{"product_id":"main-traveled-roads-hamlin-garland-9781761830365","title":"Main-Traveled Roads","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe American dream is a main-traveled road-long, weary, and paved with the sweat of the poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the windswept plains of the Middle Border, the soil is the only master worth serving. For the families breaking the sod, the dream is simple: a piece of the world to call their own and the dignity of an honest harvest. They are the builders of a nation, fueled by a grit that turns calloused hands into the bedrock of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the prairie is a jealous god. While myths speak of opportunity, the reality is a brutal cycle of debt and isolation. A soldier returns from war to find his farm drowning in a mortgage; a woman realizes the endless cornfields are actually the bars of a golden cage. The true enemy isn't the wilderness-it's a system that values the crop more than the laborer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the harvest heat rises, the struggle for survival becomes a test of the human spirit. When nature offers no mercy and the bank offers no grace, what is the final cost of a patch of dirt? Will resilience endure the crushing weight of the plains, or will the frontier finally break the people who tried to tame it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamlin Garland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1761830368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781761830365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Living Book Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Hamlin Garland","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097375842559,"sku":"9781761830365","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/main-traveled-roads-hamlin-garland-9781761830365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}