The man from the bitter roots / by Caroline Lockhart ... ; with illustrations in color by Gayle Hoskins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockhart, Caroline, 1871-1962, author.

Contributor:

Hoskins, Gayle (Gayle Porter), 1887-1962, illustrator.

Holloway, Edward Stratton, 1859-1939, binding designer.

J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.

Washington Square Press (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western stories.

Gold miners--Fiction.

Gold miners.

Genre:

Fiction.

Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 20th century.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Taylor, Bernice (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

American Library Association. Library War Service (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

327 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; London : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915.

Summary:

After Bruce Burt and his partner, Slim Naudain, strike gold, Slim goes insane, and while trying to kill Bruce, falls on his own knife and dies. Then, concerned that Slim's family should get a fair share of the gold, Bruce locates Slim's sister Helen. Having heard of the fortune, however, J. Victor Sprudell determines to get it all for himself, and so decides that Bruce must be eliminated. As a result, Sprudell forges a diary and, showing it to Helen, claims that Slim wrote it. In the diary, Helen reads about Bruce's irrational behavior, and so comes to believe that it was Bruce who killed her brother. Before Bruce can be tried, however, a dance hall girl, whom he had once saved from being beaten up by a cowboy, decides to play the role of detective. She uncovers Sprudell's plot and forces him to confess, after which Bruce and Helen are married.

Notes:

Verso of title-page: Published October, 1915.

Verso of title-page: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, at the Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Frontispiece and plates facing pages 64 and 280.

Some copies issued with publisher's advertisements at end (pages 329-345).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy issued with publisher's advertisements at end (pages 329-345).

Schimmel Collection copy has pencil scribbles on p. 322.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate ("AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS CAMP LIBRARY") with blue ink stamp ("56384") on front pastedown; blue ink stamp of the same institution on title leaf; blue ink stamp ("56384") on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mrs. Bernice Taylor") in pencil at head of half-title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy: half-title leaf detached from spine.

Other Format:

Online version: Lockhart, Caroline, 1870-1962. Man from the bitter roots.

OCLC:

19678927