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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Библиографические подробности
Другие авторы: Folmar, John Kent, 1932-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1986.
Редактирование:1st ed.
Серии:Bur oak book.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21993
Оглавление:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Iowa never looked more delightful""; 2. ""Lessons of humility and of humanity""; 3. ""The storm that hovers on the horizon""; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index