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| Title | The Prairie-bird, Volume 1 The Prairie-bird, Sir Charles Augustus Murray Warne's "Crown" library |
| Author | Sir Charles Augustus Murray |
| Publisher | R. Bentley, 1844 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 5 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 467 pages |
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