In the 1920's a Chinese youth comes from the country to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure, and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
The railroad to freedom : a story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Young Fu of the upper Yangtze by 
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