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First Across the ContinentFirst Across the Continent - The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 Chapter I A Great Transaction in Land Chapter II Beginning a Long Journey Chapter III From the Lower to the Upper River Chapter IV Novel Experiences among...
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Voyage of the Paper CanoeVoyage of the Paper Canoe - A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5The author left Quebec, Dominion of Canada, July 4, 1874, with a single assistant, in a wooden canoe eighteen feet in length,...
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England WomanVanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children. For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales...
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The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain LifeThe Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life CHAPTER I -- THE FRONTIER CHAPTER II -- BREAKING THE ICE CHAPTER III -- FORT LEAVENWORTH CHAPTER IV -- JUMPING OFF CHAPTER V -- THE BIG BLUE CHAPTER VI -- THE PLATTE AND THE DESERT...
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The Adventures of Col. Daniel BoonThe Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon - Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of...
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Yankee GypsiesYankee Gypsies I CONFESS it, I am keenly sensitive to "skyey influences." (2) I profess no indifference to the movements of that capricious old gentleman known as the clerk of the weather. I cannot conceal my interest in the behavior of that patriarchal bird...
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The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 THE township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced position in the great wilderness, which, unbroken by the clearing of a...
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Arizona SketchesArizona Sketches A stranger on first entering Arizona is impressed with the newness and wildness that surrounds him. Indeed, the change is so great that it seems like going to sleep and waking up in a new world. Everything that he sees is different...
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky MountainsA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way! A strictly North American beautysnow-splotched mountains, huge pines,...
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, NorthOur Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North - Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even ThereIN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated,...
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The Life of Me: An AutobiographyThe Life of Me: An AutobiographyThis writing grew out of a request from my daughter, Anita, that I write to her concerning me, my family, my parents and their families; how we lived, how we grew up; our ideals, our customs, and our social...
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The Silverado SquattersThe Silverado SquattersThe scene of this little book is on a high mountain. There are, indeed, many higher; there are many of a nobler outline. It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount...
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The snow-image, and other twice-told talesThe snow-image, and other twice-told tales TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N. MY DEAR BRIDGE:Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on...
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Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other StoriesMosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual...
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Twice-Told TalesTwice-Told Tales The Gray Champion The Wedding Knell The Minister's Black Veil The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Wakefield The Great Carbuncle David Swan The Hollow of the Three Hills Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Legends of the Province House I....
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. Wordsworth. The...
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Life and Adventures of Calamity JaneLife and Adventures of Calamity JaneMy maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missourri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children. As a child...
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The Land of Little RainThe Land of Little Rain I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him. Thus he may be Mighty-Hunter, or Man-Afraid-of-a-Bear, according as he is called by...
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Steep TrailsSteep Trails The papers brought together in this volume have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muirs life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of...
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The Mayflower CompactThe Mayflower CompactIn the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, c. Having undertaken for the...
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