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Charles Morrow Wilson (1905–1977)

Author of Wilderness Explorer: The Story of Samuel de Champlain

34+ Works 144 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Includes the names: Charles M. Wilson, Charles Murrow Wilson, Charles Morrow Wilson

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Works by Charles Morrow Wilson

Wilderness Explorer: The Story of Samuel de Champlain (1963) 20 copies

Geronimo (The Story of An American Indian) (1973) 12 copies

Commandant Paul and the Founding of Montreal (1966) 11 copies

Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade (1947) 9 copies

Stars is God's Lantern: An Offering of Ozark Tellin' Stories (1970) 7 copies

Liberia (1971) 6 copies

The Great Turkey Drive (2013) 6 copies

Through the Kitchen Door: A Cook’s Tour to the Best Kitchens of America 5 copies, 1 review

Roots: Miracles Below (The Web of Life beneath our feet) (1968) 5 copies

The magnificent scufflers;: Revealing the great days when America wrestled the world (1959) 5 copies

The commoner: William Jennings Bryan (1970) 5 copies

Dow Baker and the great banana fleet;: The story of the Yankee skipper who befriended an island and introduced bananas… (1972) 5 copies

Let's Try Barter (1976) 5 copies

Diesel: His Engine Changed the World (1967) 4 copies

Backwoods America (1934) 4 copies

Ambassadors in White: The Story of American Tropical Medicine (1972) 4 copies

Crown Point, the destiny road (1965) 3 copies

New Crops for the New World (1971) 3 copies

Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark 3 copies

Bodacious Ozarks, The: True Tales of the Backhills (2002) 3 copies

Ginger Blue (1940) 2 copies

The Green Mountain toymakers (1965) 2 copies

Corn Bread and Creek Water (1940) 2 copies

The Dred Scott Decision (1973) 2 copies

Roots of America : a travelogue of American personalities (1936) 2 copies

Common Sense Credit (1962) 1 copy

Challenge and opportunity : Central America. (1941) 1 copy

Oil Across the World; The American Saga of Pipelines 1 copy

The Monroe doctrine;: An American frame of mind (1971) 1 copy

Trees & test tubes; the story of rubber 1 copy

Money at the crossroads; an intimate study of radio's influence upon a great market of 60,000,000 people 1 copy

Rabble rouser 1 copy

Green treasures; adventures in the discovery of edible plants (1974) 1 copy

El Crédito con sentido común 1 copy

Associated Works

American Heritage Magazine Vol 15 No 1 1963 December (1963) — Contributor — 17 copies

1935 Essay Annual — Contributor — 4 copies

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16th century (3) 17th century (8) 1930s (2) 20th century (2) Age of Exploration / 1400-1700 (2) American history (3) biography (9) Canada (5) Catholic (3) Catholic Digest Junior Book Shelf (2) children's (4) Colonial Era / 1607-1775 (2) cookery (2) Credo Book (2) Early Modern History / 1500-1800 (3) explorers (7) fiction (3) Grade 4 (2) grade 5 (2) grade 6 (2) Grade 7 (2) Grade 8 (2) Grade 9 (2) historical fiction (4) history (15) Intermediate / 5th-9th Grade (2) male (2) medicine (2) New France (2) non-fiction (6) North America (2) Quebec (2) Reshelving Alexandria (3) Reshelving Alexandria Time Capsule Library (3) Samuel de Champlain (3) sports (2) to check (2) TQ (2) USA (2) wrestling (2)

Common Knowledge

Legal name: Wilson, Charles Morrow
Birthdate: 1905
Date of death: 1977
Gender: male
Nationality: USA

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Through the kitchen door; a cook's tour to the best… by Mrs. Grace Smith

1st ed dw. A cook's tour and gourmet trip to the best sectional kitchens in America with a harvest of lovely recipes

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Lists

Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class One, Natural Science (1)

Awards

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Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award

Geronimo (The Story of An American Indian) (Nominee – 1976)

The Best Children's Books of the Year

Geronimo (The Story of An American Indian) (For Older Boys and Girls Ages Nine Up—Biography – 1974)

Green treasures; adventures in the discovery of edible plants (For Special Interests—The World Past and Present – 1974)

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Statistics

Works: 34
Also by: 2
Members: 144
Popularity: #143,281
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 19

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