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A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin GARLAND (1860 - 1940) Genre(s): Culture & Heritage, Family Life Read by: Greg W., Inah Derby in English Parts: Part 2 https://youtu.be/0zoUGG68L4w Part 3 https://youtu.be/wp-_5yPZ8lo Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Home from the War 00:24:41 - 02 - 02 - The McClintocks 00:48:53 - 03 - 03 - The Home in the Coulee 01:20:02 - 04 - 04 - Father Sells the Farm 01:35:25 - 05 - 05 - The Last Threshing in the Coulee 01:53:50 - 06 - 06 - David and His Violin 02:10:38 - 07 - 07 - Winneshiek 'Woods and Prairie Lands' 02:32:54 - 08 - 08 - We Move Again 02:45:49 - 09 - 09 - Our First Winter on the Prairie 03:14:11 - 10 - 10 - The Homestead on the Knoll 03:29:14 - 11 - 11 - School Life 03:47:40 - 12 - 12 - Chores and Almanacs 04:04:32 - 13 - 13 - Boy Life on the Prairie 04:44:51 - 14 - 14 - Wheat and the Harvest 05:19:17 - 15 - 15 - Harriet Goes Away 05:43:20 - 16 - 16 - We Move to Town 06:15:30 - 17 - 17 - A Taste of Village Life 06:44:58 - 18 - 18 - Back to the Farm In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human struggle with nature or the things she will withhold unless they are forced from her by man's tireless toil and mighty mechanism, and in the vision he knows a battle-joy as distinctive of this Son of the Middle Border as his fidelity to the sordid and squalid details of the campaign, or his exultation of the beauty of the West which he has so passionately hated and finally so passionately loves. As you read the story of his life you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.(Introduction by William Dean Howells, New York Times review, August 26, 1917) More information: http://librivox.org/a-son-of-the-middle-border-by-hamlin-garland/