Boy life on the prairie (1899) (14800609393)

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Title: Boy life on the prairie

Year: 1899 (1890s)

Authors: Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 American Popular Literature Collection

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Publisher: New York London : Macmillan

Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University

Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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*^ Boy T.ife on thePrairie By HAMLIN GARLAND Author of Main-Travelled Roads Rose of Dutchers Coolly The Trail of the Goldseekers Prairie Folks, etc. Illustrated byE. W. DEMING New YorkThe Macmillan Company London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd.1899 Copyright, 1899,By HAMLIN GARLAND. Noriuood Press J. S. Gushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith Noriuood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE This book is the outgrowth of a series of articlesbegun as far back as 1887. It was my intention, atthe time, to delineate the work and plans of a boy on aprairie farm from season to season, beginning with seed-ing and ending with threshing, and I wrote some six oreight chapters in conformity with this plan. It occurredto me then that twenty-seven was too young to beginto write reminiscences, and I put the book aside untilsuch time as it might be seemly for me to say, Iremember. I was resting easy in this attitude when afriend startled me by saying, Yes, thats right, put itoft till you have forgotten all about it ! T

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