I "Keep the main-travelled road up the coulee–it’s the second house after crossin’ the crick. " THE ride from Milwaukee to the Mississippi is a fine ride at any time, superb in summer. To lean back in a reclining chair and whirl away in a breezy July day, past lakes, groves of oak, past fields […]

"Along these woods in storm and sun the busy people go. " THE tin-peddler has gone out of the West. Amiable gossip and sharp trader that he was, his visits once brought a sharp business grapple to the farmer’s wife and daughters, after which, as the man of trade was repacking his unsold wares, a […]