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 Mary Hallock Foote (November 9, 1847 – June 25, 1938) was an American author and illustrator. She was born in Milton, New York, of English Quaker ancestry. She was educated at the Female Collegiate Seminary in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the Cooper Institute School of Design for women, in New York City. She married a mining engineer, Arthur DeWint Foote, and moved to California when he took a job at the New Almaden mine near San Jose. They subsequently lived in Deadwood, Wyoming, and then in Leadville, Colorado and Mexico, as Arthur pursued his career. Along the way Mary wrote stories and novels for publication and illustrated them with her own woodcuts and drawings. She is best known for her stories, in which, as in her drawings, she portrays vividly the rough picturesque life, especially the mining life, of the West. Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1971 novel Angle of Repose is directly based on Foote's letters, later published as the memoir A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West. (Stegner's use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a minor controversy.) An opera based on the novel was performed in San Francisco in 1976. A collection of prints by Foote is on permanent exhibit at the Boise Public Library. Selected works
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