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Editorializing “The Indian Problem”
$22.95Drawing on four decades of New York Times editorials, Robert Hays demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread rapidly…
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Eight Months in Illinois
$17.50The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841–42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver advised the wealthy and comfortable…
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French and Indians of Illinois River
$19.50Complex and paradoxical, Nehemiah Matson (1816–1873) celebrated the occupation of the Middle West by European pioneers even as he labored to preserve the memory of the natives these pioneers replaced….
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George Drouillard
$19.95George Drouillard’s service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition…
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Grand Illusion
$14.99Rudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9/11 as the unquestioned hero of the day: America’s Mayor, the father figure we could all rely on to be tough, to be…
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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Colonel Frémont’s Last Expedition
$19.95In August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Frémont’s invitation to join his fifth expedition to find the best overland route to California. A Baltimore artist,…