Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2007
  • Latest Book:
    November 2015
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Lady of Fort St. John

  • Craque-O'-Doom

  • Old Kaskaskia

    Mary Hartwell CatherwoodŽs works include Old Caravan Days, The Lady of Fort St. John, The Chase of Saint-Castin. Old Kaskaskia was set in 1818 when Illinois was just becoming a state. The novel deals with fur trading and politics. An excerpt reads, ...

  • Mackinac and Lake Stories

    Mackinac And Lake Stories. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, ...

  • The Lady of Fort St. John

    Sitting on the height which is now topped by a Martello tower at St. John in the maritime province of New Brunswick I saw¿not the opposite city not the lovely bay; but this tragedy of Marie de la Tour the tragedy ¿which recalls¿ (says the Abbe Cas...

  • The Black Feather

    Over a hundred voyageurs were sorting furs in the American Fur Company's yard, under the supervision of the clerks. And though it was hard labor, lasting from five in the morning until sunset, they thought lightly of it as fatigue duty after their el...

  • The Blue Man

    The lake was like a meadow full of running streams. Far off indeed it seemed frozen with countless wind-paths traversing the ice, so level and motionless was the surface under a gray sky. But summer rioted in verdure over the cliffs to the very beach...

  • A British Islander

    Well, I wish you could have been here in Mrs. Gunning's day. She was the oddest woman on Mackinac. Not that she exerted herself to attract attention. But she was such a character, and her manners were so astonishing, that she furnished perennial ente...

  • The Cobbler in the Devil's Kitchen

    Early in the Mackinac summer Owen Cunning took his shoemaker's bench and all his belongings to that open cavern on the beach called the Devil's Kitchen, which was said to derive its name from former practices of the Indians. They roasted prisoners th...



  • The Cursed Patois

    As his boat shot to the camp dock of beach stones, the camper thought he heard a child's voice behind the screen of brush. He leaped out and drew the boat to its landing upon a cross-piece held by two uprights in the water, and ascended the steep pat...

  • Marianson

    When the British landed on the west side of Mackinac Island at three o'clock in the morning of July 17,1812, Canadians were ordered to transport the cannon. They had only a pair of six-pounders, but these had to be dragged across the long alluvial st...

  • The Mothers of Honore

    The sun was shining again after squalls, and the strait showed violet, green, red, and bronze lines, melting and intermingling each changing second. Metallic lustres shone as if some volcanic fountain on the lake-bed were spraying the surface....

  • The Skeleton on Round Island

    I am to carry Mamselle Rosalin of Green Bay from Mackinac to Cheboygan that time, and it is the end of March, and the wind have turn from east to west in the morning. A man will go out with the wind in the east, to haul wood from Boblo, or cut a hole...

  • The Indian on the Trail

    Maurice Barrett sat waiting in the old lime-kiln built by the British in the war of 1812-a white ruin like much-scattered marble, which stands bowered in trees on a high part of the island. He had, to the amusement of the commissioner, hired this pla...

  • The Skeletons on Round Island

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Chase of Saint

  • The King of Beaver and Beaver Lights

  • The Lady of Fort St John

  • The Romance of Dollard

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...



  • The Black Feather, And The Blue Man

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    Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) was an American Writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Her regional short stories are rich with details of speech, emotions and incidents of the times. Among her most famous works are: A Woman in ...

  • A British Islander, And The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen

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    Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) was an American Writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Her regional short stories are rich with details of speech, emotions and incidents of the times. Among her most famous works are: A Woman in ...

  • The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World

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    Mary Hartwell Catherwood was a popular 19th century American author best known for her sweeping historical romances, many of which were serialized in journals and publications like the Atlantic Monthly....

  • The Cursed Patois, And The Indian On The Trail

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    Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) was an American Writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Her regional short stories are rich with details of speech, emotions and incidents of the times. Among her most famous works are: A Woman in ...

  • The King Of Beaver, And Beaver Lights

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    Success was the word most used by the King of Beaver. Though he stood before his people as a prophet assuming to speak revelations, executive power breathed from him. He was a tall, golden-tinted man with a head like a dome, hair curling over his ear...

  • Lazarre

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Marianson, And The Mothers Of Honore

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    Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) was an American Writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Her regional short stories are rich with details of speech, emotions and incidents of the times. Among her most famous works are: A Woman in ...

  • Old Caravan Days

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    In the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, on the fifth day of June, the Padgett carriage-horses faced the west, and their mistress gathered the lines into her mitted hands. The moving-wagon was ready in front of the carriage. It was to be driven ...

  • The Story of Tonty

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    Along the entire river front of Montreal camp-fires faded as the amphitheatre of night gradually dissolved around them. Canoes lay beached in one long row as if a shoal of huge fish had come to land. The lodges made a new street along Montreal wharf....

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Mary Hartwell Catherwood has published 28 books.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Romance of Dollard, was published in November 2015.

The first book by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, The Lady of Fort St. John, was published in January 2007.

No. Mary Hartwell Catherwood does not write books in series.
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