Doctor Hunter (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Doctor Hunter On the east bank of the Mississippi river a few miles north of the Twin Cities of Rock-Island and Moline, Illinois, lies the little "dead and buried" town of Hampton. In its day a prosperous mining town, it lies now asleep in the narrow bottom between the high bluffs and the wide river. In this town by whose doorway the great river sweeps along, its polished surface extending a full mile between Hampton and the Iowa shore, I spent two years of my childhood. In laying the plot of "Doctor Hunter" in Hampton, therefore, I build my brain story amid scenes which are to me beautiful realities. That the characters are drawn largely after living models, T will not deny. But I affirm that the story is my own, to the best of my knowledge. The story in brief is this: Doctor Hunter is a man of fifty-five. A native of Maine, and a resident of Riverside (Hampton) for many years. He is the type of country doctor which ranks with the village curate and the village blacksmith. His modest homestead and his professional standing are his entire wealth. A son, Harry Hunter, is, upon the opening of the story in April, 1895, about to graduate from a Chicago Medical College. The Doctor, the son, and a daughter, Annie, constitute the family, as the Doctor has been ten years a widower. In the town of Riverside there lives a Capt. Rushford, another Mainite, who came West with Hunter, and whose daughter, Fanchon, is to wed the newly graduated Dr. Hunter. Jr., in the following June. His son´s approaching marriage has taken the old Doctor in fancy back to Maine, and sent him musing over ante-bellum times, and upon an ante-bellum sweat heart, named Harriet Josselyn. Harriet was a Quaker. She believed that the North should buy the South´s slave property and then proclaim emancipation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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