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The Trail of Black Hawk

The Trail of Black Hawk by Paul G. (Paul Greene) Tomlinson is available here as the complete text, split into 915 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Paul G. (Paul Greene) Tomlinson30 chapters

The Trail of Black Hawk by Paul G. (Paul Greene) Tomlinson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #65601.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle

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US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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About 381 minutes of reading across 915 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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