To the authors of today and of former days, whose genius and co-operation have made this book possible, and to the young people who may, by reading these pages, be inspired to carry the banner of our state still farther into the realm of literature,
WISCONSIN IN STORY AND SONG
is affectionately dedicated.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| General Wisconsin Writers. | |
| HAMLIN GARLAND Haying Time, Among the Corn Rows, Ploughing, Ladrone, The Toil of the Trail, The Blue Jay, Pom Pom Pull Away, The Old-Fashioned Threshing in Green's Coolly. | [13-39] |
| GENERAL CHARLES KING Ray's Ride for Life (from "Marion's Faith"), The Final Blow. | [40-63] |
| JOHN MUIR Snow Banners. | [64-71] |
| ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The Two Glasses, The Kingdom of Love, The Tendril's Fate, Three Friends, Ambitions' Trail, Morning Prayer, I Am, Which Are You? | [72-84] |
| RAY STANNARD BAKER Through the Air, Marconi and His Great Achievements—New Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy, The Roping at Pasco's. | [85-98] |
| "DAVID GRAYSON" An Argument with a Millionaire. | [99-113] |
| ZONA GALE Why?, The Holy Place, Friendship Village. | [114-127] |
| EBEN EUGENE REXFORD Watering Plants, Tea Roses for Beds, The Old Village Choir, The Two Singers, The Unfruitful Tree, A Day in June, Silver Threads Among the Gold, When Silver Threads Are Gold Again. | [128-144] |
| CARL SCHURZ Selections from his Reminiscences, The True Americanism. | [145-149] |
| HONORÉ WILLSIE The Forbidden North, A Story of a Great Dane Puppy. | [150-162] |
| EDNA FERBER Steeped In German. | [163-171] |
| GEORGE L. TEEPLE The Battle of Gray's Pasture. | [172-183] |
| GEORGE BYRON MERRICK Old Times on the Upper Mississippi. | [184-188] |
| HATTIE TYNG GRISWOLD John G. Whittier. | [189-192] |
| ALBERT H. SANFORD The Story of Agriculture in the United States. | [193-195] |
| CHARLES D. STEWART On a Moraine. | [196-201] |
| ELLIOTT FLOWER The Impractical Man. | [202-208] |
| JENKIN LLOYD JONES Nuggets from a Welsh Mine. | [209-212] |
| EVERETT McNEIL Mother's Wolf Story. | [213-218] |
| The University Group. | |
| PRESIDENT CHARLES R. VAN HISE The Future of Man in America. | [220-224] |
| DEAN E. A. BIRGE Milton. | [224-228] |
| RASMUS B. ANDERSON Bjarne Herjulfson, 986. | [228-230] |
| REUBEN GOLD THWAITES The Discovery of Wisconsin. | [230-234] |
| FREDERICK J. TURNER The Significance of the Frontier in American History. | [234-238] |
| PAUL S. REINSCH The New Education of China. | [238-241] |
| GEORGE C. COMSTOCK Astrology in Life and Literature. | [242-244] |
| J. F. A. PYRE Byron in Our Day. | [245-246] |
| EDWARD A. ROSS The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in China. | [246-250] |
| GRANT SHOWERMAN A Lad's Recollections of His Boyhood Haunts and Experiences in the Earlier Days. | [251-254] |
| WILLIAM E. LEONARD The Glory of the Morning, Love Afar, The Image of Delight, A Dedication. | [254-260] |
| THOMAS H. DICKINSON In Hospital. | [260-263] |
| WILLIAM J. NEIDIG The Buoy-Bell. | [263-265] |
| BRALEY—WINSLOW—JONES Sometimes, The Pioneers, A Little Book of Local Verse. | [265-268] |
| JOSEPH P. WEBSTER Sweet Bye and Bye. | [269] |
| Writers of Local Distinction. | |
| SHERIFF, BOND, THOMSON, WHITNEY, BAER, HENDERSON, ADAMS, PLANTZ, CARLTON, MOORE, LATHROP, MANVILLE, BLAISDELL, NAGLE, CHASE, DAVIDSON, BROWN, WHEELER | [270-285] |
| Other Wisconsin Writers and Their Works. | |
| NAMES ONLY WITHOUT SELECTIONS | [286] |
| Wisconsin Humorists. | |
| LUTE A. TAYLOR | [288-290] |
| "BILL" NYE | [291-294] |
| GEORGE W. PECK | [294-297] |
| WILLIAM F. KIRK | [297-298] |