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A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author : John Woolf Jordan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267899050
Total Pages : 552 pages
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A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : John W. Jordan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267689330
Total Pages : 548 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley - Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley - The Original Classic Edition

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Author : U. J. (Uriah James) Jones
Publisher : Emereo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781486496914
Total Pages : 126 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley - Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Sett

Author : U J Jones
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781486489305
Total Pages : 128 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley

Author : U. J. Jones
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010269526
Total Pages : 408 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley

Author : Uriah James Jones
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ISBN 13 : 9781289778552
Total Pages : 444 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley

Author : William Henry Egle
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ISBN 13 : 9781974381043
Total Pages : 430 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley

Author : Uriah James 1818-1864 [From Old Jones
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341473678
Total Pages : 444 pages
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History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley

Author : U J Jones
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
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Children's Books in Print, 2007

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American Military History Volume 1

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Indians in Pennsylvania

Author : Paula A. W. Wallace
Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781422314937
Total Pages : 218 pages
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A History of Appalachia

Author : Richard B. Drake
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137934
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Pennsylvania State Manual

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Appleton's Literary Bulletin

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Metropolitan Philadelphia

Author : Steven Conn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204085
Total Pages : 285 pages
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