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McGuffey Readers Shaped Frontiersmen Learning
Historical note highlights McGuffey Readers and Eclectic Spellers shaping literacy in the West and South from the 1830s onward. It cites over 270 million copies, ongoing use in some states, and the 140th anniversary with plates donated to the Smithsonian.
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Alleghenies
Mason-Dixon Line
National Geographic Society
van Nostrand Reinhold
The
Smithsonian Institute
Robert E. Ewing
van Nostrand
Ned
William Holmes McGuffey
Brushy Run
West Virginia
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
America
Henry Ford
United States
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