The Fusing Force

The Fusing Force: An Idaho Idyl was the debut novel of Katharine Hopkins Chapman. Illustrated by W. Herbert Dunton, it was published in Chicago in 1911 by A. C. McClurg & Company. It is a story of love, courtship and marriage in the American frontier, wish a bishop, professor, and miners as the principal characters.^[1]

Background[edit]

The mines and the people of this story are sufficiently connected with its events to provide background for a love story.^[2] The scenes of the matrimonial adventures of both hero and heroine are laid in Idaho and the picture of life in mining camps with the Haywood-Pettibone-Moyer trial as a background makes a setting which the writer used to advantage. A western professor of sociology, a group of charming southern people, and a villain or two supply the material for keeping the plot moving briskly. The book ends with a satisfactory solution of all the mysteries involved.

Development[edit]

This is Chapman's first long novel; she is known through her short stories in various magazines. ^[3]

References[edit]

^ "Book Notes". The Assembly Herald. Vol. 17. General Assembly. November 1911. p. 575. Retrieved 27 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Browne, Francis Fisher; Browne, Waldo Ralph; Thayer, Scofield (16 September 1911). "McClurg's Fall Fiction - 1911". The Dial. Vol. L.I., no. 606. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg. p. 150. Retrieved 27 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Flood, Theodore L.; Bray, Frank Chapin (July 1912). "The Fusing Force". The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Vol. 67, no. 2. M. Bailey. pp. 160–61. Retrieved 27 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[TheAssembly1911-1] "Book Notes". The Assembly Herald. Vol. 17. General Assembly. November 1911. p. 575. Retrieved 27 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[2] Browne, Francis Fisher; Browne, Waldo Ralph; Thayer, Scofield (16 September 1911). "McClurg's Fall Fiction - 1911". The Dial. Vol. L.I., no. 606. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg. p. 150. Retrieved 27 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[TheChautauqua1912-3] Flood, Theodore L.; Bray, Frank Chapin (July 1912). "The Fusing Force". The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Vol. 67, no. 2. M. Bailey. pp. 160–61. Retrieved 27 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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