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American frontier / by Elisabeth Peck.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peck, Elisabeth Sinclair, 1883-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--United States--Poetry.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 195 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1937.
- Summary:
- "[A] series of poems based upon pioneer experience in the United States between 1780 and 1875."--P. v.
- Contents:
- White man
- Deer
- Walthena
- Between the walls of the valley
- Democracy
- On the sunny slope of pilot knob
- Wild geese
- Wedding dance
- Camp meeting
- Courting
- Christening
- Oyez, oyez!
- Disillusionment
- Granny's garden
- By the fireside
- Rope-spinner
- Margaret Blennerhassett
- Pioneer widow
- Shakeress
- Fourth of July
- Old wagoner
- Johnny Appleseed comes
- Misunderstanding
- Neighbors
- Start
- Expatriate
- Maturity
- Pas de deux
- Arkansas traveler
- In Arkansas
- Loiterer
- Shadow
- Old man river
- Chest
- Hunger
- San Jacinto corn
- Saints move west
- Nauvoo
- Marching to Zion
- Planting Zion
- Handcart saints
- Gold magic
- Free trapper
- Sign
- Race
- Little Cayuse
- Where lies the truth?
- Buffaloes
- Nickerings
- Stars
- Traveler.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1700377
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