"From the Land of the Snow-Pearls - Tales from Puget Sound" is a 1897 collection of short stories by Ella Higginson. Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862 - 1940) was an American author who wrote award-winning fiction, poetry, and essays set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The stories of this collection include: "The Flower that Grew in the Sand", "Esther's 'Fourth'", "The Blow-out at Jenkin's Grocery", "The Takin' in of Old Mrs' Lane", "The Manoeuvring of Mrs. Sybert", "A Point of Knuckling-Down", etc. Other notable works by this author include: "Mariella of Out-West" (1902), "The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems" (1903), and "Alaska, the Great Country" (1908). This volume will appeal to lovers of American literature and history, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Higginson's seminal work. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.