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Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening return to the places of his boyhood, [providing] the stimulus and material for his first fiction. With the perspective distance had given him, he sensed the 'tragic futility' of the farmers' existence and resolved, as he wrote in retrospect, to put the 'stern facts' of the rural American West into literature. The result was the realistic, local-color stories that made up Main-Travelled Roads Garland narrates episodes in the grueling life of middle-border farming . [he] describes realistically the 'sorrow, resignation, and a sort of dumb despair' of the farmers and members of their families.
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Main-travelled roads: being six stories of the Mississippi valley
1893, Stone and Kimball
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"One hundred and ten copies have been printed, only one hundred of which are for sale."
BAL 9680; Gibson & Arms. Howells. 93-J
Special Collections' copy numbered 28; signed by author & publisher. Inscribed by Garland on front free endpaper, with notes on contents page in Garland's hand
Bound in white cloth, stamped in gold with a corn stalk design, top edges gilt
With bookplate of William Merriam Gibson
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"IN the windless September dawn a voice went ringing clear and sweet, a man's voice, singing a cheap and common air."
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