The Gold Hunters: A First-Hand Picture of Life in California Mining Camps in the Early Fifties
By: John David Borthwick
3.97
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
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By: James P. Beckwourth
4.16
Format: 347 pages,
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2. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
By: None
3.43
Format: 64 pages,
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3. Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival
By: Yossi Ghinsberg
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
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4. Three Years in the Klondike (1904)
By: Jeremiah Lynch
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
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5. The Diary of a Forty-Niner
By: Chauncey L. Canfield
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
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6. Across The Plains In 1844
By: None , None
3.85
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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7. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
By: Susan J. Eischeid
4.21
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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8. Early Times in Texas; or, The Adventures of Jack Dobell
By: John Crittenden Duval
4.00
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
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9. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
By: Herman Lehmann
4.17
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
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10. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter
By: John Crittenden Duval
3.85
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide
By: John Nelson
4.34
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
By: William Thomas Hamilton
4.17
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907)
By: James Willard Schultz
4.43
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
By: Zenas Leonard
3.95
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860
By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter
4.21
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. The Life of John Wesley Hardin
By: John Wesley Hardin
3.79
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
Born to a Methodist preacher in 1853, near Bonham, Texas, Wes Hardin killed his first man, a former… read more
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17. Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
By: Osborne Russell
3.83
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones
By: Elijah Nicholas Wilson
4.17
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
What was life like to live among the Native Americans in the nineteenth century? At twelve years o… read more
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19. Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter
By: Tom Horn
4.20
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
1903. Tom Horn awaits execution for the murder of fourteen-year-old boy. He writes this memoir. Tom… read more
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20. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
By: Sarah Raymond Herndon
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win
By: Peter Schweizer
4.36
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky
By: James Ohio Pattie
4.14
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
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23. The Unyielding Marshal: Ash Logan Book 2
By: Robert Harvey
4.46
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
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24. Morgan's Captivity: The story of Mogan O'Connor's captivity among the Cheyenne in the novel The Captured Girl
By: Tom Reppert
3.84
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25. The Gold Hunters: A First-Hand Picture of Life in California Mining Camps in the Early Fifties
By: John David Borthwick
3.97
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (U.S. Military History)
By: Captivating History
4.10
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
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27. The Great Ice Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)
By: Hourly History
4.30
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
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28. Young Gun (Western Justice Adventures)
By: Jesse Storm
4.29
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
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29. The Iron Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)
By: Hourly History
4.22
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30. Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot
By: Martin W. Sandler
3.84
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
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31. The Klondike Stampede
By: Tappan Adney
3.97
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
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