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The Crossing

Not to be confused with the famed twentieth-century British prime minister, American author Winston Churchill took as his fictional palette the history of his native country. Following in the tradition of Churchill's other sweeping historical epics, The Crossing is a thrilling account of the settlement of the Western United States, with a particular focus on the rough-and-tumble early years of the territory that would later become Kentucky.

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  • "Novels"
  • "Project Gutenberg's etext of The crossing"
  • "Project Gutenberg presents The crossing"

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  • "Not to be confused with the famed twentieth-century British prime minister, American author Winston Churchill took as his fictional palette the history of his native country. Following in the tradition of Churchill's other sweeping historical epics, The Crossing is a thrilling account of the settlement of the Western United States, with a particular focus on the rough-and-tumble early years of the territory that would later become Kentucky."@en
  • "Time of George Rogers Clark's military achievements in the West and Daniel Boone's wilderness road."@en
  • "This book has been named "The Crossing" because I have tried to express in it the beginnings of that great movement across the mountains which swept resistless over the Continent until at last it saw the Pacific itself. The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. No annals in the world's history are more wonderful than the story of the conquest of Kentucky and Tennessee by the pioneers ..."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "The Crossing"@en
  • "The crossing"@en
  • "The crossing"
  • "The crossing : With ill. by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss"
  • "The crossing, with illus. by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss"@en
  • "Crossing"
  • "Crossing"@en
  • "The Crossing, by Winston Churchill"
  • "The Crossing ... With illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss"@en
  • "The crossing, with illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss"@en
  • "The crossing, (New uniform ed.)"
  • "The crossing with illus.by sydney adamson and lilian bayliss"

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