Chronological Period/19th Century
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American Prometheus: Carnegie’s Captain, Bill Jones
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican Prometheus: Carnegie’s Captain, Bill Jones presents a compelling historical memoir of the illustrious life of rebellious steel genius and inventor, Captain Bill Jones.
Hero of the Civil War an
- Author: Gage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1947112015
- Language: English
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Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman’s Tale of Life on the Prairie
$11.95 Add to cartRead the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie. This historical fiction is based … [more below]
- Series: Butter in the Well
- Author: Hubalek, Linda K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1886652007
- Language: English
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The Anti-Christ
$6.95 Add to cartThis is Nietzsche’s last book and a fitting capstone to his career. It’s succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an 8,000-word… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1884365205
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of the Royal Tar: The 1836 Circus Steamship Fire
$12.95 Add to cartOn October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston from a summer-long tour of the Canadian Maritimes. … [more below]
- Author: Warner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1608933571
- Language: English
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Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900
$22.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.
- Author: Moody, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1608467554
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West
$16.95 Add to cartWho was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author… [more below]
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038389
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartAs more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific N… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Jan Mackell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038095
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
$18.95 Add to cartOutlaws Tales of the Old West features fifty stories of rustlers and robbers, crimes of passion, and some of the wannabe outlaws who couldn’t quite pull it off, some of the most fascinating–and least… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023284
- Language: English
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890
$13.99 Add to cartA brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a uni- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1476743886
- Language: English
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman–and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social mov
- Author: Hirshman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268701
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
$22.99 Add to cart
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind–the Great Irish Potato Famine–conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality
In this ma- Author: Kelly, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032172
- Language: English
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First Telegraph Line Across the Continent: Charles Brown’s 1861 Diary
$14.95 Add to cart2012 Nebraska Book Award: Cover/Design/Illustration
The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole. Yet relatively
- Author: Mihelich, Dennis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0933307322
- Language: English
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Rosanna of the Amish
$17.99 Add to cartThe thrilling narrative of Rosanna McGonegal Yoder, the Irish Catholic baby girl, who lived with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder. All the episodes of Rosanna of the Amish are based on fact. Joseph W.
- Author: Yoder, Joseph W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0836190181
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations…. [more below]
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803295642
- Language: English
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Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years
$25.99 Add to cartBlack Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of tod… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802827853
- Language: English
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Clara Schumann (Revised)
$25.95 Add to cartThis absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, t
- Author: Reich, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0801486378
- Language: English
