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    A Waif of the Plains (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Bret Harte

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    “This was the Great Plains as they seemed to two children from the hooded depths of an emigrant wagon, above the swaying heads of toiling oxen, in the summer of 1852.”

    Travel the Oregon Trail in this 1890 wagon-train adventure, from the pen of the writer who opened the American West to literature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 8, 2011
    ISBN9781411440586
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