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Down the Big River

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Author(s):Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):Stephen W. Meader
Publisher(s): Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Year Published: 1924
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Boys Growing Up
Families
Fiction - Novel
Historical Fiction - Revolutionary
Pioneers
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 270
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 1834195

Description

Tom Lockwood and his parents are going down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.

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Down the Big River (1944)

Tom Lockwood and his parents are travelling down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
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Down the Big River (2004)

Tom Lockwood and his parents are going down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.

Publisher: Southern Skies
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