TY - SER
KW - pioneers
KW - runaways
KW - silver mining industry
KW - Colorado
AU - Katherine Ayres
AB - Young Valentine “Vallie” Harper is unhappy living with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh, disguises herself as a boy, and heads to Colorado to find her silver miner-father.
C1 - 1885
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Allegheny Center; Allegheny Market House; Allegheny United Presbyterian Theological Seminary; Marshall Shadeland; Western Penitentiary (1882)
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Western
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known
N2 - Young Valentine “Vallie” Harper is unhappy living with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh, disguises herself as a boy, and heads to Colorado to find her silver miner-father.
PB - Delacourt Press
PP - New York
PY - 2000
RN - Katherine Ayres (1947— ) is a Pittsburgh writer who coordinates the Masters of Fine Arts in Children’s Writing Program at Chatham University.
EP - 208 p.
TI - Silver Dollar Girl
ER -