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A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote
Published in Paperback by H E Huntington Library & Art (1992)
Authors: Mary Hallock Foote, Rodman W. Paul, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, and Paul Rodman
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A Victorian Gentlewoman with True Grit
Mary Hallock Foote came west with her engineer husband Arthur D. Foote, a dreamer-engineer, to build dams, lay out canals, and tame the vast desert areas. While they waited through one frustration after another with various backers, she kept the family solvent with her delightful sketches and stories, all the while raising her children on the boundary of civilization. Oh, that's with the help of a proper English tutor, of course.

Her prose is grandiloquent in the early chapters, something of an annoying Victorian mannerism in my mind. She lavishes compliments with abandon on her family and associates, as well as the landscape. Thank goodness the editors carefully footnoted Mrs. Foote! Otherwise the reader wouldn't have a clue as to whom she was writing about so ecstatically. (Actually, the volume is soundly annotated and edited throughout.)

However, in the later chapters, when the family settles down in Idaho, near what was to be the highest dam in the world at the time, the Arrowrock, her prose deepens and her style strengthens. She begins to incorporate her western life, the engineers and workers lives, into her stories. The geological phrase, "Angle of Repose," emerges in this section. The prose, like the work, becomes purposeful in its passion.

Is is, after all, of Mary Hallock Foote and her husband, Arthur, that Wallace Stegner wrote in his Pulitzer prize-winning fictional account, "The Angle of Repose." Here we really get the story in the words of those who lived it.

The frustrations of engineering the dam and engineering the financial and political backing are superbly related. The latter half of the book is more than worth the slower early portion. The account it bears of life in the early western United States is a treasure of its times. I heartily recommend it.


Coeur D'Alene (Reprint)
Published in Hardcover by AMS Press (1976)
Author: Mary Hallock Foote
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Idaho Stories and Far West Illustrations of Mary Hallock Foote
Published in Paperback by Idaho State Univ (1988)
Author: B Cragg
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In exile, and other stories
Published in Unknown Binding by Garrett Press ()
Author: Mary (Hallock) Foote
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Mary Hallock Foote (Twayne's United States Authors Series : Tusas 369)
Published in Textbook Binding by Twayne Pub (1980)
Author: Lee Ann Johnson
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Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West (Oklahoma Western Biographies, V. 19)
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) (2002)
Author: Darlis A. Miller
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Mary Hallock Foote: Pioneer Woman Illustrator
Published in Hardcover by Berry Hill Press (1996)
Author: Doris Bickford-Swarthout
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Reading a Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote (Boise State University Western Writers Series, No. 154)
Published in Paperback by Boise State Univ (2002)
Author: Christine Hill Smith
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A touch of sun, and other stories
Published in Unknown Binding by Books for Libraries Press ()
Author: Mary (Hallock) Foote
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