Main-Travelled Roads (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Garland, Hamlin Woodville

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144007805X ISBN 13 : 9781440078057

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Boston, and six years absent from my old home in northern I owa, I found myself with money enough to pay my railway fare to Ordway, South Dakota, where my father and mother were living, and as it cost very little extra to go by way of Dubuque and Charles City, I planned to visit Osage, I owa, and the farm we had opened on Dry Run prairie in 1871. Up to this time I had written only a few poems, and some articles descriptive of boy life on the prairie, although I was doing a good deal of thinking and lecturing on land reform, and was regarded as a very intense disciple of Herbert Spencer and Henry George a singular combination, as I see it now. On my way westward, that summer day in 1887, rural life presented itself from an entirely new angle. The ugliness, the endless drudgery, and the loneliness of the farmers lot smote me with stern insistence. I was the militant reformer. The farther I got from Chicago the more depressing the landscape became. It was bad enough in our former home in Mitchell County, but my pity grew more intense as I passed from northwest Iowa into southern Dakota. The houses, bare as boxes, dropped on the treeless plains, the barbed-wire fences running at right angles, and the towns mere assemblages of flimsy wooden sheds with painted-pine battlement, produced on me the effect of an almost helpless and sterile poverty. My dark mood was deepened into bitterness by my fathers farm, where I found my mother imprisoned in a small cabin on the enormous sunburnt, treeless plain, with no expectation of ever living anywhere else.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 144007805X
• ISBN 13: 9781440078057
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 261