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The splendid idle forties : stories of old California / by Gertrude Atherton ; with illustrations by Harrison Fisher.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- California--Fiction.
- California.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Babcock, Kate Lu. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1902.
- Contents:
- The pearls of Loreto
- The ears of twenty Americans
- The wash-tub mall
- The conquest of Doña Jacoba
- A ramble with Eulogia
- The isle of skulls
- The head of a priest
- La Pérdida
- Lukari's story
- Natalie Ivanhoff: a memory of Fort Ross
- The vengeance of Padre Arroyo
- The bells of San Gabriel
- When the devil was well.
- Notes:
- A revised and enlarged edition of a volume issued in 1894, under the title: Before the Gringo came.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("Kate Lu. Babcock from T.B.T. Los Angeles August 20, 1915") on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Smith, G.D. Amer. fiction, 1901-1925, A-350
- OCLC:
- 3236747
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