This classic short story collection offers an unblinking portrait of the American Midwest during a time of intense change. Originally published in 1891, Main-Travelled Roads includes eleven short stories set in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, or the ...
Looking back upon his own life, Hamlin Garland charts the trials and tribulations of a generation in this tale of the quest for new frontiers in the last half of the 19th century. The narrative is grounded in the spirit of those who set out to conque...
The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop is a western novel first published in 1902.
Winter in the upper heights of the Bear Tooth Range is a glittering desolation of snow with a flaming blue sky above. Nothing moves, nothing utters a sound, sa...
The Trail of the Goldseekers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...
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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 a...
“Early in the gray and red dawn of a March morning in 1883, two wagons moved slowly out of Boomtown, the two-year-old ‘giant of the plains.’” Garland opens his description of a town in the Wild West and the people newly come to live there....
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 hi...
1930. Hamlin Garland was born near La Crosse, Wisconsin and lived in the area for nine years before his family moved to South Dakota. As an adult he lived in major cities throughout the United States but visited his birthplace often. In 1922 he recei...
This edition of Hamlin Garland''s best novel—best both for historical reasons and intrinsically—-reprints Rose of Dutcher''s Coolly in its original form. Partly in response to the attack on it when it appeared in 1895, Garland revised ...
In 1895, Hamlin Garland, celebrated for his novels inspired by his Midwestern upbringing, traveled west, taking notes on the cowboys, Indians, and mountain scenery he encountered. He turned this material into an adventure story dramatizing the confli...
The forester's daughter. A romance of the Bear-Tooth Range (1914). This book, "The forester's daughter," by Hamlin Garland, is a replication of a book originally published before 1914. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you m...
With a newfound interest in the West and its problems, Hamlin Garland turned his acclaimed realistic eye westward in the novel Her Mountain Lover, which follows the journey of a Colorado miner to England where he is supposed to sell a share of his mi...
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In this 1904 novel, Garland sets aside his usual Midwestern themes for a tale of the theater in which the hero -- a pioneering playwright -- is captivated by a talented yet wild-spirited leading lady. ...
This 1892 novel tells of a young orphan girl growing up in the American West. Two kind bachelors take her in, but clear complications arise as a result of this unconventional family....
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Mr. Hamlin Garland writes in breezy, forceful familiarity with the vernacular of the average western American, to whom Chicago is the center of the universe. His new story, "A Member of the Third House," carries one on with intense interest to its dr...
In this gripping story of love and sacrifice, it’s love at first sight for Bertie " a married woman " and Ben. Bertie’s husband suffers from a weak heart, while Ben’s fiancée is dying of consumption. Facing the inevitable, Ben’s fiancée...
Hamlin Garland followed up his collection of short stories titled Main-Travelled Roads with Other Main-Travelled Roads. Unsparing in their depiction of the harsh realities of Midwestern farm life, these stories are quintessential examples of Garland...
Readers of Hamlin Garland’s collection of short stories Main-Travelled Roads will also enjoy Prairie Folks, which Garland considered a companion volume, as the stories feature many of the same characters and continue to explore the harsh realities ...
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In this 1908 volume, Garland explores psychic and supernatural phenomena. Giving accounts of his personal psychic investigations -- the author writes them in a fiction-like tone, keeping himself as a main character. “Mr. Garland writes with a fine ...
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Classic western novel. According to Wikipedia: Hamlin Hannibal Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern...
They of the high trails (1916). This book, "They of the high trails," by Hamlin Garland, is a replication of a book originally published before 1916. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to t...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Viola is a lovely, normal girl on the outside, but inside carries incredible psychic powers. Others will exploit her abilities, unless Morton Serviss can rescue her from their selfish plans. Many paranormal episodes in this story come from real-life ...
This 1911 novel features a spiritual medium who sacrifices to make a better life for her son, while keeping him ignorant of her profession. When she is the subject of a lawsuit in which she must prove her claims, her manifestations of supernatural po...
HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted in their fulness the sweets of success; but nothing yet had been more charming to him than when the young Lord, as he irresistibly and, for greater certitude, quite correctly figured him, fairly s...
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