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A Newbery Medalist offers a new pirate adventure set in San Diego, California, in 1846. Twelve-year-old Shipwreck, a cabin boy on the pirate ship ... More

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War with Mexico brought extensive gain but it also triggered events that would lead to our Civil War, and soured relations with our southern neighbor ... More

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Signed in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico and gave a large portion of Mexico's northern ... More

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Primary source documents and images, along with interesting and informative text, tell the exciting story behind the fight between the United States ... More

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This series examines eight major conflicts in American history, describing how each has shaped and altered the nation and how the United States' role ... More

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- Maps and sidebars - Thumbnail biographies of military and political leaders - Primary source quotations - Glossary, Index

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Examines the causes and effects of the Mexican War and its importance in the westward expansion of the United States.

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Retired war hero Colonel Timothy Barlow returns as right-hand man to President Jackson for one last hurrah. There's a little trouble brewing on the ... More

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Lyrically written, dramatically told, and historically based, RIVER OF SOULS is the epic saga of Pedro Cortez, an 1840s Taos boy, who struggles to ... More

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Discusses the issues, including the concept of manifest destiny, that led to war between the United States and Mexico in 1846, the events of the war, ... More

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With his acclaimed bestsellers "Gods and Generals" and "The Last Full Measure", Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War ... More

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A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country's might and right. A military and political stalemate ... More

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The first reference work of its kind, this volume on the United States-Mexican War encompasses the decade of the 1840s, focusing on the war years of ... More

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The war with Mexico was the most decisive conflict in American history. It was a bitter, hard-fought war that left the young United States in control ... More

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Now in paperback, Shaara's bestselling novel carries readers back 13 years before the Civil War, when that conflict's most famous enemies fought ... More

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Experience the Mexican-American War through soldiers? letters, diaries, and other documents in James M. Deem's addition to the "America's Wars ... More

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-- Presents objective historical overviews of American wars. -- Useful for book reports, research, and casual reading.

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The Mexican-American War by Kim A. O'Connell is an important addition to the U.S. Wars series. The events leading up to the mid-nineteenth-century ... More

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After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she ... More

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Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation ... More

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The American Southwest was once a part of Mexico. When Texas was admitted as a state in 1845, the border of Mexico had still not been settled. It ... More

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The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico ... More

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