Mary Hallock Foote was one of the first woman regionalists to write about the western part of the United States. Born and raised in New York State, she went west with her mining engineer husband at th...
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Mary Hallock Foote was one of the leading women illustrators of her day in America. Perhaps best remembered as a novelist and short-story writer of the American West, in the late nineteenth century sh...
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Mary Hallock Foote began her literary career by writing vivid stories, sketches, and novels about mining camps in the West. Unlike Bret Harte, who had little firsthand knowledge of the subject, Foote ...
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One of the foremost Western writers of her age, Mary Hallock Foote is today regarded primarily as a local-color writer whose writing does not merit scrutiny, except from literary historians interested...
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Mary Hallock Foote
