Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland Antique Book

     This antique book was published in 1899. It is a cloth book with a decorative raised pattern on the cover. Green in color. Binding is worn but together. Covers are stained. See pictures. Blank page in front looks like it was torn out. Pages have yellowing from age.

     The stories are set in what the author refers to as the “Middle Border,” the northwestern prairie states ofWisconsin,Nebraska,Iowa,MinnesotaandSouth Dakota. In the book’s eleven stories, Garland portrays the hardships of agrarian life, deconstructing the conventional myth of the American prairie while highlighting the economic and social conditions that characterized agricultural communities in the rural Midwest.