"Ruth Rover"
... that the first novel written on the West Coast of the United States may have been that by "Ruth Rover" ?
... that the first novel written on the <a href="./West_Coast_of_the_United_States" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast of the United States</a> may have been that by <b id="mwARQ"><a href="./Margaret_Jewett_Smith_Bailey" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Margaret Jewett Smith Bailey">"Ruth Rover"</a></b> <i id="mwARY">(title page pictured)</i>?