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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, January [Jan.] 1924, Vol. LII, No. 309: To Afghanistan in Disguise

By: "Lanham"; Dickson, John; Cronstedt, Count Nills; Truscott, Charles; Digby, Bassett; Weddall, A.; Albert, Captain M.H.; Verrill, A.Hyatt; Denys, Courteney; Grimshaw, Beatrice; Smith, L. Marsden; Richards, Kenneth F.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1924

Seller ID: 346h5239

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, November [Nov.] 1927, Vol. LX, No. 355: Through Spain in Disguise / Kite-Fighting in Siam / Maroons of Jamaica

By: Billy See; Oakley, S.R.; Malmignati, The Countess Guerrini; tench, C.V.; Todd, C.T.; Roberts, Morley; Maule, D.; Millard, G.B.; Fegen, W.W.; Evans, Capt. E.A.; Reitz, Colonel Deneys; Stuart, Max

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1927

Seller ID: 346h5259

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Slippery Wiley" Again - Continued misdeeds of a West Australian gold thief; My Seal-Hunt - The touch-and-go experience of a young man who was seal hunting on the ice off the coast of Newfoundland; Through Spain in Disguise - Part IV - Count and Countess Malmignati continue their adventure, disguised as Arab beggars, singing and dancing for a living; Photo and bried write-up of the "Magic Pool" of Henleaze, said to provide wonderfully fresh skin to her bathers; "The Lucky Seven" - A young e...
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The Wide World Magazine, The Magazine for Men, June 1950, Vol 105, No. 626: Three-Thousand-Mile RCMP Arctic Sled Trek

By: Bride, W.W.; Thorpe-Lane, Herbert; Barry, Gerald; Austin, Jean; Lincoln, Sylvia; Taylor, Carl N.; Tench, C.V.; MacMunn, Lieut.-Colonel G.A.; Stanton, Jane; Litchfield, P.A.; Evans, Captain E.A.; Teigh, Jeffery

Price: $195.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1950

Seller ID: 346h5281

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger ...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, September [Sept.] 1929, Vol. LXIII, No. 378: At Grips With the Desert / My Trip to Devil's Island

By: Cameron, Donald R.G.; Mummery, G.H.; Clarke, Charles J.L.; Woolf, S.H.; taylor, Carl N.; Sheppard, Sir William; Royal, Ken J.; Waldorf, N.J.; Mills, Arthur; Kohl, Edith Ammons; Stuart, Murray; Charles, R.G.; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Melville, Fred J.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1929

Seller ID: 346h5275

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Find The Woman" - What happened in Central Africa when word spread that a venerated witch-doctress had invented a potion to render the white man's bullets harmless - with photo of Maria N'Koy in her ceremonial regalia; At Grips With the Desert - Part III - Donald R.G. Cameron's party set out to cross the Sahara and became lost for ten dreadful days - with photos and map; A Tenderfoot in Argentina - Englishman G.H. Mummery went to Argentina to try his luck on a big estancia; The "Eggers" of Yorkshi...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, July 1928: Vol. LXI No. 363: To Lhasa in Disguise / Down The Colorado River, The World's Most Dangerous

By: Charnley, W.; David-Neel, Alexandra; Case, P.B.; Moller, C.W.; Stephens, Thos. C.; Eddy, Clyde L.; Luce, Philip Winter; Chadwick, W.S.; Watt, Frederick B.; Stuart-Reid, G.E.; Fitzpatrick, Captain J.F.J.; Kohl, Edith Ammons

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1928

Seller ID: 346h5265

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - bree...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, July 1930, Vol. 65, No. 388: The "White Indians" of North Carolina / The Opium-Smugglers / Nepal Exploration

By: Charnley, W.; Gill, Eric H.N.; Gibbons, John; Terry, G. Cunningham; Fraser, Ronald H.; Anstey, E.C.; Wicksteed, B.; Taylor, Carl N.; Elleray, Ernest; Nisbet, Maud I.; Powell, E. Alexander; Leal, Etty; Melville, Fred J.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1930

Seller ID: 346h5280

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to...
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The Wide World, The Magazine for Men, June 1918, Vol. 41, No. 242:: The Dalton Gang

By: Dalton, Emmett; Merriman, Percy; Workman, Fanny & William; Smith, George; Temple, Alan; Hardeman, F.E.; Hugo, Eric; Jordan, Eva J.; Cornu, N.; Russan, Ashmore; Kennedy, Bart; Day, Robert A.; Stembridge, E.C.

