Hamlin Garland
Author
Pub. Date
1926
Physical Desc
ix-xiv, 405 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This sequel to Garland's acclaimed autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border, continues his story as he sets out for Chicago and settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There he meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually becomes his wife. The intensity of this romance is rivaled only by Garland's struggle between America's coastal elite and his heartland roots. A Daughter of the Middle Border won the Pulitzer...
Author
Pub. Date
1917
Physical Desc
vi, 467 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who-informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie-would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital...
Author
Pub. Date
1899
Edition
New ed., with additional stories.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Main-Travelled Roads collects 11 short stories, originally published in 1891, set in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, or what Hamlin Garland called the "Middle Border." Depicting an agrarian life of exploitation, misogyny, and poverty, Garland's radical, realist stories refute romantic conceptions of the rural Midwest. Unrelenting yet strangely hopeful in its view of how things ought to be, this collection is gripping, hard-hitting, and surprisingly...
Author
Pub. Date
1902
Edition
Border ed.
Physical Desc
iii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A literary success when it was published in 1902, Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop follows the trials of Captain George Curtis at the Indian Agency at Pine Ridge. In this engrossing novel, Hamlin creates a romantic adventure story about the unjust treatment of the American Indian by cattlemen, drawing on his experiences visiting American Indian reservations.
Author
Pub. Date
1900
Edition
Sunset edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of Black Mose, who exemplifies the courageous, self-reliant cowboy who heads to the mountains to escape a confining and guilt-ridden past for freedom in the untamed west. Garland based this engrossing Western on the lives of his playmates in Iowa, many of whom hoped to run away to become scouts or cowboys.
Author
Series
Reading with a purpose volume 29
Pub. Date
1927
Physical Desc
35 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English