Day, Oscar F G
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1860-1949) US journalist, song-writer and author of a Lost Race novel, The Devil's Gold: The Story of a Forgotten Race (1892), in which a vast statue of Satan cast in virgin gold is found under the mountains of Oregon; its discovery exposes an anti-Feminist pastoral society flourishing in a hidden valley, which is helped to survive through strict limits on population growth. [JC]
Oscar Fayette Gaines Day
born Chicago, Illinois: 7 October 1860
died Florida: 1949
works
- The Devil's Gold: The Story of a Forgotten Race (Chicago, Illinois: Morrill, Higgins and Company, 1892) [in the publisher's Idylwild Series: illus/pb/uncredited]
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