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Book Title: Across the Plains : with OTHER Memories a
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / West / General
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Publication Year: 2005
Genre: Travel
