Ten Years on the Iowa Frontier
Author | : William H. Ingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : William H. Ingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : William Harvey Ingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : William H. Ingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : John Kent Folmar |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1991-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1587290669 |
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, farming, and moral advice (he was minister in the Church of New Jerusalem, as well as a merchant and farmer), Mrs. Williams commented on her daily chores, the family's health, the ever-important weather, and her leisure activities, including the contemporary journals and books she read, such as David Copperfield and Jane Eyre. James' sisters and brothers wrote about many concerns, from schoolwork and housework to games and family celebrations in nearby Webster City. As the letters continue, the affection for the absent James becomes more pronounced. And, as the years go by, the letters touch on more current national trends, including the Pikes Peak Gold Rush and the growing North/South crisis, on which James and his family strongly disagree. James was never to return to Iowa but married and remained in the South, becoming a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army. Complete with voices both young and old, male and female, This State of Wonders offers a wealth of information about the daily life of an ordinary family on the Iowa prairie. It is a book to be treasured by all Iowans interested in the early life of their state and by all historians looking for a complete portrait of family life on the midwestern frontier.
Author | : Glenda Riley |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Written for the general public interested in the pioneer life in Iowa history, this book traces the daily life of an average woman on the American frontier.
Author | : Andrew R. L. Cayton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1998-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253212177 |
Most history concentrates on the broad sweep of events, battles and political decisions, economic advance or decline, landmark issues and events, and the people who lived and made these events tend to be lost in the big picture. Cayton's lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes; George Croghan, the ultimate frontier entrepreneur; the world as seen by George Rogers Clark; Josiah Hamar and John Francis Hamtramck; Little Turtle; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison and William Henry Harrison; Tenskwatawa; Jonathan Jennings; Calvin Fletcher; and many others. Focusing his account on these and other representative individuals, Cayton retells the story of Indiana's settlement in a human and compelling narrative which makes the experience of exploration and settlement real and exciting. Here is a book that will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike while going a long way to reinfusing our understanding of history and the historical process with the breath of life itself.
Author | : John Kent Folmar |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1991-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780877453413 |
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, farming, and moral advice (he was minister in the Church of New Jerusalem, as well as a merchant and farmer), Mrs. Williams commented on her daily chores, the family's health, the ever-important weather, and her leisure activities, including the contemporary journals and books she read, such as David Copperfield and Jane Eyre. James' sisters and brothers wrote about many concerns, from schoolwork and housework to games and family celebrations in nearby Webster City. As the letters continue, the affection for the absent James becomes more pronounced. And, as the years go by, the letters touch on more current national trends, including the Pikes Peak Gold Rush and the growing North/South crisis, on which James and his family strongly disagree. James was never to return to Iowa but married and remained in the South, becoming a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army. Complete with voices both young and old, male and female, This State of Wonders offers a wealth of information about the daily life of an ordinary family on the Iowa prairie. It is a book to be treasured by all Iowans interested in the early life of their state and by all historians looking for a complete portrait of family life on the midwestern frontier.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Iowa |
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Author | : Silvano Wueschner |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-09-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781727348743 |
The story of the evolution, development, and transformation of a community on the Iowa frontier, from its origins in 1850 to the turn of the century. The work provides and in-depth examination of the beginnings of the Ormanville Community, the pattern of settlement, its growth and development, the relationships that existed, and why the community eventually dispersed. The author draws on oral accounts, public records, family histories, newspaper files, and photographic evidence to portray the lives of the members of the community. "A good piece of work...especially in mining the county records - a valuable source often not used-" Malcolm Rohrbough, University of Iowa.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Iowa |
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