United States - 19th Century
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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
$21.95 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the grim years of Southern reconstruction.
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0811770257
- Language: English
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The Lives of Mountain Men: A Fully Illustrated Guide to the History, Skills, and Lifestyle of the American Backwoodsmen and Frontiersmen
$19.99 Read moreDiscover the history of one of the most exciting eras in the history of the United States and some of its most fascinating characters . . . the mountain men
They were the first white men to penetra- Author: Harris, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1510760377
- Language: English
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Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900
$22.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.
- Author: Moody, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1608467554
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
$18.95 Add to cartOutlaws Tales of the Old West features fifty stories of rustlers and robbers, crimes of passion, and some of the wannabe outlaws who couldn’t quite pull it off, some of the most fascinating–and least… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023284
- Language: English
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890
$13.99 Add to cartA brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a uni- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1476743886
- Language: English
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman–and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social mov
- Author: Hirshman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268701
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Revolvers To Geronimo’s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them.
- Author: Herring, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762773499
- Language: English
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John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King
$26.60 Add to cartJohn Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in t
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791137
- Language: English
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Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail
$19.99 Add to cartResurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur trader and explorer who discovered the way West, chang… [more below]
- Author: McCartney, Laton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1476730032
- Language: English
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Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
$20.99 Add to cartThe revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations–and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. – Dramatic re-telling … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1416539891
- Language: English
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City
$24.95 Add to cartDedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in Tucson
Tucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a city with its roots in Indian and Spanish colonial histo
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120428
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn
$21.95 Add to cartMari Sandoz’s beautifully written account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life–and lost it–reveals on every page the author’s intimate knowledge of her subject. The… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229118
- Language: English
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Walking Man: The Life and Times of a 19th Century Superstar Who Defied the Limits of Human Endurance
$18.49 Add to cartJames Kennovan was a rebellious youth who went to sea as a teenager and later walked the rugged streets of the Bowery as a New York City cop. Then, in 1849, he answered the siren’s call and sailed to
- Author: Cottrell, Steve F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1088194206
- Language: English
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (Revised)
$34.95 Add to cartConsidering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an eni
- Series: Southern Biography
- Author: Bauer, K. Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0807118516
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Meadows, Sammye J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2003
- ISBN10: 076452545X
- Language: English
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
$18.95 Add to cartNow in Paperback!
Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s beginnings and explores how the city was tainted from the start, its turbulent history setting a precedent for the dis- Author: Dickey, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0762787910
- Language: English
