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A Visit From St. Nicholas
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Illustrated with late-nineteenth-century magic-lantern slides Together with a brief inquiry into a Christmas mystery
The Ordeal of Plenty Horses
Author: Robert M. Utley
Caught between two cultures, a young Sioux sought to make himself a hero—by killing an army officer
The French Connection
Author: J. H. Plumb
Rakehells, men of good will, adventurers, and bunglers were all in the glittering pageant when the Old World came to help out the New
The Children’s Migration
Author: Annette Riley Fry
It moved more boys and girls than the Children’s Crusade of the Middle Ages—and to far happier conclusions
The American Field Service
Author: Andrew Gray
EQUIPMENT WAS HARD TO COME BY, RED TAPE WAS RAMPANT. BUT AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE BUILT AN AMBULANCE CORPS THAT PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I
“All Hail to Pure Cold Water!”
Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Beset with ailments, Victorian women found solace, in more ways than one, in a new panacea—hydropathy
Surgeon Thompson’s Separate Peace
Author: Allan L. Damon
Aunt Julia’s Movie Code
Author: Edward Stevenson
Wood To Burn
Author: John H. White