Mabel Parker, or, The hidden treasure : a tale of the frontier settlements

Date:

1986.

Author:

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A395 M23 1986 LOCAL

Publisher:

Archon Books

ISBN:

0208021264

Physical Description:

xi, 131 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

Original form of Alger's novel written for adults. Edward Stratemeyer "published a version of it rewritten for juvenile readers under the title Jerry the backwoods boy in 1904."--P. vi. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1986 ed. of unpublished Alger ms. for adults, which was rewritten by Edw. Stratemeyer as a boys' book [see, Jerry, The Backwoods Boy (1904)]

Subjects:

Historical fiction and Historical fiction