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Forbidden frontier / Christie Harris ; drawings by E. Carey Kenney.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Harris, Christie
Contributor:
Kenney, E. Carey, illustrator.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
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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