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Summary
"Far From Home" tells the story of how Americans moved by showing how people stay together when things get tough. Elias Boudinot signs a deal in New Echota in 1835 that starts the Trail of Tears, which kills 15,000 Cherokee. The Underground Railroad saves more people after Harriet Tubman escapes from Dorchester County in 1849. In 1847, people who had survived the Irish famine came to Deer Island in Boston, but they were sick. Lee Chew has to answer questions at Angel Island in 1910 because of exclusion rules. The Johnson family runs away from the Dust Bowl's destruction along Route 66 in 1936. Ida Mae Gladney arrives at Union Station in Chicago in 1917, when a lot of people were moving. Fred Korematsu goes to Manzanar Camp in 1942 and gives up his freedom. Maria Gonzalez arrives at New York's Idlewild Airport in 1950 looking for work in Puerto Rico.Book information
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History, Action and Adventure
