Beaverbird : a story of Indians on the coast of Washington, before the coming of the whites / by Ruth M. Underhill ; illustrated by Robert Gartland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984, author.

Contributor:

Gartland, Robert A., illustrator.

Coward-McCann Publishers, publisher.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Juvenile fiction.

Indians of North America.

Pacific Northwest.

Genre:

Fiction

Juvenile works

Penn Provenance:

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

Abraham Lincoln High School (New York, N.Y.) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., [1959]

Summary:

Beaverbird, a young Indian boy, is just learning to hunt when his people are attacked by other Indians. Beaverbird's family is killed and he is taken captive and taken away to live in a new country where he must learn a new language and new customs.

Local Notes:

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

Schimmel Collection copy has stamp ("PROPERTY OF OCEAN P'KWAY AND WEST AVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BROOKLYN, N.Y. HIGH SCHOOL") of Abraham Lincoln High School on title leaf and pages 61 and 244.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1489596