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Books in Tales of Frontier America series

  • Sam Patch, the Big Time Jumper

    Carol Beach York, Bert Dodson

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 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
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  • Men on iron horses

    Edith S McCall

    Unknown Binding (Childrens Press, March 15, 1960)
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  • Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

    Carol Beach York, Carole York Irving, Washington Irving, Kinuko Craft

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, )
    None
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  • Mike Fink

    Carol Beach York, Ed Parker

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 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
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  • Pirates and Privateers.

    Edith S. McCall

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, Sept. 1, 1980)
    Discusses piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries focusing on the lives and infamous deeds of Peter Francis, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Stede Bonnet.
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  • Pecos Bill

    Nanci A. Lyman, Bert Dodson

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    Raised by coyotes for the first eighteen years of his life, the legendary Pecos Bill grows up to become the first and greatest cowboy in the West
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  • Paul Bunyan

    Nanci A. Lyman, Bert Dodson

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    The spirit and determination of America's pioneers are reflected in the legendary adventures of master lumberjack, hunter, fisherman, tracker, and mountain man Paul Bunyan
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  • Casey Jones

    Carol Beach York, Bert Dodson

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)
    Retells the true story of Casey Jones, the engineer who always brought his train in on time.
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  • Stalwart men of early Texas,

    Edith S McCall

    Unknown Binding (Childrens Press, March 15, 1970)
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