Western Expansion

Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution by Anthony J. Connors

The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America by Peter J. Kastor

Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Ella E. Clark and Margot Edmonds

The Blood of Heroes: The 13-day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation by James Donovan

Lincoln’s Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856 by John Bicknell

Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer by Ilene Stone and Suzanna M. Grenz

The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by David Dary

The California Gold Rush: The Stampede that Changed the World by Mark A. Eifler

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick

Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenburg

Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino

Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846–1847 by Winston Groom

Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S./Mexican War by Michael Van Wagenen

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Stephen Ambrose

Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad by Walter Borneman

Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express by Christopher Corbett

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads by Dee Brown

The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West by Ryan Dearinger

Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert Utley

Sam Bass by Wayne Gard

Butch Cassidy, My Brother by Lula Betenson and Dora Flack