Old Mid-West

The Old Mid-West, with 389 books, includes history as well as the works of authors who lived in the Mid-West, such as Altsheler, Bierce, Curwood, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Grey, Norris, Tarkington, and Twain.

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Table of Contents

History

• Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
• The First White Man of the West [Daniel Boone] by Timothy Flint, 1856
• Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone by Cecil Hartley
• American Pioneers and Patriots: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Abbott
• A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of Presidents by James Richardson, 1897
• Andrew Jackson
• William Henry Harrison
• James Polk
• Zachary Taylor
• Ulysses Grant
• Rutherford Hayes
• James Garfield
• Benjamin Harrision
• James McKinley
• Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the northwest in the autumn of 1856 by C.C. Andrews
• On the Expunging Resolution, speech by Thomas Hart Benton, January 12, 1837 (short)
• On the Expunging Resolutions, speech by Henry Clay, January 16, 1837 (short)
• The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• History of the Expedition Under the Comand of Captains Lewis and Clark
• volume 1, 1814
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
• The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Fredric Austin Ogg
• Bark Covered House or Back in the Woods Again, Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan by William Nowlin, 1876
• Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase by William Evarts
• Four Months in a Sneak-Box: a Boat Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers 1874-75 by Nathaniel Bishop
• The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox by Charles Morris
• Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Frank Moore
• Sergeant York and His People by Saur Cowar
• Something of Men I have Known by Adlai E. Stevenson, 1909
• Thirty-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains by William F. Drannan
• The Mound Builders by George Bryce
• Mound-Bulders by W.J. Smyth
• Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
• Siouan Indians by W.J. McGee
• Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey
• The Problem of Ohio Mounds Cyrus Thomas
• Cleveland Past and Present, 1869
• Minnesota, Its Character and Climate, by Ledyard Bill

Authors who lived in the Mid-West

Andy Adams (1859-1935), bio in Wikipedia

• Cattle Brands
• The Log of a Cowboy, 1903
• Reed Anthony, Cowman, 1907
• A Texas Matchmaker, 1904
• The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings, 1911

Jane Addams (1860-1935), bio in Wikipedia

• Democracy and Social Ethics
• A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, 1912
• The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
• Twenty Years at Hull House

Young Ewing Allison (1853-1932), bio at Wikipedia

• The Dead Men's Song
• The Delicious Vice

Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919), bio at Wikipedia

• The Forest of Swords
• The Forest Runners
• Free Rangers
• Guns of Bull Run
• The Guns of Shiloh
• Hosts of the Air
• Hunters of the Hills, 1916
• The Lords of the Wild, a story of the Old New York Border, 1919
• The Masters of the Peaks, a Story of the Great North Woods, 1918
• The Rock of Chickamauga
• The Rulers of the Lakes
• Scouts of Stonewall
• Scouts of the Valley
• Shades of the Wilderness
• The Shadow of the North, a Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign, 1917
• Star of Gettysburg
• The Sun of Quebec
• The Sword of Antietam
• The Texan Scouts, a story of the Alamo and goliad, 1913
• The Texan Star, a story of a great fight for liberty, 1912
• The Tree of Appomattox, a Story of the Civil War's Close, 1916
• The Young Trailers

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), bio at Wikipedia

• Marching Men
• Poor White
• The Triumph of the Egg
• Windy McPherson's Son
• Winesburg, Ohio

Ambrose Bierce (AKA Dod Grile) (1842-1914), bio at Wikipedia

• Black Beetles in Amber
• Can Such Things Be?
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (writing as "Dod Grile")
• Collected Works
• volume 1
• volume 2
• A Cynic Looks at Life
• The Devil's Dictionary
• Fantastic Fables
• Fiend's Delight (writing as "Dod Grile")
• Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (short story)
• The Parenticide Club (short story)
• Present at a Hanging and Other Stories
• Write It Right
• Shapes of Clay
• A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky (short story)

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), bio at Wikipedia

• In His Image (lectures)

Dorothy Canfield (Fisher) (1879-1958), bio at Wikipedia

• Hillsboro People

Winston Churchill (American, not Sir Winston Churchill) (1871-1947), bio at Wikipedia

• The Celebrity
• Coniston
• The Crisis
• The Crossing
• Dr. Jonathan
• The Dwelling Place of Light
• An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea
• A Far Country
• Inside the Cup
• A Modern Chronicle
• Mr. Crewe's Career
• Richard Carvel
• A Traveller in War-Time

