Notes

1. Robert Frost, “The Gift Outright,” The Poetry of Robert Frost  (New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969)  348.

2. Wallace Stegner, The Sense of Place  (Madison: Wisconsin Humanities Committee, 1986)  1.

3. Stegner, The Sense of Place 8.

4. Edward Eggleston, Preface to the First Edition, The Hoosier Schoolmaster (New York:  Grosset and Dunlap, 1899)  30.

5. Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border  (New York:  Macmillan, 1917)  85.

6. Garland, Crumbing Idols  (Chicago & Cambridge: Stone and Kimball, 1894)  175.

7. Garland, Crumbing Idols 52.

8. Keith Newlin and Joseph B. McCullough, eds., Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1998) xiv.

9. Joseph B. McCullough, Hamlin Garland  (Boston: Twayne, 1978) 14.

10. Garland, A Son of the Middle Border 92.

11. Garland, Jason Edwards, An Average Man (Boston: Arena, 1892) 142.

12. Garland, Money Magic (New York: Harper and Bros., 1907) 30.

13. Garland, “A Preacher’s Love Story,” Wayside Courtships (New York: Appleton, 1897) 23-24.

14. 1885 U.S. Census information at IAGenWeb Site, www.rootsweb.com 

15. 2000 U.S. Census information at
www.silo.lib.ia.us/specialized_services/datacenter/data_tables/Township/mcdpopbycounty19902000.pdf 

16. Thomas G Schuppe, “Hamlin Garland of Iowa,” Annals of Iowa 41 (1972): 849.

17. Garland, A Son of the Middle Border 145-146.

18. Garland, Boy Life on the Prairie  (New York: Macmillan, 1899) 378-79.

19. Garland, Money Magic 172-173.

20. Conversation with Harold Swann, Garland homesite owner, Burr Oak Township, Mitchell County, IA, October, 2002.

21. Tree identification and age estimate provided by Todd Trueblood, Executive Director, Memorial Park Arboretum & Gardens, Appleton, WI, winter, 2003.

22. Garland, Boy Life on the Prairie 125-27.

23. Garland, Introduction, Boy Life on the Prairie (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1926)  vi.

24. Garland, Crumbling Idols 178.

25. Garland, Prairie Songs (Chicago & Cambridge: Stone and Kimball, 1893) 116.

26. Robert Gish,  Hamlin Garland:  The Far West  (Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1976) 16.

27. Garland, Boy Life on the Prairie 120.

28. Garland, “Upon Impulse.” Wayside Courtships 263-264.

29. Newlin and McCullough, Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland 29. 

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• Exhibit at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 10/28/04 - 1/16/05
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