Garland, Hamlin, (1860-1940) edited with introduction by Joseph McCullough, - A Son of the Middle Border.

NY, Penguin Books, (1995). 1st Printing. G PB (some edge wear). Frontier and pioneer life set in Northwestern States. Includes Bibliographical references. An epic story of the quest for. new frontiers - and of the gradual heartbreaking failure of Amerian pioneer ideals. Drawing on the history of his own family chronicles of a generation, bittersweet narrataive of growing up on a Wisconsin farm, captures in vivid detail, the thousands of courageous and optimistic Americans who sought new posperous lives on the mid-western frontier- and discovered not only the grandeur but the immense toll Nature demands of those who try to tame the land. William Dean Howells wrote in the New York Times Review of Books, "In all the region of autobiography .I do not know quite the like ot Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I woul rank it with the very greatest of that kind of literatur.".

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