A waif from Texas / Kate Alma Orgain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orgain, Kate Alma, author.

Contributor:

Western Studio, photographer.

Ben C. Jones & Co, publisher.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Texas.

Penn Provenance:

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

Nunnally, Fannie B. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Josey, Dorothy (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Josey, Clinton (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Dunn, Susan (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

238, [1] p. : ill., port. ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : Ben C. Jones & Co., 1901.

Contents:

The old settler's story

The saloon that didn't stay

Christmas in Texas

A story of Ireland

The woman with the hoe-in Texas

The teacher of the log schoolhouse

In the panhandle

A boy

A Texas norther

Old Nelson

Picnic in the panhandle

The Red River plantation

Commencement in Texas in the seventies

A memory of Texas

Change cars for Austin

Parson Hall

The railroad and the pug

The negro old Abe's proclamation never reached

The Irishman who didn't scare

Eureka

"If"

Old Jack.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has illustrated bookplate of Mrs. Fannie B. Nunnally (the name supplied in ms.) on front pastedown. She is possibly to be identified with Fannie Becton Nunnally (1865-1941) of Texas.

Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate ("Dorothy and Clinton Josey") of Dorothy L. Josey (née Supper; 1903-1978) and Clinton W. Josey (1892-1971) on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("Susan Dunn 1901") on front free endpaper.

OCLC:

2612572