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The Canadian Crusoes : a tale of the Rice Lake Plains / by Catharine Parr Traill ; edited by her sister, Agnes Strickland ; Illustrated by Harvey.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4827
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilderness survival--Juvenile fiction.
- Wilderness survival.
- Outdoor life--Juvenile fiction.
- Outdoor life.
- Nature stories.
- Interracial marriage.
- Indians of North America.
- Ontario.
- Ontario--Rice Lake.
- Indians of North America--Ontario--Rice Lake--Juvenile fiction.
- Cousins--Juvenile fiction.
- Cousins.
- Interracial marriage--Juvenile fiction.
- Ontario--Description and travel--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre:
- Nature stories.
- Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Evarts, Charles B. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Gourd(?), Martha (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Mountain, Louis (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Balcom, Miss (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Also issued under title: Lost in the backwoods
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C.S. Francis & Co.; Boston : Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1853.
- Notes:
- Added title page, engraved.
- Publisher's catalogue (20 p.) follows text.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of C.B. Evarts.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has ms. gift inscription ("To. Miss Martha Gourd[?] From her friend and Teacher") on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century ms. gift inscription ("Louis Mountain from Miss Balcom. 1892.") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 15506706
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