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A Daughter of the Middle Border
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Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures19th Century United States History
ISBN13: 9781761830785
Publisher: Living Book Press
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The frontier is dying, and a new world is being born in the dust of the old.
Hamlin Garland has returned from the literary salons of the East to the Middle Border of his youth. No longer a boy under the plow, he seeks to build a sanctuary for his aging parents and secure a legacy from the soil that once threatened to consume them. But the dream of a settled life is a different kind of war-one fought for the heart of a family instead of an acre of wheat.
Into this rugged world comes Zulime Taft, an urban artist whose refined spirit must weather the unyielding traditions of the prairie. From the bustling studios of Chicago to the jagged peaks of the Colorado Rockies, their marriage is a collision between artistic ambition and the relentless demands of the homestead. As they witness the final closing of the American wild, every joy is tempered by the weight of a vanishing era.
As the sun sets on the age of prairie conquest, Hamlin faces a final reckoning. In a nation transforming into a modern machine, can the pioneer spirit survive the comfort of the town? When the wilderness is finally tamed, what remains of the soul that was forged in its fire?
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