GARLAND, HAMLIN (1860- ), b. West Salem, Wis. Presents graphic pictures of the middle West in such stories as Main-Traveled Roads, Prairie Folks, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, Boy Life on the Prairie.
HAY, JOHN (1838-1905), b. Salem, Ind. Private secretary to President
Lincoln. Lawyer, journalist, diplomatist, and statesman. Pike County
Ballads. Joint author with J. G. Nicolay of Abraham Lincoln: A History,
9 vols.
HERRICK, ROBERT (1868- ), b. Cambridge, Mass. Professor (University of
Chicago), novelist. The Web of Life, The Common Lot, The Master of the
Inn.
HOVEY, RICHARD (1864-1900), b. Normal, Ill. Poet, dramatist. Songs from
Vagabondia, The Marriage of Guenevere, Taliesin: A Masque.
JACKSON, HELEN HUNT (1831-1885), b. Amherst, Mass. Novelist, poet. Her great western novel, Ramona, stands in the same relation to the Indian as Uncle Tom's Cabin to the negro. Her Century of Dishonor shows the wrongs done to the Indian race. Poems.
LONDON, JACK (1876-1916), b. San Francisco, Calif. Novelist of adventure. The Call of the Wild, The Children of the Frost, The Sea Wolf, The Game.
LUMMIS, CHARLES F. (1859- ), b. Lynn, Mass. Traveler, librarian, writer. The Spanish Pioneers, The Man Who Married the Moon, The Enchanted Burn.
MCCUTCHEON, GEO. BARR (1866- ), b. Tippecanoe Co., Ind. Novelist. Castle Craneycrow, Brewster's Millions, Beverly of Graustark.
MARKHAM, EDWIN (1852- ), b. Oregon City, Oregon. Poet. The Man with the
Hoe and Other Poems.
MILLER, CINCINNATUS HEINE (Joaquin Miller) (1841-1913), b. Wabash District, Ind. Lived in the far West, about which he writes in his poetry. Songs of the Sierras, Songs of the Sunlands, Songs of the Desert.