The University of Minnesota Press
America is West, an anthology of middlewestern life and literature.
The Egypt of the West / The Middle West / Addik Kum Maig ; Mon-daw-min / Christian-County mosquitoes / The blue duck / The black duck dinner / How to tell corn fairies if you see 'em / Shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire -- The banks of the Little Eau Pleine / The return of Johnny Appleseed
Biography of Blackbird / Payton Skah / Pontiac's siege / The Windigo / Saukanuk / Buffalo / The Fox-Wisconsin route / Indian attack on Michilimackinac / Mamelle Prairie / The red pipestone quarry / Early river travel / Travel in the woods / A legend of Carondelet / A buffalo and elk hunt / Ball at Thram's Huddle / Little preacher from down East / The standing candidate / Spelling down the master / Zury chooses a wife / I become Cow Vandemark / Toward the sunset
The drive / The Peshtigo fire / A boyhood in the bush / Five peas on a barrel-head / My winter in the woods / Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Troost / Growing up with the country / Under the lion's paw / A start in life / Color in the wheat / Buck in the bottoms / The proud farmer / The Judas goose / The movers ; Inquiry / One book : the almanac / Belling a fox / The last of the boatmen / Putting a black-leg on shore / Keelboat life / Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle / The "fashionable tour : on the Upper Mississippi / Old times on the Missouri / River town
Main Street / Death in the woods / The district school / Young poet in Davenport / Haircut / An Iowa childhood / Vikings use their heads / Old St. Louis / The dandy / Major Amberson's town / Chicago / Effie Whittlesy ; A fable in slang / The auctioneer's wife / Mr. Dooley on home life / Young architect in Chicago / Precinct captain / The mills / The chute / Fiesta in St. Paul / F.O.B. Detroit
Story of an early courtship / Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Lucinda Matlock ; Fiddler Jones / A plain man / "Tradin' Joe" / Mr. And Mrs. Babbitt / Modern Gothic / Mary White / The Mayos at work / The bitter drink ; Tin Lizzie / Progress in the northwest / Making a home / Iowa / Nebraska / Kansas / Sheep country / Revolt against the city / Dusk over Wisconsin / Lincoln / America remembers
Flanagan, John T. (John Theodore), 1906-1996, ed.
Abraham Lincoln -- Frederick Jackson Turner -- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Eugene Field -- Lew Sarett -- James Floyd Stevens -- Carl Sandburg -- Franz Rickaby, compiler -- Charles Allen Smart.
Alphonso Wetmore -- William Joseph Snelling -- Arthur Pound -- Mary Hartwell Catherwood -- James M. Phalen -- Louis Hennepin -- Jonathan Carver -- Alexander Henry -- Edmund Flagg -- George Catlin -- Timothy Flint -- Baynard Rush Hall -- James Hall -- Henry Hastings Sibley -- Caroline Kirkland -- Peter Cartwright -- John S. Robb -- Edward Eggleston -- Joseph Kirkland -- Herbert Quick -- Ole Edvart Rolvagg.
Stewart Edward White -- Stewart Hall Holbrook -- Thomas J. LeBlanc -- Lew Sarett -- Glanville Smith -- Alice Cary -- Stanley Waterloo -- Hamlin Garland -- Ruth Suckow -- Hamlin Garland -- August Derleth -- Vachel Lindsay -- Winifred Van Etten -- James Hearst -- Della Lutes -- Charles D. Stewart -- Morgan Neville -- Benjamin Drake -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- John Hay -- Theodore C. Blegen -- Charles D. Stewart -- Marquis W. Childs.
Sinclair Lewis -- Sherwood Anderson -- Clarence Darrow -- Floyd Dell -- Ring Lardner -- Edna Ferber -- Skulda V. Baner -- Jessie Benton Fremont -- Thomas Peirce -- Booth Tarkington -- Carl Sandburg -- George Ade -- Ben Hecht -- Finley Peter Dunne -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- James T. Farrell -- Joseph Husband -- Albert Halper -- Grace Flandrau -- Wessel Smitter.
Abraham Lincoln -- Vachel Lindsay -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Edgar Watson Howe -- James Whitcomb Riley -- Sinclair Lewis -- Vincent Sheean -- William Allen White -- Helen Clapesattle -- John Dos Passos -- William D. Gallagher -- Logan Esarey -- Ruth Suckow -- Willa Cather -- Carl Becker -- Archer B. Gilfillan -- Grant Wood -- August Derleth -- Henry A. Wallace -- Paul Engle.
America is West, an anthology of middlewestern life and literature.
