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The long way west /

Follows the adventures of seventeen-year-old George Wend as he leaves home in Philadelphia to go to Oregon in the mid-1800s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nixon, Hershell H.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Adventure and adventurers > Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Fiction.

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