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John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris
$15.48John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported... -
Union and Liberty: Political Philosophy of John C.Calhoun by John C. Calhoun 9780865971035
RRP: $14.13$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971035Author Ross M LenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1072g -
Washington's KKK: The Union League During Southern Reconstruction by Clyde N Wilson 9780692718179
RRP: $14.45$11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692718179Author Clyde N WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
The American West. Visions and Revisions by Margaret Walsh 9780521596718
RRP: $29.66$19.65This is a succinct survey of the numerous contributions to the history of the American west. In the past twenty-five years historians have created a 'New Western History', which has aimed to rewrite the 'Old Western History' created around the famous... -
Newer World by David Roberts 9780684870212
$20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870212Author David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 423gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris
RRP: $21.92$21.49"This stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States represents "a signal contribution to U.S. antebellum historiography."-Library Journal, starred review "A remarkable piece of... -
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
RRP: $23.21$16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553383485Author Stephen FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm)... -
My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux by Fanny Kelly 9781626364226
RRP: $14.18$12.23Fanny Kelly's memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy... -
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz 9780803293243
RRP: $20.63$18.37First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of "the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So... -
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy by Hidetaka Hirota 9780190055561
RRP: $33.53$24.72Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration... -
Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire by Amy S. Greenberg 9780521600804
RRP: $34.82$26.91The US-Mexico War (1846-8) brought two centuries of dramatic territorial expansionism to a close, seemingly fulfilling America's Manifest destiny. Or did it? As politicians schemed to annex new lands in Latin America and the Pacific, some Americans took... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations by Abraham Lincoln
RRP: $3.86$3.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440972Author Abraham LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm
RRP: $43.80$35.87Listen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to... -
Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth by Brian W. Dippie 9780803265929
RRP: $25.79$20.47Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the... -
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers by Robert M Utley
RRP: $30.96$22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425190128Author Robert M. UtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin 9780871406897
RRP: $16.76$14.47Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising... -
Gatewood and Geronimo by Louis Kraft 9780826321305
$48.01The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his... -
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H. W. Brands
RRP: $24.50$16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525433903Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views by John H Monnett 9780806155821
RRP: $37.35$36.71The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866--during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868)--a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and... -
Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America by Jordan T. Watkins
RRP: $61.91$56.26In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on... -
The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota's Other Civil War by Kenneth Carley 9780873513920
RRP: $25.79$20.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513920Author Kenneth CarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U... -
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy by David M Oshinsky
RRP: $25.80$18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982124045Author David M OshinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 567g -
Empire of Shadows: the Epic Story of Yellowstone by George Black 9781250023209
$22.14In a new reinterpretation of the 19th century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts... -
Animal City: The Domestication of America by Andrew A. Robichaud
RRP: $46.38$37.87Why do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our relationship with animals.Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This... -
Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography by Buffalo Bill Cody 9781602397521
RRP: $14.18$12.29Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a... -
Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age by Noam Maggor
RRP: $47.67$38.35Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of... -
Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War by Ira Berlin 9780521436922
RRP: $29.66$23.66The three essays in this volume present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang 9781631495458
RRP: $16.76$13.27Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum... -
Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire by Stefan Aune 9780520395404
RRP: $32.25$25.27References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring... -
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik
RRP: $23.21$14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358567127Author Michael HiltzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm *... -
The Lives of Mountain Men: A Fully Illustrated Guide to the History, Skills, and Lifestyle of the American Backwoodsman and Frontiersman by Bill Harris 9781510760370
RRP: $25.79$20.15Discover 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 penetrate the continent, and they soon lost their identity,... -
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar by H. W. Brands 9780393330502
RRP: $23.87$18.86Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history-the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P... -
The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812 by Jane Hampton Cook 9781621574781
RRP: $32.24$24.69It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814 enemies didn't fly overhead, they marched through the streets; and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched... -
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography by Louis Perez, Jr. 9780807847428
RRP: $48.96$44.36A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in 100 years of American historical writing. Offering both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate... -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Significant Actions of the Great Sioux War and How Custer's Last Stand Impacted the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes by Captivating History 9781950924219
RRP: $25.76$15.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924219Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)... -
Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856 by John Bicknell 9781613737972
RRP: $36.11$23.88The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US... -
The Journals Of Lewis And Clark by Meriwether Lewis 9780451531889
RRP: $9.02$8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531889Author Meriwether LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 203g -
The American West by Dee Brown 9780684804415 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$3.42By the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", this work portrays life in the American West from 1840 to the turn of the century. It interweaves stories of native Americans, ranchers and settlers, profiling figures such as Geronimo, Billy the Kid and... -
The American West by Dee Brown 9780684804415
$18.43By the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", this work portrays life in the American West from 1840 to the turn of the century. It interweaves stories of native Americans, ranchers and settlers, profiling figures such as Geronimo, Billy the Kid and... -
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade by Gerald Horne 9780814736890
RRP: $32.24$28.47During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to...