Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire ...
 Interesting but not a good bedtime story: The interesting point of the book is demonstrating how religious righteousness has manifested itself into the very core of American politics and self identity since its inception. An eye opener to see how racist [... more]
$17.95
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Trailblazers: Twenty Amazing Western Women (The Great ...
great gift idea for women: Trailblazers-Twenty Amazing Western Women was a fantastic book which I have already given to several friends, who are or have gone through some "rough times" in their own lives, and have thanked me for this book as it [... more]
$14.95
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Across the Wide Missouri
Amazon.com Review: Like many U.S. historians, cultural critic Bernard DeVoto believed that the American character was rooted in the experience of westward expansion. Unlike those who championed the civilizing graces of the agrarian frontier, however, [... more]
$17.95
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Outlaw Tales of Wyoming: True Stories of the Cowboy ...
Author: R. Michael Wilson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 978.702 EAN: 9780762745067 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0762745061 Number Of Pages: 136 Publication Date: 2008-09-02 [... more]
$12.95
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge ...
A fascinating historical travelogue of the "Old West".: As a reward for their unwavering patience in putting up with him while he wrote his excellent book on the building of the transcontinental railroad, David Haward Bain treated his wife, [... more]
$27.95
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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn
Amazon.com Review: On June 25, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and some 200 cavalrymen under his command blundered into a coulee along the banks of Montana's Little Bighorn River. They never came out; several thousand Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho [... more]
$18.00
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Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America
Black Hearts in the Midwest: Like some of the previous reviewers, I grew up in Black Hawk country. As a result, I have read many accounts of the Black Hawk War, and this is one of the best. Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America is fair and [... more]
$18.00
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Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, The ...
The Prototype: Jack Slade was the prototype of the American Western Outlaw. At one point, he was a trusted vilgilante dealing harsh justice in a harsh world (check out the advert inside the book for men for the Pony Express, where it declares a [... more]
$29.95
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The Border And The Buffalo: An Untold Story of the ...
Author: John R. Cook Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 979 EAN: 9781933337289 ISBN: 1933337281 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2008-11 [... more]
$23.95
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The Oregon Trail (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: Francis Parkman Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780199553921 ISBN: 0199553920 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2008-10-15 [... more]
$12.95
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Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea
An unvarnished look at American history and expansionism: Don't be put off by the negative and tepid reviews; this is an exceptionally informative and entertaining book. I usually don't care for histories written by novelists (the great Shelby Foote [... more]
$35.00
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Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the ...
A portrait of the failed dominion of empire.: Samuel Truett's Fugitive Landscapes traces the history of the borderland between Arizona, United States and Sonora, Mexico. Truett divides his analysis into four parts. Part one paints a broad picture [... more]
$22.00
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