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  • By His Own Hand?

    The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

    by John D. W. Guice, Jay H. Buckley, James J. Holmberg ...
    For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis’s death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murder-versus-suicide debate within its full historical context. The historian contributors to this volume follow the format of a postmortem court trial, dissecting the case from different ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Into the Wilderness

    The Lewis and Clark Expedition

    by James J. Holmberg ...
    Series series New Books for New Readers
    "When Thomas Jefferson sent a team of explorers to discover a way to the Pacific Ocean two hundred years ago, the western border of the United States was the Mississippi River. It was Jefferson's dream to uncover the mysteries of the distant lands beyond. In 1803, the president sent a team of thirty men, lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, up the Missouri River, across the Rocky Mountains, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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  • Undaunted Courage

    Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Scandalous Hamiltons

    A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

    by Bill Shaffer ...
    **One of the country’s most powerful families embroiled in sex, lies, bigamy, and blackmail . . . and every new, deliciously humiliating morsel splashed across every newspaper in AmericaNow in paperback, the believe-it-or-not historical true crime behind one of the greatest scandals of the Gilded Age, and the story that gave rise to the sensational tabloid journalism still driving so much of the ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • The Ashland Tragedy

    Murder, Mob & a Militia in Kentucky

    by E. Joe Castle ...
    This true crime history recounts the notorious nineteenth-century murder of three Kentucky children and the shocking aftermath once arrests were made.On Christmas Eve 1881, a horrible crime shook the small town of Ashland, Kentucky, and captivated the entire nation. Three children were brutally murdered and their house set ablaze. Nothing in the small town's past had prepared it for what followed. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fate of the Corps

    What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

    by Larry E. Morris ...
    "Combines adventure, mystery, and tragedy . . . a 'Who's Who' of explorers who opened the pathway for an ocean-to-ocean America." — St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri)The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Crockett

    The Lion of the West

    by Michael Wallis ...
    "Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas MonthlyPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Exploring Lewis and Clark

    Reflections on Men and Wilderness

    by Thomas P. Slaughter ...
    This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Kentucky Derby

    How the Run for the Roses Became America’s Premier Sporting Event

    by James C. Nicholson ...
    Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or pageantry that the Kentucky Derby holds. For more than 130 years, spectators have been fascinated by the magnificent horses that run the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • August Belmont: Grand Sachem Of New York

    by Daniel Alef ...
    In 1877, Charles Dana's New York Sun reported: "He taught New Yorkers how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, how to drive four-in-hands, how to furnish their houses, how to live generally according to the rules of the possibly somewhat effete, but unquestionably refined, society of the Old World." The subject was August Belmont, a man who ended up in the United States by accident, not by design, ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • Stephen E. Ambrose Opening of the West E-Book Boxed Set

    Undaunted Courage and Nothing Like It in the World

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    This ebook box set includesUndaunted Courage and Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose, focusing on the ingenuity and the hardships that shaped the American West.Undaunted Courage: This #1 New York Times bestseller gives a sweeping account of the most momentous expedition in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Battle of Point Pleasant: A Critical Event at the Onset of a Revolution

    by Colin Mustful ...
    Just six months prior to the onset of the American Revolution a major battle raged between colonial Virginians and the native Indians of western Virginia. This was the Battle of Point Pleasant fought on October 10, 1774. For various reasons, this battle has been recognized by some as the first battle of the American Revolution. However, evidence clearly shows that the Battle of Point Pleasant had ... Read more

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