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The land of little rain / by Mary Austin ; illustrated by E. Boyd Smith.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7936
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Mary, 1868-1934, author.
- Series:
- Natural history library ; N15.
- The Natural history library, N15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Social life and customs.
- California.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Manners and customs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7936)
- Physical Description:
- 171 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, [1962]
- Contents:
- The land of little rain.
- Water trails of the Ceriso.
- The scavengers.
- The pocket hunter.
- Shoshone land.
- Jimville, a Bret Harte town.
- My neighbor's field.
- The mesa trail.
- The basket maker.
- The streets of the mountains.
- Water borders.
- Other water borders.
- Nurslings of the sky.
- The little town of the grape vines.
- Notes:
- A Doubleday anchor book.
- "Published in co-operation with the American Museum of Natural History"--title page.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7936: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- OCLC:
- 5217514
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