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A woman tenderfoot / by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson ; over one hundred and fifty illustrations.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6227
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin, author, book designer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Hunting--West (U.S.).
- Hunting.
- Outdoor life.
- Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin.
- Women hunters.
- Travel.
- West United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Larkin, Frances H(?). (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 361, [1] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, Page and Co., A.D. 1900.
- Contents:
- The why of it
- Outfit and advice for the woman-who-goes-hunting-with-her-husband
- The first plunge of the woman tenderfoot
- Which treats of the imps and my elk
- Lost in the mountains
- The cook
- Among the clouds
- At Yeddars
- My antelope
- A mountain drama
- What i know about Wahb of the Bighorn Basin
- The dead hunt
- Just rattlesnakes
- As cowgirl
- The sweet pea lady someone else's mountain sheep
- In which the tenderfoot learns a new trick
- Our mine
- The last word.
- Notes:
- "In this Book the full-page Drawings were made by Ernest Seton-Thompson, G. Wright and E.M. Ashe, and the Marginals by S.N. Abbott. The cover, title page and general make-up were designed by the author."--Page 5.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: "Dark green and gold on light green linen finish cloth. A silhouetted coyote howls at a gold moon, which is partly obscured by a dark cloud containing the title in gold. The coyote is finely detailed, but the hilly landscape in the background is like a quick sketch" -- Minsky.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Frances H.[?] Larkin") on front pastedown; inscribed by the author ("With A Woman Tenderfoot's Best Wishes - Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson") on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: a few leaves unopened at fore-edge.
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 70
- OCLC:
- 1302178
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