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Kimmel, E. Cody.
TO THE FRONTIER
New York : HarperCollins, 2002.
IL 5-8
ISBN 0060291184
Eight-year-old Bill Cody is about to set off on an adventure.  Ever since his older brother died in an accident a few months before, his mother has wanted to leave the town Bill grew up in.  She just couldn't face living in a place so filled with memories of Sammy.  So Pa decided to head west.  They were leaving Iowa and going to make a new home in Kansas Territory.  Pa's brother lived near there and told Pa about government plans to offer cheap land to settlers.  Travel with young Bill Cody as his family travels west in search of a new home.
SUBJECTS:     Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
                        Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Fiction.
                        Kansas -- History 1854-1861 -- Fiction.

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