Kenyon Cox (1856-1919), bio at Wikipedia

• Artist and Public and Other Essays on Art Subjects

James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927), bio at Wikipedia

• The Alaskan
• Back to God's Country
• Baree, Son of Kazan
• The Country Beyond
• The Courage of Captain Plum
• The Courage of Marge O'Doone
• The Danger Trail
• The Flaming Forest
• Flower of the North
• God's Country and the Woman
• The Gold Hunters
• The Golden Snare
• The Grizzly King
• Honor of the Big Snows
• The Hunted Woman
• Isobel
• Kazan
• Nomads of the North
• Philip Steele
• River's End
• Valley of Silent Men
• Wolf Hunters

Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901), bio at Wikipedia

• Atlantis: the Antediluvian World
• Caesar's Column
• Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel

John Dos Passos (1896-1970), bio at Wikipedia

• Three Soldiers

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), bio at Wikipedia

• The Financier
• Sister Carrie
• The Titan
• Twelve Men

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939), bio at Wikipedia

• Indian Boyhood
• Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
• Old Indian Days
• Soul of the Indian

Edward Eggleston (1837-1902), bio at Wikipedia

• The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Edna Ferber (1885-1968), bio at Wikipedia

• Buttered Side Down
• Cheerful by Request
• Dawn O'Hara
• Emma McChesney and Company
• Fanny Herself
• Half Portions
• One Basket
• Personality Plus
• Roast Beef, Medium

Eugene Field (1850-1895), bio at Wikipedia

• Echoes from the Sabine Farm (with Roswell Field)
• A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)
• John Smith, USA

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), bio at Wikipedia

• The Beautiful and Damned
• Flappers and Philosophers
• Tales of the Jazz Age
• This Side of Paradise

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), bio at Wikipedia

• Moccasin Ranch, a Story of Dakota

Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), bio at Wikipedia

• Plays
• Trifles
• The Outside
• The Verge
• Inheritors

Zane Grey (1872-1939), bio at Wikipedia

• Betty Zane
• The Border Legion
• The Call of the Canyon
• Desert Gold, a Romance of the Border
• The Desert of Wheat (1919)
• Heritage of the Desert
• The Last of the Plainsmen
• The Last Trail
• The Light of Western Stars
• The Lone Star Ranger
• The Man of the Forest
• The Mysterious Rider
• The Rainbow Trail
• The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories
• The Redheaded Outfield
• The Rube
• The Rube's Pennant
• The Rube's Honeymoon
• The Rube's Waterloo
• Breaking into Fast Company
• The Knocker
• The Winning Ball
• False Colors
• The Manager of Madden's Hill
• Old Well-Well
• Riders of the Purple Sage
• Tales of Lonely Trails
• The Spirit of the Border, a Romance of Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
• Day of the Beast
• To the Last Man
• The U.P. Trail
• Wildfire
• The Young Forester
• The Young Pitcher

Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), bio at Wikipedia

• A Heap o' Livin'
• Just Folks
• Over There (poems)

James Norman Hall (1887-1951), bio at Wikipedia

• Kitchener's Mob. The Adventures of an American in the British Army

Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911), bio at Wikipedia

• Iola Leroy
• Minnie's Sacrifice
• Poems
• Trial and Triumph

John Hay (1835-1905), bio at Wikipedia

• Castilian Days

Emerson Hough (1857-1923), bio at Wikipedia

• 54-40 or Fight
• The Covered Wagon
• Girl at the Halfway House, 1900
• Heart's Desire
• The Law of the Land
• The Mississippi Bubble
• The Purchase Price, 1910
• The Sagebrusher
• The Way of a Man, 1907

