Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, (1969). First edition - Collects three accounts of women from early Oregon history - .Frances Fuller Victor and the Temperance League in the title story; Portland attorney Mary Leonard (who was tried and acquited of the murder of her husband) in "The Lady and the Saw: a Portrait of Mary Leonard" and "Jane Barnes, First White Woman in Oregon" - originally published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1957, 1955 and 1930. Illustrated. 53 pp plus a double page map.. ISBN: 0-87595-023x.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated white wrappers.
Los Angeles: Out West Magazine, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Published in the midst of the battle for prohibition, this novel starts out expressing appreciation for wine: "Gold was the gift of the valley hard by but gold is a fierce joy - it breeds fever, madness. The gift of the San Joaquin was a quieter one - portion of man's dream of contentment, of comradeship, of hospitality, of all kindly joys; the gift of the San Joaquin was wine." And, in the beginning, it presents logically the arguments made by wine-growers and merchants about why wine should be exempted from any prohibition acts - but in the end it come down firmly on the side of temperance and…
Los Angeles: Out West Magazine, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Published in the midst of the battle for prohibition, this novel starts out expressing appreciation for wine: "Gold was the gift of the valley hard by but gold is a fierce joy - it breeds fever, madness. The gift of the San Joaquin was a quieter one - portion of man's dream of contentment, of comradeship, of hospitality, of all kindly joys; the gift of the San Joaquin was wine." And, in the beginning, it presents logically the arguments made by wine-growers and merchants about why wine should be exempted from any prohibition acts - but in the end it come down firmly on the side of temperance and total prohibition as the plot develops rather melodramatically. A bit of a polemic, but still an interesting read. 384 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, black lettering on spine (some offsetting to front endpaper, very faint bookstore stamp.)
THE WAR ON THE WEBFOOT SALOON & OTHER TALES OF FEMININE ADVENTURES
THE CLAW.
