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Whispering Smith by Allen P Bristow 9780865345515
RRP: £32.00£15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345515Author Allen P BristowFormat PaperbackImprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 268g -
Sheriff Pat Garrett's Last Days by Colin Rickards 9780865340794
RRP: £22.00£10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865340794Author Colin RickardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 132g -
Outlaws of New Mexico by Peter Hertzog 9780865340398
RRP: £14.00£8.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865340398Author Peter HertzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 82g -
Patriots, Priests and Rebels: A Virginia Family and America's History by Evelyn Randy Ruffin 9781662885310
RRP: £20.95£18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662885310Author Evelyn Randy RuffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Xulon PressPublisher Xulon PressWeight(grams) 553g -
Oluwa Street Evil Mobs 1967 by T. S. Aguzien 9781788787512
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788787512Author T. S. AguzienFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Rasputin: A Short Life by Frances Welch 9781476755502
RRP: £16.00£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476755502Author Frances WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Marble Arch PressPublisher Marble Arch PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison by James E. Seaver 9780815624912
£16.10The film Dance with Wolves shows how some whites, at the time of the first European contacts with American Indians, chose not to return to their own culture. Mary Jemison was perhaps the most famous white captive who stayed to live among the Indians. Her... -
Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet by D. H. Dilbeck 9781469659046
RRP: £27.95£26.47From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D... -
Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout by Julija Sukys 9780803243200
RRP: £23.99£20.84On May 26, 1993, the Algerian novelist and poet Tahar Djaout was gunned down in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. An outspoken critic of the extremism roiling his nation, Djaout, in his death, became a powerful symbol for the "murder of... -
Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World by Aaron Spencer Fogleman 9781469626420
RRP: £32.95£31.01Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New... -
Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All by Stephen D. Engle 9781469617107
RRP: £49.95£47.17Major General Don Carlos Buell stood among the senior Northern commanders early in the Civil War, led the Army of the Ohio in the critical Kentucky theater in 1861-62, and helped shape the direction of the conflict during its first years. Only a handful... -
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution by Richard Brookhiser 9780300259704
RRP: £20.00£18.42The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s founding moment John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—he served as aid to... -
Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie by T. Michael Parrish 9781469615035
RRP: £60.00£56.21Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish's biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War's most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold... -
Otto Kahn: Art, Money, and Modern Time by Theresa M. Collins 9781469614595
RRP: £44.95£42.70In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. A... -
Sallie Stockard and the Adversities of an Educated Woman of the New South by Carole W. Troxler 9780865264922
RRP: £26.50£24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264922Author Carole W. TroxlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office of... -
Wide Ruins: Memories from a Navajo Trading Post by Sallie Wagner 9780826318053
£35.65This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War IIBook InformationISBN 9780826318053Author Sallie WagnerFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint... -
The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regia in Colonial Mexico by Edith Boorstein Couturier 9780826328748
£37.22Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710. When he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain and to assume control of the family's businesses. He married the daughter of a wealthy noble... -
George Washington's Barbados Diary, 1751-52 by George Washington 9780813941370
RRP: £29.95£22.93In the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados-the one and only time that the future Revolutionary War hero and president would leave the... -
The Story of Wamba: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae regis by Joaquin Martinez Pizarro 9780813221076
RRP: £24.95£22.66The Story of Wamba offers the first complete English translation of Julian's political narrative. Joaquin Martinez Pizarro provides annotations to the text and a thorough introduction to the work's historical and literary backgrounds. The historical... -
The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631, Volume III: Volume III by Philip L. Barbour 9780807899113
RRP: £60.00£55.72Edited by the late Philip L. Barbour, acknowledged as the leading authority on Captain John Smith, this annotated three-volume work is the only modern edition of the works of the legendary figure who captured the interest of scholars and general readers... -
The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631, Volume II: Volume II by Philip L. Barbour 9780807899106
RRP: £60.00£57.18Edited by the late Philip L. Barbour, acknowledged as the leading authority on Captain John Smith, this annotated three-volume work is the only modern edition of the works of the legendary figure who captured the interest of scholars and general readers... -
James Wilson: Founding Father, 1742-1798 by Charles Page Smith 9780807897805
