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In Exile and Other Stories

Mary Hallock Foote

Book Overview: 

Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote, an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is famous for her stories of place, in which she portrayed the rough, picturesque life she experienced and observed in the old West, especially that in the early mining towns.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .e trails, in front of the door of the blacksmith's shop. She was wrapped in a dark blue cloak, with the hood drawn over her head; the cool dampness had given to her cheeks a clear, pure glow, and her brown eyes looked out with a cheerful light. She was watching the parting of the mist in the valley below; for a wind had sprung up, and now the rift widened, as the windows of heaven might have opened, giving a glimpse of the world to the "Blessed Damozel." All was dark above and around her; only a single shaft of sunlight pierced the fog, and startled into life a hundred tints of brightness in the valley. She caught the sparkle on the roofs and windows of the town ten miles away; the fields of sunburnt stubble glowed a deep Indian red; the young crops were tenderest emerald; and the line of the distant bay, a steel-blue thread against the horizon.

Arnold was plodding up the lower trail on his gray mare, fetlock deep in mud. He dismounted at the door of. . . Read More

Community Reviews

The very best thing about Hallock Foote's writing is the way it absolutely resonates with authenticity. Details, colloquialisms, landscapes, scenes of action: all come vividly to mind in her lively descriptions and artist's eye.
Otherwise, one mostly finds silly, snobby, spoiled heroines replete with

A frighteningly sparse set, vast in it's potential... much like the West. Haunting.