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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 Best Price: $22.46 The author has an impressive academic record both before and after he earned his doctorate. He... | 1831: Year of Eclipse Best Price: $11.35 A solid look at doings and attitudes in America circa 1831. Some of it is familiar, and some... | Women of the West Best Price: $14.88 then you'll love this book. Amazing true stories of survival and the hardships and joys women... | The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book) Best Price: $5.19 From 1853 to about 1929, more than 200,000 children and several thousand adults were sent west... | Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer Best Price: $15.60 So far I have only read the 18 page introduction. Based on that I find the topic to be very... |
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Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation Best Price: $6.41 Excellent book, despite being about the Navy growing and protecting the Merchant Marine.... | America's Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861-1863 Best Price: $23.08 When I bought this book, the sales clerk observed that this looked like a very technical book. ... | The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West Best Price: $5.50 This is a first class narrative of two very proud and successful regiments of cavalry. It is... | In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Best Price: $5.52 Dr. Griffiths has written a thorough, well-researched biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton that... | Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, (A History of the South) Best Price: $24.88 In the years after the Civil War, the South faced the challenge of redefining itself. After the... |
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Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (History of Jazz) Best Price: $13.83 Hardly a stone is left unturned in this look into the early development of jazz. It provides a... | Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping Best Price: $7.48 This book is a treasure chest of 19th century bushcraft, hunting, and trapping methods that can... | Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas Best Price: $17.21 Very well and detailed written ,this book gives you an insight on the enslaved Muslims in... | Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805 Best Price: $5.99 First, let me say that I really enjoyed this book. I knew very little about the subject matter... | Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (The Lamar Series in Western History) Best Price: $10.34 This book is a great read for anyone that wonders what happened before, during and after the... |
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America) Best Price: $16.99 Reading this magnificent volume was a joy on many levels. First and foremost, Theodore... | The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America (includes 16 pages of B&W photographs) Best Price: $2.77 Echoing some of the other reviews - it's 'thin', disorganized and has a large Bill:Annie ratio.... | Men of Granite: New Hampshire's Soldiers in the Civil War Best Price: $28.76 During the Civil War, some thirty-five thousand New Hampshire soldiers--representing... | The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Road to Disunion Vol. 1) Best Price: $15.00 Dr. Freehling, in this first of two excellent works on the long course of action that led to... | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Modern Library MM) Best Price: $3.19 These two books are sometimes very hard going, but essential reading for Americans. We probably... |
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No Life for a Lady (Women of the West) Best Price: $3.69 Maybe it wasn't "No Life For A Lady" but many great ladies lived it. Some of them,... | West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War Best Price: $10.00 the book was shipped on time, condition was same as stated online. gread overall experience. | Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Best Price: $10.28 This book is a quite interesting historical account of the orphan trains. However, O'Connor, the... | The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind: The Illustrated Guide to the Grandeur of a Lost Era Best Price: $5.91 I collect GWTW memorabilia, so this book was a perfect addtion to my collection. Received... | Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends Best Price: $5.98 The review appearing here by Ardell Young, which I expected to be well-researched in view of... |
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Gerrit Best Price: $15.00 As a descendant of Gerrit Van Duyne I found this book to be very interesting. | Cowboys & the Trappings of the Old West Best Price: $29.26 I'm a leatherworker and I've just fallen in love with this book. I think it's going to be a... | By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 (American Presidential Elections) Best Price: $23.58 With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the... | Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World Best Price: $3.95 This book is filled with windows into the the lives of people who did or tried to do very... | Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War Best Price: $6.10 This is excellent. An account of the first use of technology--the telegraph-- by a US... |
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Jim Bridger: Mountain Man Best Price: $4.50 it was a rather hard read and need more details, but a OK read on Jim Bridger. Would like to... | Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 Best Price: $22.45 Shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to... | Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (The United States in the World) Best Price: $26.73 The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most... | Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield Best Price: $31.82 It has often been remarked that the only thing new under the sun is the history one has not read... | The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas Best Price: $11.13 This is a well-written, thorough book about the Revolutionary War in the Southern colonies,... |
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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World Best Price: $8.75 the delivery of the book was fast, but the book was not in the condition that it was stated to... | Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery: An Interactive History with Removable Artifacts (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Best Price: $13.23 This truly is a masterpiece! Wonderfully illustrated and historically accurate book for young... | Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield Best Price: $31.82 It has often been remarked that the only thing new under the sun is the history one has not read... | The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas Best Price: $11.13 This is a well-written, thorough book about the Revolutionary War in the Southern colonies,... | David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World Best Price: $8.75 the delivery of the book was fast, but the book was not in the condition that it was stated to... |
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Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery: An Interactive History with Removable Artifacts (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Best Price: $13.23 This truly is a masterpiece! Wonderfully illustrated and historically accurate book for young... | John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights Best Price: $10.00 If you are looking for a highly detailed and informative documentary of the life of the famous... | My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia: Volume 1 (Duckworth Discoverers) Best Price: $4.97 This Stanley fellow had a great love and respect for adventure (Dr. Livingston, I presume?) but... | The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President Best Price: $15.91 While the title is a bit deceptive (the legal case doesn't figure as much as it would suggest),... | When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age Best Price: $0.01 This bookseller is very good. I received my book promptly and in perfect condition as promised..... |
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Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War Best Price: $11.46 readable but again like confederate states of america fairly dry and a little too academic. ... | The War of 1812: A SHORT HISTORY Best Price: $13.41 More Americans need to read this in order to learn that our country has faced a war that was... | The Texas Rangers Best Price: $14.56 Dr. Webb's account about the Texas Ranger, should spark an interest to the reader's love for... | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Best Price: $12.37 February is Black History Month
Back in the days of my personal `pre-history' the... | Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America Best Price: $34.95 White Americans are evidence of multiculturalism working. How many white Americans do you see... |
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household Best Price: $14.85 This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of... | James A. Garfield (The American Presidents) Best Price: $7.39 James A. Garfield is one of those forgotten 18th century U.S. presidents--along with Fillmore,... | Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $3.00 McPherson does an extraordinary job of tying in many of the political and military threads of... | Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth Best Price: $7.50 It's wonderful and refreshing to finally find a book that speaks the whole truth about who this... | The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West Best Price: $0.09 Grand Idea has not gotten the attention it deserves, it seems to me.
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The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President Best Price: $5.79 As noted by others, this is not a work of biography. Despite what others have said, I don't... | Riders of the Pony Express Best Price: $7.37 I read this for my homeschooling and it is very well portrayed. Characters are given a very fair... | | | |