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1) The prairie
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Leatherstocking tales volume 5
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English
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"A new edition of James Fenimore Cooper's 1827 classic novel, The Prairie. The third novel by Cooper featuring his frontiersman hero Natty Bumppo, it is chronologically the last of the Leatherstocking Tales series, though it was published prior to The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. It depicts Natty Bumppo in the final year of his life, witnessing the further western expansion of America in the years immediately following the Lewis & Clark expedition"--Amazon.com....
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Luke Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
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English
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Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River -- the longest in North America -- all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...
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"What would drive a woman in 1828 to head west across the Great Plains into the Rocky Mountains, risking death among hostile Native Americans, brutish mountain men, and wild animals? Why, the same reason as a man, of course--freedom. Like fur trappers of the early western frontier, Kathleen is a misfit. Growing up in the Irish slums of Boston and watching her mother die giving birth to a dozen children, Kathleen has decided to escape into a career...
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