tailieunhanh - A Daughter of the Middle Border

In the summer of 1893, after nine years of hard but happy literary life in Boston and New York, I decided to surrender my residence in the East and reëstablish my home in the West, a decision which seemed to be--as it was--a most important event in my career. This change of headquarters was due not to a diminishing love for New England, but to a deepening desire to be near my aging parents, whom I had persuaded, after much argument, to join in the purchase of a family homestead, in West Salem, Wisconsin, the little village from which we had all adventured some thirty. | 1 CHAPTER PAGE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland 2 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland Project Gutenberg s A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Daughter of the Middle Border Author Hamlin Garland Release Date August 15 2007 EBook 22329 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Note This book in this edition won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literature in the Biography or Autobiography category. As such every attempt has been made to reproduce it exactly as it was printed and as it won the award. In particular inconsistent hyphenation of compound words is pervasive in this text and has been retained. Unconventional punctuation--for example using a comma to splice two sentences--has also been retained exactly as printed. A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER By HAMLIN GARLAND A SON OF THE MIDDLE BORDER A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER ULYSSES S. GRANT HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER Illustration Isabel McClintock Garland A Daughter of the Middle Border. Illustration Zulime Taft The New Daughter. A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland 3 BY HAMLIN GARLAND