Mary MacLane's first book, The Story of Mary MacLane, was written in 1901
while the author was an intense, restless nineteen-year-old in Butte, Montana. It
was published in late April 1902 by Herbert Stone & Co.,a prominent Chicago
publishing house who dealt with such notables as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis
Stevenson, and Aubrey Beardsley.
Its success was enormous and the young author became instantly infamous across the
United States. It became her visiting card, and within a few months she left Butte
to be celebrated and criticized first in Chicago, then in New York (where she wrote for
Pulitzer's New York World newspaper), all on the strength of her first and
greatest success.
The Story of Mary MacLane (1902 edition) - Harvard Library E-Book
The Story of Mary MacLane (1902 edition) - Google Books
The Story of Mary MacLane (1911 edition) - Archive.Org E-Book