"The Shadow World" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).

"The Spirit of Sweetwater" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).

"The Trail of the Goldseekers" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).

"The Tyranny of the Dark" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).

"They of the High Trails" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).

" ...]sent away to play when they came. Oh, Gil"-his voice broke-"she is a medium, but she's not the awful creature they make her out." "Of course not. We all know how these things go." "You see, I went away to boarding-school when I was ten. This paper says I was sent away to keep me clear of the business that went on at home. I'm not sure but that is true, for I've seen very little of my mother's ...]."

"They of the High Trails" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).

Excerpt from The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
Anticipation
I will wash my brain in the splendid breeze,
I will lay my cheek to the northern sun,
I will drink the breath of the mossy trees,
And the clouds shall meet me one by one.
I will fling the scholar's pen aside,
And grasp once more the bronco's rein,
And I will ride and ride and ride,
Till the rain is snow, and the seed is grain.
The way is long and cold and lone -
But I go.
It leads where pines forever moan
Their weight of snow,
Yet I go.
There are...

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"The Spirit of Sweetwater" from Hamlin Garland. American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer (1860-1940).