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Alice Bradley Haven, 1827-1863 "All’s Not Gold That Glitters.” Or, The Young Californian. By Cousin Alice New-York: D. Appleton & Co., 1865 Part of the “Home Books” series by “Cousin Alice” and first published in 1853. Sam Gilman accompanies his…

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…

Genevra Sisson Snedden, 1873- Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1904 First printed in 1899. Snedden was a student at Stanford, studying education in the class of 1898. In the preface, she writes: What sort of people…

Albert W. Aiken Injun Paul; or, The Prairie Cat. An Arizona Romance. A Strange Story of Strange Adventure in a Strange Country New York: G. Munro, 1892 First printed in 1874; reprinted in 1892 as No. 8 in the Boys’ Dashaway series. The publisher…

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,…

Henry Inman, 1837-1899 The Delahoydes: Boy Life on the Old Santa Fé Trail by Colonel Henry Inman Topeka, Kan.: Crane & company, 1899 Inman was an Army officer and writer. He enlisted in 1857, serving in Oregon and California. He was transferred…

Margaret Vandercook, 1876-1958 The Ranch Girls at Home Again Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1915 Part of the successful Ranch Girls series. Vandercook was also the author of books in the Camp Fire Girls series, the Girl Scouts series, and…

Sophie May, 1833-1906. Dotty Dimple Out West Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1869 “Sophie May” was the pseudonym of Rebecca Sophia Clarke. Born in Norridgewock, Maine, she grew up there and was educated at the…

Harry Castlemon, 1842-1915 Frank in the Mountains Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., [1896] “Harry Castlemon” was the nom de plume of Charles Austin Fosdick, one of the most prolific writers of adventure stories for boys. He published at least…

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…