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When Wilderness Was King / A Tale of the Illinois Country

by Randall Parrish

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Randall Parrish was an American author of dime novels, including Wolves of the Sea.After the publication of his first book he devoted his entire time to literary work, having published the following books of fiction and My Lady of the North (1904); A Sword of the Old Frontier (1905); Bob Hampton of Placer (1906); Historic Illinois (1906); Beth Norvell (1907); The Great Plains (1907); Prisoners of Chance (1908); The Last Voyage of the Donna Isabel (1908); My Lady of the South (1909). Many of these have been credited among the "six best sellers," and received high praise both at home and abroad....

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