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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Bridging the continent</title>
    <subTitle>a sourcebook on the American West</subTitle>
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  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
  <originInfo>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Brookfield, Conn</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Millbrook Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1992</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1992</dateIssued>
    <edition>A Millbrook Press library ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>96 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;</extent>
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  <abstract>Describes and illustrates the opening up and settling of the Old West, its trails, canals, railroads, and other aspects, from the early migrations to the coming of the telephone, through a variety of images created during that period.</abstract>
  <targetAudience authority="marctarget">juvenile</targetAudience>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Carter Smith.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Trails</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Transportation</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communication and traffic</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Industries</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcshac">
    <topic>Transportation</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Sources</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">F591 .B844 1991</classification>
  <relatedItem type="series">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>American Albums from the collections of the Library of Congress</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">1562941305</identifier>
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