Price: $595.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1918

Seller ID: 346h5208

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part II of the first true account of the exploits of the world's most outlaws, The Dalton Gang, written by their only survivor, Emmett Dalton; A Concert Party In the Desert - The "Roosters" Concert Party entertain troops in the Sinai Desert (with photos); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part II of Fanny and William Workman's exploration of the Himalayas (with photos); The Cruise of the Cowboys - several men are Shanghaied at San Francisco but manage to escape on a small boat a...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, August [Aug.] 1922, Vol. 49, No. 292: Through The East By Air / Big-Game Shooting in Northern India

By: Darling, Eugene; Cutler, A.W.; Brightwell, L.R.; Burnett, Burke; Garrett, A.H.; Carline, Richard; Siroux, Gabriel; Turner, Timothy; Verrill, A.Hyatt; Long, Edward E.; Sabine, Louis A.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1922

Seller ID: 346h5221

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Man Who Turned Thief - Part I - remarkable narrative of an honest man turned criminal who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies in American history; With a Camera in Portugal - nice photo-illustrated article; Mr. Todbury's Trawler Trip - a confirmed landlubber, advised by his doctor, goes on a sea-voyage on a little trawler; A Record Laugh - A story from Kimberley, South Africa involving an unsophisticated Kaffir, a "live" wire, and a laugh that could be heard from miles away!; Mistaken Identit...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1924, Vol. LII, No. 312: In Search of Sea-Monsters / Our Andean Adventures

By: Ferguson, Ronald Muir; Mitchell-Hedges, F.A.; Wirges, J.B.; Blackman, Winifred S.; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Adams, Harriett Chalmers; Elliot, H.W.; "Lanham"; Durand, Ralph; Cronstedt, Count Nils; Smart, E. Hegan; Grimshaw, Beatrice; Sabine, Louis A.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1924

Seller ID: 346h5242

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all othe...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, December [Dec.] 1924, Vol LIV, No. 320: My Wife's Double / The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko

By: Gilmer, Emile; Whittaker, James; Baker, R. St. Barbe; Fitzgerald, Sidney; Cowie, J.S.; Mitchell-Hedges, F.A.; Eustace, Robert; Campbell, Daniel G.; McMillan, R.D.S.; Carline, Richard; French, Vera M.; Patterson, Walter G.; Buchanan, Captain Angus; Bailey

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1924

Seller ID: 346h5248

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrat...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, November [Nov.] 1924, Vol. LIV, No. 319: Hunting the Opium Smugglers

By: Grant, Captain Gordon; Holyoake, Mabel A.; Sandell, T.C.; Carline, Richard; Denys, Courtenay; Rawson, John; McLaren, Jack; read, Oliver; Buchanan, Captain Angus; Brooke, W.; Olivier, C.J.; Scott, Rev. W.E.R.; Michaelis, Ralph

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1924

Seller ID: 346h5245

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phen...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, August [Aug.] 1929, Vol. LXIII, No. 377: Africa's Mystery Beasts / America's Southern Border Patrol

By: Halliday, Dick; Tripp, P. Chamier; Marshall, James Vance; Dunn, H.H.; Parsons, Captain A.H.; Verrill, A. Hyatt; edwards, Wilfred; Whalley, H. Douglas; Bowen, Patrick; Cameron, Donald R.G.; Sabine, Louis A.; Melville, Fred J.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1929

Seller ID: 346h5274

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Guardians of the "Last Frontier" - Excellent photo-illustrated article on the three-hundred men who patrol America's 2,000-mile Mexican border; Brown's Tiger - A decidedly unusual hunt in India in which a herd of buffaloes played an important part; "Blood Will Tell" - What happened after James Vance Marshall saved the life of a young South American; Photo of Buddhist "Rice Boat" in Ceylon; Hunting Sea-Lions - Tony Rosato hunts these creatures near California's Coronado Islands - interesting...
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The Wide World Magazine, March [Mar.] 1915, Vol. 34, No. 203: Our Travels in Safari-Land / Crapsey, The Sky-Worker

By: Harold, John J.; Walsh, John; Shepstone, H.J.; Muston, Walter; Muir, Jessie; Maturin, Mrs. Fred; Cecil-Porch, Edith; Ansthruther, Francis; Bissell, W.G.; Ganthony, Robert

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1915

Seller ID: 346h5219

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. 96 pages plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Nice ad by Spiegel, May, Stern Co. inside front cover; The Johannesburg Motor Bandits - One of the most remarkable episodes in the annals of crime in South Africa - the wholesale murder of Police Officers - Robert Ward Jackson, John Maxim, Carl Neze - many great photos; Crapsey, the Sky-Worker - he loses his fear of working at heights; Some Adventurous Small-craft Voyages as told by Captain J.A. Nilsson who made a specialty of taking tiny vessels across the oceans - ...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, January [Jan.] 1928, Vol. LX, No. 357: Through Arctic Seas / Across Central Africa

