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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) David Laskin Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a p… OL109659W
The story of my boyhood and youth The story of my boyhood and youth John Muir John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his… OL1618178W
Across the wide Missouri Across the wide Missouri Bernard Augustine De Voto Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a histor… OL1690143W