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- catalog abstract "From January 1890 to February 1891 Baum wrote a column entitled "Our Landlady" that ran regularly in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. In all, he wrote forty-eight installments, each treating with practiced naivete the problems facing the brand-new state of South Dakota. Through his fictional landlady, Sairy Ann Bilkins, Baum commented on drought, railroads, suffrage, prairie populism, the Ghost Dance Movement, prohibition, and dozens of other matters. Together, the "Our Landlady" columns constitute a satirical history of South Dakota's troubled first year. Baum's genius as a fiction writer can be clearly seen in four of his recurring characters. Mrs. Bilkins runs for mayor, alternately feeds and starves her boarders, and keeps track of everybody else's business. She harbors a secret passion for one of her boarders, the cigar-smoking Colonel. She nags Tom, the clerk who habitually fails to pay his rent. She chides the Doctor about the flimflammery of American medicine.".
- catalog contributor b9340276.
- catalog contributor b9340277.
- catalog coverage "Aberdeen (S.D.) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Aberdeen (S.D.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Baum's genius as a fiction writer can be clearly seen in four of his recurring characters. Mrs. Bilkins runs for mayor, alternately feeds and starves her boarders, and keeps track of everybody else's business. She harbors a secret passion for one of her boarders, the cigar-smoking Colonel. She nags Tom, the clerk who habitually fails to pay his rent. She chides the Doctor about the flimflammery of American medicine.".
- catalog description "From January 1890 to February 1891 Baum wrote a column entitled "Our Landlady" that ran regularly in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. In all, he wrote forty-eight installments, each treating with practiced naivete the problems facing the brand-new state of South Dakota. Through his fictional landlady, Sairy Ann Bilkins, Baum commented on drought, railroads, suffrage, prairie populism, the Ghost Dance Movement, prohibition, and dozens of other matters.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Together, the "Our Landlady" columns constitute a satirical history of South Dakota's troubled first year.".
- catalog extent "xii, 285 :".
- catalog hasFormat "Our landlady.".
- catalog identifier "0803212216 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Our landlady.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Our landlady.".
- catalog spatial "Aberdeen (S.D.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Aberdeen (S.D.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "South Dakota Aberdeen".
- catalog spatial "South Dakota Aberdeen.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.4 20".
- catalog subject "City and town life Fiction.".
- catalog subject "City and town life South Dakota Aberdeen Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3503.A923 O97 1996".
- catalog subject "Satire, American South Dakota Aberdeen.".
- catalog title "Our landlady / L. Frank Baum ; edited and annotated by Nancy Tystad Koupal.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".