Books by Hamlin Garland Border Edition Main-Travelled Roads Other Main-Travelled Roads Boy Life Rose of Dutcher's Coolly The Eagle's Heart The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop Hesper Mart Haney's Mate Cavanaugh, Forest Rangers They of the High Trails The Long Trail The Forester's Daughter Regular Edition The Light of the Star Prarie Folks The Shadow World Trail of the Gold-Seekers The Tyranny of the Dark Victor Ollnee's Discipline Harper & Brothers Publishers Other Editions Under the Wheel Jason Edwards A Member of the Third House A Little Norsk A Spoil of Office Prairie Songs Crumbling Idols Wayside Courtships The Spirit of Sweetwater Ulysses S. Grant, his life and character Her Mountain Lover Witch's Gold Money Magic Moccassin Ranch A Son of the Middle Border A Daughter of the Middle Border A Prairie Mother Main-Travelled Roads By Hamlin Garland Author of Other Main-Travelled Roads, etc. Border Edition Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London Main-Travelled Roads Copyright, 1891, by The Arena Publishing Company Copyright, 1893, by The Century Co. Copyright, 1893, 1899, by Hamlin Garland To My Father and Mother Whose Half-Century Pilgrimage on the Main-Travelled Road of Life Has Brought Them Only Toil and Deprivation, This Book of Stories Is Dedicated By a Son to Whom Every Day Brings a Deepening Sense of His Parents' Silent Heroism The main-travelled road in the West (as everywhere) is hot and dusty in summer, and desolate and drear with mud in fall and spring, and in winter the winds sweep the snow across it; but it does sometimes cross a rich meadow where the songs of the larks and bobolinks and blackbirds are tangled. Follow it far enough, it may lead past a bend in the river where the water laughs eternally over its shallows. Mainly it is long and wearyful, and has a dull little town at one end and a home of toil at the other. Like the main-travelled road of life it is traversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate. Table of Contents. Main-Travelled Roads Foreword xi Introduction 1 A Branch Road 7 Up the Coolly 67 Among the Corn-Rows 131 The Return of a Private 167 Under the Lion's Paw 195 The Creamery Man 219 A Day's Pleasure 245 Mrs. Ripley's Trip 261 Uncle Ethan Ripley 281 God's Ravens 301 A "Good-Fellow's" Wife 327 Foreword