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  • Where the West Begins

    Debating Texas Identity

    by Glen Sample Ely ...
    Series series Plains Histories
    Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state’s roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern. Another argues that its Native and ranching history make it western. Outside Texas, southern and western historians who don’t know what to make of the state ignore it altogether. In his innovative settling ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Confederates and Comancheros

    Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas–New Mexico Borderlands

    by James Bailey Blackshear, Glen Sample Ely ...
    A vast and desolate region, the Texas–New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings—never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Murder in Montague

    Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas

    by Glen Sample Ely ...
    On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena’s deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

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    The untold story of the massacre of a Southern town's freedmen and a white lawyer's battle to bring the killers to justice: "Riveting." —The New York Times Book ReviewFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to ... Read more

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  • Midnight Rising

    John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

    by Tony Horwitz ...
    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war.Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. ... ... Read more

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  • Six Miles to Charleston

    The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher

    by Bruce Orr, John Laverne ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    The shocking true story of America's first female serial killer, half of a husband and wife team who terrorized Charleston, SC, in the early 19th century.On February 18th, 1820, John and Lavinia Fisher were executed in front of some two thousand South Carolinians. To this day, legends of the husband-and-wife serial killers range from the fearsome to the fantastical—and many swear they have ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Lie

    A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House

    by Elizabeth Mitchell ...
    This “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War—shining new light on the current ‘fake news’ crisis (Elizabeth Gilbert)In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate ... Read more

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  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    by Adrienne Berard ...
    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

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  • American Brutus

    John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies

    by Michael W. Kauffman ...
    It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic elements of a ... Read more

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  • The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition

    Mississippi's Longest Civil War

    by Victoria E. Bynum ...
    Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they declared their loyalty to the U.S. government.The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known ... Read more

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  • Did They Really Do It?

    From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker

    by Fred Rosen ...
    Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crimeDr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the ... Read more

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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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