Front matter
Reading edition
A Son of the Middle Border A Daughter of the Middle Border Ulysses S. Grant, His Life and Character
Isabel McClintock Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border. Zulime Taft: "The New Daughter."
A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER BY HAMLIN GARLAND Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Copyright, 1921, By HAMLIN GARLAND. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1921. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A.
To my wife Zulime Taft, who for more than twenty years has shared my toil and borne with my shortcomings, I dedicate this story of a household on the vanishing Middle Border, with an ever-deepening sense of her fortitude and serenity.
Acknowledgments are made to Florence Huber Schott, Edward Foley and Arthur Dudley for the use of the photographs which illustrate this volume.