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The overland trail / Wendi Lee.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2879
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, W. W. (Wendi W.)
- Series:
- Women of the West novel
- A women of the West novel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women pioneers--Fiction.
- Women pioneers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- First mass market edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Forge, 1997.
- Summary:
- Journeying on the Overland Trail in 1846, America Hollis loses her husband and all her earthly goods in a storm. Pregnant and alone, a family takes her into their wagon train. But when she gives birth, they steal her newborn daughter for their own and leave her for dead. A young Paiute woman, Dancing Feather, rescues her, and together with her half brother they set out to recover America's daughter--and to forge a bridge between two worlds.
- Notes:
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0812555287
- 9780812555288
- OCLC:
- 37376481
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