This State of wonders: the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City University of Iowa Press 1986
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 154 pages)
ISBN:0877451540
1587290669
9780877451549
9781587290664

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