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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

  • Great Plains Forts

    by Jay H. Buckley, Jeffery D. Nokes ...
    Series series Discover the Great Plains
    Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prairies from precontact times to the present. Using stories to introduce patterns in fortification construction and use, Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes explore the eras of fort-building on the Great ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Life and Adventures of Eli Wiggill

    South African 1820 Settler, Wesleyan Missionary, and Latter-day Saint

    by Fred E. Woods, Jay H. Buckley, Hunter T. Hallows ...
    The autobiography of Eli Wiggill offers a captivating narrative of one family’s journey from Gloucester, England, to South Africa, and eventually to Salt Lake City during the mid-nineteenth century. Eli and Susannah Wiggill’s conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa serves as a focal point in their remarkable story. Eli’s retelling vividly portrays their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Explorers of the American East

    Mapping the World through Primary Documents

    by Kelly K. Chaves, Oliver C. Walton, Jay H. Buckley, Jeffery D. Nokes ...
    Series series Mapping the World through Primary Documents
    Focusing on ten key figures whose careers illuminate the history of the European exploration of North America, this book presents compelling first-person narratives that bring to life the challenges of historical scholarship in the academic classroom.Explorers of the American East: Mapping the World through Primary Documents covers 280 years of North American exploration and colonization efforts, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Explorers of the American West

    Mapping the World through Primary Documents

    by Jay H. Buckley, Jeffery D. Nokes ...
    Series series Mapping the World through Primary Documents
    With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time.This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier

    by Jay H. Buckley, Brenden W. Rensink ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America but not only the lands that would eventually be incorporated into the Unites States it also includes the multiple North American frontiers explored by Spain, France, Russia, England, and others. The focus is upon Euro-American activities in frontier exploration ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

    Edited by Matthew L. Harris, Jay H. Buckley ...
    In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Last Indian War

    The Nez Perce Story

    by Elliott West ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom. To tell the story, West begins with the early ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

    by Michael G Johnson ...
    Series Book 467 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed look at the warriors of the Native Americans who lived around the Great Lakes.This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars.During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Shawnees and the War for America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Trail North

    The Okanagan Trail of 1858–68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington

    by Ken Mather ...
    Winner (second prize), 2019 British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical WritingA revealing history of the ancient trail that served as a major transportation route between Washington and British Columbia and shaped the cultural and economic ties between the two jurisdictions.Trails are the most enduring memorials of human occupation. Long before stone monuments were created, ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Born of Lakes and Plains

    Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

    by Anne F. Hyde ...
    **Finalist for the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"Immersive and humane." —Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesA fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.**Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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