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Biography

Born in West Salem, Wisconsin, he lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884, to pursue a career in writing. His first success came in 1891 with Main-Traveled Roads, 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). West Salem is a village located in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ulysses S. Grant[2] (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American general and the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). ... McClures or McClures Magazine was a popular United States illustrated monthly magazine at the turn of the 20th century, often compared to the longer-running The Atlantic Monthly. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek. ...

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. Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... A memoir, as a literary genre, forms a sub-class of autobiography. ... == c programming[[a--203. ...

Garland died at age seventy-nine, after moving to Hollywood, California, where he devoted his remaining years to investigating psychic phenomenon, an enthusiasm he first undertook in 1891. He was buried in Neshonoc Cemetery in West Salem, Wisconsin. In his final book, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939), he tried to defend such phenomenon and prove the legitimacy of psychic mediums. Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... Parapsychology is the study of certain types of paranormal phenomena (parapsychology comes from the Greek para, “beside, beyond,” + psychology, derived from the Greek psyche, “soul, mind,” + logos “rational discussion”). The term was coined by Max Dessoir (1889). ...

Hamlin Garland 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.

Bibliography

Middle Border Series

• A Son of the Middle Border (1917)
• A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921)
• Trail-Makers of the Middle Border (1926)
• Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (1928)

Memoir Series

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

Other works

• Under the Wheel (1890)
• Main-Travelled Roads (1891)
• Jason Edwards (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)
• 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)

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External links

• The Hamlin Garland Society
• Works by Hamlin Garland at Project Gutenberg