United States - 19th Century
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
$24.95 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death–but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Oth… [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803292139
- Language: English
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1831: Year of Eclipse
$20.00 Add to cart1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter wa
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0809041197
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
$18.00 Add to cartIlyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s … [more below]
- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 080214537X
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails
$20.00 Add to cartFrank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849 — between the era of… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0802140637
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of Idaho: True Stories Of The Gem State’s Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperadoes in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho… [more below]
- Series: Outlaw Tales
- Author: Stapilus, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0762772360
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$30.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathan… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1476745986
- Language: English
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
$42.50 Add to cartWritten as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the m… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Essential Histories
- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: August 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1107608589
- Language: English
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$29.95 Add to cartProspectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, o
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120843
- Language: English
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
$25.99 Add to cartAbsorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.–Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingle- Author: Lane, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0805089225
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle
$24.95 Add to cartOn The Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer
- Author: Alumbaugh, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068695
- Language: English
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Wanted! Wanted Posters of the Old West: Stories Behind the Crimes
$19.95 Read moreThis rare collection of wanted posters from the American West is an historical treasure. In addition to the more than 150 reward notices and wanted posters collected by Sheriff Moe during his tenure a… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 156037263X
- Language: English
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American West
$21.00 Add to cartRenowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates th… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684804417
- Language: English
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The Longhorns
$16.95 Add to cartThe Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass,
- Series: J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 01 1980
- ISBN10: 029274627X
- Language: English
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
$29.95 Add to cartCombining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formativ… [more below]
- Author: Roediger, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1839768304
- Language: English
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Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frountier, 1790-1810
$16.95 Add to cartA decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the… [more below]
- Series: Texas A & M Southwestern Studies (Paperback) #4
- Author: Flores, Dan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 19 1985
- ISBN10: 1585440167
- Language: English
