19th Century
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Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West
$16.95 Add to cartProstitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire–why they turned to prostitution, who they w… [more below]
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 219
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1560373571
- Language: English
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
$20.99 Add to cart“Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination.” —Chicago Sun-Times
On October 8, 1871–the s- Series: Wisconsin
- Author: Lutz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805072934
- 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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Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die
$29.95 Add to cartIn Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die, Cheewa James, a direct descendent Modoc War hero Shkeitko, aka “Shacknasty Jim”, recounts the explosive and personal story of her ancestors in a richly documente
- Author: James, Cheewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0879612754
- 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 Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson
$18.99 Add to cartA timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a fresh reexamination of this charismatic figure in the context of A… [more below]
- Author: Brown, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1982191104
- Language: English
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So Far from God: The U. S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848
$26.95 Add to cartThe Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent
- Author: Eisenhower, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: February 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806132795
- Language: English
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
$23.00 Add to cartPresident James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 074329744X
- 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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Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapahovolume 159
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons–bot
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #159
- Author: Coel, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120304
- Language: English
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
$24.99 Read moreThe transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse d
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342379
- Language: English
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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
$19.99 Add to cartWhen President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil r… [more below]
- Author: Greenberger, Scott S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0306922703
- 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
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
$17.00 Add to cartA mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
Imagine undergoing an ope- Author: O’Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1592409253
- Language: English
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
$19.99 Add to cartThe full, untold story of serial killer made famous in Erik Larson’s international bestseller The Devil in the White City.
Here is the horrific true tale of America’s first and most notorious serial k- Author: Selzer, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1510740848
- Language: English
