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Mary Ellen Chase (24 February 1887 - 28 July 1973) was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional New England literary figures of the early twentieth century. Chase earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine in 1909, then both a master's and Ph. D. in English from the University of Minnesota. During this time, she also taught at schools in Buck's Harbor, Maine, Chicago...

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Excerpt from Virginia of Elk Creek ValleyThen he gathered up the reins and drove his horses through the creek, and on toward the Gap and the open prairie.Don, cried the girl, suddenly clutching his arm with one hand and pointing with the other, there's some Wild bergamot just opening! I never knew it to be as early as this! And see! There's a sun ¿ower On the edge Of the wheat field! There'll be thousands Of them soon! They're like Priscilla!A...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn CountryA september afternoon in the Big Horn moun tains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, Silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing acro...

Originally published in 1960, this beautiful novel, by one of America's best loved writers, is an absorbing family chronicle of the early twentieth century. Set half in England and half in her native state of Maine, the narrative allows the author to make splendid use of this dual setting to depict with affection the two areas she loved best in the world. John Tillyard, a Wesleyan parson, brings his wife and three children from England when he...

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Offers a romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. Spanning six decades, starting in the late nineteenth century, this novel depicts their lives as they meet head on the joys and challenges of the changing and encroaching world and eventually, World War II.

A novel that is filled with details of the natural world, both at sea and on land of Maine. It captures the pervasive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution as coastal people stood on the brink of a new world, slowly turning from the glorious era of sail to serving the incoming tide of wealthy summer vacationers.

Traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. This title includes descriptions of the sweeping cultural, economic, and philosophical changes that washed over Maine. It is suitable for those who wish to understand the maritime history of Maine.

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Excerpt from Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Elk Creek Valley was a blue and golden place that mid-summer morning in the Big Horn Country. It seemed like a joyous secret tucked away among the mountains, whose hazy, far-away summits were as blue as the sky above them. The lower ranges, too, were blue from purple haze and gray-green sagebrush, while the bare, brown foothills tumbling about their feet were golden in the sunlight. About the Publish...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn Country A September afternoon in the Big Horn mountains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills, deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing ac...

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