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    Lightfoot the Deer, Illustrated
    Lightfoot the Deer, Illustrated
    Lightfoot the Deer, Illustrated
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    Lightfoot the Deer, Illustrated

    By Thornton Burgess

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    Children's book, first published in 1921, with 4 black-and-white illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965). Born in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Thornton Waldo Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455341764
    Lightfoot the Deer, Illustrated
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    Thornton Burgess

    Thornton Waldo Burgess, naturalist and conservationist, loved the beauty of nature and its living creature so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers.

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