United States - 19th Century
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062964623
- Language: English
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American hist… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 521
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0684826976
- Language: English
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Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
$20.00 Add to cartKilling Crazy Horse is the latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.
- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 125078221X
- Language: English
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The extraordinary account of James Garfield’s rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author … [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0767929713
- Language: English
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Exposing the Expositions 1851-1915- Revised 2021
$15.95 Add to cartExpositions Exposed 2021 is a fully revised and edited version of the 2019 original.
Have we have been lied to? During 1850-1915 Great Expositions (Fairs) were built worldwide including: Chicago 1893,
- Author: Mickoski, Howdie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 8269126624
- Language: English
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States
$30.99 Add to cartSimon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates th
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062278517
- Language: English
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Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West
$27.00 Add to cartKnown for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and wer… [more below]
- Author: Reasoner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0425191931
- Language: English
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
$40.00 Read moreNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States–and lit… [more below]
- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 743
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217414017
- Language: English
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
$38.00 Read moreNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States–and lit… [more below]
- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0525562230
- Language: English
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
$24.95 Add to cartFeatured in the Wall Street Journal’s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” But where did the idea originate? Be
2021 Marfield Prize Finalist- Author: Drabelle, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 149624639X
- Language: English
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Age of Jackson
$25.99 Add to cart“The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled ‘A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy’ delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in the fall of 1941.”–Acknowledgements.
- Series: Back Bay Books (Series)
- Author: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 577
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0316773433
- Language: English
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Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight
$18.95 Add to cart“With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation.” The story of what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based ent… [more below]
- Series: Women in the West
- Author: Smith, Shannon D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234252
- Language: English
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The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in com- Author: Suits, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284660
- Language: English
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The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution
$30.00 Add to cartThe return of a revered revolutionary and the meaning of independence in a divided nation–in the 1820s and today
In 1824, the legendary French hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier de Laf
- Author: Brookhiser, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0300280904
- Language: English
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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
$22.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg
“One hell of a good read.” —The New York Times “One of the most important books written on the American West in many years.” —True West Magazine From the New Y- Author: Burrough, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1984878921
- Language: English
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The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other Characters of the Lawless West
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Ames, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1596090316
- Language: English
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Tumbleweed Underworld: A Saga of Morphine and Mayhem in the Arizona Territory
$34.95 Add to cartGeorgie Clifford appears briefly in the annals of American history as an 1894 inmate of the Yuma Territorial Prison, one of two female prisoners among hundreds of hardened, violent men. A denizen of a
- Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0806196483
- Language: English
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Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America’s Golden Era
$39.95 Add to cartStep into the era when American wealth created landscapes that rivaled European royalty and discover the magnificent gardens that still captivate visitors today.
During the Gilded Age in America (1870- Author: Milbocker, Jana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092006
- Language: English
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Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916
$23.99 Add to cartGovernment regulation of the railroads is probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World War I. It is also a key to an assessment of the impulse
- Author: Kolko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0393005313
- Language: English
