Symbolically enough, Holden comes from a place over the mountain called Pleasant Valley. Lawrence River Valley of the 1840’s and 1850’s, it tells the coming of age story of William Brower, orphaned at the age of six after his parents and older brother accidentally drowned.Įscaping the bleak future of an orphanage, the young boy instead is rescued by a farm-hand who had worked for his father named Eben Holden. Beginning in the “North Country” of Northern Vermont, the Adirondacks and St. The historical novel Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country by author Irving Bacheller, (1859-1950) was an immediate best seller when first published in July of 1900, eventually selling in excess of 1 million copies. A popular novel in its day, this rare edition of Eben Holden published in 1903 by Lothrop Publishing of Boston is illustrated by 12 photogravure plates from pictorial photographs taken by American Photo-Secession founder member Clarence White in 1902, then living in Newark, Ohio.
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