01945cam a22003373u 45000010005000000030007000050050017000120060002000290070005000310080041000360400011000770410017000880500007001051000032001122450025001442640051001693000047002203360026002673370026002933380036003195000087003555000031004425050245004735080027007185200697007455340045014426530018014876530020015056530040015258560042015652809UtSlPG20260610133103.0mcr n260607r2001||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aGarland, Hamlin,d1860-194010aMain-Travelled Roads 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2001  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main-Travelled_Roads  aRelease date is 2001-09-010 aA branch road — Up the cooly — Among the corn-rows — The return of a private — Under the lion's paw — The creamery man — A day's pleasure — Mrs. Ripley's trip —  Uncle Ethan Ripley — God's Ravens — A "Good Fellow's" Wife  aPrepared by David Reed  a"Main-Travelled Roads" by Hamlin Garland is a collection of short stories first published in 1891. Set in the prairie states of the "Middle Border," these eleven semi-autobiographical tales deconstruct the romanticized myth of American farm life. Garland portrays the brutal realities of rural Midwest existence: unrelenting toil, grinding poverty, and crushing hopelessness. Through stories of returning soldiers, struggling farmers, and exhausted farm wives, he exposes the economic injustices and social conditions that defined post-Civil War agrarian communities, creating what critics called a "terribly serious" work of unflinching realism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aShort stories  aWestern stories  aMississippi River Valley -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2809