The Ford [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520918634

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Other Books by Mary Austin T H E L A N D OF L I T T L E R A I N 1SIDRO THE BASKET WOMAN THE FLOCK LOST BORDERS T H E A R R O W MAKER C H R I S T IN ITALY T H E G R E E N BOUGH LOVE A N D THE S O U L - M A K E R A W O M A N OF G E N I U S T H E LOVELY L A D Y T H E L A N D OF T H E S U N THE MAN JESUS T H E T R A I L BOOK NO. 26 J A Y N E S T R E E T THE AMERICAN RHYTHM T H E L A N D OF J O U R N E Y S ' E N D I N G EVERYMAN'S GENIUS T H E C H I L D R E N S I N G IN T H E FAR W E S T TAOS PUEBLO STARRY ADVENTURE EARTH HORIZON: A N AUTOBIOGRAPHY O N E SMOKE S T O R I E S

THE FORD

THE

FORD

MARY AUSTIN Foreword by John Walton

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles • London

University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, Ltd. London, England Copyright, 1917, by Maiy Austin Foreword copyright © John Walton 1996 First California Paperback Printing 1997 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934. The ford / by Mary Austin. p. cm. — (California fiction) Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. ; New York : Riverside Press Cambridge, 1917. ISBN 0-520-20757-2 (alk. paper) 1. Labor movement—California—Owens River Valley—Fiction. 2. Land use—California—Owens River Valley—Fiction. 3. Feminism— California—Owens River Valley—Fiction. 4. Owens River Valley (Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3501.U8F67 1997 813'.52—dc20 96-14396 CIP

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