A review by msand3
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

4.0

A collection that is mostly hit-or-miss, but the hits are very remarkable. Although "Under the Lion's Paw" tends to get anthologized most often, I think Garland is at his peak in "Up the Coulee," with its fine balance of impressionism and mud-caked, life-on-the-farm realism. (What Garland termed "veritism.") Worth reading, even if Garland tends to come off at times as "Willa Cather Lite."