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| Title | The Way of the North: A Romance of the Days of Baranof American fiction IV, 1901-1905 |
| Author | Warren Cheney |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1905 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Oct 12, 2007 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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