Research Catalog

Title

South of the middle border, by Hugh P. Williamson.

Author

Williamson, Hugh P.

Publication

Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company [c1946]

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 11-279 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

In his Middle Border chronicles, Hamlin Garland has given an account of his own family, which went from the state of Maine to Wisconsin, thence to Iowa, and finally to the distant Dakotas. Also the history of those who came from Virginia, Maryland, or the Deep South, who tarried for a generation in Kentucky before going on to Missouri.--from foreword

Subject

• Williamson family
• Frontier and pioneer life > Missouri

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Kentucky -- In the path of the sun -- Carroll County -- Neighbors and kin -- Spring in the land -- Dog days -- Autumn harvest -- The district school -- The horn of the hunter -- Hog-killing time in Missouri -- Lush times -- Elder John Bob Montgomery -- The water witch -- Days of grace -- War on the border -- Nebraska City -- Rappings and visions -- Colonel James A. Pritchard -- Four brothers -- Guerrilla days -- Thomas Jefferson Blackamore -- By the fireside -- The country forum -- Old Laidlaw -- The bench and bar -- When the horse was king -- The country sale -- Uncle Jim Winfrey -- Fourth of July -- Black people -- Storms -- Uncle Litt Tull -- The outcast woman -- The great river -- Saints of the Latter Day -- Mary Catherine Smith -- "As pretty as a speckled pup" -- A triumphant life -- The wedding day of Dorothea -- Old Varian's dog -- The journey to town -- The big spring -- Southern journey -- A child is born -- The country funeral -- The man of joy and strength -- The fields of home -- The dancing leaves -- Great houses -- The call of the world -- The bright and shining land -- The soul of my land and my people.

LCCN

^^^46007075^

OCLC

• 2727075
• SCSB-12020612

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library