Miss Morissa, doctor of the gold trail : a novel / by Mari Sandoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966.

Contributor:

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Women physicians--Fiction.

Women physicians.

Genre:

Western stories.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Boutelle, Edward W. (bookplate) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Bratager(?), Leon J. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

249 p. ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, c1955.

Summary:

Amidst the gold hunters, Indians, outlaws, ranchers, and farmers of 1870's Nebraska Morissa Kirk tries to find success and acceptance as a doctor.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has color-illustrated armorial bookplate of Edward W. Boutelle (1893-1966) of Delmar, N.Y. on front pastedown; volume inscribed by the author to the same person on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 has on front free endpaper illustrated bookplate of Leon J. Bratager[?] (the name supplied in ms. in blue ink), probably to be identified with Leonard Jasper Bratager (1888-1976).

Schimmel Collection copy 2: dust jacket (damaged) retained.

ISBN:

0803846282

9780803846289

OCLC:

699699