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John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always...

A selection of the History Book ClubA new paperback edition of the standard biography of the flamboyant Earl Van Dorn, one of the most promising yet disappointing officers in the Confederate Army.Book InformationISBN 9780826512543Author Robert G...

General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had. And yet, on hearing of Crook's death, the Sioux chief Red Cloud lamented,...

This book is a critical biography of Father Nelson Henry Baker of Buffalo, New York.Book InformationISBN 9780809105960Author Richard GribbleFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Paulist Press International,U.S.Publisher Paulist Press International,U.S.

A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too. All were from the Deep South. All were young, between...

In this study of political party development in North Carolina during the antebellum period, Thomas E. Jeffrey accounts for the persistence of the second-party system in that state, emphasizing the sectional conflict that divided eastern plantation and...

This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all,...

If we do in fact "remember the Alamo," it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer's slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996287210Author Reader in History Brendan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint MindStir MediaPublisher MindStir MediaWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983910824Author Paul KastenellosFormat PaperbackImprint Apuleius BooksPublisher Apuleius BooksWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546270706Author Kathleen SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546270683Author Kathleen SteeleFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098009915Author Raymond RobersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Christian Faith Publishing, IncPublisher Christian Faith Publishing,...

The Quantrill legend is rooted in acts of savage violence throughout Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War--deeds both romanticized and vilified. In William Clarke Quantrill, Albert Castel's classic biography, the story of Quantrill and his men comes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060521677Author John SedgwickFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967918679Author Francis WellerFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Willow PressPublisher Willow PressWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648311201Author Dr Graham WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Beyondbeyond BooksPublisher Beyondbeyond BooksWeight(grams) 440g

Drawing from a wealth of information, particularly from primary sources such as diaries, letters, plantation records, etc., the author has recreated the story of James Hamilton Couper and his times into an exciting, interesting, and readable account. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986830839Author Tom BijvoetFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738824109Author Thomas Lamar CoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982073124Author Henry C AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Audubon PressPublisher Audubon PressWeight(grams) 601g

An engaging, accessible biography of the legendary Egyptian queen, with source documents Ambitious, intelligent, and desired by powerful men, Cleopatra VII came to power at a time when Roman and Egyptian interests increasingly concerned the same object:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752209Author Geoffrey PerretFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 570g

William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the battle-and perhaps the war. Now, Glenn W. LaFantasie-bestselling author of...

One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in...

In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had...

In the fourth volume of this comprehensive study, Jefferson acquires the vast territory of Louisiana for the United States, challenges the growing power of the federal judiciary, continues to press his opposition to the Hamiltonian doctrine of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806130118Author John BoesseneckerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982225172Author Martin RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Atara PressPublisher Atara PressWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312295110Author COOGANFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999055908Author Erik VaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Maracaibo PublishingPublisher Maracaibo PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477267059Author William "Bill" LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992553449Author Tehani WesselyFormat HardbackImprint Fablecroft PublishingPublisher Fablecroft PublishingWeight(grams) 653g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979689642Author Gary W ToynFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint American Legacy Historical PressPublisher American Legacy Historical PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738843292Author Frank StiffelFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 499g

Continuing the story based on the brief, eventful and tragic life of Englishman William Reynolds and the parallel exploits of the furtive Atzerodt. Arriving in the bustling city of Baltimore, William is soon to realise his ambition to become a soldier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755204311Author Michael J. BeechFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

The Laird of Rideau Hall explore la vie et l'epoque de Thomas Mackay, le principal fondateur de Bytown/Ottawa. Ne et eduque a Perth, en Ecosse, Mackay et sa famille ont emigre a Montreal en 1817. Avec son compagnon, le macon John Redpath, il a construit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648698982Author Cecily GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Disruptive PublishingPublisher Disruptive PublishingWeight(grams) 210g

Published in 1958 as a memoriam for E. Merton Coulter, Georgians in Profile is a collection of fourteen biographical essays that detail the lives of important Georgians. Written by Coulter's former students, the subjects of the essays range from colonial...