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54-40 or Fight, by Emerson Hough, Illustrated
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Title: 54-40 or Fight
Author: Emerson Hough
Release Date: December 15, 2004 [eBook #14355]
Language: English
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54-40 OR FIGHT
by
EMERSON HOUGH
Author of The Mississippi Bubble, The Way of the Man, etc.
With Four Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller
A. L. Burt Company Publishers New York
1909
[Illustration: "Madam," said I, "let me, at least, alone." Page 49]
TO Theodore Roosevelt
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND FIRM BELIEVER IN THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH THE LOYALTY AND ADMIRATION OF THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER
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THE MAKERS OF MAPS II BY S