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Colonial American Travel Narratives
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Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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