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  • Vicious

    Wolves and Men in America

    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    A "fascinating" history of the love-hate relationship between wolves and humans in America (Robert Keiter, author of Keeping Faith with Nature and The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ).Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign so... ... Leer más

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  • The American West

    A New Interpretive History, Second Edition

    A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Here Lies Hugh Glass

    A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

    In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass's fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass's injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, ... Leer más

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  • Nature Shock

    Getting Lost in America

    An award†‘winning environmental historian explores American history through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of getting lostThe human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book, environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man

    No Ordinary Mountain Man

    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure.Barbour ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • That Dark and Bloody River

    Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley

    An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable.They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and ... Leer más

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  • The First Frontier

    The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, & Endurance in Early America

    "Excitement abounds in Scott Weidensaul's detailed history of the first clashes between European settlers and Native Americans on the East Coast."—Nancy Marie Brown, author of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking WomanFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that ... Leer más

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  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Leer más

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  • The Journey of Crazy Horse

    A Lakota History

    Drawing on vivid oral histories, Joseph M. Marshall’s intimate biography introduces a never-before-seen portrait of Crazy Horse and his Lakota communityMost of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, ... Leer más

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  • The Last Indian War:The Nez Perce Story

    The Nez Perce Story

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Blood and Thunder

    de Hampton Sides ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest ... Leer más

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  • A Terrible Glory

    Custer and the Little Bighorn–the Last Great Battle of the American West

    de James Donovan ...
    A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating ... Leer más

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