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  • Jens Nielson, Bishop of Bluff

    by David S. Carpenter ...
    A Denmark native, Jens Nielson emigrated to Utah Territory in 185657. By 1880 he joined the Hole-in-the Rock expedition to settle Bluff, where he served as ward bishop for over two decades.As much a part of the landscape as the red cliffs, Bishop Nielson helped the town develop the contrasting characteristics that most impressed outsiders: dogged tenacity and kind hospitality. Bluff’s settlers ... Read more

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  • The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival

    A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival

    by Brian McGinty ...
    The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile ... Read more

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  • American Massacre

    The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857

    by Sally Denton ...
    In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally ... Read more

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  • Murder at the Mission

    A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

    by Blaine Harden ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times****“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” *–*Claudio Saunt,author of Unworthy RepublicFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Bishop

    A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors

    by Gustav Niebuhr ...
    A history of the Dakota War of 1862, an Episcopal bishop, and his campaign to protect the lives of the Dakota Sioux.It is hard to recall what powerful moral voices Protestant church leaders had in the formative years of the nation. Gustav Niebuhr travels back to the Minnesota frontier of 1862 when Dakota Sioux rose up against pioneering families and slaughtered hundreds. Citizens demanded mass ... Read more

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  • Continental Reckoning

    The American West in the Age of Expansion

    by Elliott West ...
    Series series History of the American West
    Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWinner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryWinner of the 2024 Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the 2024 Spur AwardNamed a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War MonitorIn Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard ...
    On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not ... Read more

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  • The Mountain Meadows Massacre

    by Juanita Brooks ...
    In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, ... Read more

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  • 38 Nooses

    Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or ... Read more

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  • They Stole our World: How Native Americans were Treated from Early Colonial Times Onward

    History and Historical Fiction, #22

    by Jason Wallace ...
    Series Book 22 - History and Historical Fiction
    From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions to society have been monumental and immeasurable, but their rewards have been few and almost ... Read more

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  • Brigham Young

    by Leonard J. Arrington ...
    Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people ... Read more

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  • New Women in the Old West

    From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the processBetween 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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