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Garland Hamlin. A Son of the Middle Border
A Son of the Middle Border
Table of Contents
A Son of the Middle Border
CHAPTER I
Home from the War
CHAPTER II
The McClintocks
CHAPTER III
The Home in the Coulee
CHAPTER IV
Father Sells the Farm
CHAPTER V
The Last Threshing in the Coulee
CHAPTER VI
David and His Violin
CHAPTER VII
Winnesheik "Woods and Prairie Lands"
CHAPTER VIII
We Move Again
CHAPTER IX
Our First Winter on the Prairie
CHAPTER X
The Homestead on the Knoll
CHAPTER XI
School Life
CHAPTER XII
Chores and Almanacs
CHAPTER XIII
Boy Life on the Prairie
CHAPTER XIV
Wheat and the Harvest
CHAPTER XV
Harriet Goes Away
CHAPTER XVI
We Move to Town
CHAPTER XVII
A Taste of Village Life
CHAPTER XVIII
Back to the Farm
CHAPTER XIX
End of School Days
CHAPTER XX
The Land of the Dakotas
CHAPTER XXI
The Grasshopper and the Ant
CHAPTER XXII
We Discover New England
CHAPTER XXIII
Coasting Down Mt. Washington
CHAPTER XXIV
Tramping, New York, Washington, and Chicago
CHAPTER XXV
The Land of the Straddle-Bug
CHAPTER XXVI
On to Boston
CHAPTER XXVII
Enter a Friend
CHAPTER XXVIII
A Visit to the West
CHAPTER XXIX
I Join the Anti-Poverty Brigade
CHAPTER XXX
My Mother is Stricken
CHAPTER XXXI
Main Travelled Roads
CHAPTER XXXII
The Spirit of Revolt
CHAPTER XXXIII
The End of the Sunset Trail
CHAPTER XXXIV
We Go to California
CHAPTER XXXV
The Homestead in the Valley
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Hamlin Garland
Published by Good Press, 2019
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William hung his head. "Well, I dunno!—I suppose my dyspepsy has made me kind o' irritable," he said by way of apology.
My father was the historian of most of these exploits on the part of his brothers-in-law, for he loved to exalt their physical prowess at the same time that he deplored their lack of enterprise and system. Certain of their traits he understood well. Others he was never able to comprehend, and I am not sure that they ever quite understood themselves.
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