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  • Ambitious Honor

    George Armstrong Custer's Life of Service and Lust for Fame

    George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his brilliant military career culminating in catastrophe at Little Bighorn. But Custer, author James E. Mueller suggests, had the soul of an artist, not of a soldier. Ambitious Honor elaborates this radically new perspective, arguing that an artistic passion ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud

    Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

    The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American Indians and who was to blame for the army’s loss—the latter, an argument that ignites passion to this day. In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    A Life on the Frontier of a New America

    by T.J. Stiles ...
    Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Last Campaign

    Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent."Gripping...Brands’ writing style and his mastery of history make the book an excellent introduction to the time period for newcomers, and a fresh ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Thunder in the Mountains

    Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War

    “Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Civil War West

    by Duane Shaw ...
    D U A N E is an amateur photographer who still prefers a fi lm camera over a digital one when he takes pictures of American Civil War reenactments. He lives in El Paso with his wife Vinita, and they have six children. He enjoys reading, history and organizing material for a book. He likes to travel, take photos and read about El Paso politics Civil War West is Shaws second book. His fi rst book ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho

    Southern Arapaho

    by Margaret Coel ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

    by Louis Kraft ...
    When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

    An Indian History of the American West

    by Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribesFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crazy Horse and Custer

    The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

    A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Stand

    Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    "An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." —Los Angeles TimesNathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth ... Read more

    $6.99 USD