Other editions of book At the Foot of the Rainbow

A story of Gene Statton-Porter and her books, and her nature work with bird, flower, and moth, and the natural wonders of the Limberlost Swamp, made famous as the scene of her nature romances. It includes a story of the "Rat-catchers of the Wabash",Ruben O'Kayam and the milk pail, The fifty coons of the Canoper.When the Kingfisher and the Black Bass came home, When the Rainbow swet it arch, The heaqrt of Mary Malone, The Apple of discord, When the Black Bass struck, When Jimmy came to confession, Dannies Renunciation, and the Pot of Gold.

For several years Doubleday, Page & Company have been receiving repeated requests for information about the life and books of Gene Stratton-Porter. Her fascinating nature work with bird, flower, and moth, and the natural wonders of the Limberlost Swamp, made famous as the scene of her nature romances, all have stirred much curiosity among readers everywhere. Mrs. Porter did not possess what has been called "an aptitude for personal publicity." Indeed, up to the present, she has discouraged quite successfully any attempt to stress the personal note. It is practically impossible, however, to do the kind of work she has done—to make genuine contributions to natural science by her wonderful field work among birds, insects, and flowers, and then, through her romances, to bring several hundred thousands of people to love and understand nature in a way they never did before—without arousing a legitimate interest in her own history, her ideals, her methods of work, and all that underlies the structure of her unusual achievement.

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