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Seventy Years on the Frontier

Seventy Years on the Frontier by Alexander Majors is available here as the complete text, split into 668 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Seventy years on the frontier by Alexander Majors. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #42195.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle

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US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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This edition of Seventy Years on the Frontier by Alexander Majors carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #42195, divided into 39 chapters and 668 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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Seventy Years on the Frontier is presented in 39 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Seventy Years on the Frontier as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 668 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 39 chapters.

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Is this the complete text of Seventy Years on the Frontier?

Yes. All 3337 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #42195 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #42195, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 278 minutes of reading across 668 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Reminiscences: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Seventy Years on the Frontier; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Youth: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Seventy Years on the Frontier; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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