Chronological Period/1851-1899
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West
$22.99 Add to cartA rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate h- Author: Donovan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316067474
- Language: English
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
$28.95 Add to cartHow baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.
- Author: Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926770
- Language: English
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Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize
Winner of an Army Historical Founda… [more below]- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1451641397
- Language: English
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Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla
$24.99 Add to cartNowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri–and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, “Bloody Bill” played the leading role… [more below]
- Author: Castel, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0700614346
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
$27.95 Read moreHow America’s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previ- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #70
- Author: Gordon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175802
- Language: English
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
$26.95 Read moreThey believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin’s haunting account of the women of Camp Etna–an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generat
- Author: Ptacin, Mira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1631493817
- Language: English
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The Robber Barons
$22.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age’s giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the s… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Josephson, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 24 1962
- ISBN10: 156767902
- Language: English
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Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines
$17.95 Read moreFor readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain, an authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has … [more below]
- Author: Zaitchik, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 164009590X
- Language: English
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Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
$18.99 Add to cartThe author of the bestselling Lincoln on Leadership offers a fresh perspective on President Lincoln’s distinctive management philosophy and applies it to the pressing issues of the present day. Politi
- Author: Phillips, Donald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745694
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of the Civil War
$14.95 Add to cartMore than 600,000 men died during the Civil War, but the conflict also displaced countless civilians. In this collection, noted authors Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay recount fascinating stories of soldier… [more below]
- Series: Ghost Stories #32
- Author: Asfar, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1990539041
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
$5.99 Add to cartThe Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stunning relevance to the politics and tribulations of today’s society, Joseph Conra
- Series: Mint Editions (Nautical Narratives)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1513263196
- Language: English
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The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
$32.99 Add to cart“Beautifully written, compulsively readable… ” So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft – the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor
- Author: Dempsey, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0990696480
- Language: English
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Fall Back and Find Me
$15.99 Add to cartTwo resilient women separated by over 150 years are linked forever by their challenges, values, and determination.
Amber Prichard is thriving in her role as pastor’s wife, mom, and indispensable church
- Author: Hanks, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985478945
- Language: English
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Mountain Ranch
$18.99 Add to cartSet in the Wyoming and Colorado territories of the 1880s, Mountain Ranch is the epic story of three families who carved a place on the American frontier. Changes have come to Twin Peaks Ranch and to t
- Author: Weber, Johny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1956906908
- Language: English
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The Last Crossing
$18.00 Add to cartThe Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father t… [more below]
- Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141757
- Language: English
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Telegraph Days
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.
When t- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0743250931
- Language: English
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Civil War Stories
$5.00 Read moreNewspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed “Bitter Bierce” for his vitriolic
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280381
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartThe Red Badge of Courage is an American masterpiece-and yet the novel familiar to so many readers is not, in fact, the story Crane wrote. That story is the one printed here, as Henry Binder has recove… [more below]
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0393319547
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Photo
$17.99 Add to cartIn this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of two young women–one in America’s Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day Cali
- Author: Hogan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 006238693X
- Language: English
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Dessa Rose
$18.99 Add to cartSherley A. Williams’ highly acclaimed historical novel details two women’s fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south.
In 1829, in Kentucky, a pregn
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Williams, Sherley A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0062011251
- Language: English
