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A Heroine of the Wilderness : the story of Lincoln's mother / by Hezekiah Butterworth author of "In the Boyhood of Lincoln", "Zig-Zag Journeys", etc. ; illustrated by Clare Victor Dwiggins.
LIBRA - Rare PZ7.B982 He 1906
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Family--Fiction.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, 1784-1818--Fiction.
- Lincoln, Nancy Hanks.
- Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, 1784-1818.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Physical Description:
- [8], 273, [7] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Co., 1906.
- Contents:
- The Wolf-dog
- In Old Kentucky
- Young Thomas Lincoln
- Peidy, the Heifer
- The Search for Sarah
- Wayne in the Wilderness
- The Infare
- The Wolf-dog Again
- Inquiring for Sarah
- The Cathedral Under the Trees
- Sleeping Under the Wagon
- The Messisago Chief
- Mad Anthony Wayne
- The Battle of Fallen Timbers
- The Treaty of Greenville
- A Strange Indian Wayfarer
- The Kikapoo
- Sarah?
- The Return of Sarah
- Sarah's Stories of the Deep Forests
- The Captive Daughter
- Wayne Comes Back
- Abraham Lincoln's Mother
- The Little Girl Who Died
- Facing the Wilderness-and Life
- The Wolf-dog's Strange Conduct
- The Design from which our Story was Drawn.
- Notes:
- Colored frontispiece and black and white plates facing pages 26, 138, 182 and 260.
- Publisher's advertisements: [7] pages at end.
- Bound in light brown decorative cloth stamped in black and red featuring illustration of Indian in headdress carrying child in foreground.
- Local Notes:
- PZ7.B982.H: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has autograph of Gerald C. Weales above an "indecipherable signature --- Christmas 1906".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. Heroine of the wilderness.
- OCLC:
- 2026795
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