Chapter III: The Middle West

INDIANA

_Dialect Sketches_, James Whitcomb Riley.

ILLINOIS

_The Home Builders_, K. E. Harriman.

IOWA

_Stories of a Western Town_; _The Missionary Sheriff_, Octave Thanet. _In a Little Town_, Rupert Hughes.

KANSAS

_In Our Town_; _Stratagems and Spoils_, William Allen White.

MISSOURI

_The Man at the Wheel_, John Hanton Carter. _Stories of a Country Doctor_, Willis King.

MICHIGAN

_Blazed Trail Stories_, Stewart Edward White. _Mackinac and Lake Stories_, Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

OHIO

_Folks Back Home_, Eugene Wood.

WISCONSIN

_Main-Travelled Roads_, Hamlin Garland. _Friendship Village_; _Friendship Village Love Stories_, Zona Gale.