Garland, [Hannibal] Hamlin
Garland, [Hannibal] Hamlin( 1860–1940),born in Wisconsin, after sharing the oppressive labor of farm life there and in Iowa and South Dakota went to Boston, where he came under the influence of Howells. Returning to the farmland of the Middle Border, he chose the hardships of the farmer for the subject of his stories, which are characterized by objective realism and ethical romanticism. They were collected in Main-Travelled Roads (1891), Boy Life on the Prairie (1899), and Other Main-Travelled Roads (1910), the last containing stories from two previous books, Prairie Folks (1893) and Wayside Courtships (1897). The writing of these stories, all of which were completed before 1890, led Garland to believe that something besides realistic fiction was needed to ameliorate agricultural conditions. Accordingly, he wrote Jason Edwards: An Average Man (1892) as propaganda for the single tax theories of Henry George,...
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