A Daughter of the Middle Border

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

  • FOREWORD.
  • BOOK I
  • CHAPTER ONE. My First Winter in Chicago
  • CHAPTER TWO. I Return to the Saddle
  • CHAPTER THREE. In the Footsteps of General Grant
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Red Men and Buffalo
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Telegraph Trail
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Return of the Artist
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. London and Evening Dress
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Choice of the New Daughter
  • CHAPTER NINE. A Judicial Wedding
  • CHAPTER TEN. The New Daughter and Thanksgiving
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. My Father's Inheritance
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. We Tour the Oklahoma Prairie
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Standing Rock and Lake McDonald
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Empty Room
  • BOOK II
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN. A Summer in the High Country
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The White House Musicale
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Signs of Change
  • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The Old Pioneer Takes the Back Trail
  • CHAPTER NINETEEN. New Life in the Old House
  • CHAPTER TWENTY. Mary Isabel's Chimney
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. The Fairy World of Childhood
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. The Old Soldier Gains a New Granddaughter
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. “Cavanagh” and the “Winds of Destiny”
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. The Old Homestead Suffers Disaster
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. Darkness Just Before the Dawn
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. A Spray of Wild Roses
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. A Soldier of the Union Mustered Out
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    Transcriber's Note

    This book in this edition won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literature in the “Biography or Autobiography” category. As such, every attempt has been made to reproduce it exactly as it was printed and as it won the award. In particular, inconsistent hyphenation of compound words is pervasive in this text and has been retained.