United States - 19th Century
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Standing at the Grave: A Family’s journey from the Grand Duchy of Posen to the Prairies of North Dakota
$18.99 Add to cartWeeks before the birth of Queen Victoria, Anna Christina Schmidt was born to a German settler on the estate of a Polish noble. Unlike the Queen, the only remaining visible proof of her life is a depre
- Author: Heyn, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 196025085X
- Language: English
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Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene’s book are from North Central New York living along the Erie Canal in small, isolated rural
- Author: Keene, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0998850837
- Language: English
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
$22.00 Add to cart“WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED.”
The Pony Express is one of the mo
–California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860- Author: Corbett, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0767906934
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age: A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the
$28.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading…
From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. Its pr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: November 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160305
- Language: English
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Texian Macabre
$26.95 Add to cartMandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly–but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged “harsh epithets” with David James Jones, a … [more below]
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1933337567
- Language: English
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Digging Up the Truth and Other Big Bay Stories
$19.95 Add to cartKnown for its spectacular Northern Lights and scads of wilderness for adventure, Big Bay is a tiny town in a remote part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Although it’s literally at the end of the road a
- Author: Bowers, Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218103125
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
$18.95 Add to cartThe wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west–about 2,160 m… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #3
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803272871
- Language: English
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the TCU-Texas Book Award for Best Book on Texas
On New Year’s Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nom- Author: Zesch, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0312317891
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
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Black Indian Slave Narratives
$17.95 Add to cartFew people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native American
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872986
- Language: English
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
$21.95 Add to cartThe Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0806137703
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
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“So Hard to Die”: A Physician and a Psychologist Explore the Mystery of Meriwether Lewis’s Death
$24.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis, commander of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the newly purchased Louisiana Territory from 1804-06, returned home from this perilous journey with every hope as well
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1737811413
- Language: English
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Old Jules (Third Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293240
- Language: English
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
$29.95 Add to cartFeatured in Wall Street Journal‘s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniv
2021 Marfield Prize Finalist- Author: Drabelle, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496220773
- Language: English
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World.
One of- Author: Gross, Robert a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859077
- Language: English
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$28.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery an
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Kemble, Frances A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0820307076
- Language: English
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
$14.99 Add to cart“A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation’s most influential state.” -Publishers Weekly
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banist
- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1681621053
- Language: English
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West
$20.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really we
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1439154252
- Language: English
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The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from the Sixteenth President of the United States
$15.00 Read moreThe Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes is a collection of the best quotes, speeches, and advice from one of the most influential and greatest president of all time.
Abraham Lincoln’s words have been a sou- Author: Hellstrom, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1578269709
- Language: English
