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Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giles, Janice Holt
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence.
Girls.
Country life.
FICTION > General.
Filles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Violence > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Girls > Fiction.
Violence > Fiction.
Country life > Fiction.
Arkansas.
Arkansas > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Arkansas > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913. At age forty-eight -- the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel -- the heroine Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparent's home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (284 pages).
ISBN:9780813156804

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