Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western StatesMcConnel, John Ludlum
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Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States
McConnel, John Ludlum
Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River Valley; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by THOMAS
MOORE, with Portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Two vols., 12mo, cloth,
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