19th Century
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The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians
$29.95 Add to cartThe Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States’ policy to force native populatio… [more below]- Author: Stockwell, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1594162581
- Language: English
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Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
$34.95 Add to cartBetween 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs–individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Co… [more below]
- Author: Anschutz, Philip F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0990550206
- Language: English
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Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
$21.00 Add to cartJohn Bainbridge, Jr.’s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.
L- Author: Bainbridge, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1250905710
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
$26.95 Add to cartThis beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, … [more below]
- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0520285638
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President–And Why It Failed
$19.99 Add to cartBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250805899
- Language: English
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Experiencing Olmsted: The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted’s North American Landscapes
$50.00 Read more200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America
Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nine- Author: The Cultural Landscape Foundation
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643260367
- Language: English
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
$17.99 Add to cartCuster’s ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military’s most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how di… [more below]
- Author: Welch, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329399
- Language: English
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Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
$12.95 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated by Remington, Roosevelt’s celebration of the Old West recounts his adventures in the Dakota Badlands of the 1880s, from roundups to Indian encounters to hunting bighorn sheep.
A… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0486473406
- Language: English
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
$34.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forg… [more below]
- Author: Bagley, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136391
- Language: English
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Invaded on All Sides: The War of 1812 and Michigan’s greatest battlefield engagements at Frenchtown and the River Raisin
$19.95 Add to cartFrom January 18 to January 23, 1813, Frenchtown, on the banks of the River Raisin, became a battleground where the military forces of the United States and Great Britain fought each other for control
- Author: Naveaux, Ralph James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1958363235
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Add to cartWith nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a sing… [more below]
- Author: Clark, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 142621717X
- Language: English
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Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
$30.00 Read moreThe Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Ye- Author: Suri, Jeremi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541758544
- Language: English
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1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It’s Still wit
$33.00 Read moreVeteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces–or re-introduces–us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws su
- Author: Wiegand, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1610885805
- Language: English
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Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own
$17.95 Add to cartIn this remarkable and important book, Sarah Carter introduces us to some of Montana’s first women homesteaders through their journals and other writings. By shedding light on these determined ninetee… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1560374497
- Language: English
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Trammel’s Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North
$30.00 Add to cartTrammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas.
Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the
- Series: Red River Valley Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Te #5
- Author: Pinkerton, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1623497906
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Add to cartHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
$15.99 Add to cartSometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an “entertaining discussion of the various ways our … [more below]
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0358108454
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
$40.00 Read moreA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.
When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed
- Author: Vieweg, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630579
- Language: English
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “ri… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 031656480X
- Language: English
