United States - 19th Century
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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting…A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the west was still wild.” –George R.R. Martin
A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most drama- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982104295
- Language: English
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Sea Captains of Cape Cod: Each Town’s Contribution to Maritime History
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you call Cape Cod a man-made island or describe it as a geographic peninsula connected to the mainland by bridges, there is one non-debatable fact. Cape Cod is surrounded by water on all four
- Author: Pregot, Michael V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 162006877X
- Language: English
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
$29.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel W… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Howe, Daniel Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0195392434
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspape
$18.99 Read moreAn extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not hea… [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744560
- Language: English
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science;846
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0874221072
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia–a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our cur
- Author: Meyer, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268566
- Language: English
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567122
- Language: English
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
$22.00 Add to cartThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army so- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385479662
- Language: English
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
$19.99 Add to cartA “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice t… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1476793387
- Language: English
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
$19.99 Add to cartDrawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060955864
- Language: English
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Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
$20.00 Add to cartThe explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier.
Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Tex- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250887372
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
$34.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forg… [more below]
- Author: Bagley, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136391
- Language: English
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1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It’s Still wit
$33.00 Read moreVeteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces–or re-introduces–us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws su
- Author: Wiegand, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1610885805
- Language: English
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “ri… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 031656480X
- Language: English
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar
$21.99 Add to cartMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history–the story of the money men. Acclaimed histo
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330508
- Language: English
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, reveal… [more below]
- Author: Feldman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0743242793
- Language: English
