author
Alfred Ernest Rice
Best known for An Oregon Girl, this early-20th-century novelist wrote a tale of romance and social ambition set in Portland, Oregon. His work offers a glimpse of how the American West was imagined in popular fiction of the period.
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An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West
by Alfred Ernest Rice
About the author
Alfred Ernest Rice is a little-known author remembered today for An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West, published in 1914. The novel was issued by Glass & Prudhomme Co. and later preserved through public-domain archives, which is why modern readers can still discover it.
His surviving published work points to an interest in Oregon life and in the social world of the early modern West. An Oregon Girl is set in Portland and blends romance, ambition, and city society rather than frontier adventure alone, giving it a slightly different flavor from many Western novels of its era.
Very little biographical information about Rice is readily confirmed in reliable online sources, so much of his life remains obscure. What can be said with confidence is that his name endures through this novel and its continued availability in digital libraries.