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Before the gringo came / by Gertrude Atherton ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5492
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, American--19th century.
- Women authors, American.
- California--Fiction.
- California.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Hill, A. A. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 306, [2] pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : J. Selwin Tait & Sons ..., [1894]
- Contents:
- Pearls of Loreto
- The ears of twenty Americans
- The wash-tub mail
- The conquest of Doña Jacoba
- A ramble with Eulogia
- Lukari's story
- La Perdida
- Natalie Ivanhoff : A memory of Fort Ross
- The vengeance of Padre Arroyo
- The bells of San Gabriel
- When the devil was well.
- Notes:
- One page of publisher's advertisements at end.
- "Republished from Blackwood's magazine, The London graphic, Vanity fair, The Cosmopolitan, Lippincott's magazine, Harper's weekly, and Figaro."--Preliminary page [4].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to Mr. A.A. Hill at New York on 2 March[?] 1894 on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 1078691293
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