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| Title | The Log Cabin; Or: The World Before You American Fiction, 1774-1920 |
| Author | Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee |
| Publisher | G.S. Appleton, 1844 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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