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OVER PRAIRIE TRAILS
THE TURN OF THE YEAR
SETTLERS OF THE MARSH


A SEARCH

FOR

AMERICA

BY

FREDERICK PHILIP GROVE

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"America a continent, not a country."

            THE GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS, LIMITED         

OTTAWA, CANADA

I REVERENTLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK

TO THE MEMORY OF

GEORGE MEREDITH

AND

ALGERNON SWINBURNE

AND TO ONE OF THAT ILLUSTRIOUS TRIAD

WHO IS STILL LIVING, NAMELY

THOMAS HARDY

FOR

"Canadian literature is a mere bud

on the tree of the great Anglo-Saxon tradition."

AUTHOR'S NOTE

This book, during the last thirty-two years, has been written and rewritten eight times, becoming a little shorter every time. That, at last, I picked up courage to release it for publication as it stands, with all the anachronisms which are an unavoidable consequence of such a method of composition, is due entirely to the encouragement of two of my friends who have known the manuscript for a number of years, namely A.L.P and W.K., both of Wesley College, Winnipeg.
RAPID CITY, MAN.,
December, 1926.
F.P.G.

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Copyright 1927
By Frederick Philip Grove

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