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Cimarron / Edna Ferber.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1587
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pioneers--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Pioneers.
- Journalists--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Journalists.
- City and town life--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- Women civic leaders--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Women civic leaders.
- Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Oklahoma.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Western stories, American.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 388 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday and Co., [not before 1946]
- Summary:
- Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
- Notes:
- Doubleday and Company began publishing under that name in 1946.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 284227
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