Beyond The Hundredth Meridian

Renew：Part 17
Author：Wallace Earle Stegner
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter List

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter III, "Bringers of the Light"; also Edward Eggleston"s novels especially Chapter III, "Bringers of the Light"; also Edward Eggleston"s novels The Hoosier Schoolmaster, The Circuit Rider, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, The Circuit Rider, and and The Hoosier Schoolboy, The Hoosier Schoolboy, further light is shed by many of the striking autobiographies of men who grew up out of a frontier background: John Muir, further light is shed by many of the striking autobiographies of men who grew up out of a frontier background: John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; John Burroughs, John Burroughs, My Boyhood; My Boyhood; William Dean Howells ; A Boy"s Town; Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells ; A Boy"s Town; Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border. A Son of the Middle Border. It would be unwise to omit Mark Twain"s accounts, either fictional or otherwise, of a boyhood on the Mississippi, or to neglect later, imported doc.u.ments such as Ole Edvard Rolvaag"s It would be unwise to omit Mark Twain"s accounts, either fictional or otherwise, of a boyhood on the Mississippi, or to neglect later, imported doc.u.ments such as Ole Edvard Rolvaag"s Peder Victorious, Peder Victorious, or Marie Sandaz"s, or Marie Sandaz"s, Old Jules, Old Jules, or Willa Cather"s plains novels, especially or Willa Cather"s plains novels, especially 0 Pioneers 0 Pioneers and and My Antonia. My Antonia. Lincoln"s boyhood is of course part of American folklore; it is given magnificent treatment in Sandburg"s Lincoln"s boyhood is of course part of American folklore; it is given magnificent treatment in Sandburg"s Lincoln Lincoln, the Prairie Years. the Prairie Years. The doc.u.mentation, in fact, is endless; the way the frontier American boy and girl got their education is still so close to our memory and so entangled with our habits of thinking and believing that even after the basic condition of deprivation is outgrown we continue to act and believe in many things according to patterns established in the backwoods of Indiana or the prairies of Illinois or the windy plains of Dakota a hundred or seventy five or fifty years ago. The doc.u.mentation, in fact, is endless; the way the frontier American boy and girl got their education is still so close to our memory and so entangled with our habits of thinking and believing that even after the basic condition of deprivation is outgrown we continue to act and believe in many things according to patterns established in the backwoods of Indiana or the prairies of Illinois or the windy plains of Dakota a hundred or seventy five or fifty years ago.
Chapter 5. The writing of this report and the vexed question of its reliability is discussed in Part II, Chapter 5.
Chapter 6, See discussion of Powell"s juggling of facts in his report, in Part II, Chapter 6, post. post.
Chapter 9, ante. After 1871, Hayden"s Annual Reports were ill.u.s.trated with increasing lavishness, by woodcuts, line drawings, panoramas, maps, and lithographs, many of them made from Jackson"s photographs, and some of them in color. King"s finished reports were even more beautifully printed and ill.u.s.trated. To compete, Powell"s had to be of comparable quality. Actually, we can thank the jealousy among the various early surveys for some of the most beautiful books about the West that have ever been produced. See Part II, Chapter 9, ante.
Chapter I, note 4), even a supposedly sober historian, Reuben Gold Thwaites, raised Gilpin to 200,000,000, as late as 1904. Malthus was not a popular scholar in the eighteen-seventies. Henry George attacked his views, Spencer Baird demonstrated that an acre of sea was ten times as productive of human food as an acre of land, the Midwest looked at its crops and bet its pile on the future. As I have pointed out earlier (in Part I, Chapter I, note 4), even a supposedly sober historian, Reuben Gold Thwaites, raised Gilpin to 200,000,000, as late as 1904. Malthus was not a popular scholar in the eighteen-seventies. Henry George attacked his views, Spencer Baird demonstrated that an acre of sea was ten times as productive of human food as an acre of land, the Midwest looked at its crops and bet its pile on the future.
Chapter 5, See Part IV, Chapter 5, ante. ante.
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