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The Desert And The Sown is a memoir written by Mary Hallock Foote, an American author and illustrator. The book is a vivid account of her experience living in the American West during the late 19th century. Foote and her husband, Arthur, moved to the mining town of Boise, Idaho,... Read Full Overview

The Desert And The Sown is a classic memoir written by Mary Hallock Foote. The book is set in the late 1800s and tells the story of the author's experiences as a young woman living in the American West. Foote and her husband Arthur, a mining engineer, move to the desert town... Read Full Overview

The Desert And The Sown is a captivating memoir written by Mary Hallock Foote. The book is set in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the American West, where Foote and her family moved to start a new life. The memoir is divided into two parts, the first part is about their life... Read Full Overview

"The Desert and The Sown" from Mary Hallock Foote. American author and illustrator (1847-1938).

It was an evening of sudden mildness following a dry October gale. The colonel had miscalculated the temperature by one log-only one, he declared, but that had proved a pitchy one, and the chimney bellowed with flame. From end to end the room was alight with it, as if the stored-up... Read Full Overview

Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. As a student Mary Hallock Foote befriended American artist... Read Full Overview

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A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I.

The Desert And The Sown is a memoir by Mary Hallock Foote, originally published in 1902. The book chronicles the author's experiences living in the American West during the late 19th century. Foote and her husband moved from the East Coast to a remote mining town in Idaho, where... Read Full Overview

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