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Hildegarde Hoyt Swift

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(1890 - 1977)

Hildegarde H. Swift was an author of children’s books. Her Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer was a Newbery Honor Book in 1930.

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Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer (1929)

Early American railroading as seen through the eyes of the Dewitt Clinton, the first steam engine built for the New York Central Railroad.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1930
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1929

The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932)

A story about the underground railroad that brought slaves from the South to Canada.

Author(s): Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1933

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