Wondrous Times on the FrontierAugust House Publishers, 1991 - 324 стор. In his first work of nonfiction in twelve years, celebrated historian Dee Brown, bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, draws on over 50 years of research in this good-humored celebration of the diversity of the American frontier. |
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