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FROM: Melissa Bittinger <[removed]@redrose.net>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:00 PM

Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this

list.
Thanks in advance,

Melissa Bittinger
Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Ave.
Hershey, PA 17033
717-533-6555, ext. 3717
[removed]@redrose.net

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:20 PM

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

........................................................................
.....................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Bittinger [[removed]@redrose.net]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:30 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Fiction set in U.S. between 1870-1900


Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this

list.
Thanks in advance,

Melissa Bittinger
Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Ave.
Hershey, PA 17033
717-533-6555, ext. 3717
[removed]@redrose.net

FROM: Susan Henricks <[removed]@sls.lib.ia.us>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:20 PM

_The Awakening_ by Kate Chopin was published in 1899.

Susan


~~
Susan Henricks
Southeastern Library Services
4209 1/2 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA 52804
319.386.7848

FROM: Susan Henricks <[removed]@sls.lib.ia.us>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:31 PM

_The Awakening_ by Kate Chopin was published in 1899.

Susan


~~
Susan Henricks
Southeastern Library Services
4209 1/2 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA 52804
319.386.7848

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:31 PM

In a message dated 3/5/2001 12:58:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@redrose.net writes:

<<
Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this
>>
Ever After, by Elswyth Thane - part of the Williamsburg Series (Spanish
American War)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:31 PM

Edith Wharton
Caleb Carr
Terry C. Johnston
Dan Coldsmith (some are earlier than this period)
Gilbert Morris (some of his series are set in this period)
Judith Pella (The Ribbons of Steel series)
Lauraine Snelling (Red River of the North series)
Richard S. Wheeler
Cynthia Haseloff, The Kiowa verdict
Nancy E. Turner, These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine
Erika Tamar, The midnight train home (this is a YA book about the Orphan
Trains)
Katherine Ayers, Silver dollar girl (195 pages about a girl who disguises
herself as a boy to find her father in a mining camp, set in 1885)
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melissa Bittinger [[removed]@redrose.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:30 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Fiction set in U.S. between 1870-1900
>
> Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
> fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
> come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
> Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
> Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this
>
> list.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Melissa Bittinger
> Hershey Public Library
> 701 Cocoa Ave.
> Hershey, PA 17033
> 717-533-6555, ext. 3717
> [removed]@redrose.net
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 12:53 PM

"These is my words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901" by Nancy E.
Turner.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 1:03 PM

Let the Hurricane Roar, by Rose Wilder Lane
Candle in her hand & Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Death of Colonel Mann & Murder at Bertram's Bower by Cynthia Peale
1876 by Gore Vidal
Courtmartial of George Armstrong Custer by by Douglas Jones
True Grit by Charles Portis
walter Satterthwait, Loren Estleman & Bill Pronzini have written well-researched mystery-westerns set in this period.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

FROM: "Laura McCaffery" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 1:03 PM

Try some of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane and asome of Jack London. , There are also bibs of historical fiction available. There isan oldie by Lyle Wright, AMERICAN FICTION, 1876 - 1900 published around 1966 that is still viable. You could also check one of the books on timelines and see who was writing when. Also llook in a survey book of American literature.

>>> [removed]@redrose.net 03/05/01 09:29AM >>>
Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this

list.
Thanks in advance,

Melissa Bittinger
Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Ave.
Hershey, PA 17033
717-533-6555, ext. 3717
[removed]@redrose.net

FROM: Gail Ellis - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 1:24 PM

Fawaway Blue by Max Evans. Set between 1866-1895. Fictionalized account
about the life and episodes of Buffalo Soldier, Moses Williams who won a
Medal of Honor for his services.

Gail Ellis, Adult Services Librarian
North Central Regional Library
17811 N.32nd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85032
email: [removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

---my views are my own.---


-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Bittinger [[removed]@redrose.net]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:30 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Fiction set in U.S. between 1870-1900


Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this

list.
Thanks in advance,

Melissa Bittinger
Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Ave.
Hershey, PA 17033
717-533-6555, ext. 3717
[removed]@redrose.net

FROM: Jean Langlais <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 1:34 PM

you might consider the Dana Fuller Ross wagons west series, most of which I
believe take place during those years. I would think many westerns would
fall in this time period-check such authors as John Jakes, Robert Conley,
Richard Wheeler and Jeanne Williams. Susan Dodd's book Mamaw might fit the
time period.
Also, Elmore Leonard's Cuba Libre, though set in 1898 Cuba, begins with the
sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor and revolves around several US
citizens. City of Light by Belfer takes place at the very beginning of the
20th century if you have any flexibility.


> ----------
> From: Melissa Bittinger[[removed]@redrose.net]
> Reply To: Fiction_L
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Fiction set in U.S. between 1870-1900
>
> Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
> fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
> come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
> Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
> Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this
>
> list.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Melissa Bittinger
> Hershey Public Library
> 701 Cocoa Ave.
> Hershey, PA 17033
> 717-533-6555, ext. 3717
> [removed]@redrose.net
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 1:55 PM

Some of Ellen Glasgow's books are set in Virginia in the post Civil War
period. Glasgow was one of the first writers to try top document life in
the South as it is rather than subscribing to the "lost cause"
romanticization of the South. Some of her titles are:

Barren Ground
Vein of Iron
The Romantic Comedians

I am not sure of the specific time periods for these, but several of her
works are in the late 19th c.

