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Frontier and pioneer life United States Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815 Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Louisiana Purchase Territorial expansion United States United States Territorial expansion West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration West (U.S.) History West (U.S.) History To 1848Fenster, J. M. (Julie M.)
Summary: "The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration, sending out waves of expeditions into the West after the Louisiana Purchase. In presiding over that era of discovery, Jefferson forged a great nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 FENCozzens, Peter
Summary: "The Creek War was one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep South and led to the infamous Trail of Tears, in which the government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 COZCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HARKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAPThomas, Evan
Summary: From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: LP 973.891 THODrury, Bob
Summary: "The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 DRUPeavy, Linda S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 PEAZwonitzer, Mark
Summary: "John Hay, famous as Lincoln's private secretary and later as secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for being 'Mark Twain,' grew up fifty miles apart, on the banks of the Mississippi River, in thesame rural antebellum stew of race and class and want. This shared history helped draw them together when they first met as up-and-coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ZWOMorgan, Robert
Summary: Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MORBrands, H. W
Summary: Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. When Napoleon offered to sell French Louisiana, America was launched on a fateful and fraught journey west. Brands takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 BRAJortner, Adam Joseph.
Summary: In 1806, a Shawnee known as Lalawauthika proclaimed himself Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door"), a spiritual leader in direct contact with the Master of Life. In the five years before the battle of Tippecanoe, Tenskwatawa used his spiritual leadership to forge a political pseudo-state, together with his twin brother Tecumseh. William Henry Harrison, meanwhile, built a power base in Indiana, rigging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011