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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick "I was mesmerized by this book. It was a deliciously creepy read, made more creepy for being true. Several times in the course of reading it, I had to keep reminding myself that the events really happened."... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner Publisher Comments In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough Publisher Comments Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Until Antietam: The Life and Letters of Major General Israel B. Richardson, U.S. Army by Jack C. Mason Publisher Comments While researching this book, Jack C. Mason made the kind of discovery that historians dream of. He found more than one-hundred unpublished and unknown letters from Union general Israel B. Richardson to his family, written from his time as a West Point... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning HarvardUniversity scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mutiny on the Amistad Rev Edition by Howard Jones Publisher Comments This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinque led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Bernard Devoto Staff Pick Endorsed by Stephen Ambrose himself ("It is the ideal selection for the citizen-reader, an American classic in its own right..."), this selection of the journals of Lewis and Clark edited by celebrated novelist, literary scholar, and historian... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia N Limerick Publisher Comments The "settling" of the American West has been powerfully perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventuresùmost with happy endingsù and a process that came to an end with the "closing" of the frontier in the 1890s... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of Desire : Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (93 Edition) by William R. Leach Publisher Comments This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Passing Strange: a Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (09 Edition) by Martha A. Sandweiss Publisher Comments The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth century western history; a brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, best-selling author and architect of the great... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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American Trails #22: On the Western Trails: The Overland Diaries of Washington Peck by Susan M. (edt) Erb Synopsis Two never-before published trail diaries bring history to life... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose About the Author Dr. Stephen Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than 30 books. Among his New York Times best-sellers are: Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. He was not... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Book Club Paperback
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Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 by Andrew Garcia Publisher Comments Tough Trip through Paradise grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia on his death in 1942 after a long and colorful life in Montana. Bennett Stein acquired and edited the manuscript to tell Garcia's story of the 1877 war between the U.S. government... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Light and the Glory: Did God Have a Plan for America? by Peter Marshall Publisher Comments A call for Americans to return to God and rediscover the destiny that was ours from the beginning.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder & Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy (Topics in Kentucky History) by Matthew G. Schoenbachler Publisher Comments The Kentucky Tragedy was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Carol Lyn Macgregor Publisher Comments Sergeant Patrick Gass's journal is a readable firsthand account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, focusing on the human aspects of the epic journey. Carol MacGregor's annotation of the journal and the inclusion of Gass's previously unknown account book... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski From Powells.com Rarely are biographer and subject so well-matched as in Witold Rybczynski's seminal biography of the great nineteenth century landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. In such classic works as Home: The Short History of an Idea and City... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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