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Gerstacker's Louisiana
Fiction And Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times Through Reconstruction
by Irene Stocksieker Di Maio
ISBN: 0807131466
ISBN-13: 9780807131466
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Published date: 2006
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.45 pounds
Pages: 328
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