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Going west, or, Homes for the homeless / a novel by Mrs. M. Alexander.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 76
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, M. (Matilda Greathouse), 1842-1892.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Sex role--Fiction.
- Sex role.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Advertisements -- Indiana -- Mount Vernon -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Jackson, Emily Avery (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Going west
- Homes for the homeless
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : Carlon & Hollenbeck ; Mt. Vernon, Ind. : For sale to the trade by Willis Charles, 1881.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph of Emily Avery Jackson in pencil on front pastedown; ms. gift inscription ("To Emma From Papa.") in pencil on leaf preceding frontispiece.
- Schimmel Collection copy has [4] p. of distributor's advertisements bound in at end of volume.
- Cited in:
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 60
- OCLC:
- 3722356
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