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Merrill Tileston
An early 20th-century American novelist remembered for Chiquita, a frontier romance that brings together love, culture clash, and life in the American West. Little biographical information survives, which gives the work an added air of mystery.
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Chiquita, an American Novel: The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter
by Merrill Tileston
About the author
Very little confirmed information about this author is readily available today beyond the published work itself. Merrill Tileston is best known for Chiquita: An American Novel; The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter, originally published in 1902 and later preserved by libraries and public-domain archives.
The novel is set in the American West and follows a cross-cultural romance involving the daughter of a Ute chief. Its survival in Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and library catalogs suggests that while Tileston is now obscure, the book has continued to attract readers interested in regional fiction and early popular novels of the West.
Because dependable biographical sources are scarce, it is safest to treat Merrill Tileston as a little-documented author whose reputation rests almost entirely on this single known novel.