A Daughter of the Middle Border

by Hamlin Garland

A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER BY HAMLIN GARLAND Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 All rights reserved

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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1921,
By HAMLIN GARLAND.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1921.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

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To my wife Zulime Taft, who for more than twenty years has shared my toil and borne with my shortcomings, I dedicate this story of a household on the vanishing Middle Border, with an ever-deepening sense of her fortitude and serenity.

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Acknowledgments are made to Florence Huber Schott, Edward Foley and Arthur Dudley for the use of the photographs which illustrate this volume.

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FOREWORD

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To My New Readers