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Title This State of wonders : the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 / edited by John Kent Folmar.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1986.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxix, 154 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.
Summary 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Williams family.
Williams family.
Williams family.
Farm life -- Iowa -- History.
Farm life.
Iowa.
History.
Iowa -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Farmers -- Iowa -- Correspondence.
Farmers.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Electronic books.
History.
Records and correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Folmar, John Kent, 1932-
Other Form: Print version: This State of wonders. 1st ed. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1986 0877451540 (DLC) 86007012 (OCoLC)13424305
ISBN 1587290669 (electronic book)
9781587290664 (electronic book)
0877451540
9780877451549