By: Henslowe, J.L.; Gillingham, Donald W.; Ardouin, William; Parsons, Captain Anthony; Malmignati, The Countess Guerrini; batson, Alfed; "Lolo"; Howard, Mark; Jackson,k Major Frederick G.; Richards, Kenneth F.; McLaren, Jack; Todd, C.T.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1928

Seller ID: 346h5261

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Capt...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, January [Jan.] 1929, Vol. LXII, No. 369:

By: Hichens, Captain W.; Trinkler, Emil; Macdonald Robert M.; Musson, H.P.; Macpherson, Margaret; Schramm, W. Peter; Jefers, Tom; Baker, Ben F.; Newton, A.; "Nemo"; Royal, Ken J.; Luce, Philip Winter; Mossman, Frank; Dickie, Francis

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1929

Seller ID: 346h5269

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Africa's Mystery Beasts - Remarkable stories concerning what may be the progeny of prehistoric monsters, several of which appear to be formidable opponents for any hunter; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part I - Emil Trinkler had exceptional opportunities for travelling in untrodden regions, with photos; The Dancing Dead - A veteran gold-seeker's account of a weird and terrifying experience that befell a party of prospectors in New Guinea, with photo of witch-doctor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canad...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, February [Feb.] 1924, Vol. LII, No. 310: On Niagara's Brink / An Englshwoman in Upper Egypt

By: Hogg, John Edwin; Dunlap, Orrin E.; Blackman, Winifred S.; Wright, Hamilton; Grimshaw, Beatrice; Collins, Dale; "Lanham"; green, Lawrence G.; Weddall, A.; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Forbin, V.; Cronstedt, Count Nils; Fletcher, E.F.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1924

Seller ID: 346h5240

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in thre...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, February [Feb.] 1928, Vol. LX, No. 358: Through Arctic Seas / Among the Kazak Nomads

By: MacMorland, Captain J.; Middlebrook, J.; Hunter, Reginald P.; Gillingham, Donald W.; edwards, Matthew; Wilkinson, Walter; Adale, Donald; Afzal, Russell; Payne, W.; Long, Edward E.; Clarke; Charles J.L.; Jackson, Frederick G.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1928

Seller ID: 346h5262

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Hidden Bay - A member of the Cape Police investigates a series of missing boats and their crews; The Parson - A Tale of old frontier days in Marshall, Texas; A Gambling Raid in Malaya - A white police officer single-handedly attempts to raid a gambling-den in the Malay States; Through Arctic Seas - Part III - The continues adventures of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo in the Western Arctic as it studies the Eskimos and wild life - with map and many nice photos; Among the Kazak Nomads - Matthew Edwards...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, May 1928, Vol. LXI, No. 361: Hunting the "Moonshiners" / Fire-Walkers of Mauritius / America's Murder Gangs Unmasked

By: Maule, D.; Musson, H.P.; Shaw, Mrs. M.; Brands, W.J.; Mills, John E.; ferguson, Ronald Muir; Mossman, Frank; drewet, Jeese Carr; Koh, Edith Ammons; Etherton, P.T.; Watt, Frederick B.; Parsons, Anthony; Jones, Lieut. Archibald; Beals, Carleton

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1928

Seller ID: 346h5263

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; Th...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, July 1929, Vol. LXIII, No. 376: Flying Thrills in Canada's Northland / A Gringo in Old Mexico

By: McDermand, Charles; Curtis, Dean; Harley, Vivian; Montagnes, James; Chadwick, W.S.; Cameron, Donald R.G.; Newman, Bernard; Fitzpatrick, Capt. J.F.J.; Coffman, Margaret S.; Galloway, F.W.; Gribble, Francis; De Hamel, Major H. Barry; Brown, Sinclair; Mossm

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1929

Seller ID: 346h5273

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A "Gringo" in Old Mexico - An engineer escapes with his life, less a friend and his money; "The Old Small Cat" - Cornered by Shanghai Police, a Chinese bandit only succumbed after a 19 hour battle involving many weapons used against him - includes photos; Flying Thrills in Canada's Northland - A fascinating photo-illustrated article showing how the Far North of Canada is being opened up by passenger and transport aircraft; South African Outlaws - Two prominent law-breakers, Jack Howard and Reilly; At Grips With th...
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, March [Mar.] 1929, Vol. LXII, No. 371: Peking to London - Mostly By Car

By: Parsons, Captain Anthony; Chambers, Herbert E.; France, Vivian; Kohl, Edith Ammons; Oakley, S.R.; McCallum, Captain D.M.; Gibbons, John; Iles, Major F.W.; Perring, M.S.; Elleray, Ernest; Galloway, F.W.; Warren, C.V.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1929

Seller ID: 346h5270

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundland...
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