A son of the middle border
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A son of the middle border
Borealis Books, c2007
- : pbk
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This account is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who - informed by the full brute force of a homesteader's life on the vast unbroken prairie - would become a pre-eminent American writer of the early 20th century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland recounts in this captivating autobiography his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Howells and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Home from the War
- The McClintocks
- The Home in the Coulee
- Father Sells the Farm
- The Last Threshing in the Coulee
- David and His Violin
- Winnesheik "Woods and Prairie Lands"
- We Move Again
- Our First Winter on the Prairie
- The Homestead on the Knoll
- School Life
- Chores and Almanacs
- Boy Life on the Prairie
- Wheat and the Harvest
- Harriet Goes Away
- We Move to Town
- A Taste of Village Life
- Back to the Farm
- End of School Days
- The Land of the Dakotas
- The Grasshopper and the Ant
- We Discover New England
- Coasting Down Mt Washington
- Tramping, New York, Washington and Chicago
- The Land of the Straddle-Bug
- On to Boston
- Enter a Friend
- A Visit to the West
- I Join the Anti-Poverty Brigade
- My Mother is Stricken
- Main Travelled Roads
- The Spirit of Revolt
- The End of the Sunset Trail
- We Go to California
- The Homestead in the Valley.
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