The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volumen 9John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson Henry B. Dawson, 1865 |
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