Chronological Period/19th Century
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Tejano Tiger: Jose de Los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
$29.95 Add to cartRiding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benav… [more below]
- Series: Texas Biography
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: February 24 2017
- ISBN10: 087565407X
- Language: English
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95 Add to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95 Add to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
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Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
$34.00 Add to cartThe genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation’s simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0805087192
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- Language: English
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Mormon Country
$26.95 Add to cartWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their “lovely Deseret,” a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, … [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803293054
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$58.33 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691167125
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190213221
- Language: English
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How the States Got Their Shapes
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas.” — Wall Street Journal
Why does Oklahoma have that panhan
- Author: Stein, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0061431397
- Language: English
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Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
$36.99 Add to cartA new understanding of how the West came to be
For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these hist- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 019762278X
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet
$36.42 Add to cartThe compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds- Author: Dry, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816842
- Language: English
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
$4.99 Add to cartOscar Wilde presents a libertarian socialist view of the economic disparities caused by capitalism, that lead to futile acts of charity instead of definitive solutions. Wilde encourages an overhaul of
- Series: Mint Editions (Political and Social Narratives)
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513218662
- Language: English
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On War
$15.99 Add to cartOn War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and analyze … [more below]
- Author: Clausewitz, Carl Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 29 2007
- ISBN10: 9568356207
- Language: English
