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Author Leacock, Elspeth.

Title Places in time : a new atlas of American history / Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrations by Randy Jones.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 973 LEACOCK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J973 L    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 973 LEA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Children's Department  J973 LEA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J973 LEA    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Children's Department  J911.73 LEACOCK    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 973 LEA    Check Shelf
Description 48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cahokia; city of the Great Sun (1200) -- Ozette; a whaling village (1490) -- Pecos; Pueblo and Mission (1627) -- New Plymouth; A home for the pilgrims (1627) -- Charlestown; a colonial city (1739) -- Fort Mose; fortress of freedom (1759) -- Boonesborough; a frontier fort (1776) -- Saratoga; the turning point (1777) -- Philadelphia; Ben Franklin's city (1787) -- Taos; at the Hacienda (1823) -- Fort Laramie; a welcome on the Oregon Trail (1849) -- Lowell; mill town (1850) -- Frogmore; a Louisiana plantation (1855) -- Gettysburg; day of decision (1863) -- Abilene; cattle town (1872) -- Gage County; threshing time (1888) -- Chicago; Christmas at the mansion (1893) -- Ellis Island; doorway to America (1901) -- New York; tenement life (1916) -- Lakewood; the city as new as tomorrow (1953).
Summary Frames United States history in visits to 20 significant historic places, from the bustling ancient North American city of Cahokia and colonial battlefields of Saratoga and Gettysburg to Ellis Island and an early 1950s suburban tract house.
Subject Children's atlases.
Atlases.
United States -- Historical geography -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Historical geography -- Maps.
United States -- History -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
Genre/Form Children's maps.
Added Author Buckley, Susan Washburn.
Jones, Randy, 1950- illustrator.
ISBN 0395979587
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