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Beaverbird / Ruth Underhill ; illustrated by Robert Gartland.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6534
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984, author.
- 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)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; and Glasgow : Blackie, 1961.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York: Coward-McCann, 1959.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript gift inscription ("TO KENNETH. WITH BEST WISHES FROM. GORDON & LESLIE.") on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 30237345
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