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Title: Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family
ISBN: 0884482995
Author:
Kelsey Kerck
Publicate Date: 2008-02
Publish: 2008-02
List Price: $25.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Most interesting book I have read in a while!
This book is a very interesting book that describes many history changing events that are never taught in a text book. This family was the most incredible family. The home that the boys built is now a living history center in livermore, maine. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in behind the scenes history around the civil war.
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2: Amazing spotlight on an accomplished American clan
Written by the great-great-grandson of Cadwallader Washburn, Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family is a family biography the Washburn family in the nineteenth century. The personification of Yankee rectitude, the Washburns consisted of ten children growing up on a remote Maine farm. Though from humble beginnings, their achievements were profound: they harnessed waterfalls, redirected rivers, cut down forests, built railroads, milled wheat, dug coal, led a national religious movement, and four of them were elected and reelected to the U.S. Congress from four different states. A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this amazing spotlight on an accomplished American clan on virtual par with the prolific Kennedys.
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