This State of wonders : the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 /
When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the 1850s, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty. Suddenly land poor, in debt, and caught in the Panic of '57, they sent their eldest son, James, to Georgia to work and add to the family income. The seventy-fiv...
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| বিন্যাস: | Licensed eBooks |
| ভাষা: | ইংরেজি |
| প্রকাশিত: |
Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
1986.
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| সংস্করন: | 1st ed. |
| মালা: | Bur oak book.
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21993 |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the 1850s, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty. Suddenly land poor, in debt, and caught in the Panic of '57, they sent their eldest son, James, to Georgia to work and add to the family income. The seventy-five letters collected here represent the family's correspondence to their absent son and brother. From 1858 to 1861, James' sisters, brothers, mother, and father wrote to him frequently, each with distinct views on their daily life and struggles. While Mr. Williams wrote most often about money, farm. |
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| দৈহিক বর্ননা: | 1 online resource (xxix, 154 pages) : illustrations |
| বিন্যাস: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জী: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index. |
| আইসবিএন: | 1587290669 9781587290664 0877451540 9780877451549 0877453411 |