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| Title | Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences HeinOnline: World trials library |
| Author | Oliver Hampton Smith |
| Edition | 3, illustrated |
| Publisher | Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 0722207883, 9780722207888 |
| Length | 640 pages |
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