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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses.While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes. Portrait of Route 66 lets us see for the first time the actual photographs...
263) Mount Rushmore
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Examining the building process from the ground up, this high-interest title covers the history and construction of Mount Rushmore, one of South Dakota's most well-known landmarks"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best...
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Pub. Date
©2003
Description
Jane Bernard and Polly Brown are accomplished, widely-published Santa Fe photographers who spent three years on America's most legendary trail. American Route 66: Home on the Road winds from Chicago to L.A. These superb color and black-and-white photographs merge with their subjects mini-oral histories and the photographers' journal entries.
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[2004]
Description
"Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass onto their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question...
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