Edith S. Mccall Books
Pioneering on the Plains. (Her Frontiers of America)
Presents the experiences of a child who became a man helping his father on their Iowa homestead and of a young man who literally carved out a home for his family on the Kansas prairie.
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Pirates Privateers
Discusses piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries focusing on the lives and infamous deeds of Peter Francis, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Stede Bonnet.
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Stalwart men of early Texas
Brief biographies of six men who explored and founded settlements in early Texas. Included are Cabeza de Vaca, Robert La Salle, and Moses Austin.
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Message from the mountains
In the frontier town of Franklin, Missouri, in 1826, teenage friends Jim Matthews and Kit Carson share the dream of running away to a life of adventure on the Santa Fe Trail.
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Better than a brother
The adventures of a young girl growing up at the turn of the century on the shores of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, where her family runs a boarding house for ice cutters.
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