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  • It Happened on the Underground Railroad
    Tricia Martineau Wagner
    From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous “road” to freedom. Read about Peter Still, a former slave who came to the Philadelphia Antislavery Society in search of his family, only to discover that the man sitting ...
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    14,76 €

  • It Happened on the Oregon Trail
    Tricia Martineau Wagner
    Many of the events that took place along the Oregon Trail are well known--the perils the Applegate family faced as they rafted down the raging Columbia River, the plight of the Donner Party as they found themselves snowbound and starving at Truckee Lake. But do you know the whole story?It Happened on the Oregon Trail reveals the stories of these well-known events as well as man...
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    14,61 €

  • Black Cowboys of the Old West
    Tricia Martineau Wagner
    The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story.When the Civil War ended, ...
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    12,88 €

  • African American Women of the Old West
    Tricia Martineau Wagner
    The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold until now. The stories of ten African-American women are reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. Some of these women slaves, some were free, and some were born int...
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    14,88 €

  • It Happened on the Oregon Trail
    Tricia Martineau Wagner
    It Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable, little known events that happened along the trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. From Rufus K. Porter’s brilliant plan to fly people to Oregon in hot air balloons, to the plight of a young girl who climbed Independence Rock to carve her name and was left behind by her wagon par...
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    11,08 €