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The Arkansaw Bear

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Author(s):Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s):Frank Ver Beck
Publisher(s): Henry Altemus Company
Year Published: 1902
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Animal Fantasy
Bears
Boys Growing Up
Fiction - Novel
Humorous
Running away Home
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 253
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 916432883

Description

Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.

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Other Editions

The Arkansaw Bear (1898)

Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: R. H. Russell
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