Chronological Period/19th Century
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Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
$9.99 Add to cartA heartwarming portrait of an unforgettable woman by the critically acclaimed author of Abe’s Honest Words and Martin’s Big Words.
This picture book biography is an excellent and accessible introduct- Series: Big Words #6
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 148474960X
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Fires Then and Now (the Deadliest #3, Scholastic Focus)
$25.99 Read morePerfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series, and packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at the deadliest fires in American history.
As the sun sank
- Series: The Deadliest
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 133836023X
- Language: English
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Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and C
$19.99 Add to cartThe slightly true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the plains.
Apples, ho When Papa decides to pull up roots and move f- Series: Anne Schwartz Books
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689847696
- Language: English
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Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People
$20.99 Read moreAn inspiring picture book biography of the Lakota/Sioux warrior and chief Sitting Bull, from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson
Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890) was one of the greatest Lako- Author: Nelson, S. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1419707310
- Language: English
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Little House by Boston Bay
$7.99 Add to cartIt’s 1814 and Charlotte lives just outside the city of Boston. She always has something to look forward to–tending Mama’s garden, visiting Papa’s blacksmith shop, and embarking on her very own Scotti
- Series: Little House Prequel
- Author: Wiley, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0061148288
- Language: English
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Little House on the Prairie: Full Color Edition
$22.99 Add to cartBased on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie is the third book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edi
- Series: Little House #3
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061958271
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$22.00 Read moreTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on t
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0062278797
- Language: English
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartThey were both prewar failures–Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military
- Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148717
- Language: English
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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
$21.95 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the grim years of Southern reconstruction.
- Author: Goodrich, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0811770257
- Language: English
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The Lives of Mountain Men: A Fully Illustrated Guide to the History, Skills, and Lifestyle of the American Backwoodsmen and Frontiersmen
$19.99 Read moreDiscover the history of one of the most exciting eras in the history of the United States and some of its most fascinating characters . . . the mountain men
They were the first white men to penetra- Author: Harris, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1510760377
- Language: English
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American Prometheus: Carnegie’s Captain, Bill Jones
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican Prometheus: Carnegie’s Captain, Bill Jones presents a compelling historical memoir of the illustrious life of rebellious steel genius and inventor, Captain Bill Jones.
Hero of the Civil War an
- Author: Gage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1947112015
- Language: English
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Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman’s Tale of Life on the Prairie
$11.95 Add to cartRead the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie. This historical fiction is based … [more below]
- Series: Butter in the Well
- Author: Hubalek, Linda K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1886652007
- Language: English
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The Anti-Christ
$6.95 Read moreThis is Nietzsche’s last book and a fitting capstone to his career. It’s succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an 8,000-word… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1884365205
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of the Royal Tar: The 1836 Circus Steamship Fire
$12.95 Add to cartOn October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston from a summer-long tour of the Canadian Maritimes. … [more below]
- Author: Warner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1608933571
- Language: English
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Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900
$22.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.
- Author: Moody, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1608467554
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West
$16.95 Add to cartWho was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author… [more below]
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038389
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartAs more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific N… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Jan Mackell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038095
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
$18.95 Add to cartOutlaws Tales of the Old West features fifty stories of rustlers and robbers, crimes of passion, and some of the wannabe outlaws who couldn’t quite pull it off, some of the most fascinating–and least… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023284
- Language: English
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890
$13.99 Add to cartA brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a uni- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1476743886
- Language: English
