tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post8099774881293240039..comments2024-03-29T01:33:22.669-07:00Comments on Buddies in the Saddle: Hamlin Garland, The Moccasin Ranch (1909)Ron Scheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-21306771429770488682011-07-01T14:26:45.348-07:002011-07-01T14:26:45.348-07:00Charles, a legend in the family is that the origin...Charles, a legend in the family is that the original Scheer homestead was acquired from someone who didn't want to go through another Nebraska winter.<br /><br />Richard W., I've not read much of Garland, but I get the impression his main contribution to western writing is in short fiction, much of it autobiographical.<br /><br />Richard R., the open plains offered a harsh climate, much of it too dry for farming. Those for whom the agrarian myth failed moved farther West. The luckiest were those who made it all the way to the West Coast. The only illustration credit I can find for the book is John Newton Howitt.<br /><br />Todd, his fiction seems to be extensive.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-11802604011026698512011-07-01T12:30:32.616-07:002011-07-01T12:30:32.616-07:00I mostly know of Garland as a somewhat machismic p...I mostly know of Garland as a somewhat machismic poet, though I knew he wrote prose as well...glad to see there was more to him...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-3645840012458775272011-07-01T10:56:26.217-07:002011-07-01T10:56:26.217-07:00I have to admit, having read some other things abo...I have to admit, having read some other things about this approximate place and time this isn't one I'd want to read. Depressing is probably the best word I can think of, in spite of the educational value. The settlers who went further, into the foothills of he Rockies or wherever where there was forest, woods game and water were much better off in the long run, even if they had the same cruel winters. Those who made it all the way to California or Oregon-Washington had it the best, though of course that journey was much longer, more expensive and more cruel in it's length and challenges.<br /><br />I really like the cover on this, is there any clue to the artist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-33692163793171723542011-06-23T16:10:14.171-07:002011-06-23T16:10:14.171-07:00Thank you for bringing Hamlin Garland to my attent...Thank you for bringing Hamlin Garland to my attention. He is an important American novelist and a Pulitzer winner in biography, for Daughters of the Middle Border. But I hadn't realized he was a major novelist of the West, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-56899073207612016862011-06-23T06:55:55.502-07:002011-06-23T06:55:55.502-07:00I think quite often of the incredible loneliness o...I think quite often of the incredible loneliness of the west for the first settlers. The isolated cabins. the hours trapped inside those cabins by storms and snow. It would take a helluva man and a woman to survive through all that.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com