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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY`HALLOCK (1847- ), See also:American author and illustrator, was See also:born in See also:Milton, New See also:York, on the 19th of See also:November 1847, of See also:English Quaker ancestry. She was educated at the See also:Poughkeepsie (N.Y') See also:Female Collegiate See also:Seminary and at the See also:Cooper See also:Institute School of See also:Design for See also:women, in New York. In ,1876 she married See also:Arthur De Whit Foote, a See also:mining engineer, and subsequently lived in the mining regions of See also:California, See also:Idaho, See also:Colorado and See also:Mexico. Sheds best known for her stories, in which, as in her drawings, she portrays vividly the rough picturesque See also:life, especially the mining life, of the See also:West. Some of her best drawings appear in her own books. Among her publications are The Led-See also:Horse Claim (1883), See also:John Bodewin's Testimony, (1886), The Chosen Valley (1892), Ctaur d'Alene (1894); The Pradigal(s9oo); a novelette; The See also:Desert and the Sown- (1902); and several collections of See also:short stories, including A See also:Touch of See also:Sun and other Stories (1903).

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