Showing posts with label Frontier America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frontier America. Show all posts
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Richard Slokin, Regeneration Through Violence

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At Amazon, Richard Slokin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 .
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Claire Vaye Watkins, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

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 At Amazon, Claire Vaye Watkins, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness .
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town

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At Amazon, Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic .
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Placerville's 'Horrific Vigilante History'

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I didn't know this history, which is interesting. Essential Arts: A city's lynching tree logo and 'horrific' vigilante hist...
Friday, July 5, 2019

David McCullough, The Pioneers

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West .
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families

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At Amazon, Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 .
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri

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At Amazon, Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri .
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth

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Out today, at Amazon, Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America .
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Terry C. Johnston, Dance on the Wind

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At Amazon, Terry C. Johnston, Dance on the Wind: A Novel .
Friday, August 11, 2017

Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind

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After I get through a few of these books on Ancient Rome, I expect to get back to reading my wilderness novels, especially Allan Eckert'...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman

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At Amazon, Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands .

Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World

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At Amazon, Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People .
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

ICYMI: James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands .
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Christopher Knowlton, Cattle Kingdom

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Christopher Knowlton, Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West .
Monday, June 19, 2017

Noam Maggor, Brahmin Capitalism

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Noam Maggor, Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age .
Sunday, June 11, 2017

ICYMI: Ralph K. Andrist, The Long Death

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At Amazon, Ralph K. Andrist, The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians .

Elliott West, The Last Indian War

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At Amazon, Elliott West, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story .
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Still Working on It: Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence

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It's an awesome book, but a hefty slog. I've been breaking it up with some other books, but I'm almost through this one, and wil...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Daniel J. Sharfstein, Thunder in the Mountains

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Daniel J. Sharfstein, Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War .
Friday, May 26, 2017

Susan Sleeper-Smith, ed., Rethinking the Fur Trade

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At Amazon, Susan Sleeper-Smith, ed., Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World .