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Adventure on the Wilderness Road, 1775

by Laurie Lawlor

Historical FictionYoung AdultAdventure

1999

In 1775, while traveling with her family from Virginia to Kentucky, and joined by another family along the way, eleven-year-old Elizabeth reads Gulliver's Travels to the children and keeps a journal of their adventures, which include a runaway slave, encounters with Cherokees, and a near-fatal accident.

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