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Out of the Midwest: A Collection of Present-Day Writing
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by John T. Frederick. 408 pgs.

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Contributors:

   John T. Frederick

Publisher:

   Whittlesey House

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1944
Subjects:   Fiction, American Literature--20th Century
Table of contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION xv
INVOCATION: Hymn to the Mississippi, by Stephen Vincent Benét (a portion of "Ode to Walt Whitman," from Burning City) 3
NIGHT DIARY, by Ben Hecht (from 1001 Afternoons in Chicago) 7
BOCK BEER DAYS IN ST. LOUIS, by Lucille Kohler (from Harper's Magazine) 11
GOOFY, by Elma Klinedorf (from Frontier and Midland) 22
ROCK, CHURCH, ROCK! by Arna Bontemps (from Common Ground) 31
A LITTLE ACTION, by Harold Titus (from The Saturday Evening Post) 40
DEPARTMENT STORE MORNING, by Albert Halper (from The Little People) 61
HELEN, I LOVE YOU, by James T. Farrell (from Calico Shoes) 70
THE CITIZNER, by Louis Zara (from Common Ground) 79
THE BRIDGE, by Michael De Capite (from Maria) 89
WINTER EVENING, by Edward Harris Heth (from Told with a Drum) 100
CITIES OF THE LAKES, by Walter Havighurst (from The Tall Ships Passing) 104
DISCOVERY OF A FATHER, by Sherwood Anderson (from Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs) 113
AND ALMOST ANSWERS, by Frederic ten Hoor (from The Midland) 119
AUNT HANNER'S SURPRISE, by Della T. Lutes (from Millbrook) 120
HOSS SENSE AND NONSENSE, by Abe Martin (Kin Hubbard) (from Hoss Sense and Nonsense) 132
THE VAMPIRE AND GRANDMA NADELI, by Jake Falstaff (Herman Fetzer) (from Jacoby's Corners) 134
GREAT MEN'S SONS, by Booth Tarkington (from In the Arena) 142
FOUR LITTLE FOXES, by Lew Sarett (from Collected Poems) 153
INDIAN CAMP, by Ernest Hemingway (from The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories) 154
GIRL REPORTER, by Edna Ferber (from A Peculiar Treasure) 159
INDIAN SUMMER, by William Ellery Leonard (from Tutankhamen and After) 168
GEESE FLYING SOUTH, by August Derleth (from Country Growth) 170
JUSTICE COURT, by Robert Traver (from Troubleshooter) 177
LOW VOICES, by Edwin Ford Piper (from Barbed Wire) 185
NEIGHBOUR ROSICKY, by Willa Cather (from Obscure Destinies) 186
RIDING WEST, by Leyland Huckfield (from Rough Trails) 220
NORTH DAKOTA BALLGAME, by Wallace Stegner (from The Big Rock Candy Mountain) 222
THE GLORY TRAIL (HIGH CHIN BOB), by Badger Clark (from Sun and Saddle Leather) 229
THE PRAIRIE, by Walter J. Muilenburg (from The Midland) 232
SWEET-GRASS RANGE, by Edwin Ford Piper (from Barbed Wire) 240
THE CONGRESSMAN FROM MISSOURI, by Thomas Benton (from An Artist in America) 243
COUNTRY TOWN SAYINGS, by E. W. Howe (from Country Town Sayings) 255
STORM, by Langston Hughes (from Not Without Laughter) 257
BUGLE ANN, by MacKinlay Kantor (from The Voice of Bugle Ann) 264
FOUR EDITORIALS FROM THE EMPORIA GAZETTE, by William Allen White (from Forty Years on Main Street) 274
Entirely Personal
His Face His Fortune
"Ere in Our Life!"
Mary White
ARKANSAS, by Raymond Weeks (from The Hound-Tuner of Calloway) 286
COUNTRY MEN, by James Hearst (from Country Men) 301
NEIGHBORHOOD MORNING, by Paul Corey (from Three Miles Square) 302
PICK COAL RHYTHM, by Lou Parelle and Andy Lucas (from The United Mine Workers Journal) 308
HERESY AT CHEROKEE, by Hartzell Spence (from One Foot in Heaven) 310
COOK COUNTY, by Archibald MacLeish (from Poems 1922- 1934) 327
ISLAND IN THE CORN, by John Selby (from Island in the Corn) 329
ON THE BUILDING OF SPRINGFIELD, by Vachel Lindsay (from Collected Poems) 336
THE FARM, by Carl Van Doren (from Three Worlds) 339
THE RESURRECTION, by Ruth Suckow (from Carry-over) 347
ANCESTRAL IOWA, by Paul Engle (from West of Midnight) 352
NIGHT JOURNEY, by Phil Stong (from State Fair) 354
RETIRED, by Jay G. Sigmund (from Poems and Prose) 365
BLACK-PURPLE IN THE CORN, by Leo L. Ward (from The Midland) 367
CEMETERY HILL, by R. L. Sergel (from Arlie Gelston) 370
PRAIRIE WATERS BY NIGHT, by Carl Sandburg (from Cornhuskers) 373
THE WOMEN, by Richard Sullivan (from Accent) 374
THE HILL, by Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology) 389
NEW NEIGHBORS IN SEARCH OF LAND, by L. R. Ward (from Holding Up the Hills) 391
THE MOVERS, by James Hearst (from Country Men) 400
LITERATURE WITH ROOTS, by Frank Luther Mott (from The Midland) 402
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