Mary Austin and the American West /

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Author / Creator:	Goodman, Susan, 1951-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 323 p., [24] p. of plates )
Language:	English
Subject:	Austin, Mary, -- 1868-1934. Austin, Mary, -- 1868-1934. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Women and literature -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century. Western stories -- History and criticism. Authors, American. Literature. Western stories. Women and literature. West (U.S.) -- In literature. West United States. Electronic books. Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11190493

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Other authors / contributors:	Dawson, Carl.
ISBN:	9780520942264 0520942264 0520246357 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520246355 (cloth : alk. paper)
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-311) and index. English. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Mary Austin (1868-1934)-eccentric, independent, and unstoppable-was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, ""changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be."" At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert.
Other form:	Print version: Mary Austin and the American West Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 0520246357 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard no.:	10.1525/9780520942264

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