19th Century
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Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartBlack, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explo… [more below]
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1571687866
- Language: English
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival
$17.99 Add to cartIncredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.
The “mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements- Author: Brennan, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1510719040
- Language: English
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War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism
$34.99 Add to cartAmericans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movem… [more below]
- Author: Slack, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773030
- Language: English
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Bloody Bozeman
$20.00 Add to cartThe Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie J… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: June 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0878421521
- Language: English
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
$20.00 Add to cartRediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial River
Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal–it encapsulates a pivota- Author: Sheriff, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 809016052
- Language: English
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Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now
$29.95 Add to cartThe Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his “Last Stand”
- Author: Brust, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138343
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
$21.99 Read more“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0062079611
- Language: English
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Frozen to the Cabin Floor: The Biography of Baby Doe Tabor 1854-1935
$32.95 Add to cartForget everything you thought you knew about Mrs. Elizabeth Bonduel Tabor.
For over 80 years, historians and authors alike have filled dozens of books describing her as crazy or mad. They claim that Mr
- Author: Beach, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 26 2018
- ISBN10: 197720046X
- Language: English
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
$29.95 Read moreWritten in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent
- Series: World of Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Simon, John Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0809314436
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #1
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272774
- Language: English
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Delaware from Railways to Freeways
$30.00 Add to cartDelaware from Railways to Freeways covers eye-opening information about the region and its residents from 1800 to 1907. Laying out a captivating journey through pictures and offering up little-known a
- Author: Tabler, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987000632
- Language: English
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Sins of My Brothers: Suffering an Uncivil War
$38.95 Add to cartSins of My Brothers is the historic account of a harrowing and gritty tale of survival, a true story fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence. The confluence of disastrous decisions result in hea
- Author: Perry, Phillip Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988975908
- Language: English
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Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2, Volume 2: Creating and Civilizing the American West
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flouri… [more below]
- Author: Anschutz, Philip F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0990550214
- Language: English
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Murder Maps USA: Crime Scenes Revisited; Bloodstains to Ballistics, 1865 -1939
$35.00 Add to cartThe most sensational and intriguing murders from across the United States are reexamined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Uncovering ho
- Author: Selzer, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252599
- Language: English
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Democracy in America: A New Abridgment for Students
$50.00 Read moreA New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment.
?As debates rage over the future of America and the country’s relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American cultu- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1577997654
- Language: English
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Judge Roy Bean Country
$18.95 Add to cartWelcome to Judge Roy Bean Country! The landscape is big enough and wild enough to contain any legend–even one the size of Judge Roy Bean. Jack Skiles started with a determination to learn the truth b… [more below]
- Author: Skiles, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0896723690
- Language: English
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The Arizona Rangers
$19.95 Add to cart“The Arizona Rangers” is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O’Neal’s enthusiasm for his subject and his resp… [more below]
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0890156107
- Language: English
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history fo… [more below]- Author: Fried, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0553383485
- Language: English
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Across the Wide Missouri: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history
- Author: Devoto, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0395924979
- Language: English
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West
$22.99 Add to cartA rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate h- Author: Donovan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316067474
- Language: English
