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| Title | The Borderers: A Tale, Volume 2 The Borderers: A Tale, James Fenimore Cooper |
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Publisher | Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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