Chronological Period/1851-1899
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- Language: English
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The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army
$18.99 Add to cart“The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikely–and most uncelebrated–genius” (The Wall Street Journal)–General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army and was judged by Abraham Lincoln, W… [more below]
- Author: O’Harrow, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1451671938
- Language: English
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Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
$20.99 Add to cartThe revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations–and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. – Dramatic re-telling … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1416539891
- Language: English
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The Antietam Battlefield Atlas
$49.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17th, 1862. It was the worst day of the war, with almost 23,000 killed, wounded and missing. Of those, almost 4,000 were killed, making it the bloodiest
- Author: Butkovich, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1732597650
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth
$29.95 Add to cartThe Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement
- Author: Monnett, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: July 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0826345042
- Language: English
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Twain: Letters from Hawaii
$19.99 Add to cart“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever.” –Mark Twain
So Samuel Langhorne Clemens- Series: Pacific Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0824802888
- Language: English
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
$39.95 Add to cartIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers’ letters and diaries, Wiley expla
- Series: Political Traditions in Foreign Policy
- Author: Wiley, Bell Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133752
- Language: English
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Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes
$16.95 Add to cartTell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indian Territory northward to their homelands in the Powd… [more below]
- Author: Monnett, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806136456
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman
$22.00 Add to cartBorn into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a … [more below]
- Author: East, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671785036
- Language: English
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60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns
$14.95 Add to cartAssembled from issues of a popular 19th-century periodical, these patterns include dresses, pants, jackets, and other apparel for women and children, plus suggestions for employing modern tools and te… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Seleshanko, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: November 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0486461769
- Language: English
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
$16.95 Read moreChurchill’s first major historical work is still considered one of his most riveting. — Library Journal
It’s a great read. — The Washington Examiner
A story of heroism and glory that rivals any work o… [more below]- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0486447855
- Language: English
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
$56.00 Add to cartIn this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repre… [more below]
- Series: History of NYC
- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1196
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0195116356
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: A Life
$17.00 Add to cartLegends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034804
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
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Moonlit Mayhem: Quantrill’s Raid of Olathe, Kansas
$23.99 Add to cartWould you turn your back on your family and friends if the local authorities asked you to do so? Residents were asked to do just that during the Missouri/Kansas Border War prior to and during the Civi
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736463306
- Language: English
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Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cartWith a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea
Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii–named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie–was the most
- Author: Rea, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966700
- Language: English
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Rise to Greatness
$32.99 Add to cartAuthor of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke,
New York Times Bestseller- Author: Von Drehle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037808
- Language: English
