble across the bloodstained Arizona desert with Wyatt Earp and company… A pleasure for thoughtful fans of Old West … [more below]
- Author: Boessenecker, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1335150005
- 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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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$30.00 Add to cartThe true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise o- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1541674197
- Language: English
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Mud, Blood and Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864
$19.95 Add to cartMud, Blood & Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864 takes a fresh look, for the first time with campaign and battle maps, at the unprecedented and brutal pursuit of the Army of Tennesse
- Author: Zimmerman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0985869267
- Language: English
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Company Aytch or a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War
$25.99 Add to cartIn celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War: The definitive Civil War classic as Sam wanted it revised complete with his edits, new perspectives, authoritative text, and images of his cha… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, Sam R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1596528400
- 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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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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Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861 1886
$29.95 Add to cartThe third volume in Alan Walker’s magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
“You can’t help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker’s accumulated readings of Liszt’s musi
- Author: Walker, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0801484537
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
$40.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – One of Modern Library‘s 100 best nonfiction books of all time – One of Esquire‘s 50 best biographies of all time
“A towering biography . . . a… [more below]- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1400069653
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
$18.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War–a vision that inspired future p… [more below]
- Author: Avlon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1982108134
- Language: English
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A Soldiers Cookbook 1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg 150th Anniversity Edition
$10.00 Add to cartAn army marches on its stomach – Napoleon Bonaparte As far back in history as Napoleon, officers knew that to be effective an army needs good and plentiful food. Without good food a soldier loses thei… [more below]
- Author: Drawbaugh, Dean C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0989268012
- Language: English
