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MARY`HALLOCK (1847- ), American author and illustrator, was born in Milton, New York, on the 19th of November 1847, of English Quaker ancestry . She was educated at the Poughkeepsie (N.Y') Female Collegiate Seminary and at the Cooper Institute School of Design for women, in New York . In ,1876 she married Arthur De Whit Foote, a mining engineer, and subsequently lived in the mining regions of California, Idaho, Colorado and Mexico . Sheds best known for her stories, in which, as in her drawings, she portrays vividly the rough picturesque life, especially the mining life, of the West . Some of her best drawings appear in her own books . Among her publications are The Led-Horse Claim (1883), John Bodewin's Testimony, (1886), The Chosen Valley (1892), Ctaur d'Alene (1894); The Pradigal(s9oo); a novelette; The Desert and the Sown- (1902); and several collections of short stories, including A Touch of Sun and other Stories (1903) .