Hoofbeats on the trail / Vivian Breck ; illustrated by Hubert Buel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breck, Vivian, 1895-1992, author.

Contributor:

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountaineering expeditions--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Juvenile fiction.

Mountaineering expeditions.

Life change events--Juvenile fiction.

Life change events.

United States--Sierra Nevada.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5579) (Schimmel 7124))

Titenis family (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5579))

Physical Description:

[10], 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A. : Printed at the Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1950.

Summary:

Cress Pomeroy, the only non-student in a family of scholars, shocks her family when she announces she doesn't want to go to college. Her brother suggests that Cress might want to decide what she wants to do while walking, riding, and climbing in the high Sierra. Cress comes to terms with herself and makes new friends during the four-week Sierra Trail trip.

Notes:

Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.

Map on endpapers.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5579) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5579) has blue ink stamp ("From the Library of the Titenis Family") on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5579): dust jacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7124) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7124): dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1577868