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| Title | Snowflakes amd sunbeams; or, The young fur traders |
| Author | Robert Michael Ballantyne |
| Publisher | Ward, Lock, 1856 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 12, 2006 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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