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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900

by Irving Stone · 1956

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Stone has created a pageant of stories of the great westward drive.

Subject
historybiographygeography
Genre
historical fictionwesternadventure
Themes
American history
Setting
American WestCaliforniaUSA
Audience
adult
Length
long · 459 pages

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