Chronological Period/1851-1899
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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
$8.00 Add to cartNewspaperman, 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
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The Midwife’s Touch
$30.99 Add to cartA rare gift determines one woman’s destiny in the breathtaking debut of a new trilogy from the international-bestselling author of the Ivory Carver Trilogy.
At just six years old, it becomes clear th- Author: Harrison, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1504082060
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862
$29.95 Add to cartTwo cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance.
Samuel Copeland was just a teenager in 1859 w
- Author: Mustful, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1736499092
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel
$28.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb’s c- Series: Ballad Novels #5
- Author: McCrumb, Sharyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 031238887X
- Language: English
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Buffalo Girls
$19.99 Add to cartA strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East–the writer’s name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity…
I am the Wild West, no show about it. I- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0743216296
- Language: English
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Frog Music
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0316324671
- Language: English
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In Her Own Footsteps: Flora Ross and Her Struggle for Identity and Independence in the Colonial West
$19.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has bec
- Author: Richardson, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1735297917
- Language: English
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Little Women
$24.00 Read moreA restless tomboy with a wild imagination, Jo March bridles against societal conventions. She has no interest in becoming a lady; she will become a writer. Fortunately for Jo, her family supports her
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172639
- Language: English
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Thundering Courage: George Armstrong Custer, The Union Cavalry Boy Generals, and Justified Defiance at Gettysburg
$54.95 Add to cart“Promotions or a coffin!” To George Armstrong Custer, war is the Devil’s own fun. And his luck-“Custer Luck”-peaks during the Civil War, keeping him alive against all odds. Yet, for the first two year
- Author: Pierce, Terry C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1631070541
- Language: English
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Woe to Live on
$17.99 Add to cartSet in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his… [more below]
- Author: Woodrell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0316206164
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Rocks
$24.99 Add to cartThis magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate,… [more below]
- Author: Shreve, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0316678104
- Language: English
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Things Past Telling
$17.99 Add to cart“This is a truly character-driven novel that explores how people define themselves, the creation of family and home, and the importance of memory and language. . . . Fans of historical epics won’t be
- Author: Williams, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063097087
- Language: English
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My Ántonia
$21.99 Add to cartAfter the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, where he meets his first and most prominent love, Antonia Shimera. As pioneers in Nebraska, the Shimera f
- Series: Mint Editions (Women Writers)
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221094
- Language: English
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The Sweetness of Water
$47.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021
Winner of the Willie Mo- Author: Harris, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0316362891
- Language: English
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Coal Black Horse
$13.95 Add to cartWhen Robey Childs’s mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring … [more below]
- Author: Olmstead, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126017
- Language: English
