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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family).
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn't officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold--about...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1970
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 330 p. : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Frederick Faust (1892-1944), best known by his pen name Max Brand, popular writer of short stories, westerns, historical romances, etc.
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