19th Century
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Paris Reborn
$26.00 Add to cartIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol駮n III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. Thi
- Author: Kirkland, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042682
- Language: English
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Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals
$35.00 Add to cartA compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the Unit- Author: Wasik, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0525659064
- Language: English
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The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke Canoe
$54.99 Add to cartIn 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to Ne
- Author: Smith, Arthur L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218109103
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas
$15.95 Read moreA brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills against his tribe’s traditional enemies — the Pawnees, Shoshones, Arikaras, and Crows — long before he fought to close the Bozeman Trail. … [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0917298500
- Language: English
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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
$24.95 Add to cartThe enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army,
- Author: Rickey, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806111135
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
$24.95 Add to cartFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803280394
- Language: English
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The South Was Right
$14.99 Add to cartNapoleon defined history as “fiction agreed upon”. It’s written by victors and often one-sided. This book tells a story from the other side. It shakes the foundation of everything you’ve been taught a
- Author: Steel, Samuel Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1396321853
- Language: English
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Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
$19.99 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in h… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1684511526
- Language: English
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
$32.00 Add to cartCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our… [more below]
- Author: Rubenstein, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1982120258
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
$21.95 Add to cartThe Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with month
- Author: Wilson, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1643439057
- Language: English
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History of German Settlements in Texas Prior to the Civil War
$28.95 Add to cartUnsatisfactory social, economic, and political conditions in Germany from the close of the Napoleonic period through the revolutionary periods of 1830 and 1848 stimulated immigration to Texas. This bo… [more below]
- Author: Biesele, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1571682368
- Language: English
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native Ind
$27.99 Add to cartDiscover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American Heritage
The mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too l
- Author: Alive, History Brought
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312856
- Language: English
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota’s Other Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War of 1862 draws on a wealth of written and visual materials by white and American Indian participants and observers showing both the sources of the Dakotas’ wrath and the terrible consequ… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0873513924
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography
$21.95 Add to cartEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had brav
- Author: Vestal, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: March 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0803257201
- Language: English
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
$19.00 Add to cart“A treasure of a book.”–David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the N- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004839
- Language: English
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminat… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201894
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
$24.95 Add to cart“[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history.”—Atlantic Monthly
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of t
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803217870
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny
$17.00 Add to cartNow in paperback with a new afterword…. Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 s- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0735213240
- Language: English
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
$20.00 Add to cartWith the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life.
He wa- Author: Powers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0375714308
- Language: English
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A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains
$23.99 Add to cartJolie Anderson’s collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado’s plains and includes a look at some of the state’s early pioneers like the “59ers” who promoted the st… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, Jolie Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491955
- Language: English
