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Legends of the West / By James Hall ...
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 813 H145L copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, James, 1793-1868.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (RBC copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Harrison Hall, 1832.
- Contents:
- The backwoodsman; The divining rod; The seventh son; The missionaries; The Indian wife's lament; A legend of Carondelet; The intestate; Michel de Coucy; The emigrants; The barrack-master's daughter; The Indian hater; The Isle of the
- Notes:
- "These legends ... are entirely fictitious, but they are founded upon incidents which have been witnessed by the author during his long residence in the western states, or upon traditions preserved by the people."--Pref.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 29787
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1098
- OCLC:
- 4303803
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