GARLAND, HAMLIN (186o-194o), American writer, was born at West Salem (Wis.), Sept. 14, 186o. His early celebrity was due in large part to his rebellion against the idyllic inter pretations of rural life then current; and his Main-Travelled Roads (1891), Other Main-Travelled Roads (1910), and Prairie Folks (1893), written in a mood of intense resentment, remain among the most bitter indictments of the farm in American fic tion. Yet his fondness for the unbroken prairie made his Son of the Middle Border (1917) and Trail-Makers of the Middle Bor der (1926) fascinating revelations of the lure of free land, of the epic movement of peoples that in a few decades swept the border line of civilization from the Alleghenies to the Pacific. The for mer book is an admirable record of his boyhood in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, his brief homesteading in Dakota, and his early literary struggles in Boston. A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921) records his and his family's later experiences, chiefly in and near Chicago, a city which in Crumbling Idols (1894) he heralded as a literary capital but which he afterward deserted for New York city. His later works included autobio graphical accounts of psychical experiences.