books by Mary Hallock Foote

books by Mary Hallock Foote

books:

Mary Hallock Foote

The Royal Americans
Mary Hallock Foote

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

The Last Assembly Ball: And The Fate Of A Voice (1889)
Mary Hallock Foote

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

In Exile and Other Stories
Mary Hallock Foote

Wildside Press, 2003

Mary Hallock Foote (18470-1938) was an American author and illustrator. She married a mining engineer, Arthur DeWint Foote, and moved to California when he took a job at the New Almaden mine near San Jose. Along the way she wrote stories and novels for publication and illustrated them with her own woodcuts and drawings. She is best known for her ...

The Led-Horse Claim: A Romance Of A Mining Camp (1911)

Mary Hallock Foote

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Mining romance
Cecil Conrath meets and falls in love with Hilgard, superintendent of the Led-Horse Mine. Cecil's brother is a scoundrel, however, and plans to tunnel into the Led-Horse from his own mine, the Shoshone, and jump it. A fight breaks out between the two mines and Conrath ...

The Prodigal (1900)
Mary Hallock Foote

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

The Chosen Valley
Mary Hallock Foote

Brunauer Press, 2008

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote

Mary Hallock Foote, Rodman W. Paul

Huntington Library Press, 1992

A Victorian Gentlewoman with True Grit
Mary Hallock Foote came west with her engineer husband Arthur D. Foote, a dreamer-engineer, to build dams, lay out canals, and tame the vast desert areas. While they waited through one frustration after another with various backers, she kept the family solvent with ...

A Touch of Sun and Other Stories - Webster's German Thesaurus Edition

Icon Group International, Inc., 2008

Mary Hallock Foote's "A Touch of Sun and Other Stories" is a classic work read by book lovers, students and scholars. This is a special edition which exposes readers to a variety of English phrases and terminology from this genre. While the text is in English, the "click and translate" thesaurus, in German, is a perfect tool for German speakers ...

The Desert and the Sown
Mary Hallock Foote

BiblioBazaar, 2007

It was an evening of sudden mildness following a dry October gale. The colonel had miscalculated the temperature by one log¿only one he declared but that had proved a pitchy one and the chimney bellowed with flame. From end to end the room was alight with it as if the stored-up energies of a whole pine-tree had been sacrificed in the ...

The Led-Horse Claim: A Romance of a Mining Camp (1882) (Americans in Fiction Series)
Mary Hallock Foote

The Gregg Press, 1968

"Americans in Fiction" is a series of reprints of 19th century American novels important to the study of American folklore, culture and literary history. Most of the novels or volumes of short stories included in the series enjoyed considerable fame in their day but have been so long out of print as to be virtually unobtainable in the original ...

A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
Mary Hallock Foote

BiblioBazaar, 2008

The five-o'clock whistle droned through the heat. Its deep consequential chest-note belonged by right to the oldest and best paying member of the Asgard group a famous mining property of northern California.

In Exile and Other Stories - Webster's French Thesaurus Edition

Icon Group International, Inc., 2008

Mary Hallock Foote's "In Exile and Other Stories" is a classic work read by book lovers, students and scholars. This is a special edition which exposes readers to a variety of English phrases and terminology from this genre. While the text is in English, the "click and translate" thesaurus, in French, is a perfect tool for French speakers who need ...