19th Century
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Land in Her Own Name
$21.95 Add to cartLand is often known by the names of past owners. “Emma’s Land,” “Gina’s quarter,” and “the Ingeborg Land” are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and
- Author: Lindgren, H. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806128860
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- 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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Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association
“I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft a- Author: Milson, Andrew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262324
- 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 Age of Revolution: 1749-1848
$20.00 Add to cartThis magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphorist… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772537
- Language: English
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
$18.95 Add to cartAfter the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued… [more below]
- Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355659
- Language: English
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
$19.95 Add to cartLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 163149113X
- Language: English
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The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
$26.95 Read more- Author: Silbernagel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600235
- 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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Rooster
$15.00 Add to cartThe True Story Behind True Grit
Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real “Rooster” Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself. Now, in this page-turning a
- Author: Cogburn, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0758274947
- 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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Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist
$21.95 Add to cartThis first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilli
- Author: Taliaferro, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 080613495X
- 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
