Risen from the Ranks: Or, Harry Walton's SuccessJohn C. Winston Company, 1874 - 349 páginas Harry Walton rises from his humble station as a poor farmer's son to become the editor of a weekly paper and eventually is elected to the New Hampshire legislature. |
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