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In the wake of the pioneers : novel
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Adventure: novel: notes
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Autograph notes by Jack London for his 1911 novel Adventure, which tells the story of a plantation owner in the Solomon Islands and a feisty American woman.
mssHM 82033
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The Pioneers : a romantic play in 4 acts /by John Shanks Lindsay
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The play tells the story of a group of pioneers and their struggles with Native Americans, as well as of the love between the captain of the group and a Native American princess
mssHM 65680
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California Yankee : William R. Staats, business pioneer : manuscript
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Manuscript copy of Carol Green Wilson's biography California Yankee : William R. Staats, business pioneer (1947), which tells the story of William R. Staats (1867-1928) and his life in Southern California. Includes little personal information on Staats and instead focuses on his business dealings, including those with Henry E. Huntington, and his involvement in the development of Union Oil, Southern California Edison, Throop University (Cal Tech), the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Valley Hunt Club, and the Santa Catalina Island Yacht Club. It is also a detailed history of the economic development of Southern California, and Pasadena in particular, from the 1880s to the 1910s. Typewritten 1944 manuscript with handwritten editing notes. Originally titled, "So Many Worlds : A Business Explorer in the Promised Land."
mssHM 72900
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The wood beyond the world
Rare Books
Set in Morris's imaginative recreation of a medieval world, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter's quest for the visionary maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to fulfillment.
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The wood beyond the world
Rare Books
Set in Morris's imaginative recreation of a medieval world, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter's quest for the visionary maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to fulfillment.
607158
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The wood beyond the world
Rare Books
Set in Morris's imaginative recreation of a medieval world, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter's quest for the visionary maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to fulfillment.
607159