Title A home in the West, or, Emigration and its consequences / M. Emilia Rockwell ; edited by Sharon E. Wood.

Publication Info.	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	A bur oak book
	Bur oak book.
Note	Originally published: Dubuque, Iowa : Dubuque Express and Herald, 1858.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 27).
Summary	"A Home in the West, first printed in Dubuque in 1858, is unique among emigration literature because it was directed at women, using the form of a sentimental domestic novel loaded with lots of tender words to encourage women to settle in the West."--Jacket.
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Subject	Women immigrants -- Fiction.
	Women immigrants.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
Subject	Women pioneers -- Fiction.
	Women pioneers.
	Married women -- Fiction.
	Married women.
	Iowa -- Fiction.
	Iowa.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Domestic fiction.
	Western stories.
	Domestic fiction.
Added Author	Wood, Sharon E.
Added Title	Home in the West
	Emigration and its consequences
Other Form:	Print version: Rockwell, M. Emilia (Mary Emilia), b. 1835 or 6. Home in the West, or, Emigration and its consequences. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005 0877459436 9780877459439 (DLC) 2004062114 (OCoLC)57039690
ISBN	9781587295973 (electronic book)
	1587295970 (electronic book)
	9780877459439 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0877459436 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0877459436 (paperback ; alkaline paper)