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WEST TO A LAND OF PLENTY: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi

by Jim Murphy
Scholastic
ISBN: 0590738887
Ages 9-12


Several years after Hattie Campell's journey to Oregon (see ACROSS THE WIDE AND LONESEOME PRAIRIE), Teresa and her family, who are Italian immigrants, move from New York City to the Idaho Territory in 1883. They are looking for a new life in a "land of plenty" but must face a number of hardships before they get there.

 

 


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