The complete online text of In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote.

Mary Hallock Foote was one of the first woman regionalists to write about the western part of the United States. Born and raised in New York State, she went west with her mining engineer husband at the age of twenty-nine and did not live permanently in t...

One of the foremost Western writers of her age, Mary Hallock Foote is today regarded primarily as a local-color writer whose writing does not merit scrutiny, except from literary historians interested in her work as an archive of a bygone age. Yet, in he...

Mary Hallock Foote began her literary career by writing vivid stories, sketches, and novels about mining camps in the West. Unlike Bret Harte, who had little firsthand knowledge of the subject, Foote was able to study the locales, personalities, conflict...

"He's been through hell, Suz," Peter said. "Nothing original--just one more extension of the current hell we've been creating for ourselves. The Albanian version--"Peter had stopped by on the way to his house just up the road, ostensibly to see how she was...

The Jewish Week 04-22-2005 This Passover week there is the realization that another exodus is coming in summer, when 8,000 Israelis will be leaving their Gaza homes. Rightfully, the Israeli government is considering postponing evacuation until after Tisha b'Av (Aug. 14) and the...