Chronological Period/19th Century
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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
$23.99 Read moreDust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn’t want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Mrs Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153648
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy
$14.95 Add to cartThe Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation’s political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to coun
- Author: Babson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363790
- Language: English
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
$19.99 Add to cartFrank Lambert details America’s nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars.
The history of America’s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the pr- Author: Lambert, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0809028115
- Language: English
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George Inness and the Visionary Landscape
$39.95 Read moreThis eloquent examination of Inness’ most important paintings illuminates the artist’s philosophical and religious preoccupations. It provides an overview of his life and situates Inness within the co
- Author: Bell, Adrienne Baxter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0807600091
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest Volume 12
$21.95 Add to cartIn this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the “Empire Builder”-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Gre
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #12
- Author: Malone, Michael P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806128607
- Language: English
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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City
$24.95 Add to cartDedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in Tucson
Tucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a city with its roots in Indian and Spanish colonial histo
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120428
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier
$11.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family, … [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803273401
- Language: English
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The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
$31.65 Add to cartAn expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem,- Author: Avineri, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094791
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
$8.95 Add to cartThe enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.
His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him “St. Andrew.” British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him- Author: Carnegie, Andrew
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530381
- Language: English
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$19.00 Add to cartFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0375759379
- Language: English
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Daughters Unto Devils: A Chilling Debut
$15.99 Add to cartGod bless the little children
When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner’s family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can le- Author: Lukavics, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0373211953
- Language: English
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307279197
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$53.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness
$29.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to desc
- Author: Jenkinson, Clay S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224160
- Language: English
