The complete online text of The Desert and the Sown 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...

MARY ANNE McENERY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-28-1996 SOWN FROM HISTORY -- HEIRLOOM VEGETABLES HAVE A FLAVOR HYBRIDS CAN'T MATCH By MARY ANNE McENERY, Staff Writer Date: 08-28-1996, Wednesday Section: LIFESTYLE / FOOD Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star,...

Byline: Caitriona Murphy DESPITE the poor weather conditions, tillage farmers will increase the area of land sown to cereals this year, Teagasc experts have predicted. Higher grain prices and an increased demand for straw mean farmers have taken a renewed interest...