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Swift rivers by Cornelia Meigs · Booklabria

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First published: 1932
Language: English
Editions: 9

Synopsis

In 1835, after being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
Frontier and pioneer life
Newbery Honor
Mississippi river
Logging
Set in: Mississippi River
Time: 19th Century

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