RRP: £60.00£55.20James Wilson, signer of the federal constitution and one of the most influential leaders in the formative period of the republic, has been the only great figure of his age to be without a biography. As a consequence his name is virtually unknown to the... -
The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 by Edmund S. Morgan 9780807897300
RRP: £60.00£55.82Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a ""landmark in the history of the American mind"" by Clifford K. Shipton when it appeared in 1962. Stiles lived at a critical... -
Sojourner Truth: God's Faithful Pilgrim by Arthur Huff Fauset 9780807896617
RRP: £39.95£36.67This book tells of the career of Isabella, a strange and powerful woman who was reared on a New York slave plantation, whose life was one of unspeakable hardships, whose brilliant mind was deprived of the barest rudiments of formal learning, but whose... -
William Tryon and the Course of Empire: A Life in British Imperial Service by Paul David Nelson 9780807865729
RRP: £49.95£45.64William Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to stem the collapse of that empire, makes for a fascinating story. Royal governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and then of New York from... -
Walter Hines Page: The Southerner As American, 1855-1918 by John Milton Cooper 9780807865224
RRP: £60.00£55.74The varied career of Walter Hines Page affected many facets of the American political and social milieu from the end of Reconstruction through World War I. A North Carolinian, Page was one of the first southerners after Reconstruction to argue that... -
William Henry Belk: Merchant of the South by LeGette Blythe 9780807865101
RRP: £49.95£45.49This is the story of a southern farm boy, reared in the dark days of Reconstruction, who became a pioneer of modern merchandising in the South and built a small country store into a huge mercantile group of over 350 establishments that now do a business... -
Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight by Arndt Stickles 9780807853566
RRP: £55.00£51.19Trained at West Point, Buckner saw service in the Mexican War but retired to private life afterwards. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a general in the Confederate army. In the troublesome years following the war, he served as governor of... -
A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913 by Robert L. Dorman 9780807846995
RRP: £42.95£39.67The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature . Robert Dorman offers lively... -
Colonel John Pelham: Lee's Boy Artillerist by William Woods Hassler 9780807845493
RRP: £27.95£25.50Even before the end of the Civil War Colonel John Pelham had become a legendary figure of the Confederacy. General Lee called him ""the gallant Pelham,"" and on seeing the young artillerist employ but a single gun to hold up the... -
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: Volume VII: 26 December 1780-29 March 1781 by Richard K. Showman 9781469623078
£86.44The seventh volume of the Papers of Nathanael Greene documents a crucial period of the American Revolution in the South. In the first months of 1781, Nathanael Greene, who had taken command of the Southern Army only weeks before, initiated the campaign... -
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky by Elizabeth D. Leonard 9781469621838
RRP: £32.95£31.85Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln's... -
Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia by Charles H. Ambler 9781469608495
RRP: £60.00£54.26This is the first complete and authentic history of the formation of the state of West Virginia as well as a biography of one of its most important statesmen. The study was made possible through the acquisition by the West Virginia University of the... -
Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah Hopkins Bradford 9781469607818
RRP: £17.95£16.62In 1869, Sarah Hopkins Bradford published Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Though often disjointed, this account presented to the public a legendary figure of the Underground Railroad. In 1886, Bradford substantially rewrote the biography at the... -
Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader by Gordon B. McKinney 9781469607313
RRP: £55.00£49.85In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure... -
Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions by Lloyd S. Kramer 9780807848180
RRP: £42.95£39.80This text traces the wide-ranging influence of Lafayette's public and personal life, including his contributions to the emergence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and America, his extensive connection with liberal political theorists, and his close... -
The Life of Yellowstone Kelly by Jerry Keenan 9780826340368
£31.26In the first full-length biography of Luther Sage "Yellowstone" Kelly (1849-1928), Jerry Keenan provides a comprehensive look at this extraordinary man of the American West. After joining the army at the close of the Civil War and spending... -
Lady S Choice: Ethel Waxham by Love B 9780826317865
£43.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826317865Author Love BFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press -
I Married a Soldier by Lydia Spencer Lane 9780826309341
£31.26Lydia Spencer Lane's account of her life as a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier is both invaluable history and delightful commentary. As an officer's wife, Lane left her home in Pennsylvania in 1854 to accompany her new husband to his... -
The Papers of James Madison 1 March - 30 September 1809: Presidential Series by James Madison 9780813909912
£94.71Edited by Robert A. Rutland and Thomas A. Mason Presidential style is an important attribute for holders of the nation's highest office, but the first volume of James Madison's presidential papers indicate that he was a reserved and unpretentious man...