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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Murphy's Herd <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Murphy%27s+Herd&rft.author=%5B%5BGary+Paulsen%5D%5D&rft.date=May+1989&rft.pub=%5B%5BWalker+%26+Company%5D%5D&rft.pages=147+pp&rft.series=Murphy+series&rft_id=info:oclcnum/18909367"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Murphy%27s_Herd.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Murphy's Herd.jpg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20210707102104im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Murphy%27s_Herd.jpg/220px-Murphy%27s_Herd.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20210707102104im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Murphy%27s_Herd.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="260" data-file-height="385"/></a><div class="infobox-caption">First edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen" title="Gary Paulsen">Gary Paulsen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data">Murphy series</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Western novel">Western novel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_%26_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Walker & Company">Walker & Company</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline-block; 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padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">813/.54 19</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">PS3566.A834 M87 1989</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_Gold" title="Murphy's Gold">Murphy's Gold</a> </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_War_(novel)" title="Murphy's War (novel)">Murphy's War</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Murphy's Herd</b></i> is the third novel in the <i>Murphy</i> series by <a href="/web/20210707102104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen" title="Gary Paulsen">Gary Paulsen</a>. 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