1 Online-Ressource (xii, 490 p., [32] p. of plates)
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-468) and index
Return of the private, 1860-1868 -- Boy life on the prairie, 1868-1881 -- Dakota homesteader, 1881-1884 -- Boston mentors, 1884/85 -- The earnest apprentice, 1886-1887 -- Single-tax realist, 1888 -- Life under the wheel, 1888-89 -- Main travelled roads, 1889-1891 -- Table rapper, 1890-92 -- The campaign for realism, 1893 -- The iconoclast, 1893-94 -- Western horizons, 1895 -- "Ho, for the Klondike!", 1896-98 -- The end of the trail, 1899-1902 -- Adrift, 1903-7 -- "A born promoter," 1907-14 -- A son of the middle border, 1914-1917 -- Out of step with the moderns, 1918-1930 -- The historian, 1919-29 -- Fortunate exile, 1929-40
The first and only other biography of Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then, letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have surfaced to provide, along with changing literary scholarship, a more evaluative and critical interpretation of Garland?s life and times. Hamlin Garland: A Life is an exploration of Garland?s contributions to American literary culture and places his work within the artistic context of its time
