A SPOIL OF OFFICE
Reading edition
A Story of the Modern West
By Hamlin Garland
Author of Jason Edwards, A Member of the Third House, A Little Norsk, etc.
New and Revised Edition
New York D. Appleton and Company M DCCC XCVII
Copyright, 1897, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1892, by Hamlin Garland
TO
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS,
The foremost historian of our common lives and the most vital figure in our literature, I dedicate this study of the great middle west, its contemporary life and landscape.