William Dean Howells (1837-1920), bio at Wikipedia

• The Albany Depot (play)
• Annie Kilburn
• April Hopes
• Between the Dark and the Daylight
• A Chance Acquaintance
• Confessions of a Summer Colonist (essay)
• Dr. Breen's Practice
• The Elevator(play)
• Emile Zola (essay)
• The Eye of the Needle
• Familiar Spanish Travel
• Fennel and Rue
• A Foregone Conclusion
• The Garotters (play)
• Indian Summer
• Italian Journeys
• Henry James, Jr. (essay)
• The Kentons
• A Lady of Aroostook
• The Landlord at the Lion's Head, volume 1
• The Landlord at the Lion's Head volume 2
• Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
• The Leatherwood God
• Literary Boston(essay)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances:
• A Belated Guest [Bret Harte](essay)
• Cambridge Neighbors(essay)
• My Mark Twain (essay)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (essay)
• Studies of Lowell (essay)
• The White Mr. Longfellow (essay)
• The Young Contributor (essay)
• Literature and Life:
• American Literary Centers (essay)
• The Man of Letters as a Man of Business (essay)
• A Little Swiss Sojourn
• London Films
• The March Family Trilogy
• Their Wedding Journey
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 1
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 2
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 3
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 4
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 5
• Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 1
• Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 2
• Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 3
• The Minister's Charge
• Modern Italian Poets
• A Modern Instance
• Notes of a Vanished Summer (essay)
• Of Literature (four related books)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances (complete)
• Literature and Life (complete)
• My Literary Passions (complete)
• Criticism and Fiction (complete)
• An Open-Eyed Conspiracy -- an Idyl of Saratoga
• A Pair of Patient Lovers
• The Parlor Car (play)
• A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction (essay)
• Questionable Shapes
• Ragged Lady, volume 1
• Ragged Lady, volume 2
• The Register (play)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham
• Roman Holidays and Others
• Roundabout to Boston
• Seven English Cities
• Short Stories and Essays
• Worries of a Winter Walk
• Summer Isles of Eden
• Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
• A Circus in the Suburbs
• A She Hamlet
• The Midnight Platoon
• The Beach at Rockaway
• Sawdust in the Arena
• At a Dime Museum
• American Literature in Exile
• The Horse Show
• The Problem of the Summer
• Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
• From New York into New England
• The Art of the Adsmith
• The Psychology of Plagiarism
• Puritanism in American Fiction
• The What and How in Art
• Politics in American Authors
• Storage
• "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
• The Sleeping-Car -- a Farce(play)
• Some Anomalies of the Short Story (essay)
• Spanish Prisoners of War (essay)
• The Standard Household-Effect Company (essay)
• Suburban Sketches
• A Traveller from Altruria
• Venetian Life
• The Whole Family (with other authors)

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), bio at Wikipedia

• The Mintage, Stories

Langston Hughes (1902-1967), bio at Wikipedia

• The Mule-Bone (play), with Zora Hurston

Charles King (1844-1933), bio at Wikipedia

• An Apache Princess
• A Daughter of the Sioux
• The Deserter
• Foes in Ambush
• From the Ranks
• Lanier of the Cavalry
• Ray's Daughter, a Story of Manila

Ring Lardner (1885-1933), bio at Wikipedia

• The Real Dope
• Treat 'Em Rough

Alfred Lawson (1869-1954), bio at Wikipedia

• Born Again

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), bio at Wikipedia

• Babbitt
• Main Street
• Our Mr. Wrenn

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), bio at Wikipedia

• The Art of the Moving Picture
• The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
• The Congo and Other Poems
• General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems

Edward Lee Masters (1869-1950), bio at Wikipedia

• Children of the Marketplace, 1922
• Spoon River Anthology
• Toward the Gulf

George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928), bio at Wikipedia

• From the Housetops

John Muir (1838-1914), bio at Wikipedia

• The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• The Mountains of California
• Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
• Stickeen
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
• Travels in Alaska
• Yosemite

John Neihardt (1881-1973), bio at Wikipedia

• The River and I

Frank Norris (1870-1902), bio at Wikipedia

• Blix
• A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories
• A Man's Woman, 1904
• McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
• Moran of the Lady Letty
• The Octopus, a Story of California
• The Pit
• Vandover and the Brute

George Peck (1840-1916), bio at Wikipedia

• Peck's Compenium of Fun, 1886

Ernest Poole (1880-1950), bio at Wikipedia

• His Second Wife

Frederic Remington (1861-1909), bio at Wikipedia

• Crooked Trails
• The Way of an Indian

Charles Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), bioat Wikipedia

• Afterwhiles
• Child-World
• Green Fields and Running Brooks, 1893
• Love-Lyrics
• Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury
• Riley Child Rhymes
• Riley Songs of Home

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), bio at Wikipedia

• Alice Adams
• Beasley's Christmas Party
• The Beautiful Lady
• The Conquest of Canaan
• The Flirt
• Gentle Julia
• The Gentleman from Indiana
• The Gibson Upright (with Harry Leon Wilson)
• Harlequin and Columbus
• His Own People (story)
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Man from Home
• Monsieur Beaucaire (story)
• Penrod
• Penrod and Sam
• The Quest of Quesnay
• Ramsey Milholland
• Seventeen
• The Turmoil
• The Two Vanrevels

