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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1902)
Polly, a simple ‘old-fashioned’ girl from the country visits her wealthy friend Fanny in the big city.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Fanny Y. Cory
The Land of Little Rain (1903)
A collection of essays about the land and people of California. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Mary Austin
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Lieutenant-Governor (1903)
When the corrupt governor is murdered, the lieutenant-governor has to decide the assassin’s fate. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s):
None
The Log of a Cowboy (1903)
A history of the cattle drives north from Texas after the Civil War. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Andy Adams
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The New Wizard of Oz (1903)
Bobbs-Merrill Co. took over publication of the first Oz book in 1903 and retitled it to distinguish it from the first edition.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
W. W. Denslow
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
None
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People (1903)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ver Beck
The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Stories from many different cultures. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Dot and Tot of Merryland (1904)
Dot and Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
W. W. Denslow
Far From the Maddening Girls (1904)
Author(s):
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
Freckles (1904)
A one handed orphan takes on the job of protecting the valuable trees in the Limberlost from timber pirates.
Author(s):
Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator(s):
E. Stetson Crawford
The Garden of Years and Other Poems (1904)
Author(s):
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac (1904)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Thompson Seton
Poems of Childhood (1904)
A collection of poems including ‘Wynken, Blynken and Nod,’ and ‘The Duel.’ Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eugene Field
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Red Book, or How to Play Indian (1904)
This is the second edition of the handbook that started the Woodcraft Indians.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
A Texas Matchmaker (1904)
A collection of stories about cow punching in the old West. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Andy Adams
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Two Years Before the Mast (1904)
The author shipped before the mast on a voyage to California in 1834 to collect a cargo of hides.
Author(s):
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Animal Heroes (1905)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Thompson Seton