Search Results for: History of the American West
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Mackinac Island
$31.99 Add to cartFrom historical richness to unparalleled natural beauty, Michigan’s Mackinac Island is the crown jewel of the Great Lakes, unique in America. Native American visitors preceded French explorers and mis… [more below]
- Author: North, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1531656315
- Language: English
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
$22.00 Add to cartThe charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa.
King Peggy chronicles the astonishing- Author: Bartels, Peggielene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0307742814
- Language: English
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In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of Jos? Ch?vez Y Ch?vez, Juan Patr?n, Mart?n Ch?vez, and Yginio Salazar
$40.00 Add to cartThe legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like Jos? Ch?vez y Ch?vez, Juan Patr?n, Mart?n Ch?vez, and Yginio Sala
- Author: Mills, James B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419625
- Language: English
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Trail of Graves
$15.95 Add to cartNot many people in the Old West kept records, especially Native Americans. These stories need to be preserved. That is what I have tried to do in these short stories. These are not the life stories of
- Author: Clark, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895535806
- Language: English
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North American Indians
$22.00 Add to cartFrom 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America–from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West,… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Catlin, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 522
- Publish Date: February 24 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437506
- Language: English
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest
A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other N
- Author: Bennett Bill, Ramona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753501
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
Named a Best Civil
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243013
- Language: English
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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
$21.99 Add to cartThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of t… [more below]
- Author: Park, Benjamin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096683
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$22.00 Add to cart*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book*
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York T- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250354587
- Language: English
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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses–and the role they played in the history of enslavement.
Through the eighteenth and- Author: Kaufmann, Miranda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368299
- Language: English
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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car
$27.95 Add to cartFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place
- Author: Wilke, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624222X
- Language: English
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Braided Roots: The Interweaving of History, Family, and a Father’s Love
$19.99 Add to cartA stunning, poetic debut picture book from Pasha Westbrook about honoring one’s roots and the unbreakable bond of familial love, brought to life with enchanting illustrations by Madelyn Goodnight.
Fat
- Author: Westbrook, Pasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1339015382
- Language: English
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H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker
$35.00 Add to cartA new consideration of the playful and unsettling sculptures of H. C. Westermann, guiding figure of American conceptualism and craft
An acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman, and two-time naval war- Author: Bianconi, Giampaolo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 030028201X
- Language: English
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Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West
$35.00 Add to cartLegendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson–a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1419784145
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: “A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere.” (Publishers Weekly)
“This is a land acknowledgment.” –Ruth Wi
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146803
- Language: English
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The Great Work
$18.99 Add to cart“A moody, atmospheric, and singular novel which navigates corners of American history through the complicated territory of horror, the monstrous, and the heroic.”–Kelly Link, best-selling author of T… [more below]
- Author: Costa, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1683695054
- Language: English
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Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West
$35.00 Add to cartThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West
The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was- Author: Mueller, Max Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602595
- Language: English
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Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem
$18.95 Add to cartBitter Creek, a lyric Chinese epic of the American West, reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.
In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought in as strike
- Author: Goh, Teow Lim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890920133
- Language: English
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The Westcott Story: Volume II-1889-2024, The Enduring Spirit of an American Family Spanning 400 Years
$23.99 Add to cartThis sweeping narrative details the history and genealogy of the Westcott family in America spanning 400 years and 14 generations. From immigration to colonization, from armed conflict to industrializ
- Author: Emmanuel, Christine Broderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991577946
- Language: English
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The Westcott Story: Volume I-1588-1940, The Enduring Spirit of an American Family Spanning 400 Years
$23.99 Add to cartThis sweeping narrative details the history and genealogy of the Westcott family in America spanning 400 years and 14 generations. From immigration to colonization, from armed conflict to industrializ
- Author: Emmanuel, Christine Broderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991577915
- Language: English
