  A Daughter of the Middle Border Transcriber’s Note This book in this edition won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literature in the “Biography or Autobiography” category. As such, every attempt has been made to reproduce it exactly as it was printed and as it won the award. In particular, inconsistent hyphenation of compound words is pervasive in this text and has been retained. Unconventional punctuation—for example using a comma to splice two sentences—has also been retained exactly as printed. A DAUGHTER OF THE
Isabel McClintock Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border. Zulime Taft: "The New Daughter."
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To my wife Zulime Taft, who for more than twenty years has shared my toil and borne with my shortcomings, I dedicate this story of a household on the vanishing Middle Border, with an ever-deepening sense of her fortitude and serenity. Acknowledgments are made to Florence Huber Schott, Edward Foley and Arthur Dudley for the use of the photographs which illustrate this volume. |
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