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Mapping the World through Primary Documents eBook Series

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  • 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

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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

  • The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 382 - Mammoth Books
    Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride, to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dreams of El Dorado

    A History of the American West

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond."Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder**In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling panoramic story of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans

    An A to Z of Tribes, Culture, and History

    by Adele Nozedar ...
    A comprehensive guide to the history, culture, and religious beliefs and practices of America’s native people, The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans tells the varied and colourful stories of the tribes, their greatest leaders, wars, pacts, and the long-lasting impact that their profound wisdom and spirituality has on the West today.Containing a fascinating and comprehensive list of A-Z ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

    The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan AwardWinner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place"A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles TimesAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Oregon Trail

    An American Saga

    by 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, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wisconsin Frontier

    by Mark Wyman ...
    This "highly readable, balanced account [tells] a fascinating story of the gains and perils, ebbs and flows that characterize the American frontier saga" (Western Historical Quarterly).From seventeenth-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the nineteenth century, Wisconsin's frontier era saw thousands of settlers arriving from Europe and other areas to seek wealth and opportunity. As ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History

    Fascinating Biographies of Heroic Leaders and the Tragic Tales That Changed the

    by Walter Fleming ...
    This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Empire of Shadows

    The Epic Story of Yellowstone

    by George Black ...
    The story of the conquest of America's majestic national landmark, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the Civil War's aftermath.Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist"George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows , and you'll never think of our first—in many ways... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes

    Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition

    by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. ...
    At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who offers a haunting essay evoking the voices of the past; to Debra Magpie ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • A Life Wild and Perilous

    Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

    by Robert M. Utley ...
    "[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier." —Jay P. Dolan, The New York Times Book ReviewEarly in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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