Boy Life On The Prairie Author:Hamlin Garland In Boy Life on the Prairie, Hamlin Garland's aim was "to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may be safely said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account... Ploughing, harvesting, and husking corn could be bitter toil for a boy, and this he ma... more »kes us see. But this was not the whole of a boy's life. The coming of spring, the games at school, and the Fourth of July were islands of delight..." (From the introduction by B.R. McElderry, Jr.).« less