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  • John Henry, the Steel-Driving Man

    Corinne J. Naden, Bert Dodson

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    Retells the life of the legendary steel driver of early railroad days who challenged the steam hammer to a steel-driving contest.
    Q

  • Over the Mormon Trail

    Helen Hinckley Jones

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, July 1, 1980)
    Follows the Mormons as they made their way from the East, through the dangers of the Midwest, to their new home in the Utah territory
    S

  • Johnny Appleseed

    Carol Beach York, Joan E. Goodman

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    John Chapman, the son of a Massachusetts farmer, earns the nickname Johnny Appleseed as he sets out for the Ohio Valley where he plans to plant orchards for the new settlers
    Q

  • Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

    Carol Beach York, Washington Irving, Kinuko Craft

    Library Binding (Troll Associates, Feb. 1, 1980)
    Presents the beloved Catskill legend of lazy, happy-go-lucky Rip Van Winkle who, attempting to escape his nagging wife, wanders into the woods where he falls asleep for twenty years
    V

  • Mike Fink

    Carol Beach York, Ed Parker

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    Mike Fink, a riverboat man from Pennsylvania during the era when Americans were moving westward into the frontier, becomes a legend as an alligator tamer, a scout, a crack shot, and one of the bravest men who ever poled a keelboat down the Ohio or Mississippi rivers
    N

  • Pioneers On Early Waterways

    Edith McCall

    Hardcover (Childrens Press, March 15, 1963)
    These are true stories of real people. Davey Crockett going down the Ohio on a flatboat has a fight with a "ring-tailed roarer." Mike Fink gets six sheep for his keelboat crew by outwitting a farmer. Jim Garfield falls off his canal boat about a week before a fight leads him to think he should go on to better things. wilderness waterways drama Sam Clemens pilots a Mississippi steamer and the pilot of the Robert E. Lee outwits the pilot of the Natchez to win a historic race.

  • Paul Bunyan

    Nanci A. Lyman

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 15, 1980)
    Book by Lyman, Nanci A.

  • Sam Patch: The Big Time Jumper

    Carol Beach York, Bert Dodson

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    Daredevil jumper Sam Patch, believing that some things can be done as well as others, becomes famous and astounds the world by jumping from Niagara Falls
    Q

  • Over the Mormon trail

    Helen Hinckley Jones

    Hardcover (Childrens Press, March 15, 1964)
    None

  • Wagons over the Mountains

    Edith S. McCall

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, Sept. 1, 1980)
    Chronicles the travels of pioneers by wagon train through the mountains and describes some of the dangers they faced
    N

  • Gold Rush Adventures

    Edith S. McCall

    Library Binding (Childrens Press, Sept. 1, 1980)
    America's spirit of adventure is seen as the forty-niners head westward to California in search of fame and fortune in the form of gold
    T

  • Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane

    Diana Uehlinger, Washington Irving, Carol Beach York

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1980)
    A superstitious schoolmaster, rival for the hand of a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
    N