Chronological Period/19th Century
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Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: By One of the Early Day Pioneers
$24.95 Add to cartPioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announ
- Author: McClintock, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0806131918
- Language: English
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Historical Atlas of Arizona
$26.95 Add to cartThis Second Edition, updated from the 1980 census, reflects the new county boundaries, the continuing Hopi-Navajo land dispute, the changes in Indian populations and congressional districts, the growt
- Author: Walker, Henry P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 080612024X
- Language: English
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter
$21.95 Add to cartOn November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache w
- Series: Western Frontier Library #26
- Author: Horn, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806110449
- Language: English
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
$19.95 Add to cartGeorge Drouillard’s service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from ma… [more below]
- Author: Skarsten, M. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293097
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
$19.95 Add to cartHere, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden’s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. Th… [more below]
- Author: Merrill, Marlene Deahl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282893
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
$38.99 Add to cart“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”–Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the Uni
- Author: Zimmermann, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528934
- Language: English
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Revolver
$11.99 Read moreA loaded gun. Stolen Gold. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush. A Printz Honor Book.
“A memorable tale, one that will appeal to fans of Gary- Author: Sedgwick, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0312547978
- Language: English
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City
$39.99 Add to cartMost readers know Salem only for the city’s notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America’s first millionaire (still one of history’s 75 wealthiest
- Author: Booth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0312540388
- Language: English
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The- Author: Hamblyn, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420013
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
$27.99 Add to cartTheodore Roosevelt’s writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history–not even Jefferson–had so many opinions and intellectual interests, be… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: March 22 1985
- ISBN10: 0306802325
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
$18.99 Add to cartA sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America’s leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of America’s rise to become the world’s dominant econo
- Author: Lind, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834815
- Language: English
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Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder
$34.99 Add to cartTrack pirate gold and misplaced riches across 168 counties in this comprehensive guide to the lost treasures of Texas.
Countless fortunes have disappeared into the vast expanse of the Lone Star State.
- Author: Gaines, W. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252817
- Language: English
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Massapequas: Two Thousand Years of History
$40.99 Add to cartWhether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy. The area’s abundant supply of fish a… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Kirchmann, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540248011
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
$28.00 Add to cartFor the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American b… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Isenberg, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 110881672X
- Language: English
