Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Silver Chief to the Rescue (Record no. 792)

082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number jO'Br
Item number 84
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number jO'Br
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name O'Brien, Jack
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Silver Chief to the Rescue
Statement of responsibility, etc Jack O'Brien; Illustrated by Kurt Weise
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Philadelphia
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Winston
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1937
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 235p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This book is one of the "Famous Dog Stories" of Grosset & Dunlap.This book of series has B/W full and partial page illustrations throughout book. Some are signed K. Wiese in lower right corner. Written for youth or older children. As in Jack London's "White Fang", this book has a dog for its hero. Silver Chief is the son of a Husky whose father was a wolf. After his mother is killed he hates all mankind until a Canadian Mountie, Jim Thorne, shows him kindness and tames and trains him. In this book,Thorne and Silver Chief arrive at an outpost with serum to save the outpost from diptheria outbreak. Later in story Silver Chief is accused of stealing trappers' furs and Thorne sets out to clear his name. Book is richly instructive in the lore of hunting, trapping and sledging
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dog Stories
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Relator code Ill.
Personal name Weise, Kurt
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type j Dog Stories
Holdings
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