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The raft of the skedaddlers
by Smith, E Russell
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1894494857
- ISBN 13
- 9781894494854
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Gatineau, Quebec : Baico Publishing, 2004 Book. Illus. by W.H.Bartlett. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Canadian Edition.. Before he settled in Gloucester Township, on land that is now part of Ottawa Braddish Billings traded in timber along the Rideau and Ottawa rivers. In 1810 he and a crew of other ex-patriot American "skedaddlers" took a raft of white oak barrel staves from the Rideau front to Quebec City=-a venture which proved to be disastrous. Included in his crew was his nephew Elkanah Stowell the narrator of this tale fifty years later...a chronicle of adventure and romance on the Canadian frontier. 161p.map.illus. Signed on title page..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044454
- Title
- The raft of the skedaddlers
- Author
- Smith, E Russell
- Illustrator
- W.H.Bartlett
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st Canadian Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 1894494857
- ISBN 13
- 9781894494854
- Publisher
- Baico Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Gatineau, Quebec
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL FICTION CANADA OTTAWA QUEBEC
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