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Main-Travelled Roads

by Hamlin Garland

Pages
about 325
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
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6 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

Main-Travelled Roads Other Main-Travelled Roads Boy Life Rose of Dutcher's Coolly The Eagle's Heart The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop Hesper Mart Haney's Mate Cavanaugh, Forest Rangers They of the High Trails The Long Trail The Forester's Daughter

The Light of the Star Prarie Folks The Shadow World Trail of the Gold-Seekers The Tyranny of the Dark Victor Ollnee's Discipline

Under the Wheel Jason Edwards A Member of the Third House A Little Norsk A Spoil of Office Prairie Songs Crumbling Idols Wayside Courtships The Spirit of Sweetwater Ulysses S. Grant, his life and character Her Mountain Lover Witch's Gold Money Magic Moccassin Ranch A Son of the Middle Border A Daughter of the Middle Border A Prairie Mother

Copyright, 1891, by The Arena Publishing Company Copyright, 1893, by The Century Co. Copyright, 1893, 1899, by Hamlin Garland

Whose Half-Century Pilgrimage on the Main-Travelled Road of Life Has Brought Them Only Toil and Deprivation, This Book of Stories Is Dedicated By a Son to Whom Every Day Brings a Deepening Sense of His Parents' Silent Heroism

The main-travelled road in the West (as everywhere) is hot and dusty in summer, and desolate and drear with mud in fall and spring, and in winter the winds sweep the snow across it; but it does sometimes cross a rich meadow where the songs of the larks and bobolinks and blackbirds are tangled. Follow it far enough, it may lead past a bend in the river where the water laughs eternally over its shallows.

Mainly it is long and wearyful, and has a dull little town at one end and a home of toil at the other. Like the main-travelled road of life it is traversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate.

Table of Contents. Main-Travelled Roads Foreword xi Introduction 1 A Branch Road 7 Up the Coolly 67 Among the Corn-Rows 131 The Return of a Private 167 Under the Lion's Paw 195 The Creamery Man 219 A Day's Pleasure 245 Mrs.

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