Dorothea survived a difficlt childhood to devote her life to the plight of the mentally ill. Her achievements were many including the role of superintendent of women nurses during the Civil War and lobbying for legislative protection for the insane.
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Dorothea survived a difficult childhood to devote her life to the plight of the mentally ill. Her achievements are numerous from being a superintendent of women nurses during the Civil War to lobbying for legislative protection for the insane.
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Traces the life of General George Armstrong Custer from childhood in Ohio through Civil War battlefields to Indian campaigns to Montana ridge where he died in over 100 full-color photos of the places he breathed.
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Traces the life of General George Armstrong Custer from childhood in Ohio, through Civil War battlefields to Indian Campaigns, to the Montana ridge where he died in over 100 full-color photos of the places where he breathed.

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Grace and friend Arthur, both 12, best readers in the mill school, are forced to leave school and work in textile mill. Grace and Arthur take different routes to better thier situation. Which route do you think is best?
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Grace and friend Arthur, both 12, best readers in the mill school, are forced to leave school and work in textile mill. Grace and Arthur take different routes to better thier situation. Which route do you think is best?

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Parents have tried many techniques to get Clara Ann to go to bed. Now Clara Ann tries to get her Teddy to go to bed. Who is the winner in this battle of the wills. Beautiful illustrations
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Parents have tried many techniques to get Clara Ann to go to bed. Now Clara Ann tries to get her Teddy to go to bed. Who is the winner in this battle of the wills. Beautiful illustrations

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Forrestine writes her memoirs of living her childhood among the Tenth U.S. Calvary - a regiment of black troops with white commanders - of which her father was an officer. Many experiences recounted, such as keeping her pet mice warm inside her mother’s gloves, a soldier being smoked instead of embalmed because the army lacked the appropriate supplies, encounters with Quannah Parker and Geronimo.
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Forrestine writes her memoirs of living her childhood among the Tenth U.S. Calvary - a regiment of black troops with white commanders - of which her father was an officer. Many experiences recounted, such as keeping her pet mice warm inside her mother’s gloves, a soldier being smoked instead of embalmed because the army lacked the appropriate supplies, encounters with Quannah Parker and Geronimo.

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