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Title: A Daughter of the Middle Border

Author: Hamlin Garland

Release Date: August 15, 2007 [EBook #22329]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

This book in this edition won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literature
in the "Biography or Autobiography" category. As such, every attempt
has been made to reproduce it exactly as it was printed and as it
won the award. In particular, inconsistent hyphenation of compound
words is pervasive in this text and has been retained. Unconventional
punctuation--for example using a comma to splice two sentences--has
also been retained exactly as printed.

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A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER

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By
HAMLIN GARLAND

A SON OF THE MIDDLE BORDER
A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER
ULYSSES S. GRANT, HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER

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[Illustration: Isabel McClintock Garland, A Daughter of the Middle
Border.]

[Illustration: Zulime Taft: "The New Daughter."]

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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

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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.

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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 f