Mary Hallock Foote
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Mary
Hallock Foote
(1847–1938)
Luma
Jasim
Mary
Hallock Foote was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her
illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities
of the turn-of-the-century American West.
Mary
Hallock Foote arrived in Boise in 1884. A native of New York, Foote came to
Idaho accompanying her engineer husband Arthur Foote, who designed the New York
Canal (irrigation works in the Boise valley). They spent twelve years in the
Boise area before moving on to Grass Valley, California.
Mary
Hallock Foote was the author of 12 novels and numerous magazine articles that
she illustrated herself. Her skillful artwork showed the rest of the country
just how beautiful Idaho could be. Her work of combining words and drawings is
what attracted me to create a print, which shows the talents she had.
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