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American adventure (Barbour) volume 13
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English
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Betsy Miller and her cousin are moving with their families to the river city of Cincinnati.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 17
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English
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Henry Lankford survives the biggest Cincinnati flood, then must face the threat of cholera.
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Discover how between 1843 and 1890 more than 300,000 people traveled west to Oregon country along trails that were once footpaths used by American Indians. Learn what it was like to join one of the wagon trains leaving Missouri. Find out how people hunted, cooked, ate, slept, and survived on the trail, hundreds of miles from towns and cities. This book describes in detail the lives of ordinary people in the United States who headed west to find new...
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 18
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English
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Black people in Cincinnati are in danger due to racial prejudice. Louisa and Henry Lankford try to help warn their friends the Birneys.
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Discover why many thousands of people in the East left their homes, jobs, relatives, and friends in the 1880s and 1890s and headed west. Learn what it was like to join one of the great rushes to acquire land in Indian Territory. Find out how the U.S. government broke its promises to the American Indians and how settlers in the West changed the lives of American Indians forever. This book describes in detail the lives of ordinary people in the United...