Letters / Hamlin Garland. 1926-1939.

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Letters / Hamlin Garland. 1926-1939.

Letters to H.G. Rugg arranging a lecture at Dartmouth College; letter accepting invitation to address the Green Mountain Club; typescript of The track of the waves; 2 signed photographs, holograph ms. fragments, including one entitled East to the Orient.

17 items : photos., port. ; 28 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8238206

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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940

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Hamlin Garland, also known as Hannibal Hamlin Garland, (born September 14, 1860, West Salem, Wisconsin – died March 4, 1940, Hollywood, California), an author who put his own part of the country on the literary map, is best remembered by the title he gave his autobiography, Son of the Middle Border. Gaining his spurs with a successful collection of grimly naturalistic 'down home' stories in 1891, Garland came to prominence just as the "frontier" mentality was losing out to the waves of settlemen...

Rugg, Harold Goddard, 1883-1957

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Green Mountain Club

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The Green Mountain Club (GMC) was founded in 1910 largely upon the initiative of James P. Taylor (1872-1949). Taylor had been assistant principal of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River where he took students on hiking excursions in the Green Mountains. He was discouraged by the lack of suitable trails and shelters and vowed to do something about it. He contacted many prominent Vermonters and convinced them that there was a place in Vermont for a hiking club to build and maintain trails...