Chapter I: Front Matter

Wisconsin in Story and Song

SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE AND
POETRY OF BADGER STATE
WRITERS

EDITED BY

CHARLES RALPH ROUNDS

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH OF THE
MILWAUKEE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

AND

HENRY SHERMAN HIPPENSTEEL

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND DIRECTOR
OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER TRAINING OF THE
STEVENS POINT NORMAL SCHOOL

PUBLISHERS
THE PARKER EDUCATIONAL COMPANY
MADISON, WISCONSIN

COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY
THE PARKER EDUCATIONAL CO.,
MADISON, WISCONSIN

_To the authors of today and of former days,
whose genius and co-operation have made this
book possible, and to the young people who
may, by reading these pages, be inspired to
carry the banner of our state still farther
into the realm of literature,

WISCONSIN IN STORY AND SONG

is affectionately dedicated._

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page
General Wisconsin Writers.

HAMLIN GARLAND 13-39
Haying Time, Among the Corn Rows, Ploughing, Ladrone, The
Toil of the Trail, The Blue Jay, Pom Pom Pull Away, The
Old-Fashioned Threshing in Green's Coolly.

GENERAL CHARLES KING 40-63
Ray's Ride for Life (from "Marion's Faith"), The Final Blow.

JOHN MUIR 64-71
Snow Banners.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 72-84
The Two Glasses, The Kingdom of Love, The Tendril's Fate,
Three Friends, Ambitions' Trail, Morning Prayer, I Am, Which
Are You?

RAY STANNARD BAKER 85-98
Through the Air, Marconi and His Great Achievements--New
Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy, The Roping at Pasco's.

"DAVID GRAYSON" 99-113
An Argument with a Millionaire.

ZONA GALE 114-127
Why?, The Holy Place, Friendship Village.

EBEN EUGENE REXFORD 128-144
Watering Plants, Tea Roses for Beds, The Old Village Choir,
The Two Singers, The Unfruitful Tree, A Day in June, Silver
Threads Among the Gold, When Silver Threads Are Gold Again.

CARL SCHURZ 145-149
Selections from his Reminiscences, The True Americanism.

HONORÉ WILLSIE 150-162
The Forbidden North, A Story of a Great Dane Puppy.

EDNA FERBER 163-171
Steeped In German.

GEORGE L. TEEPLE 172-183
The Battle of Gray's Pasture.

GEORGE BYRON MERRICK 184-188
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi.

HATTIE TYNG GRISWOLD 189-192
John G. Whittier.

ALBERT H. SANFORD 193-195
The Story of Agriculture in the United States.

CHARLES D. STEWART 196-201
On a Moraine.

ELLIOTT FLOWER 202-208
The Impractical Man.

JENKIN LLOYD JONES 209-212
Nuggets from a Welsh Mine.

EVERETT McNEIL 213-218
Mother's Wolf Story.

The University Group.

PRESIDENT CHARLES R. VAN HISE 220-224
The Future of Man in America.

DEAN E. A. BIRGE 224-228
Milton.

RASMUS B. ANDERSON 228-230
Bjarne Herjulfson, 986.

REUBEN GOLD THWAITES 230-234
The Discovery of Wisconsin.

FREDERICK J. TURNER 234-238
The Significance of the Frontier in American History.

PAUL S. REINSCH 238-241
The New Education of China.

GEORGE C. COMSTOCK 242-244
Astrology in Life and Literature.

J. F. A. PYRE 245-246
Byron in Our Day.

EDWARD A. ROSS 246-250
The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in China.

GRANT SHOWERMAN 251-254
A Lad's Recollections of His Boyhood Haunts and Experiences
in the Earlier Days.

WILLIAM E. LEONARD 254-260
The Glory of the Morning, Love Afar, The Image of Delight, A
Dedication.

THOMAS H. DICKINSON 260-263
In Hospital.

WILLIAM J. NEIDIG 263-265
The Buoy-Bell.

BRALEY--WINSLOW--JONES 265-268
Sometimes, The Pioneers, A Little Book of Local Verse.

JOSEPH P. WEBSTER 269
Sweet Bye and Bye.

Writers of Local Distinction.

SHERIFF, BOND, THOMSON, WHITNEY, BAER, HENDERSON, ADAMS,
PLANTZ, CARLTON, MOORE, LATHROP, MANVILLE, BLAISDELL, NAGLE,
CHASE, DAVIDSON, BROWN, WHEELER 270-285

Other Wisconsin Writers and Their Works.

NAMES ONLY WITHOUT SELECTIONS 286

Wisconsin Humorists.

LUTE A. TAYLOR 288-290

"BILL" NYE 291-294

GEORGE W. PECK 294-297

WILLIAM F. KIRK 297-298