![]() He lived on a farm between Osage, and St. The same year, Garland traveled to the Yukon to witness the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899). Grant in McClure's Magazine before publishing it as a book in 1898. His first success came in 1891 with Main-Traveled Roads, a collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm. He read diligently in the public library there. He lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing. The boy was named after Hannibal Hamlin, then candidate for vice-president under Abraham Lincoln. Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1860, the second of four children of Richard Garlin of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. People best know this American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer for his fiction, involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Stories and novels of American writer Hannibal Hamlin Garland include the autobiographical A Son of the Middle Border and depict the hardships that Midwestern farmers endured. In order to realize the Mexican battle-fields, I visited Monterey, Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Perote, Puebla, Contreras, Churubusco, El Molino del Rey, and San Cosme. In all of these cities I sought for and obtained interviews from those who had known Ulysses Grant personally and had some significant message to impart. Louis, New York, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, Chicago, Springfield, Galena, Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Richmond, Monterey, and Mexico City. I also studied the records on file in the adjutant's office at West Point, and the newspaper files in Washington, St. This search for first-hand material took me at the start to southern Ohio, to Georgetown, his boyhood home, and to Ripley, and to Maysville, Kentucky, where he attended school in his youth. In order that I might secure the fullest understanding of my subject, I have visited every town wherein Ulysses Grant lived long enough to leave a distinct impression upon its citizens. If I succeed in making the reader a little better acquainted with his great and singular character, I shall feel that my larger purpose has been carried out. It has not been my intention to set down all the significant words and deeds of General Grant, nor to analyze all the official acts of President Grant, but to present the man Grant as he stands to-day before unbiased critics. It is not, perhaps, everything that is understood by the word "biography," but it tells the story of Ulysses Grant from his birth to his death. This book is not to be taken as a military history of General Grant.
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