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Author Smiley, Jane.

Title The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton : a novel / Jane Smiley.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS3569.M39 A79 1998b    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 452 pages ; 25 cm
Summary A novel on 1855 Bloody Kansas, an armed clash between slaveholders and abolitionists, often referred to as a prologue to the Civil War. The heroine is Lidie Newton, the wife of a slain abolitionist. Dressed as a boy, she embarks on a mission of revenge against his killer. By the author of Moo.
Subject Women pioneers -- Fiction.
Women pioneers.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Abolitionists -- Fiction.
Abolitionists.
Missouri -- Fiction.
Missouri.
Widows -- Fiction.
Widows.
Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Western fiction.
Western fiction.
Subject United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Women pioneers -- United States -- Fiction.
Women abolitionists -- United States -- Fiction.
ISBN 0679450742
0002257432