Transcriber’s Note
This book in this edition won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literaturein the “Biography or Autobiography” category. As such, every attempthas been made to reproduce it exactly as it was printed and as itwon the award. In particular, inconsistent hyphenation of compoundwords is pervasive in this text and has been retained. Unconventionalpunctuation—for example using a comma to splice two sentences—hasalso been retained exactly as printed.
A DAUGHTER OF THE
MIDDLE BORDER
By |
| A Son of the Middle Border A Daughter of the Middle Border Ulysses S. Grant, His Life and Character |
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 |
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.
To my wife Zulime Taft, who for more than twenty years has sharedmy toil and borne with my shortcomings, I dedicate this story of ahousehold on the vanishing Middle Border, with an ever-deepeningsense of her fortitude and serenity.
Acknowledgments are made to Florence Huber Schott, Edward Foley andArthur Dudley for the use of the photographs which illustrate thisvolume.
FOREWORD
—I—
To My New Readers
In the summer of 1893, after nine years of hard but happy literary lifein Boston and New York, I decided to surrender my residence in the Eastand reëstablish my home in the West, a decision which seemed to be—asit was—a most important event in my career.
This change of headquarters was due not to a diminishing love for NewEngland, but to