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The mercy seat : a novel / Rilla Askew.

Askew, Rilla. (Author).

Summary:

A girl's account of the violent life on the frontier. Mattie is 11 when her family moves from Kentucky to 1880s Oklahoma. After her mother dies, an uncle tries to get her father to abandon his honest job of shoeing horses for a life of crime, dealing in guns. By the author of Strange Business.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0140265155
  • ISBN: 9780140265156
  • Physical Description: 427 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1998, ©1997.

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for Western novel, 1998.
Subject: Brothers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction.
Choctaw Indians > Fiction.
Ouachita Mountains (Ark. and Okla.) > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction.
Brothers > Fiction.
Frères > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Choctaw > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Ouachita, Monts (Ark. et Okl.) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Brothers
Choctaw Indians
Families
Frontier and pioneer life
United States > Ouachita Mountains
Pionniers > Roman.
Choctaw (Indiens) > Roman.
Ouachita, Monts (États-Unis) > Roman.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Western stories.
Domestic fiction.

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