Pat and the Iron Horse : new Americans in the 1840's

Date:

1955, ©1955.

Author:

Angell, Polly.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A583 P38 1955 LOCAL

Publisher:

Aladdin Books

Abstract:

Pat Mulvaney leaves Ireland when his family is left destitute by the potato blight. He finds difficulty getting a job in the United States but finally gets a job in an Erie Railroad repair shop.

Physical Description:

192 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

American heritage series and American heritage (Aladdin Books (Firm : New York, N.Y.))

Notes:

Contains headpieces. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1955 Aladdin Books (NY), c 1955, '1st edition'; American Heritage Series; spine titles and decoration, and front cover titles, and back cover logo, printed in black on (soiled) orange cloth; spine rulings printed in red, front cover vignette printed in red and black

Subjects:

Irish in the United States Fiction, Railroad stories, Historical fiction, Horses Fiction, and Railroad stories

Genres/Forms:

Fiction