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" This State of wonders : "
edited by John Kent Folmar.
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BL
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968291
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b722661
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This State of wonders : : the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 /\ edited by John Kent Folmar.
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1st ed.
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, 1986.
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A Bur Oak Book
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1 online resource (xxix, 154 pages) :: illustrations
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1587290669
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: 9781587290664
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0877451540
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0877453411
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9780877451549
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.
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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
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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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Williams family.
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Williams family.
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Farm life-- Iowa-- History.
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Farmers-- Iowa, Correspondence.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.
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Farm life.
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Farmers.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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Manners and customs.
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Iowa, Social life and customs.
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Iowa.
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| Dewey Classification
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977.7/02
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F621.T48 1986eb
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Folmar, John Kent,1932-
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