The Gold Trail

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

The Gold Trail

Entry/Object ID

2021.2.239

Description

'The Gold Trail' by Louise Platt Hauck. A bound book in an orange cover with a drawing of a wagon train on the front. Inside inscription " For Mr. R. W. Bacheller with the affectionate regards of The Author, April 8, 1929."

Context

Copyright © 1929 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. , Boston. Nineteen untitled chapters. A novel of how two boys followed the gold tail in 1849.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Transcription

Language

English

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

5" x 7.5" x 1.25"

Book Details

Author

Louise Platt Hauck

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Notes

Author Louise Platt Hauck was born in Argentine, Kansas, the daughter of Emory Melzar and Elizabeth Landon (Prescott) Platt. She attended high school in St. Joseph, Missouri, and married Leslie Franklin Hauck in 1907. They had three children: Elizabeth Prescott, Jean Louise, and Leslie Franklin. In 1915 she began writing for newspapers and magazines, and she published over sixty novels, many of them for girls and boys, using a number of pen names, in addition to her own, including Peter Ash, Louise Landon, and Jean Randall.