Creator
Zoe Anderson Norris.
Title
“The Hot Winds,” Frank Leslie’s Monthly,
Date
September 1901.
Subject
Illustrations by Margaret Fernie Eaton.
Description
The magazine’s much-married owner, Miriam Leslie, of mysterious Southern origins, published Zoe’s story alongside works by Booker T. Washington and H. L. Mencken. The widowed heroine, resembling Zoe’s homesteader relatives, hopes for one last profitable crop at her Kansas farm to finance retirement in her native Kentucky. After hot winds, “with a hissing sound,” blacken her cornstalks, she falls into fatal decline. Her grave is soon forgotten in her ruined cornfields. The illustrator, Margaret Eaton, specialized in pyrography, burning lines into wood with heated rods.
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.