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Forbidden frontier / Christie Harris ; drawings by E. Carey Kenney.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Christie
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--British Columbia--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- British Columbia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Nesbitt, B. E. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Colophon Books (Vancouver (B.C.)) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, 1968.
- Summary:
- The daughter of a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company official and a Haida Indian, rebellious over the white men's treatment of Indians and halfbreeds, and the daughter of Irish immigrants, anxious to get to the gold diggings, join forces in a common cause.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("B.E. Nesbitt April 1968") in blue ink on front pastedown; bookseller's label ("COLOPHON BOOKS VANCOUVER") on back pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 437118
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