Garland’s father comes home from the Civil War to a farm in a Wisconsin coulee, then moves the family again and again, to Iowa and on to the Dakota plains, chasing new land. Garland remembers the endless toil of the farms, his mother’s quiet endurance, country schools and harvest gangs, and his own escape east to Boston to become a writer.
One of the great American autobiographies, honest about the hardship behind the pioneer dream. Download the free EPUB.