The Fusing Force

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The Fusing Force: An Idaho Idyl was the debut novel of Katharine Hopkins Chapman. Illustrated by W. Herbert Dunton, it was published in Chicago in 1911 by A. C. McClurg & Company. It is a story of love, courtship and marriage in the American frontier, wish a bishop, professor, and miners as the principal characters. [1]

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Background

The mines and the people of this story are sufficiently connected with its events to provide background for a love story. [2] The scenes of the matrimonial adventures of both hero and heroine are laid in Idaho and the picture of life in mining camps with the Haywood-Pettibone-Moyer trial as a background makes a setting which the writer used to advantage. A western professor of sociology, a group of charming southern people, and a villain or two supply the material for keeping the plot moving briskly. The book ends with a satisfactory solution of all the mysteries involved.

Development

This is Chapman's first long novel; she is known through her short stories in various magazines. [3]

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References

  1. "Book Notes". The Assembly Herald. Vol. 17. General Assembly. November 1911. p. 575. Retrieved 27 November 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. Browne, Francis Fisher; Browne, Waldo Ralph; Thayer, Scofield (16 September 1911). "McClurg's Fall Fiction - 1911". The Dial. Vol. L.I., no. 606. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg. p. 150. Retrieved 27 November 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. Flood, Theodore L.; Bray, Frank Chapin (July 1912). "The Fusing Force". The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Vol. 67, no. 2. M. Bailey. pp. 160–61. Retrieved 27 November 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .