FOOTE

foote, mary hallock (1847- ), american author and illustrator, was born in milton, new york, on the 19th of november 1847, of english quaker ancestry. she was educated at the poughkeepsie (n.y.) female collegiate seminary and at the cooper institute school of design for women, in new york. in 1876 she married arthur de wint foote, a mining engineer, and subsequently lived in the mining regions of california, idaho, colorado and mexico. she is best known for her stories, in which, as in her drawings, she portrays vividly the rough picturesque life, especially the mining life, of the west. some of her best drawings appear in her own books. among her publications are _the led-horse claim_ (1883), _john bodewin's testimony_ (1886), _the chosen valley_ (1892), _coeur d'alene_ (1894); _the prodigal_ (1900), a novelette; _the desert and the sown_ (1902); and several collections of short stories, including _a touch of sun and other stories_ (1903).