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Walt Disney: Master of Make Believe
Elizabeth Rider Montgomery, Victor Mays
Hardcover (Garrard Pub Co, June 1, 1971)A biography of cartoonist Walt Disney stressing his professional contribution to the film industry and influence on American life.
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Jacqueline Cochran: First Lady of Flight,
Marquita O. Fisher, Victor Mays
Hardcover (Garrard Pub Co, Oct. 1, 1973)Recounts the life of America's first woman pilot, emphasizing her achievements as a World War II flight captain, director of the Women's Air Force Service, and test flyer for military jets
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace
Lillie Patterson, Victor Mays
Hardcover (Garrard Pub Co, June 1, 1969)A biography of the minister, orator, and crusader for equal civil rights who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
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Milton Hershey, Chocolate King
Mary Malone, William M. Hutchinson
Hardcover (Garrard Pub Co, June 1, 1971)A biography of the man whose faltering beginnings in candy making eventually resulted in a chocolate business known throughout the world.
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The Transcontinental Railroad And Westward Expansion: Chasing the American Frontier
Tim McNeese
Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 2006)Tells the story of America's rapid westward expansion after 1869 when the railroads stitched together a country that was previously divided by a great distance.
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America's Early Canals
Tim McNeese
Library Binding (Crestwood House, Oct. 1, 1993)Spotlights some of the famous canals--including the Potomac Canal, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the great Erie Canal--that became part of a complex system of canals that was built to facilitate interstate travel in early America.
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Sojourner Truth, Fearless Crusader.
Helen Stone Peterson
Hardcover (Garrard Pub Co, March 1, 1972)A brief biography of the northern slave who became the first black woman to give antislavery lectures in the United States.
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Henry Ford: Automotive Pioneer.
Elizabeth Rider Montgomery, Russell Hoover
Hardcover (Garrard Pub Co, June 1, 1969)Reviews the career of the brilliant inventor of the Tin Lizzie, stressing his perseverance and hard work
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The Spanish Missions of California
Rob Staeger
Library Binding (Mason Crest, June 1, 2002)In many of California's cities, the buildings of former Spanish missions are still standing. The history of the Spanish mission era in California was relatively short. When Spanish priests attempted to establish missions in California during the mid-18th century, their goal was to covert the native people of the region to Christianity. The Spaniards had no idea of the troubles ahead. They faced bad weather, shortages of food and other supplies, and culture clashes with the native tribes. Though the intent of the missions was honorable, many of the methods used to convert the Native Americans were horrible and violent. Although the mission era ended by the 1820s, much can be learned from the history of the California missions.
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Women of the West
Susan Katz Keating
Library Binding (Mason Crest, June 1, 2002)Discusses the important role women played in the exploration and settlement of the American West during the nineteenth century.
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America's First Railroads
Tim McNeese
Library Binding (Crestwood House, May 1, 1993)A history of railroads in the American West
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Grandma Moses: favorite painter,
Charles Parlin Graves
Hardcover (Garrard Pub. Co, March 15, 1969)A biography of the New England grandmother who began painting seriously at age seventy and kept it up until she was over a hundred years old.