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Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugen……続きを見る

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how p……続きを見る

A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionar……続きを見る

How scientific discoveries and practice were integrated into nineteenth-century French culture and thought. Winner of the Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement of the History of Science So……続きを見る

This book is a historical and critical assessment of contributions by American writer and lecturer John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931). It is the first scholarly effort to provide visual and literary a……続きを見る

Jacob Dolson Cox, (Jr.) (October 27, 1828 August 4, 1900) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later a Republican politician from Ohio. At the beginning of the Maryland Campai……続きを見る

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These fi……続きを見る

This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America’s entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War. Using a historical case study appr……続きを見る

On the bright Sunday morning of August 17, 1862, four Sioux warriors emerged from the Big Woods northwest of St. Paul, Minnesota, on their way home from an unsuccessful hunt. When they came upon the……続きを見る

A master storyteller in the great tradition of Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour MAN IN THE SADDLEーHe fought his way back from hellーalone! The combine drove Owen Merritt from his land, branding him a co……続きを見る

WAR DRUMS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER 1875ーthrobbing war drums and distant signal fires told of deadly danger. The Sioux were gathering, moving in... That year Kern Shafter joined the sun-scorched Seve……続きを見る

THE ECHOES OF A BULLET IN THE NIGHT MEANT BUCK SURRATT MUST KILL OR BE KILLED… FIGHT TO THE FINISH They dropped their gun belts to fight it out another way. Buck Surratt knew his adversary had the s……続きを見る

When ranchers of Sundown formed a vigilante group to stamp out rustling, owner of the D Slash outfit, Dave Denver, refused to join. He wanted the rustling stopped as much as anyone, but there was no……続きを見る

Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer , published in 1905 after General Sorrel's death, is considered one of the most interesting Civil War memoirs as it describes many of the famous Confeder……続きを見る

LAW AND ORDER WERE HIS GAME. GUNS AND GUTS HIS WAY River Bend stood, tough and dusty, at the end of a thousand-mile cattle trail. For the men who rode the long, hard Texas cattle drives, it was a ro……続きを見る

Canyon Passage is one of the most famed novels of the West from the pen of Ernest Haycox. It is the powerful story of men drunk with gold fever, men who fought the land and one another to gouge rich……続きを見る

A MAN OF PEACEーA MAN OF VENGEANCE: A SMOLDERING BLOOD-FEUD BURSTS INTO BLAZING RANGE WAR… A big man with an even bigger hankering for land and power, cattleman Ben Herendeen and his homemade posse ……続きを見る

LOVE AND ADVENTURE ON THE FRONTIER This is a story of some of the soldiers who won the West through bitter battles against the Indians, paying for the expansion of a continent with their blood, the ……続きを見る

JUSTICE IS DEALT THE WINNING HAND A steer should only have one brand. When it’s got two, that’s rustlin’. And rustlin’ is the biggest kind of trouble round about Granite Canyon...unless you’re talki……続きを見る

THE ONLY WAY DEPUTY JIM MAJORS COULD CLEAN UP RESERVATION WAS TO DRAW FIRSTーAND KEEP SHOOTING. The angular man in the middle of the square stirred in his tracks and began to talk. “Listen. You’re l……続きを見る

The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nation When black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their fronti……続きを見る

FRIEND AGAINST FRIEND…AND ONE MUST DIE! HEAD OF THE MOUNTAIN is a masterful story of two men, best friends, who must ride to a bloody confrontation on a cold and starless night. At the Head of the M……続きを見る

SHE BOUGHT HER WAY INTO A RANGE WAR! “You’re a wild man!” Lilly Tenant drew Tom Sebastian’s face gently to hers “You’re strong,” she whispered. “Your kisses hurt…but I don’t care…” Lilly had come to……続きを見る

A LUSTY, ROARING NOVEL ABOUT ONE MAN’S RELENTLESS BATTLE TO GET THE RAILROAD THROUGH This is the story of FRANK PEACE, TROUBLE SHOOTER for the Union Pacific Railroad, handpicked as the only man in t……続きを見る

A product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widesp……続きを見る

This article, "To Pike's Peak and Denver," originally published in the August 1861 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine, gives some highlights of the history of Denver and Colorado in the 19th centur……続きを見る

This illustrated book is a complete pictorial history of George Armstrong Custer. From his early days at West Point to death and glory at Little Bighorn. Custer was one of the most flamboyant and co……続きを見る

His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp, and he is probably most famous for his time in Tombstone.But Doc Hol……続きを見る

Ford Madox Ford wrote this volume in 1915 as a rebuttal to British pacifists who opposed the war effort during the First World War. This critique of Prussian culture and politics is broad and far re……続きを見る

Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extr……続きを見る