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Across America on an emigrant train / by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints.

Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022 (Author). Van de Grift Osbourne, Fanny, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0395633907
  • ISBN: 9780395633908
  • ISBN: 0756991447
  • Physical Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, [1993]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Journey begins -- All aboard! -- Aboard the emigrant train -- Into the Wild West -- Across the high Sierras -- In the good country -- Final word.
Target Audience Note:
1180L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 3 8452.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Travel > United States > Juvenile literature.
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Railroad travel > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
Authors, Scottish > 19th century > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Railroads > History > Juvenile literature.
We the People Bookshelf on Picturing America 2009.
Picturing America 2009.
United States > Description and travel > Juvenile literature.
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