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The Wind Wagon

Celia Barker Lottridge

199548 pagesabout 1 hour
1995
first published
  • 1995Silver Burdett Press · 56 pages · ENGISBN 9780382249273
  • 2001Groundwood Books · 48 pages · ENGISBN 9780888992345
  • 2001Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613880022
PlayfulWhimsicalWildernessShort read

Sam Peppard, a blacksmith in 1860s Kansas, builds a prairie schooner that sails to Denver, Colorado, powered by wind.

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Written forMiddle grade
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