Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States |
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User Review - pitjrw - LibraryThingI doubt that most readers of this book would begin at the first page and read straight through to the end. Instead as I imagine many readers would do, I checked the index for a topic I was interested ... Read full review
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User Review - Hedgepeth - LibraryThingA very interesting account on how some of our locations were named. Read full review
Contents
Of what is attempted in this book | 3 |
Of the naming that was before history | 4 |
How the first Spaniards gave names | 11 |
Copyright | |
48 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States |
| Author | George Rippey Stewart |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | Lexikos Pub, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 13, 2008 |
| ISBN | 093853002X, 9780938530022 |
| Length | 526 pages |
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