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1) White Fang
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Explore the dangerous and ruthless animal world--and the equally violent human one--in this Scribner Classics keepsake edition of Jack London's renowned wolf tale. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and all brute, fighting to survive in the frozen north. But when he gradually comes under the spell of man's companionship during the Klondike gold rush in the nineteenth century, how much will he surrender? This collectible edition of a revered classic,...
2) Dream West
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American story 1800-1860 volume 1
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A fictionalized story of John Charles Fremont, and Jessie, the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, that embraces the stormiest and most adventurous half-century this country has ever known.
4) Geronimo
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A biography of the Indian warrior whose family was killed by Mexican troop and who led raids into Mexican and American territory.
6) Jim Thorpe
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Examines the life of the American Indian who earned fame as one of the nation's greatest all-around athletes.
7) Plenty Coups
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Examines the life of the famed warrior and Crow Indian chief, who performed eighty feats of valor in combat during his youth but never warred against the United States.
9) Sitting Bull
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A biography of the Native American who engineered the defeat of Custer and his troops at Little Big Horn and toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
10) Maria Tallchief
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Describes the life of the American ballerina and descendant of the Osage tribe.
11) 1812
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American story 1800-1860 volume 2
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From the New York Times bestselling author David Nevin, comes an astonishing historical novel of the War of 1812.
The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific- or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolly Madison, and Andrew and Rachel...
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Molly feels that everything in her life has changed when her father goes off to England to help wounded soldiers and her beloved aunt joins the Women's Airforce Service Pilots. Includes a section on women pilots in the armed services, and a project related to the story.
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