The Light Of The Star A Novel by Garland, Hamlin - 1904

The Light Of The Star A Novel

Garland, Hamlin

1904 Harper   Hardcover.  Size : 7.5 inches tall. 278 pages.

Features *  Harrison Fisher black & white illustration on the frontispiece.

Notes *    From Wikipedia: Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, psychical researcher, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1860, the second of four children of Richard Garlin of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. The boy was named after Hannibal Hamlin, the candidate for vice-president under Abraham Lincoln. He lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing. He read diligently in the public library there. 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). He 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. Partial bibliography: 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) Roadside Meetings (1930) Companions on the Trail (1931) My Friendly Contemporaries (1932) Afternoon Neighbors (1934) Main-Travelled Roads (1891) Jason Edwards: An Average Man (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)

CONDITION : G /NONE. Hinge starting, wear to cover cloth, previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper; otherwise, very good. Lacks the dust jacket. No underlining, no highlighting, no inscriptions, no bookplates, and no other annotation by previous owners.

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