Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Patrick Connor's War: The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition by David E. Wagner 9780806192178
$27.48The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the country's attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho... -
Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas by Jordan T. Cash 9780700636365
RRP: $42.51$35.35The annexation of Texas was one of the most momentous actions the United States government took in the antebellum period. Apart from adding what was the largest state in the Union at that time, it expedited further avenues for westward expansion,... -
They Can't Pull Us Up: Harriet Tubman and Her Life by Danita Smith 9780997138689
RRP: $15.18$13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997138689Author Danita SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Red and Black Ink, LLCPublisher Red and Black Ink, LLCWeight(grams) 336g -
The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West by Michael L. Tate 9780806133867
$44.39Books, art, and movies most often portray the frontier army in continuous conflict with Native Americans. In truth, the army spent only a small part of its frontier duty fighting Indians; as the main arm of the federal government in less-settled regions... -
Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, And Dislocation In The Final Years Of The Slave Trade by Sharla M. Fett 9781469645513
RRP: $46.38$43.55In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston... -
William Muldoon: The Solid Man Conquers Wrestling and Physical Culture by Ken Zimmerman, Jr 9781087962290
RRP: $16.76$11.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations, 1840-1865 by James Patrick Morgans 9781476678269
RRP: $28.37$23.18All along the mid-1800s Western frontier, the path of fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad was filled with danger. An escapee who managed to avoid violence still was hard-pressed to survive in a place of frequent drought and illness, where newly... -
From Presidio to the Pecos River: Surveying the United States-Mexico Boundary along the Rio Grande, 1852 and 1853 by Orville B. Shelburne Jr. 9780806193090
RRP: $29.61$25.39The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained by a joint boundary commission effort. The section of the boundary along the Rio Grande from Presidio to... -
Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York by Michael T Keene 9780998850832
RRP: $25.74$16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998850832Author Michael T KeeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Ad-Hoc ProductionsPublisher Ad-Hoc ProductionsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 2: The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639446
RRP: $54.18$41.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639446Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 634Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 1080g -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 6: Dispatches from the Wild West: From Brigham Young to Mark Twain by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639484
RRP: $46.44$34.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639484Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey: A Documentary History by M. John Lubetkin 9780806192154
$31.62Progress on the nation's second transcontinental railroad slowed in 1873. The Northern Pacific's proposed middle-the 250 miles between present Billings and Glendive, Montana-had yet to be surveyed, and Sioux and Cheyenne Indians opposed construction... -
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction by Allen W Trelease 9780807178744
$41.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807178744Author Allen W TreleaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g -
When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics by Professor Shawn Francis Peters 9780807179000
$57.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807179000Author Professor Shawn Francis PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 by Gregg Andrews 9780807178478
$52.43Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups... -
Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City by Lisa L. Denmark 9780820363660
$43.77Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive... -
Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains by Kevin Z. Sweeney 9780806191249
$24.66Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S... -
The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 by Jon K. Lauck 9780806190631
RRP: $72.24$70.43At the center of American history is a hole-a gap where some scholars' indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest's formative century, The Good Country restores this... -
Segregation in the New South: Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1901 by Carl V. Harris 9780807178379
$58.41Carl V. Harris's Segregation in the New South, completed and edited by W. Elliot Brownlee, explores the rise of racial exclusion in late nineteenth-century Birmingham, Alabama. In the 1870s, African Americans in this crucial southern industrial city were... -
A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941 by John M Rhea 9780806168982
$31.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806168982Author John M RheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press -
Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City by Lisa L. Denmark 9780820356327
$73.01Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive... -
Women in the Life of Andrew Jackson by Ludwig M. Deppisch 9781476679914
RRP: $37.40$30.16Andrew Jackson is both one of the most significant and controversial United States Presidents. This book follows Jackson's life and death through the lives of six women who influenced both his politics and his persona. His mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson... -
Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man: The Early Years in Congress, 1844-1850 by Reg Ankrom 9781476673769
RRP: $46.43$39.68It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure before the U.S. Congress. Douglas' wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound free... -
Mountain Meadows Massacre: A Special Report by J.H. Carleton, Bvt. Major U.S.A. Captain 1st Dragoons, 1859 by James Henry Carleton 9780870622496
RRP: $18.00$16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870622496Author James Henry CarletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 39Imprint Arthur H. Clark CompanyPublisher Arthur H. Clark Company -
The Hunt for Willie Boy: Indian-hating and Popular Culture by James A. Sandos 9780806128436
RRP: $24.45$21.90In The Hunt for Willie Boy: Indian-Hating and Popular Culture, James A. Sandos and Larry E. Burgess retell the story of the Paiute-Chemehuevi Indian, Willie Boy, using previously unheard Indian voices and correcting the prevailing white story in almost... -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict by Richard Griswold del Castillo 9780806124780
$24.66Signed in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico and gave a large portion of Mexico's northern territories to the United States. The language of the treaty was designed to deal fairly with the people who... -
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America by James L. Huston 9780807159187
$56.00Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and... -
Adolph Sutro: King of the Comstock Lode and Mayor of San Francisco by William R. Huber 9781476680392
RRP: $37.40$30.16Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges. Emigrating from Prussia to the U.S. at age 20, the California gold rush lured him west. At the Comstock Lode in Nevada, he conceived an idea for a tunnel to drain the hot water that made the mines perilous and... -
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War by Justin Behrend 9780820340333
$74.64Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after... -
Hard-Rock Miners: The InterMountain West, 1860-1920 by Ronald C. Brown 9781585440085
RRP: $27.03$24.73When the colorful western prospectors had made their strikes and moved on, they left behind them another, lesser known breed of men, the hard-rock miners. For six decades these working stiffs followed mining opportunities into the boom towns of the... -
The Struggle for America's Promise: Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital by Claire Goldstene 9781628462449
RRP: $45.09$42.44In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations... -
Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee by Nancy J. Taniguchi 9780806193083
$32.13The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an... -
The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 7: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780806193007
$32.13Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramatic, and truly significant phases of the history of the American trans-Mississippi West during the first half of the 19th Century. These men were of all... -
Once We Were Strangers: A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest by Roberta Reb Allen 9780700636280
RRP: $42.51$35.35Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen’s Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of... -
Theatre on the American Frontier by Thomas A. Bogar 9780807179789
$51.92For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. As a result, the story of theatre on the frontier consists primarily of regional studies with limited scope. Thomas A. Bogar's... -
Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture by Robert Yusef Rabiee 9780820364896
$40.75Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold War–era studies of U.S. culture that argued, following political scientist Louis Hartz’s "liberal... -
An American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World by Andrew N. Wegmann 9780820360782
$37.09For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a... -
The Slave Ship Wanderer by Tom Henderson Wells 9780820334578
$29.58Published in 1967, The Slave Ship Wanderer details the journey of the elegant yacht that was used to secretly land a cargo of 400 enslaved Africans off the coast of Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1859. It was the last successful large-scale importation of... -
Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture by Megan J. Elias 9780812249170
RRP: $39.99$30.88What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American foodways: how Americans... -
A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta by Wendy Hamand Venet 9780820351360
$35.84In 1845 Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to...