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Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Burdett
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.
Author
Series
American dreams volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
506 pages : geneological table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
639 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : gene. table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Richmond and Carolyn Davidson's lives changed the day they decided to follow God's will and free their slaves. When the Underground Railroad heard of this possible safe house in the turbulent South, runaways began appearing at their door. Unable to turn them away, the Davidsons realized they had to find a way to help the runaways and keep their family safe. The Davidsons' neighbors, the Beaumonts, do not agree with the Davidsons' decision. When the...
Author
Series
American dreams volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
658 pages : geneological table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Seven dreams a book of North American landscapes volume fifth dream
Seven dreams a book of North American landscapes volume 5
Seven dreams a book of North American landscapes volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1,356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian...
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