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Settler Mac and the charmed quarter-section / Mrs. Hal Russell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4032
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Hal, Mrs., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colorado--Fiction.
- Colorado.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Coates, Mary (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Denver : Sage Books, [1956]
- Summary:
- Two very special claims can be made with this book: First, it is different. Second, it is filled with much nostalgic beauty. Settler Mac and the Charmed Quarter-Section is different because it treats the lot of the homesteader on the prairies in the 80's and 90's-- not as life trying and difficult and sad (which, indeed, it was), but with equal truth as a good life filled with much beauty and warmth of human fellowship. The publisher calls the book a paean of beauty and truth to a way of life-- a way of life completely American, often falsely sentimentalized for its hardships but not for its goodness-- a way of life now certainly lost -- Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Yuma County, Colorado
- Write as I tell you
- The runaway
- The human comedy unfolds
- The place of enchantment
- Wild horses
- A little dream boat
- Eureka
- 1886
- Wray, Colorado
- The sod house
- Just plain folks
- The well
- Rot gut
- Pets and animals
- An earthly shine
- Buffalo wallows
- Fourth of July at Wray, Colorado
- Uncle George Roberts
- Hard times, come again no more
- Martha's birthday
- The pig got out
- Beecher island
- A prairie wedding
- The memory of children
- Oyez, oyez, Mac gets arrested
- The end of the rainbow.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mary Coates") on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 3405381
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