Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton

"Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton" by Alice B. Emerson is an adventure novel that sees recent boarding school graduates Ruth Fielding and her friend Helen Cameron journeying to the American South, where they quickly find themselves caught up in a mystery, beginning with their arrival in New York City and encounter with a suspicious young person who may be a boy disguised as a girl and wanted by police, suggesting adventure and moral quandaries against the backdrop of a changing society.