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While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Florrie Mack Ryder is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction.
Copyright © 2003 by Megan McDonald
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Library of Congress Cataloglng-in-Publication Data
McDonald, Megan.
All the stars in the sky: the Santa Fe trail diary of Florrie Mack Ryder by Megan McDonald. -- 1st ed.
p. cm. -- (Dear America)
Summary; A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe.
ISBN 0-439-16963-1
1. Santa Fe National Historic Trail -- Juvenile fiction. [1. Santa Fe National Historic
Trail -- Fiction. 2. Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
3. Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction. 4. Pioneers -- Fiction. 5. Diaries.]
I. Title. II. Series.
PZ7.M1487A1 2003
[Fic] -- dc21 2002044579
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
03 04 05 06 07
The display type was set in P22 Michelangelo.
The text type was set in Old Claude LP.
Book design by Sarita Kusuma
Photo research by Amla Sanghvi
Printed in the U.S.A. 23
First edition, September 2003
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