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Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (Civil War America)
In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Missouri, it was largely settled at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, in a contest that is rightly considered the second major battle of the Civil War. In an in-depth narrative and analysis of this important but largely overlooked battle, William Piston and Richard Hatcher combine a traditional military study of the fighting with an innovative social analysis of the soldiers who participated and the communities that supported them..
Price: $12.99
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TWA : Kansas City's Hometown Airline
They called it the Airman's Airline ... the Airline of the Stars. Its passengers hummed "up, up and away" as it thundered into the jet age. It was born of aviators such as Charles Lindbeergh and sustained by mystery-man Howard Hughes. And it was Kansas City's. It was here that the airline got its first start and experienced its most glorious years. Now, as the TWA name becomes a memory, Kansas City Star Books chronicles the life of TWA, Kansas City's Hometown Airlines, through a lens that is distinctly local. No other book examines as extensively the airline's emotional and historical roots that were originally Kansas City's and run deep to this day. It's a tale of guts and glamour, or romance and celebrity. Or risk-takers fighting red ink. TWA is, and will forever be, a Kansas City story. Celebrate that legacy with TWA : Hometown Airline..
Price: $23.49
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American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)
In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the "American Confluence " His innovative book examines the history of that region - a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark. Aron focuses on the region's transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional Border States. "American Confluence" is a lively account that should delight amateur and professional historians alike.Stephen Aron, professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and executive director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center, is a specialist in frontier and western American history. He is author of "How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay" (1996) and coauthor of "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present" (2002).He is currently conducting research on the intercultural experiences of Daniel Boone and his descendants and on the history of the horse in the American West..
Price: $19.70
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