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and Anna Moore. His father was a Texas state legislator. Kyle attended various public and private schools before enrolling at the
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as a standard elementary textbook in 1912. Within 30 years this textbook had sold over half a million copies, "an enormous publication run for the era."
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632:Boaz Long
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