New York: Duffield & Company, 1910. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this prolific author, born in New York, who was brought to the West as a child, and the daughter of a noted author and editor in early Califonia.. The story of those who traveled on a wagon train leaving Missouri in 1848, before word of the discovery of gold had arrived, and one which ends in the 'promised land' - that is, in the early placer mining years on the American River, but one which focuses more on the two very different men who loved Susan. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by John Rae. 496 pp.

New York & London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1929. Hardcover first edition - A rather scarce copy of the first crime novel by this author (she wrote 12 novels between 1929-1947), a story of a gang of drug smugglers and jewel thieves and of two young people who find themselves in danger when their paths cross that of the gang. Features Scotland Yard dectective Ambrose Nixon. 314 pp.