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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 stories, in which, as in her drawings, she portrays vividly the rough picturesque life, especially the mining life, of the West. A collection of prints by her is on permanent exhibit at the Boise Public Library. Her works include Led-Horse Claim: A Romance of a Mining Camp (1883), In Exile and Other Stories (1894), Coeur d'Alene (1894), The Prodigal (1900), The Desert and the Sown (1902), A Touch of Sun and Other Stories (1903), Royal Americans (1910) and The Valley Road (1915).

Excerpt from In Exile, and Other StoriesNicky dyer and the schoolmistress sat upon the slope of a hill, one of a, low range overlooking an arid Californian valley. These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascend ing, Winding among the tangle of poison oak and wild-rose bushes, leading from the miners' cabins to the shaft-houses and tun nels of the mine Which gave to the hills their only importance. Nicky was a stout Cornish lad of thirteen, With large light eyes that seemed mildly to protest against the sportive relation Which q broad, free kled, turned-up nose bore to the rest of his countenance; he was doing nothing in par ticular, and did it as if he were used to it. The schoolmistress sat With her skirts tucked round her ankles, the heels of her stout little boots driven well into the dry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mary Hallock Foote was an early 20th century American author and illustrator. She is best known for her stories in which the rough picturesque life, especially the mining life, of the West is vividly portrayed by her drawings. Stories in this collection include In exile -- Friend Barton's "concern" -- The story of the Alcazar -- A cloud on the mountain -- The rapture of Hetty -- The watchman.

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Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) journeyed west with her husband in 1876, where he found employment in the mining industry and she pursued her interests in writing and illustration. Penning many articles and short stories about the western lands, Mary met with immediate success, and from the mid 1870s to the first World War, she remained one of the most popular writers and illustrators in the country. She is considered an important Idaho and California regionalist writer. Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1971 novel Angle of Repose is loosely based on Mary Hallock Foote's life, which quotes passages from her letters.

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STORY DESCRIPTION : “In Exile and Other Stories (publication date: 1894). Stories: In exile -- Friend Barton's "concern" -- The story of the Alcazar -- A cloud on the mountain -- The rapture of Hetty -- The watchman. Ruth Mary watched them with much interest, for travelers such as these seemed to be seldom came as far up Bear River valley as the Tullys' cattle range. The visitors who came to them were mostly cow-boys looking up stray cattle, or miners on their way to the "Banner district," or packers with mule trains going over the mountains, to return in three weeks, or three months, as their journey prospered. Fishermen and hunters came up into the hills in the season of trout and deer, but they came as a rule on horseback, and at a distance were hardly to be distinguished from the cow-boys and the miners.” ----- AUTHOR DESCRIPTION : “Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938) was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. As a student Mary Hallock Foote befriended American artist Helena de Kay Gilder. The two maintained a very close friendship throughout their lives, shared a lengthy correspondence via letter, and used each other for critiquing their work. Mary Hallock Foote also benefitted from Gilder's husband Richard Watson Gilder, who commissioned her art while he was an editor for Scribner's Monthly. It was through the Gilders that Mary Hallock Foote was also introduced to a circle of fellow artists including, Mary L. Stone, Mary Birney, Maria Oakey, and several popular writers. After departing her beloved East with great reluctance, Mary Hallock Foote found herself inspired by the "real West" country and the varying peoples she encountered there. She soon was drawing it, and writing and telling about it. Recording her travels, Foote wrote stories for 'back-East' readers as a correspondent to The Century Magazine and other periodicals, illustrating them with wood engravings made from her drawings. She is best known for her stories of place, in which she portrayed the rough, picturesque life she experienced and observed in the old West, especially that in the early mining towns. She was one of America's best-known women illustrators in the 1870s and 1880s. She wrote several novels, and illustrated stories and novels by other authors for various publishers. Foote exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Mary Foote gained renown as a welcoming and sophisticated hostess to dignitaries and celebrities traveling through the environs of her (successive) homesteads in the West.”

Nicky Dyer and the schoolmistress sat upon the slope of a hill, one of a low range overlooking an arid Californian valley. These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascending, winding among the tangle of poison-oak and wild-rose bushes, leading from the miners' cabins to the shaft-houses and tunnels of the mine which gave to the hills their only importance. Nicky was a stout Cornish lad of thirteen, with large light eyes that seemed mildly to protest against the sportive relation which a broad, freckled, turned-up nose bore to the rest of his countenance; he was doing nothing in particular, and did it as if he were used to it. The schoolmistress sat with her skirts tucked round her ankles, the heels of her stout little boots driven well into the dry, gritty soil. There was in her attitude the tension of some slight habitual strain-perhaps of endurance-as she leaned forward, her arms stretched straight before her, with her delicate fingers interlocked. Whatever may be the type of Californian young womanhood, it was not her type; you felt, looking at her cool, clear tints and slight, straight outlines, that she had winter in her blood.