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 |
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Koha item type |
j Dog Stories |