Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14 1860 – March 4 1940) was an American novelist poet psychical researcher essayist and short story writer.