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West To A Land Of Plenty

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

While traveling in 1883 with her Itlian-American family(including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiencealong the way.

Journal of James Edmond Pease

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Dear America - West to a land of plenty

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.

My face to the wind

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.

West to a land of plenty

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

Dear America My Face to the Wind

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young teacher.

West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences alsong the way.

West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences alsong the way.

Across America on a train

  • Murphy, Jim
1993
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. Includes archival photographs.

The long road to Gettysburg

  • Murphy, Jim
1991
Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, eighteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and fifteen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

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