On the Plains with Custer
On the Plains with Custer by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin is available here as the complete text, split into 941 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
On the Plains with Custer The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief With the Yellow Hair, Under Whom Served Boy Bugler Ned Fletcher, When in the Troublous Years 1866–1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #60157.
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- Bravest
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- Tenderest
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- Loving
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- Daring
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