The Harvester: A Root-Gatherer of the Indiana Woods
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A solitary man grows medicinal herbs in the Indiana woods, sells them to the drug houses, and has dreamed of a woman he has never met. Stratton-Porter waded into the Limberlost swamp with a heavy plate camera to photograph birds and wrote fiction to fund it; the botany here is a working herbalist's, not a novelist's, and the book sold in the millions.
A solitary man grows medicinal herbs in the Indiana woods, sells them to the drug houses, and has dreamed of a woman he has never met. Stratton-Porter waded into the Limberlost swamp with a heavy plate camera to photograph birds and wrote fiction to fund it; the botany here is a working herbalist...
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Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924) was an American novelist and naturalist who worked from her homes in Indiana and California. She published fiction from the early 1900s through the early 1920s, including The Harvester, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Father's Daughter, and A Daughter of the Land, often set in the rural Midwest.
Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924) was an American novelist and naturalist who worked from her homes in Indiana and California. She published fiction from the early 1900s through the early 1920s, including The Harvester, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Father's Daughter, and A Daughter of the Land,...
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