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                            Introduction
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Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 - March 4, 1940) was an
American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and
psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving
hard-working Midwestern farmers.


                             Biography
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Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin,
on September 14, 1860, the second of four children of Richard Garland
of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. The boy was named after
Hannibal Hamlin, the vice-president under Abraham Lincoln. He lived on
various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but settled in
Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing.

He read diligently in the Boston Public Library. There he became
enamored with the ideas of Henry George, and his Single Tax Movement.
George's ideas came to influence a number of his works, such as
'Main-Travelled Roads' (1891),  'Prairie Folks' (1892), and his novel
'Jason Edwards' (1892).

'Main-Travelled Roads' was his first major success. It was a
collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm. He
serialized a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in 'McClure's Magazine'
before publishing it as a book in 1898. The same year, Garland
traveled to the Yukon to witness the Klondike Gold Rush, which
inspired 'The Trail of the Gold Seekers' (1899). He lived on a farm
between Osage, and St. Ansgar, Iowa for quite some time. Many of his
writings are based on this era of his life.

In 1893, Hamlin moved to Chicago, where he lived at 6427 South
Greenwood Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood. He is considered "a
significant figure in the Chicago Literary Movement" and "one of
Chicago's most important authors". Moccasin Ranch Park, located near
address, is named in his honor.

In Illinois, Garland married Zulime Taft, the sister of sculptor
Lorado Taft, and began working as a teacher and a lecturer.

A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short fiction,
and essays. In 1917, he published his autobiography, 'A Son of the
Middle Border'. The book's success prompted a sequel, 'A Daughter of
the Middle Border', for which Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for
Biography. After two more volumes, Garland began a second series of
memoirs based on his diary. Garland became quite well known during his
lifetime and had many friends in literary circles. He was made a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918.

After moving to Hollywood, California, in 1929, he devoted his
remaining years to investigating psychic phenomena, an enthusiasm he
first undertook in 1891. In his final book, 'The Mystery of the Buried
Crosses' (1939), he tried to defend such phenomena and prove the
legitimacy of psychic mediums.

A friend, Lee Shippey, columnist for the 'Los Angeles Times,' recalled
Garland's regular system of writing:

. . . he got up at half past five, brewed a pot of coffee and made
toast on an electric gadget in his study and was at work by six. At
nine o'clock he was through with work for the day. Then he
breakfasted, read the morning paper and attended to his personal mail.
. . . After luncheon he and Mrs. Garland would take a long drive . . .
. Sometimes they would drop in on Will Rogers, Will Durant, Robert
Benchley or even on me, for their range of friends was very wide. . .
. After dinner they would go to a show if an exceptionally good one
were in town, otherwise one of their daughters would read aloud.

Garland died at age 79, at his home in Hollywood on March 4, 1940. A
memorial service was held three days later near his home in Glendale,
California. His ashes were buried in Neshonoc Cemetery in West Salem,
Wisconsin, on March 14; his poem "The Cry of the Age" was read by
Reverend John B. Fritz.

The Hamlin Garland House in West Salem was designated as a National
Historic Landmark in 1971.


                               Works
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*'Main-Travelled Roads' (1891)
*'Jason Edwards: An Average Man' (1892)
*'A Member of the Third House' (1892)
*'A Little Norsk' (1892)
*'A Spoil of Office' (1892)
*'Prairie Folks' (1893)
*'Prairie Songs' (1893)
*'Crumbling Idols' (1894)
*'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly' (1895)
*'Wayside Courtships' (1897)
*'The Spirit of Sweetwater' (1898)
*'Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character' (1898)
*'Boy Life on the Prairie' (1899)
*'The Trail of the Gold Seekers' (1899)
*'The Eagle's Heart' (1900)
*'Her Mountain Lover' (1901)
*'Delmar of Pima' (1902)
*'The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop' (1902)
*'Hesper' (1903)
*'The Light of the Star' (1904)
*'The Tyranny of the Dark' (1905)
*'Witch's Gold' (1906)
*'The Long Trail' (1907)
*'Money Magic' (1907)
*'The Shadow World' (1908)
*'The Moccasin Ranch' (1909)
*'Cavanagh, Forest Ranger' (1910)
*'Other Main-Travelled Roads' (1910)
*'Victor Ollnee's Discipline' (1911)
*'The Forester's Daughter' (1914)
*'They of the High Trails' (1916)
*'A Pioneer Mother' (1922)
*'The Book of the American Indian' (1923)
*'The Westward March of American Settlement' (1927)
*'Prairie Song and Western Story' (1928)
*'Iowa, O Iowa' (1935)
*'Joys of the Trail' (1935)
*'Forty Years of Psychic Research' (1936)
*'The Mystery of the Buried Crosses' (1939)


Middle Border series
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* 'A Son of the Middle Border' (1917)
* 'A Daughter of the Middle Border' (1921) (1922 Pulitzer Prize for
Biography or Autobiography)
* 'Trail-Makers of the Middle Border' (1926)
* 'Back-Trailers from the Middle Border' (1928)


Memoirs
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* 'Roadside Meetings' (1930)
* 'Companions on the Trail' (1931)
* 'My Friendly Contemporaries' (1932)
* 'Afternoon Neighbors' (1934)


                          Further reading
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* Holloway, Jean. 'Hamlin Garland: A Biography'. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2014.


                           External links
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131019160341/http://www.uncw.edu/garland/
The Hamlin Garland Society]
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*Higgins, John E.
[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=browse&volume=46&articleID=22344
"A man from the middle border: Hamlin Garland's diaries"] , 'Wisconsin
Magazine of History', vol. 46 no. 4 (1962-1963).
* [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/Garland/cover.html Main Traveled
Roads ]  from American Studies at the University of Virginia.
*[http://www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/hamlin-garland-one-of-the-great-literary-pioneers-of-america.html
Jamaica Plain Historical Society]
*[https://westernamericanliterature.com/authors/hamlin-garland/
Western American Literature: Hamlin Garland]
* [https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079847
Finding aid to Hamlin Garland letters at Columbia University. Rare
Book & Manuscript Library.]
*[https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/708 Hamlin
Garland Papers] are housed at University of Iowa Libraries Special
Collections & Archives.


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