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2017.
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"Spanning four seasons, ten countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road : A Year Alone Through Latin America chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel is not a path to love but a route to meaningful work, rare inspiration, and profound self-discovery. Following the...
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©1995
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At age fifteen, Laban Samuel Records (1856-1940), the youngest of twelve children, moved west with his family from Indiana to Kansas. About sixty-six years later, writing in pencil on Big Chief tablets, he remembered this move and his other western experiences through the year 1892, when he settled with his wife and children on the claim he had staked in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Run. In the intervening years, Laban was a freighter with his brother on...
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©2007
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"The only people tougher than the bank and train robbers of the Old West were the citizens who banded together to create law and order on the streets of their towns. Shoemakers and storekeeper, bank men and local lawmen, barbers and liverymen - they all fought to defend their homes and to defend their lives against the outlaws who threatened them."-Book Jacket
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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"In Stepping Twice Into the River, Robert King recounts his exploration of the "almost unnoticeable" along North Dakota's Sheyenne River, from its headwaters to river's end. With each experience along the way - tracing a military campaign, canoeing the river, visiting a ghost town, and even trying to sleep in an ancient Cheyenne village - King delves deeper into the river's culture, bringing to light different aspects of the plains. In the hands of...
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Pub. Date
1963
Description
A compilation in pictures and text, articles and items, of interesting and significant material about each of Colorado's 63 counties. Published...for distribution to the delegates of the National Association of Counties on their convention in Denver, Colorado, July 28-31, 1963.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grades 2-4. Houses can hold mysteries, as most children know. Around this truth, Harding has built a story about one particular house in Germany that witnessed history. Outside of Berlin, this home with blue shutters, beside a lake, holds a great deal of appeal, and readers will relate to the various children who lived there, played games on its lawn, swam in the lake, and interacted with the natural world. Teckentrup's illustrations are light and...
315) Americana Adventure
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1