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Describes in graphic novel format the United States in the second third of the nineteenth century, including Texas independence, the Mexican War, Mormon settlement in Utah, the California Gold Rush, the expansion of education and women's rights, and the beginning of the factory system.
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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
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From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
15) The Oregon Trail
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This book describes the overland traveling of covered wagon trains along the Oregon Trail between 1843 and 1869.