The Harvester
By: by Gene Stratton-Porter [1863-1924]; illustrated by William L. Jacobs.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1916
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 516
Copyright date: 1916, Aug 1911, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Other titles: Harvester
Description: Author of ''A Girl of the Limberlost,'' Freckles, etc.

Gene Stratton-Porter returns us to her beloved Midwestern woodlands with a hero modeled after Henry David Thoreau. He and his "wonderful, alluring" Ruth ultimately find idyllic bliss in the pure, unspoiled woods, but not before her mysterious past is revealed and resolved.--LibraryThing

In ''The Harvester,'' Gene Statton-Porter returns to her beloved Midwestern woodlands. Her hero David Langston is modeled after Henry David Thoreau. He lived a contented life in Medicine Woods with his dog Belshazzar, his horse Betsy, and the birds and animals of the wild as companions.--Goodreads
Notes: ***Manufactured in the U.S.A. / Published 1916 by Grosset & Dunlap; first Grosset & Dunlap ed published January 1, 1911*** / Other system no. (OCoLC)288320
Published/Created:    Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, August, 1911

Verso of t.p.: Published August, 1911.
Verso of t.p.: The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
Colored frontispiece and colored plates facing p. 134, 376 and 544.
Description: [10], 564 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.)
Electronic copy from HathiTrust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006155334