19th Century
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
$21.99 Read moreIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Ameri
- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308731
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
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Seer Stone v. Urim and Thummim: Book of Mormon Translation on Trial
$28.00 Add to cartCredible history vs. revisionist hearsay – Answering faith crisis with real history. A story of magic, murder and betrayal.
Seer Stone v. Urim and Thummim places the Book of Mormon translation on trial
- Author: Stoddard, L. Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1644670119
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593861833
- Language: English
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsteris
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060590033
- Language: English
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartAlthough frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of nati
- Author: Borneman, Walter R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0060531134
- Language: English
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
$18.99 Add to cart“WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!”
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped wou
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494007
- Language: English
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
$26.00 Read moreThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ba
- Author: Powell, Lawrence N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725905
- Language: English
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Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A gripping, definitive account of Sherman’s legendary and destructive march through Georgia.
“Mr. Trudeau’s narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one
- Author: Trudeau, Noah Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0060598689
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$15.99 Add to cartThis compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure–in their own words
The jou
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Jones, Landon Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: March 19, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060011599
- Language: English
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We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher
$21.95 Add to cartE. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870’s and 1880’s. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in
- Author: Abbott, E. C. Teddy Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15, 1976
- ISBN10: 0806113669
- Language: English
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New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
$19.00 Add to cartA riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and settlement, and transformed the country… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0735223270
- Language: English
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Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879
$9.95 Add to cartAndrew Garcia left a manuscript on his death in 1942. The author acquired the manuscript and edited it to tell Garcia’s story of the 1877 war between the US government and the Nez Perce people, the en… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 409
- Publish Date: January 01 1967
- ISBN10: 0893012505
- Language: English
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Jean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of America’s Longest-Running Mysteries
$20.00 Read moreJean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of America’s Longest-Running Mysteries takes a fresh look at the various myths and legends surrounding one of the last great pirates. Beginning in 1805, the book … [more below]
- Author: Oliphant, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1946160725
- Language: English
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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852: As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by Other Overland Travelers
$24.95 Add to cartWith numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives
- Author: Rau, Weldon Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0874222389
- Language: English
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement
$14.99 Read moreAn important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change–The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines,
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060524316
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$17.99 Add to cartErik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Co… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 689
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1594136246
- Language: English
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
$20.00 Add to cartSaidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021586
- Language: English
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Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
$32.00 Add to cart*WINNER OF THE WOMEN WRITING THE WEST 2023 WILLA LITERARY AWARD*
Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transp
- Author: Hickman, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1954118171
- Language: English
