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Great American Adventure Stories

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Great American Adventure Stories

By Tom McCarthy

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About the book

An extraordinary collection of fifteen stories that celebrate America's unquenchable thirst for excitement, Great American Adventure Stories contains page-turning accounts of the Galveston Hurricane, the Alaska Gold Rush, a robbery featuring Jesse James, an eyewitness account of the Johnstown flood, and much more. For a taste of the American frontier, Daniel Boone and famed scout Kit Carson depict what they saw and experienced as the country expanded and blossomed in the West. These accounts all...Show more

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ISBN

9781493029990

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published year

2017

Language

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1

Original title

Great American Adventure Stories

Format

Paperback

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