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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Other Authors: Folmar, John Kent, 1932-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1986.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Bur oak book.
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This State of wonders : the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 /

Published 1986
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