Barry

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Adult Services Director Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4053
[removed]@mail.wrl.org FAX: 757-259-4079
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Melissa Bittinger wrote:

> Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
> fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
> come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
> Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
> Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this
>
> list.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Melissa Bittinger
> Hershey Public Library
> 701 Cocoa Ave.
> Hershey, PA 17033
> 717-533-6555, ext. 3717
> [removed]@redrose.net
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 1:55 PM

David Wagoner has written as least two delightful novels about youths in the latter part of the century. One is THE ROAD TO MANY A WONDER, as I recall, and the other is WHERE IS MY WANDERING BOY TONIGHT. Written in the seventies...probably long out of print? But maybe available in the public library for the students in question. HTH Gayle Richardson Seattle Public.

>>> [removed]@acpl.lib.in.us 03/05/01 10:58 AM >>>
Try some of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane and asome of Jack London. , There are also bibs of historical fiction available. There isan oldie by Lyle Wright, AMERICAN FICTION, 1876 - 1900 published around 1966 that is still viable. You could also check one of the books on timelines and see who was writing when. Also llook in a survey book of American literature.

>>> [removed]@redrose.net 03/05/01 09:29AM >>>
Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Can anyone help? I knew if anyone could, it would be the members of this

list.
Thanks in advance,

Melissa Bittinger
Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Ave.
Hershey, PA 17033
717-533-6555, ext. 3717
[removed]@redrose.net

FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 3/5/01, 2:58 PM

The trilogy by Frank Norris called Epic of the Wheat. It includes The pit;
The octopus; and The wolf. I read one of these in high school myself. The
setting is the westward railroad expansion, wheat and commodities markets,
small farmers and businessmen against conglomerates. NoveList lists one
subject heading as 1866-1899: Reconstruction and development of the west.
The books have a strong social/class viewpoint, maybe somewhat like
Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath. I remember a bad guy getting killed by
suffocating in a flood of wheat pouting into one of his own silos!

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/5/01, 10:01 PM

The Diary of Mattie Spenser - Sandra Dallas (very readable)
Yellow Wallpaper (novella or short story, depending on one's outlook)
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Grasshopper Summer - Ann Turner (children's book)
Little Men - Jo's Boys -Eight Cousins (children's)
Sister Carrie
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Life and Times of Frederick Douglas
Uncle Remus
Life on the Mississippi
Huck Finn
Maggie (A Girl of the Streets)
warning: some of these were published 1870-1900, but can't remember if SET
in the period of 1870-1900

Maggie Bollar
Youth Services Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
111 East Lake Avenue
New Carlisle, Ohio 45344
937-845-3601 (voice)
937-845-0908 (fax)
"Play is not necessarily frivolous. It's not a synonym for the trivial."
-Tom Robbins

FROM: Ruthann Swanson <[removed]@sslic.net>
REC'D: 3/6/01, 4:05 PM

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan begins in 1899 and ends in 1900. Lots of
good detail on daily life.

Ruthann Swanson
Alsip-Merrionette Park Public Library
Alsip, IL

FROM: "Gina Sheade" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 2:20 PM

Melissa,

If you have access to What Do Young Adults Read Next? (a great resource
published by Gale) there is a Time Period Index broken down by decade.
Currently there are three volumes with the fourth due out in August. Each
volume covers different titles. Let me know if you can't get your hands on
this and I can fax you the lists from volumes 1 and 2. We don't have volume
3 yet.

Another helpful resource might be American Historical Fiction (published by
Oryx). Annotated entries are organized by time period. Books especially
suited to young adults (considered as grades 9 -12) are designated with a
special symbol.

Gina Sheade
Adult Services Librarian
Vernon Area Public Library
Lincolnshire, IL

FROM: "Martha Garbison" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 2:52 PM

Hi all,

On the fringes of the time period is The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas which begins in 1865 and continues through Mattie's life... and set in the 1890's is One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus; a fascinating novel based on a real event...

Martha G/Denver Public Library

FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:55 PM

Along the same lines as Gina's response, you might also try the time period index in "What Historical Fiction do I read next?", also published by Gale.

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public LIbrary

... who is NOT employed by the Gale publishing company....
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From: "Gina Sheade" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:09:40 -0600

>
>
>Melissa,
>
>If you have access to What Do Young Adults Read Next? (a great resource
>published by Gale) there is a Time Period Index broken down by decade.
>Currently there are three volumes with the fourth due out in August. Each
>volume covers different titles. Let me know if you can't get your hands on
>this and I can fax you the lists from volumes 1 and 2. We don't have volume
>3 yet.
>
>Another helpful resource might be American Historical Fiction (published by
>Oryx). Annotated entries are organized by time period. Books especially
>suited to young adults (considered as grades 9 -12) are designated with a
>special symbol.
>
>Gina Sheade
>Adult Services Librarian
>Vernon Area Public Library
>Lincolnshire, IL
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 9:00 AM

>From: Melissa Bittinger <[removed]@redrose.net>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Fiction set in U.S. between 1870-1900
>Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:29:33 -0500
>
>Help! Our local high school has assigned students to read a book of
>fiction set in the United States between 1870 and 1900. We have so far
>come up with only a few: O Pioneers by Willa Cather, Country of the
>Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
>Can anyone help?

As I have said many times, get hold of any copy you can of the McKinley
Bibliographies volume entitled "Historical Fiction," by Hannah Logasa and
successors. It is arranged chronolgically by era, and focuses on books
suitable for HS and JHS. You will find many excellent titles in it.
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 9:10 AM

Many of the works of Douglas C. Jones would suit this criterion, as would
vast quantities of other writers' Westerns. (See my list of authors on a
previous thread.)
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