Garland in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates

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X Contents Introduction xi Chronology xxxi Franklin Garland, [Garland’s Iowa, Dakota, and Boston Years, 1874–1890] 1 Edwin C. Torrey, [Garland in Dakota in 1883] 9 Horace Traubel, [Discussing Garland with Walt Whitman, 1888–1889] 13 Mary E. Strout, [Garland as a Teacher in 1889] 21 Harriet E. Halliman, et al., [Garland as a Teacher in 1890] 23 Julie Herne, [Garland in Boston, 1889–1890] 25 B. O. Flower, [Garland and The Arena, 1890] 35 Elia Peattie and Robert Burns Peattie, [Garland at the Populist Convention in 1892] 38 William Allen White, [Garland as a Radical in 1892] 41 Edwin Markham, [Journal Comments on Garland in 1893] 42 Eugene Field, [The Battle of the Realists and Romanticists in 1893] 44 Ida E. Tilson, [Garland in West Salem, 1893–1915] 48 Mary Jane Ewing, [Garland as a West Salem Resident, 1893–1915] 52 Mary Jane Ewing, [An Alternate View of Garland in West Salem, 1893–1915] 57 Theodore Roosevelt, [Letters about Garland, 1894] 59 Elbert Hubbard, [Satiric Commentary on Garland, 1895–1899] 63 Eugene Field, From “I State My Views on Taxation” (1896) 66 Charles Fletcher Lummis, [Satiric Commentary on Garland in 1896] 69 [viii] Grant Richards, [Garland in London in 1899] 72 Isabel Garland Lord, [Garland’s Marriage, 1899–1906] 74 C. Watt Brandon, From “On the Trail with Hamlin Garland” (1907) 79 William Dean Howells, From “Mr. Garland’s Books” (1912) 87 Fred Lewis Pattee, [Letter about Interviewing Garland in 1915] 91 Ralph Fletcher Seymour, [Garland at the Cliff Dwellers in 1915] 94 Isabel Garland Lord, [Life in the Garland Home, 1916] 96 Theodore Roosevelt, “An Appreciation of Hamlin Garland” (1917) 102 Isabel Garland Lord, [Garland and the Automobile in 1920] 104 Oscar Cargill, [Letter about Garland in New York in 1921] 106 Joseph E. Chamberlin, From “Hamlin Garland—The Hardy of the West” (1926) 108 Eldon Hill, [Journal Comments on Garland in 1929] 117 Sinclair Lewis, From “Text of Sinclair Lewis’s Nobel Prize Address at Stockholm” (1930) 120 Eldon Hill, [Journal Comments on Garland in 1931] 123 Isabel Garland Lord, [Garland in California, 1931–1933] 130 Lee Shippey, [Garland’s Work Habits, 1932] 135 Paul Jordan-Smith, [Letter Commenting on Garland in California in 1933] 137 Isabel Garland Lord, [Garland’s Seventy-third Birthday, 1933] 139 Gladys Hasty Carroll, [Diary Impressions of Garland in 1933] 141 William Ellery Leonard, [Letter about Garland in Wisconsin, 1935] 146 Eldon Hill, [Journal Comments on Garland in 1936] 149 M. Lisle Reese, [The Hamlin Garland Memorial, 1936] 156 Isabel Garland Lord, [Garland and Psychic Investigation, 1937] 159 Floyd Logan, “Hamlin Garland, Active at 77, Enjoys Life in California Home” (1938) 163 W. D. Addison, [Letter about a Visit with Garland in 1938] 169 Isabel Garland Lord, [Garland’s Final Days in 1940] 172 [ix] Edgar Lee Masters and Theodore Dreiser, [Letters about the Death of Garland, 1940] 176 Bailey Millard, “Hamlin Garland as I Knew Him” (1940) 178 Lee Meriwether, “My Friend Hamlin Garland” (1940) 181 Irving Bacheller, “A Little Story of a Friendship” (1940) 183 Carroll Sibley, “Hamlin Garland: Delightful Host” (1940) 186 Booth Tarkington, “Hamlin Garland” (1942) 189 Alice Field Garland, [Letter about Garland and His Brother, 1950] 192 Post Wheeler and Hallie Erminie Rives, From Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1955) 195 August Derleth, [A Literary Tribute, 1960] 197 Witter Bynner, [A Tribute from a McClure’s Apprentice, 1960] 199 Harold S. Latham, [A Tribute from Garland’s Macmillan Editor, 1960] 200 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, [On Garland and His Fans, 1960] 202 Garland Greever, “Hamlin Garland and the University of Southern California” (1960) 204 Kathleen Norris, [On Garland’s Early Praise, 1960] 206 Hermann Hagedorn, “Like the Postman, Fame Rang His Doorbell Twice” (1960) 207 Leland D. Case, [A Tribute from the Editor of the Rotarian, 1960] 210 Constance Garland Doyle, [Garland as a Father, 1960] 212 Van Wyck Brooks, [On Garland’s Later Years, 1960] 214 John Farrar, [A Tribute from the Editor of Bookman, 1960] 217 Harold S. Latham, From My Life in Publishing (1965) 220 Van Wyck Brooks, From An Autobiography (1965) 224 Floyd Logan, From “A Memoir: Hamlin Garland” (1968) 225 Works Cited 233 Permissions 239 Index 243 Hamlin Garland in 1909. Courtesy of the University of Southern California, on behalf of USC Libraries Special Collections. ...