Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens (Author), Elizabeth Hampsten (Author)
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Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the show more University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Malick Family; Charles Brown; Maggie Brown; Neher Family; Martin Family
- Important places
- Oregon Territory, USA; Colorado, USA; New Mexico Territory, USA; North Dakota, USA
- Blurbers
- Kolodny, Annette; Kelley, Mary
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 978 — History & geography History of North America Western United States
- LCC
- F596 .S28 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
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- English
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- Paper
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