A History of the United States for Schools: Including a Concise Account of the Discovery of America, the Colonization of the Land, and the Revolutionary War |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of the United States for Schools: Including a Concise Account of the Discovery of America, the Colonization of the Land, and the Revolutionary War |
| Authors | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry |
| Publisher | Silver, Burdett and Company, 1896 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 439 pages |
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