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    Putting Down Roots: A Story about a Colonel, a Medicine Man and their Garden
    Putting Down Roots: A Story about a Colonel, a Medicine Man and their Garden
    Putting Down Roots: A Story about a Colonel, a Medicine Man and their Garden
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    Putting Down Roots: A Story about a Colonel, a Medicine Man and their Garden

    By Bobbi D Lancaster

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    Putting Down Roots tells the origin story of Boyce Thompson Arboretum. A unique narrator explains the geological events and the depravity of the Indian wars that set the stage for the arrival of a mining magnate: Colonel William Boyce Thompson. We learn of the seminal moment that triggered Thompson's desire to end world hunger; at the same t

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBobbi D Lancaster
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9781733463577
    Putting Down Roots: A Story about a Colonel, a Medicine Man and their Garden
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    Bobbi D Lancaster

    Family physician, parent and grandparent, retired professional golfer, author, speaker, transgender rights advocate

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