Chronological Period/19th Century
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A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
$14.99 Add to cartA Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer intere
- Series: Mint Editions (the Natural World)
- Author: Bird, Isabella L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513206710
- Language: English
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The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families
$19.95 Add to cartThe only thing the Herrins and the Burkes had in common was their Irish ancestry. Opposites in most ways, the families nevertheless personified two common threads in the history of the West. As the ow… [more below]
- Author: Vaughn, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229754
- Language: English
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Meander: Making Room for Rivers
$19.95 Add to cartDraws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Wooster, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1438484682
- Language: English
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Underground Railroad: A Captivating Guide to the Routes, Places, and People that Helped Free African Americans During the Nineteenth Century
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Underground Railroad: A Captivating Gui
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637161344
- Language: English
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
$20.00 Add to cartA haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798612
- Language: English
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The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
$24.95 Add to cart2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America
The Last Sovereigns is the s
True West Magazine’s 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the Year- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220226
- Language: English
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Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail
$21.95 Add to cartIn Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail, Susan Butruille artfully narrates the lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago. This twenty-fifth anniversary
- Author: Butruille, Susan G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1941890261
- Language: English
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In the San Juan
$16.95 Add to cartRev. J. J. Gibbons experienced the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as few men ever did. At the end of the nineteenth century, when avalanches ran, mines exploded, and plagues hit hard – everyone backed… [more below]
- Author: Gibbons, Rev J. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1932738622
- Language: English
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The Way of a Pilgrim: The Jesus Prayer Journey–Annotated & Explained
$19.99 Add to cartThe timeless account of an anonymous wanderer who set out on a journey across nineteenth-century Russia with nothing but a backpack, some bread, and a Bible, with a burning desire to learn the true me… [more below]
- Series: SkyLight Illuminations
- Author: Pokrovsky, Gleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1893361314
- Language: English
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In Search of Wagner
$24.95 Add to cartWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent … [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673448
- Language: English
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It Happened in Ohio: Stories of Events and People that Shaped Buckeye State History
$26.83 Add to cartThirty-five episodes from the history of the Buckeye State, including memorable events such as the Kent State Riots, but also featuring lesser-known tales.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Cartaino, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149303961X
- Language: English
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Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from one of the most acclaimed biographers–the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years.William Henry Seward was on… [more below]
- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1439121184
- Language: English
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Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century
$24.95 Add to cartSince its initial publication a decade ago, Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century has captivated readers with its unprecedented blend of serious history, fascinating images, and heartfe… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0967820448
- Language: English
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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
$14.95 Add to cartDuring the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The intervie
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Tanner, Lynette Ater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0895876264
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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Antes: Stories from the Past, Rural Cuba, New Mexico 1769-1949
$24.95 Add to cartCuba, New Mexico, was first settled in 1769. Originally known as Nacimiento, it was located on the northwestern edge of the Spanish Colonial Empire. It was very isolated and the people who settled Cub
- Author: Cordova May, Esther V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0865348405
- Language: English
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Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History
$24.95 Add to cartKit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson’s own guardianship of hi
- Series: Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0826332978
- Language: English
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Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
$27.95 Add to cartOur perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view
- Series: Jeffersonian America
- Author: Stanton, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0813932238
- Language: English
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
$19.95 Add to cartWas Cyrus Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed’s life and those of his followers, the Koreshans, … [more below]
- Author: Millner, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0813064406
- Language: English
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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865
$24.95 Add to cartThe year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought … [more below]
- Author: McDermott, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811738965
- Language: English
