Thelma hatch wyss biography examples

Fourteen-year-old James Erickson, alone in the world after his father's death, is mesmerized when he sees the first ship of prospectors enter the San Francisco.

  • Elk Girl, later a pivotal figure in the Meeker bloodbath, tells her story of kidnap, exile, despair, courage and return in a fully engaging "biography".
  • Thelma Hatch Wyss lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • By Thelma Hatch Wyss.
  • Caught up in the gold fever, he books passage on a steamer up to Alaska.

    • Thelma Hatch Wyss lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.!

    Wyss, Thelma Hatch

    PERSONAL: Born November 17, , in Bancroft, ID; daughter of A. Wilder (a rancher) and Agatha Pratt (Van Orden) Hatch; married Lawrence Frederick Wyss (an interior designer), December 18, ; children: David Lawrence. Education:Brigham Young University, B.S., ; Vermont College, M.F.A.,

    ADDRESSES: Home— Stansbury Way, Salt Lake City, UT

    CAREER: Novelist and educator. Glamour (magazine), New York, NY, assistant production editor, ; high school teacher of English in Salt Lake City, UT,

    AWARDS, HONORS: Best Books for Young Adults selection, American Library Association (ALA), , Best Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers selection, ALA, , and Top One Hundred Countdown: Best of the Best Books for Young Adults selection, , all for Here at the Scenic-Vu Motel; Junior Library Guild selections, , for A Stranger Here, and , for Ten Miles from Winnemucca.

    WRITINGS:

    Star Girl, Viking (New York, NY),

    Show Me Your Rocky Mountains!, Deseret Book