The calico ball / Margaret Crary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crary, Margaret, author.

Contributor:

Prentice-Hall, Inc., publisher.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steamboats--Juvenile fiction.

Steamboats.

Dakota Indians--Juvenile fiction.

Dakota Indians.

Frontier and pioneer life--Dakota Territory--Juvenile fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Settler colonialism--Dakota Territory--Juvenile fiction.

Settler colonialism.

Women pioneers--Dakota Territory--Juvenile fiction.

Women pioneers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Crary, Margaret (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii, [1], 152 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1961]

Summary:

When hostile tribes threaten to attack a frontier town a teen-age tomboy courageously uses her friendship with Indians to forestall an uprising.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("To Kathie from Uncle Walther, Aunt Lois & family October 28, 1961") on verso of front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1298471