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Margaret Sidney, 1844-1924 The Golden West As Seen by the Ridgway Club, by Margaret Sidney Boston: D. Lothrop and Company [1886] “Margaret Sidney” was the pen-name of Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, she was the…

Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Scene, the Mississippi Valley. Time, Forty to Fifty Years Ago. By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885 While today we think of Huckleberry Finn as a…

Hendrik Conscience, 1812-1883 The Boys of the Sierras, or, The Young Gold Hunters: A Story of California in ‘49 Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1883 Conscience, a Belgian, wrote over 100 novels for children and adults, most set in Europe but a few,…

Theodora Robinson Jenness, 1847- Two Young Homesteaders Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1880 Jenness was born and educated in Maine. She married her husband, Major George Jenness in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1872, where she was engaged in mission work among…

Arthur Morecamp, d. 1882 Live Boys: or, Charley and Nasho in Texas. A Narrative Relating to Two Boys of Fourteen, One a Texan, the other a Mexican. Showing Their Life on the Great Texas Cattle Trail, and Their Adventures in the Indian Territory,…

Alice Kingsbury, d. 1910 Ho! for Elf-Land! By Alice Kingsbury San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1877 According to her obituary, “Mrs. Cooley was a native of Bristol, England, but came to America with her parents when a child, the family…

Noah Brooks, 1830-1903 The Boy Emigrants New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1876 Brooks was a journalist and editor who worked for newspapers in Sacramento, San Francisco, Newark, and New York, and authored a major biography of Abraham Lincoln based…

Joseph Edward Badger, 1848-1909 Jack Rabbit, the Prairie Sport, or, The Wolf Children of the Llano Estacado by Joseph E. Badger, Jr. New York: Beadle & Adams, Publishers, 1876. Badger began contributing Dime Novels to journals like the New York…

Mrs. Newman The Golden Dawn and Other Stories by May Wentworth New York & San Francisco: A. Roman, 1870 Bret Hart reviewed this book and two other titles by California writers, Clara Dolliver’s The Candy Elephant and Other Stories for…

Sarah Schoonmaker Baker, 1824-1906 The Children on the Plains. A Story of Travel and Adventure in the Great Prairies of North America London, Edinburgh, New York, T. Nelson and Sons, 1873 “The circumstances wrought into the following story, are true…