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  • The Country for Me

    Joel Palmer and the Shaping of Oregon

    de William L. Lang ...
    The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (1810–81), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popular trail guidebook used by later emigrants. Palmer’s experience in public life and government service during his first five years in Oregon led to his ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest

    Mapping the World through Primary Documents

    de William L. Lang Ph.D., James V. Walker ...
    Series series Mapping the World through Primary Documents
    Covering the adventures of coastal and ocean explorers who made key discoveries and landmark observations from northern California up the coastline to Alaska during the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, this anthology of primary source journal entries, book excerpts, maps, and drawings enables readers to "discover" the Northwest Coast for themselves.More than 200 years ago, explorers traveled from ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Confederacy of Ambition

    William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory

    de William L. Lang ...
    The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of his death in 1876, Miller had amassed one of the largest private fortunes in the territory and had ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • By the Fire We Carry

    The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    de Rebecca Nagle ...
    "No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven’t heard of into a legal thriller." —New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • NPR 2024 "Books We Loved" ... Leer más

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  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    de Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe during the Age of Discovery was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition, prize-winning biographer ... Leer más

    $16.49 USD

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  • Unworthy Republic

    The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

    de Claudio Saunt ...
    **Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book PrizeFinalist for the 2020 National Book Award for NonfictionNamed a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • 1421

    The Year China Discovered America

    de Gavin Menzies ...
    On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were ... Leer más

    $9.98 USD

  • Wounded Knee

    Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

    de Heather Cox Richardson ...
    “The story is tragic, the scholarship exhilarating” (Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains**)**in this history of the massacre of the Lakota SiouxOn December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Three Roads to the Alamo

    The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

    de William C. Davis ...
    "William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. OatesThree Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the ... Leer más

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  • The Oregon Trail

    An American Saga

    de David Dary ...
    A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Phantom Atlas

    The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

    de Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meetThis richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Forgotten Allies

    The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution

    de Joseph T. Glatthaar, James Kirby Martin ...
    "A vividly revealing chronicle of the Oneidas' thankless role in the American Revolution." —Chris Patsilelis, Houston ChronicleCombining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD