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Peak and prairie : from a Colorado sketch-book / by Anna Fuller ... ; illustrated by Emma G. Moore.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5901
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuller, Anna, 1853-1916, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colorado--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Colorado.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 1787) (Schimmel Fiction 5901))
- Little, Lois G. (Lois Gaffney), 1869-1954 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5901))
- Little, Beekman C. (Beekman Cox), 1869-1954 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5901))
- Physical Description:
- [2], x, [2], 391, [1] pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Electrotyped, printed and bound by the Knickerbocker Press ...
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; and London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [not before 1898]
- Contents:
- Preface
- A pilgrim in the far West
- Brian Boru
- Jake Stanwood's gal
- At the Keith ranch
- The Rumpety case
- The Lame Gulch professor
- The boss of the wheel
- Mr. Fetherbee's adventure
- An amateur gamble
- A Rocky Mountain shipwreck
- A stroke in the game
- The blizzard picnic
- A golden vista.
- Notes:
- Terminus post quem for publication date from latest date of first publication of author's works listed on preliminary page [2].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5901) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 5901) has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Lois G. Little Beekman C. Little Xmas 1900.") of Lois Gaffney Little (1869-1954) and her husband Beekman Cox Little (1869-1962) on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 1280409239
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