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Out of the Midwest: A Collection of Present-Day Writing

by John T. Frederick

Pages: 408

Contributors: John T. Frederick

Publisher: Whittlesey House

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1944

Subjects: Fiction,American Literature--20th Century

Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

Mississippi (from "Ode to Walt Whitman")

The Cities

Night Diary

Bock Beer Days in St. Louis

Goofy

Rock, Church, Rock!

A Little Action

Department Store Morning

Helen, I Love You

The Citizner

The Bridge

Winter Evening

Cities of the Lakes

Ohio, Indiana, Lower Michigan

Discovery of A Father

And Almost Answers . . .

Aunt Hanner's Surprise

Hoss Sense and Nonsense

The Vampire and Grandma Nadeli

Great Men's Sons

Upper Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Four Little Foxes

Indian Camp

Girl Reporter

Indian Summer

Geese Flying South

Justice Court

The Dakotas, Nebraska, Western Kansas

Low Voices

Neighbour Rosicky

Riding West

North Dakota Ballgame

The Glory Trail (High-Chin Bob)

The Prairie

Sweet-Grass Range

Missouri and Eastern Kansas

The Congressman from Missouri

Country Town Sayings

Storm

Bugle Ann

Four Editorials from the Emporia Gazette

Arkansas

Iowa and Illinois

Country Men

Neighborhood Morning

Pick Coal Rhythm

Heresy at Cherokee

Cook County

Island in the Corn

On the Building of Springfield

The Farm

The Resurrection

Ancestral Iowa

Night Journey

Retired

Black-Purple in the Corn

Cemetery Hill

Prairie Waters by Night

The Women

The Hill

New Neighbors in Search of Land

The Movers

Literature with Roots

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