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), bio at Wikipedia

• Flame and Shadow
• Helen of Troy and Other Poems
• Love Songs
• Rivers to the Sea

Augustus Thomas (1857-1934), bio at Wikipedia

• In Mizzoura, play

Mark Twain (AKA Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910), bio at Wikipedia

• 1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (story)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The $30,000 Bequest
• A Dog's Tale
• Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
• A Cure for the Blues
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• The Californian's Tale
• A Helpless Situation
• A Telephonic Conversation
• Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
• The Five Boons of Life
• The First Writing-machines
• Italian without a Master
• Italian with Grammar
• A Burlesque Biography
• How to Tell a Story
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
• An Entertaining Article
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• Amended Obituaries
• A Monument to Adam
• A Humane Word from Satan
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• Advice to Little Girls
• Post-mortem Poetry
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Portrait of King William III
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• Eve's Diary
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• The Grateful Poodle
• The Benevolent Author
• The Grateful Husband
• Punch, Brothers, Puch
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Canvasser's Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer
• Paris Notes
• Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
• Speech on the Babies
• Speech on the Weather
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• The American Claimant
• The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (story)
• Christian Science
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
• The Curious Republic of Gondour
• A Memory
• Introductory to "Memoranda"
• About Smelt
• A Couple of Sad Experiences
• Dan Murphy
• The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
• Curious Relic for Sale
• A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
• A Royal Compliment
• The Approaching Epidemic
• The Tone-Imparting Committee
• Our Precious Lunatic
• The European War
• The Wild Man Interviewed
• Last Words of Great Men
• A Dog's Tale (story)
• A Double Barrelled Detective (story)
• Editorial Wild Oats
• Essays on Paul Bourget
• Extract's from Adam's Diary (story)
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (story)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (essay)
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again (story)
• A Horse's Tale (story)
• How to Tell a Story and Others (stories and essays)
• How to Tell a Story
• The Wounded Soldier
• The Golden Arm
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• The Invalid's Story
• In Defence of Harriet Shelley (essay)
• The Innocents Abroad
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
• The Exquimaux Maiden's Romance
• Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Debut as a Literary Person
• At the Appetite-Cure
• Concerning the Jews
• From the 'London Times' of 1904
• About Play-Acting
• Travelling with a Reformer
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• Luck
• The Captain's Story
• Stirring Times in Austria
• Meisterschaft
• My Boyhood Dreams
• To the Above Old People
• In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
• The Mysterious Stranger (stories)
• The Mysterious Stranger
• A Fable
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 1)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 2)
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Rambling Idle Excursion (story)
• Roughing It
• Sketches New and Old
• My Watch
• Political Economy
• The Jumping Frog
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy
• The Story of the Good Little Boy
• A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
• Niagara
• Answers to Correspondents
• To Raise Poultry
• Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• My First Literary Venture
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• The Office Bore
• Johnny Greer
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Case of George Fisher
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• The Judges "Spirited Woman"
• Information Wanted
• Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• A Fashion Item
• Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
• A Fine Old Man
• Science vs. Luck
• The Late Benjamin Franklin
• Mr. Bloke's Item
• A Medieval Romance
• Petition Concerning Copyright
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionizing Murderers
• A New Crime
• A Curious Dream
• A True Story
• The Siamese Twins
• Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
• A Ghost Story
• The Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• The Undertaker's Chat
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• "After" Jenkins
• About Barbers
• "Party Cries" in Ireland
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
• History Repeats Itself
• Honored as a Curiosity
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• The Widow's Protext
• The Scriptural Panoramist
• Curing a Cold
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Running for Governor
• A Mysterious Visit
• Speeches
• The Stolen White Elephant (story)
• Those Extraordinary Twins (story)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (story)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (story)
• A Tramp Abroad
• What Is Man? And Other Essays
• What Is Man?
• The Death of Jean
• The Turning-Point of My Life
• How to Make History Dates Stick
• The Memorable Assassination
• A Scrap of Curious History
• Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner
• William Dean Howells
• English as She is Taught
• A Simplified Alphabet
• As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
• Concerning Tobacco
• Taming the Bicycle
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• 4 books about Mark Twain
• Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
• essay by Mark Twain about Mark Twain
• A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain

Lew Wallace (1827-1905), bio at Wikipedia

• Ben-Hur, a Tale of Christ
• The Prince of India
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919), bio at Wikipedia

• Poems of Passion