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- The Early Days of Skiing, 1934
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- Robert Frost: Poet Laureate, 1938
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- The Coming of the Bulk Tanks, 1954
- Consuela Northrop Bailey, 1954
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- Democrats Rising, 1958
- Dowsing in Danville, 1961
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