Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934.2010-05-032010-05-031919http://hdl.handle.net/10605/288iv p., 1 l., 9-306 p.Originally published in London in 1910 under the pseudonym Gordon Stairs, this novel describes an independent woman's encounter with a group of people who live in the wilderness, speak their own language and keep their own ways. A trail leads to the "Wood People," who are also called "Outliers." A pressed fern leaf and flowers have been preserved in the book.Concerning the trail at Broken Tree -- I meet the Outliers in the wood and Herman comes to find me -- I hear of the treasure and meet a friend of Ravenutzi -- The meet at Leaping Water -- The love-left ward -- In which I am unhappy and meet a tall woman in the wood -- Herman develops his idea -- In which Herman's idea receives a check -- How the king's desire was dug up, and by whom -- The ledge -- How the Outliers came up with the far-folk at a place called the smithy, and Herman came back to River Ward -- How an Outlier saw a tall woman following a trail and Mancha met the smith again -- How they found the rubies, and the smith's account of himself -- The king's desire, and what became of it -- How Herman and I came back to Broken Tree.TextenThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these images an any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image.Utopias--Fiction.Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.Book