Parrish, Randall. [Bob Hampton of Placer.] †$1.50. McClurg.
The Sioux uprising in 1876 furnishes the main incidents for this story of Wyoming and Montana, and of Bob Hampton, a gambler and disgraced army officer, who saves the life of Naida, old Gillis’s girl, at the risk of his own, only to discover that she is his own daughter. He does not reveal himself to her however, but gives her up for the sake of her future, then quietly renounces his old life and keeps watch over her from afar. In the end he dies a brave death, leaving her an untarnished name and a gallant soldier lover. It is a stirring tale of frontier life and Indian warfare culminating in a description of the Custer massacre.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Its theme, indeed, is so like that of Harte’s ‘Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s’ as to make it seem rather more reminiscent than original. A certain racy quality of its own, however, it preserves.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Is one of the good Western stories—not especially literary, but thoroughly interesting, and excellent in plot and characters.”
+ Outlook. 81: 890. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
Parrish, Randall. Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days. **$2. McClurg.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 755. Ap. ’06. 50w.