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Author

McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-

Title McKay's bees : a novel / Thomas McMahon.

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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction	F McMahon	---	Available

Description	198 p. ; 21 cm.
Series	Phoenix fiction.
	Phoenix fiction.
Summary	"Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees - undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
	Bee culture -- Fiction.
	Beekeepers -- Fiction.
	Kansas -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
ISBN	0226561119 (pbk.)
	9780226561110 (pbk.)